March 02, 2006

Our story thus far

The crew of the Sea Fox and Uncharted Destiny were in Charouse when a revolt started. We happened to get caught on the side of the rebels and helped them fight the Montaigne Army that was trying to restore order. During the fighting DuSoir shows up and Izzie order her crew to fall back to the ship. During her retreat she came across Reise, one of the Vesten living runes. She talked to him a bit and when she told him she had to go. He said, “go” and she continued her retreat. Her and her crew made it safely out of the city, but when they stop, they discovered that they were many miles away from Charouse. Reise is the Rune of Journey, he had helped their escape by allowing them to travel much farther then they normally could. During the night a group a traveling nobles pass our camp. The nobles were fleeing Montaigne to Eisen. Izzie decides to escort the nobles.

Nick was back on the Sea Fox. He saw that the fighting was not going very good, so he decided to leave Charouse, as does the Uncharted Destiny. The Sea Fox heads back to Avalon. Izzie manages to get the Nobles safely to Eisen. Izzie takes her crew and some of the nobles to Carleon, the capital of Avalon. When Izzie gets to Avalon she finds out that the Sea Fox was in port a few days ago but has left to go back to Charouse. Izzie with the help of Alex, borrows a ship from Berek. They sailed to Charouse in hopes that they would find Nick and the Sea Fox. Before sailing out she leaves word with the harbormaster that if Nick returns to stay in port. When they get to Charouse they find that order has been restored. A new government has been put into place. It is a government by the people, a parliament of sorts consisting of 8 members. Each member is in charge of a particular duty. DuSoir is one of the members of parliament. He is in charge of the ports. When Izzie's sails into Montaigne’s ports, she has to lay low. Raith, under the alias of Citizen Spector has been put in charge of the Military. Izzie learns that Nick was here but again they missed him. He left for Avalon, so Izzie sailed back to Carleon. On the way back she saw that she was being followed. It was Vendel first-rate ship of the line. Izzie ran into this ship before, it belongs to Boli Kollson. Izzie tried to our run it. She wasn't able to out run it, but was able to keep it from closing in. She was able to make it back to Carleon, and when the shore of Avalon was in sight, Boli's boat gave up chase.

When Izzie arrived back in Carleon, she learned Nick was in town. She meant up him and learned that he had to all but scuttle the Sea Fox. Nick had hidden the Sea Fox a few miles out of town. Izzie then retrieved the Sea Fox, had her towed to Carleon and dry docked so repairs and modifications could be made. She then took a trip to Vestenmannavnjar, so Gunther could get a longboat commissioned. Izzie and Gunther had a plan to work together as pirates. Gunther would use Izzie's ship for Cover as she engages the enemy, then Gunther sails or rows his Longboat up and boards the enemy vessel to take as there prize. During their say in Vestenmannavnjar, Gunther's Jarl asks him and Izzie if they would escort someone to upcoming Althing. They both agree, the man is Vendel Brewer by t he the name of George Skard. While the longboat was being made, Izzie goes missing one night. She was kidnapped. The few remaining crew of Sea Fox search for her. After many months of following leads it is discovered that she was in Castille, held up in fort located in a remote mountain pass. An effort was put forth to rescue her but before any attempts are made Raith shows up. He has word that Villanova, one of the Princes of Vodacce has been assassinated. Raith also has news of secret organization of 13 men that work together for own goals. We believe that Boli is one of the 13. Villanova was one. But now with his death, there are now 12. With Raith's help we freed Izzie from the prison.

We returned to Avalon, and picked up the reborn Sea Fox. After some investigation into the council of 13, Alex’s was asked to stay in Carleon for official business with Elaine's Knights. The rest of the Sea Fox sail to back to Vesten to pick up Gunther's ship. Gunther did some recruiting and then sailed to Kirk to pick up Skard.

George is a Vendel, but is trying to get his Vesten brothers to see that not all Vendel have turned on the old ways. On his way to the Althing, he wanted to tour the Vesten country. He stopped at many Vesten towns on most of the islands. He meant other brewers, showed them some of his techniques and learned some of there. He threw large parties, gave away his ale and mead. He had hoped that this mend the gap that had developed between the two people. During one of his in land stops Sven and his men ambushed us. After a very brief fight, Sven retreated. Sven was one of the men responsible for Izzie's kidnapping. Then on our final trek to the Althing an ambush was set up to stop Skard from reaching the Althing. A mercenary group from Freiburg was hired to guard the pass we traveled with the instructions to stop us from reaching the Althing. After a brief fight, we retreated and took an alternate route to the Althing.

After the Althing we sail Skard back to Kirk and then Sail to Carleon. At some point Izzie had a change of heart about going pirate. But since Gunther already has his longboat and a raiding crew he could not continue in following Izzie in her new legit enterprises. So Gunther sailed from Carleon back to Vestenmannavnjar to hunt Vendel Merchant's ships.

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