Year 484 - Beast of Imber

The adventure begins.

Our potential new knights awaken in the hall of Vagon.

Arawain a vengeful squire, whose knight is Sir Ralston, a knight renown more for his ability to drink and wench than for his skills at arms.

Odrig a reckless squire, who is unfortunately, squired to Sir Wilton a rather nasty piece of work, whom is as vicious with his tongue as he is with his sword.

Donnacht a very pious young pagan, who is squired to Sir Saxe an honest but poor household knight, who is renowned for his ill-luck.

The merry band of squires awoke in the hall and started preparing their knights for the day, packing away personal effects etc. Arawain had to go find his master who had disappeared, he was found rather the worse for wear in the hovel of a local girl called April. Odrig was given some menial tasks by Wilton in his usual need to embarrass the poor squire. After breakfast the rest of the morning was spent doing various tasks polishing armour, sharpening swords, checking on the horses etc. All the squires completed their tasks and Arawain even found time to pay a quick visit the alluring redhead April, who taught the young man a trick or two!

The afternoon was spent on the martial field with some training, Sir Elad the castellan of Vagon gave the squires a few tasks which they all completed ably, well except for Donnacht who seemed to have gained some of Sir Saxes ill-luck, he was knocked from his horse by a Quintain and then proceeded to fall from his horse twice during the race. Arawain took much glee in mocking Donnacht and even Sir Elad had to laugh. Donnacht prayed to his gods to help him refrain from throttling Arawain and decided that he needed to increase his tributes to ward of this bad luck. Sir Elad returned later and told the squires he had a task for them, news had come from Imber that the peasant folk claimed they couldn’t work as the woods were being stalked by a man eating bear.

The squires had a quick joust to decide who would lead the band, this honour fell to Odrig.

The band left early the following morning and by mid-day had arrived in Imber they quickly contacted Old Garr the local priest who explained to them what had been going on. Odrig ordered for a hunt to be assembled and they headed off into the woods. The end of the day was nearing when the squires caught sight of the bear. Odrig arrived first, quickly followed by Donnacht and Arawain. The fight was brief but the vicious old bear was quick and strong and managed to pull Odrig from his horse and maul him into unconsciousness.

The corpse of the bear and the unconscious Ordig were taken back to the village, Odrig’s wounds were patched and he was well looked after by a young wench! That night a feast was held and roast bear was the main dish, our squires went to bed proclaimed as heroes, with a full belly, a light head and a young wench to warm their beds. What a nice way to end the day....