18/03/2018 – Flee and Return (14)

Discuss where to go. Decide to take a coach rather than a ferry as easier to escape from.

They pack up and take an Uber coach and leave, heading for Weissbruk.

Are some discussion, decide to ask a local farm to use their barn and Adolphus negotiates 4sp for a barn with breakfast from a local farmer. They discuss returning to Bogenhafen on Sunday morning, as Adolphus is expecting a reply to his letters asking for a Priest from his contact at Frankfurt University.

Saturday, 22 April 1702

Leon with Gerhart go to the local blacksmith looking for guns but he has none. He has some basic weapons. Eventually they get his help to coat some weapons with silver.

Leon discusses whether the blacksmith could make a special weapon for him, but he would need paying and it would be a side project, could not be finished by Sunday. So they leave it.

Bart gambles and wins some money but the locals are suspicious and tight.

Johanna asks Adolphus to teach her about magical protection from evil he spends the whole day teaching her.

They meet up that evening and relax and socialise. Adolphus is unable to relax and unwind.

Sunday, 23 April 1702

Adolphus suggests they head back to Bogenhafen on foot.

Buy a pack mule for 30sp from Weissbruk, selling the last of the silver from the candlestick for 15sp.

They then spend the whole day walking back towards Bogenhafen, keeping a low profile.

They are forced to walk into the night in order be sure to be at Bogenhafen by early morning. They leave the pack mule with a farmer a few miles out of Bogenhafen, planning to return for their clothing and things when they can.

Monday, 24 April 1702

They arrive in Bogenhafen, using waders to walk around the walls via the river. Bart breaks into the Merchant Guild house above the original Temple and opens the secret door to let the others in, who have used the sewer, though they get lost in the sewers for a while.

They sleep the morning and some of the afternoon away, after blocking the front door.

Adolphus teaches more about protection from dark magic.

Bart sneaks out and steals some basic clothes.

They remember the cult member they had tied up in the safehouse. He may have died by now. Bart goes to the safehouse to check, discovers the place has been broken into and searched and the coal cellar is empty, with cut bonds on the floor.

Bart also discovers the Imperial Magistrate that came to deal with the captured cultist has handed over authority for the Council to try him.

That evening Adolphus is worried. They need a plan. He needs help to defeat this demon. Bart helps him to adopt a simple bodyguard disguise for Bart who will disguise as a noble.

Tuesday, 25 April 1702

Adolphus disguises himself as a thug and heads for the Post Office with Bart in toe, carrying his usual coat for when he gets to the Post Office.

Leon asks to check if his father has written back and he has. His father has sent a currier with some of the things he has requested but it will take a few days.

He also learns that the cultist committed suicide last night, hanging himself.

Bart goes to check on the Doctor’s house, but the Doctor is not there, he is looking after Councillor Teugen’s cousin, Gideon, who is ill. He reports back to Adolphus this, who is making a demon-trap in the Merchant Guild house.

The day generally passes with Adolphus making the demon trap, teaching the others how to do it.

He eventually Father Xavious and Hamish McKee as seen at the house and Bart approaches them. They are looking for their friend Adolphus.

Bart meets Father Xavious at the bar and arranges a meeting at 8pm in front of the clock tower. Xavious tells Bart to ask Adolphus how his boots are.

End of Episode Fourteen.