up:: [[The Royal Duo]] ## Session Zero You two find yourselves in the place where all great adventures start and end, a tavern. This is a tavern you've frequented during your summers together, and especially in the past few years since [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]] has returned home. The tavern is called [[The Fae Cup]]. Wearing the clothes and items you would on a normal evening out in town you take a seat at your normal place in the tavern. As you take a seat you know that this is no normal evening. This is the evening before you two are going on your first adventure together. As the eldest, [[Prince]] [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth]] go ahead and describe yourself. > Average height, goatee, dark hair. Carries a rapier and often a book with him. Across from him, [[Prince]] [[Augustus Breckinsworth]] describe yourself. > 6 foot, blonde hair, blue eyes. Face covered in scars, thin but fit. Ornate shortsword As you sit there, a [[Barmaid]] you know well, [[Lutasha]], sets down an ale in front of you each and says "Good evening princes, you're here early today. Any special occasion?" Lutasha is an overweight and slightly out-of-breathe light-skinned human woman. **[[Lutasha]] will wait there for 4 cp from each player**. As you two cheers and go to take your first sip, you begin to think back over your lives. ### Flashbacks #### 4974 [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]]'s first memories In [[Rarrenim]], the mushroom forests north of [[Beckinsale]] on vacation with the family. Having lunch overlooking the forest, playing with his dad and older brother. He falls down the hill and starts crying, a young male face that he recognizes but doesn't have a name attached to is there to pick him up and comforts him. He feels safe and happy. #### 4976 [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]]'s [[Breckinsworth Magical Survey]] He's in the [[Elm Tower]]. He feels official because he knows he's in the place where his mom works, and he knows she runs the kingdom. [[Queen]] [[Merah Breckinsworth]] and [[Professor]] [[Orril]] are present. **Disadvantage Arcana Check** **Arcana Check** **Arcana Check** **Advantage Arcana Check** > [!abstract] General Idea - Abstract > [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]] struggles at first, but they are patient with him and he eventually does minor magic. #### 4977 [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]] Is Born > [!note] > [[Bedun Breckinsworth]] is **14**, [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]] is **6**. [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]] you remember looking over your oldest brother's shoulder. He's sitting in a chair holding a tiny human being. Your mother is screaming and crying on a bed nearby as your father, a tall, overweight man, is yelling commands at the top of his voice. People are running all around you. A lot is happening, you don't understand all of it. But [[Bedun Breckinsworth|Bedun]] looks down over you, gives you a smile, and reassures you that everything's going to be alright. You remember hugging his back and feeling his warmth and muscular build. Your father throws something, as it bounces off the wall [[Bedun Breckinsworth|Bedun]] turns, covering both you and your newborn baby brother, [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]] from the object. You feel safe. You make eye contact with your baby brother for the first time. > [!success] What do you think at this moment? #### 4980 [[Sonni Breckinsworth|Sonni]]'s Birth > [!note] > [[Bedun Breckinsworth|Bedun]] is **17**, [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]] is **9**, [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]] is **3**. [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]] you're sitting in the floor playing with a toy your older brother [[Bedun Breckinsworth|Bedun]] made you. Your mother is lying in a bed nearby breathing heavily while a [[Orc|Orcish]] woman who you know to be your [[Nursemaid]], [[Ghorza]], comforts her. Your father is not in the room. [[Bedun Breckinsworth|Bedun]] is in the corner of the room sitting in a comfy chair reading a book. > [!success] > [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]] what are you doing in this situation? Your younger sister, [[Sonni Breckinsworth]] is born. #### 4981 [[Rebalances]] > [!note] > [[Bedun Breckinsworth]] is **18**, [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]] is **10**, [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]] is **4**, [[Sonni Breckinsworth]] is **1**. [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]]' first memories are of spending time with his elder brothers and parents. His favorite memories are of him and [[Bedun Breckinsworth]] spending time in [[Bedun Breckinsworth|Bedun]]'s room playing with the little magical and mechanical gadgets that he's made. They make you laugh, and you remember seeing how happy and warm your brother was. Even when you broke things, he never seemed to mind, instead taking it as a challenge of durability. Taking them right over to his workbench to begin tinkering. Around this time, the [[4981 Rebalance]] was spurred on by [[Bedun Breckinsworth]]'s stand at the [[Beckinsale Magic Fairre]]. The [[Breckinsworth]] narrowly maintains power over the other [[Ebbin Houses]] in a 5-4 vote opposed to the [[Rebalances]]. For both of you your memories shift to you spending a lot more time with [[Ghorza]]. [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]] at this time, you are still struggling with your magic. You understand that [[Bedun Breckinsworth|Bedun]] is in trouble for his magic. The time you two spend with your parents are of them stressed and discussing the [[Rebalances]]. > [!success] Player Action > > It's late one evening. You both are alone in your rooms which are across the hall from each other. [[Sonni Breckinsworth|Sonni]] is asleep in the [[Nursemaid]]'s room upstairs. > > You faintly hear your parents discussing something in another room farther down the hall, but can't make out what it is. You hear your oldest brother, [[Bedun Breckinsworth|Bedun]], in the room next to yours, his bedroom, gently sniffling and moving things around. > > What do you do? ##### 4982 ###### [[Bedun Breckinsworth|Bedun]]'s Lobotomy > [!note] > [[Bedun Breckinsworth]] is **19**, [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]] is **11**, [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]] is **5**, [[Sonni Breckinsworth|Sonni]] is **2**. [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]] **Advantage Stealth Check** You both remember this moment very vividly, as it was the first time you ever heard fear in the voice of your father, the great [[Dungannon Flagbearers|Flagbearer]] [[Sun-Vaos Vakrihk]], [[King Consort]] of [[Beckinsale]]. It was the first time you ever heard him *cry*. [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]], you silently slinked away from [[Ghorza]] while she was tending to [[Sonni Breckinsworth|Sonni]] and found your older brother [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]] in his room. The two of you snuck up to the outside of [[Bedun Breckinsworth|Bedun]]'s room where you heard your parents talking. You heard your mother tell him "We.. I.. I thought we could figure out why the magic was different." Father: "And did you?" Mother: "No, but.. That's not what's important right now.. It's been days like this and.. and it's not getting better. I think it may be permanent." You heard your father shakily ask, "[[Merah Breckinsworth|Merah]], what do you mean you think it's permanent?". Then, when she started crying, instead of him reacting with anger as you'd expected, you heard him begin to cry with her. --- ###### [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]]' [[Breckinsworth Magical Survey]] He was brought to the [[Elm Tower]] by [[Ghorza]]. He feels official because he knows he's in the place where his mom works, and he knows she runs the kingdom. [[Queen]] [[Merah Breckinsworth]] and [[Professor]] [[Orril]] are present. The [[Queen]] seems agitated, though [[Professor]] [[Orril]] cheerfully explains what he wants [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]] to do. **Disadvantage Arcana Check** [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]] fails and instantly [[Queen]] [[Merah Breckinsworth]] ends the [[Breckinsworth Magical Survey]] saying that there's no magic there. He remembers hearing [[Professor]] [[Orril]] pleading with [[Queen]] [[Merah Breckinsworth|Merah]] to give him another chance, that she was cutting the assessment off too soon, "[[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]] may have magical powers yet, we've only done the latent test." "You may do as you are told or you wi --" **door slams** as the two exit the room. [[Ghorza]] tried to hide her shock as she scrambled to gather [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]] to take him back home. Even as a child [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]] felt like he should have gotten another chance. --- ###### Augustus Is Going To Camp [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]], you're sitting at the dinner table. You're age **11**. Across from you is your **2** year old youngest sibling and only sister, and to your right is [[Bedun Breckinsworth|Bedun]]. He stares forward vacantly, expressionless; nonreactive to his surroundings. The same as he has been for the last few months, since that night you heard your father cry for the first time. To your left sits your youngest brother. Your father is explaining to you both about how [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]] is going to be going to a [[Dungannon Military]] training camp. You hear your mother say it's the only choice. He's leaving in the morning. His new name is [[Augustus Vakrihk]]. > [!success] What do you do? --- ###### Augustus' First Night When you arrive, you are placed into a **5 foot** by **5 foot** cell. Plenty of space for a child. You are given a knife and two sticks and are told to burn all of your belongings. In this building are a few other children. One who is suffering from starvation, in his cell you can see the burned remains of many possessions, except for a headscarf that has been left untouched by flame. > [!success] What do you do? **DC 15 Survival Check to successfully burn belongings** A massively large red dragonborn checks in on you from time to time. You see on his shoulder he has a crest of [[Two Pillars]]. [[Owl-Arlok Thundercarver Vaimei Ligala]] is the guard that checks in on [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus Vakrihk]] from time to time. Once he has finished his task, [[Owl-Arlok Thundercarver Vaimei Ligala]], takes [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus Vakrihk]] out to the main campground; [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]]' new home. They trudge through the mud before reaching dormitory building 19. The dorms are **15 foot wide**, **50 foot long** buildings are long and narrow buildings. Guards are stationed next to the locked exits, while others are constantly patrolling with lit torches. The floor is concrete. The kids know that snitching on anyone else means extra rations. The beds are four **2 inch** wide **five-foot** long wooden slats running parallel to one another with **2 inches** between forming a 16 inch wide platform. These beds are stacked four on top of one another. The beds are situated in two rows, ten beds deep. Between each long-edge of the bed is **8** inches of space, in the middle of the dorm is a **five-foot** wide walkway. At the end of the dorm is a **10-foot wide** communal bathroom. The floor here looks like freshly turned farm soil and smells heavily of manure. You see shovels leaning against the walls. After taking a look around, [[Owl-Arlok Thundercarver Vaimei Ligala]] looks at you and says "Well kid, looks like this dorms full up. Find you a spot under one of the bunks until there's an opening. Good luck." And he leaves. > [!success] What do you do? The first group he approaches should be [[Malthos]]' who should brutally shoo him away. The only bed willing to take [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus Vakrihk]] in is occupied by: - [[Hammoda Jadebelly]] - Female light-skinned dwarf from [[Mer Todur]]. - She was kidnapped while her family was visiting [[Dungannon]] and sold into the [[Dungannon Military]]. - [[Hydra-Roki]] - Female [[Infernal]] [[Tiefling]] (light red skin) - Sold by her parents - [[Sumur Goldlash]] - Female Dark-skinned [[Human]] - Sold by her parents - [[Garkas Roseearth]] - Male Dark-skinned [[Halfling]] You still haven't been fed. Your stomach grumbles as you fall asleep on the stone floor beneath four other children. Only a few inches of clearance between you and the first bed. This night like many of the nights in your immediate future is constantly interrupted by crying, shouting, screaming, and the occasional brawl. The morning starts early not with food as you'd hoped but rather with discipline and obedience training in the courtyard in front of your dormitory. The drills for your dormitory are led by [[Owl-Arlok Thundercarver Vaimei Ligala]]. Punishments are doled out for any mistakes. None of the rules, expectations, or sayings are taught to you beforehand. You and the other people in your bunk are forced to do various punishments as you make mistakes throughout the drills. Finally, after hours of this. A bell sounds, and everyone in the courtyard clears out. Looking and laughing at you and your exhausted bunkmates. **Insight Check on Bunkmates** When you make it to the mess hall, a guard asks you to start reciting without any additional information. > [!success] What do you do? Until [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]] is able to recite the [[Warrior Lord]]s of the [[Dungannon]] history he will not be fed or given water. He needs to pass a **DC 15** Intelligence Check to remember all of the [[Warrior Lord]]s. Rolling with [[Disadvantage]] the first **three** attempts. Once he succeeds, he can add advantage to history checks on [[Dungannon]] History. He can only drink water from the muddy puddles outside, but will be punished if caught. **DC 10** Stealth Check. If he goes **3 days** without water, or **21 days** without food, he dies. [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth]] before you go to bed this night, you linger for a second, looking at the closed door of your brother's bedroom across the hall from your bedroom. [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus Vakrihk]], that night, you are woken up as waste matter that was taken from the bathroom at the end of the dormitory is dumped over your bunk, dripping through the slats onto every single one of the sleeping inhabitants. You hear the laughter of some of the other kids as they run away from your bunk calling you out for being new to camp, and calling [[Hammoda Jadebelly]], *Hambelly*. > [!success] What do you do? A guard comes over and forces you to clean up the mess. #### 4983 [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]]'s Heirdom > [!note] >[[Bedun Breckinsworth|Bedun]] is **20** years old, [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]] is now **12** years old, [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]] is now **6** years old, [[Sonni Breckinsworth|Sonni]] is **3** years old. [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]], you are **12** years old. For the first time, you have been asked to the [[Elm Tower]] for official business. [[Queen]] [[Merah Breckinsworth]] and [[King Consort]] [[Dungannon Flagbearers|Flagbearer]] [[Sun-Vaos Vakrihk]] are set to make an official announcement and you are to be present on stage. Next to you sits [[Professor]] [[Orril]]. [[Queen]] [[Merah Breckinsworth]] makes a public announcement that [[Bedun Breckinsworth]] was injured in a hunting accident and has been deemed unfit to rule. Meaning that [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]] is now heir to the throne. Additionally, the [[Queen]] and [[King Consort]] have decided to send the heir on a magical excursion with dearly trusted magical advisor, [[Professor]] [[Orril]] and several members of the [[Sun Clan]] for protection. This is your first time hearing of this. > [!success] What do you do? #### 4983 [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]]' First Red Rock Hike > [!note] >[[Bedun Breckinsworth|Bedun]] is **20** years old, [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]] is now **12** years old, [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]] is now **6** years old, [[Sonni Breckinsworth|Sonni]] is **3** years old Some time has passed, you've been moved out of the newcomer dormitory 19 and live in dormitory 17. The only noticeable change is the number on the side of the building. You've been able to stick with [[Hammoda Jadebelly]], [[Hydra-Roki]], and [[Sumur Goldlash]] and remain bunkmates. [[Garkas Roseearth]] died of an infection a few weeks after your arrival. In some ways it was a relief to have a bed again. Late one evening, just as your dormitory started dozing off, [[Owl-Arlok Thundercarver Vaimei Ligala]] opened up the door with a blazing torch and woke everyone up yelling that he's tired of how lazy everyone in this dorm is and he wants a red rock from everyone. Even though no groans are heard audibly, they can be felt in the body language of the children around you that know what it is. Which is everyone but you. > [!success] What do you do? On your way up to [[Red Rock Peak]], your right foot slips on a boulder, as it rolls off the boulder, the boulder wedges your ankle into a crevice shattering your right ankle. [[Owl-Arlok Thundercarver Vaimei Ligala]] turns with the torch, takes a look at what happened. Looks you in the eyes, and turns to continue the hike. You are **11 miles** from the [[Dungannon Training Camps]]. Your bunkmates turn to help you, though you know they could get in trouble if you let them help. > [!success] What do you do? **DC 10** Survival Check to get the direction back to camp correct. Sent back to [[Red Rock Peak]] if he shows up without a red rock. Red rocks are gathered around a statue of [[Warrior Lord]] [[Moon-Valemon]] in the center of the [[Dungannon Training Camps]]. Chooses to get a red rock, gets it around 4 am. 11 am - 22 miles from [[Dungannon Training Camps]] Roll a **Nat 1** on **Survival Check** #### 4984 [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]]'s First Encounter > [!note] >[[Bedun Breckinsworth|Bedun]] is **21** years old, [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]] is now **13** years old, [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]] is now **7** years old, [[Sonni Breckinsworth|Sonni]] is **4** years old > [!success] Can Act At Any Time [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]] you remember [[Professor]] [[Orril]] telling you to sit on a rock in the center of a small lake in [[Rarrenim]]. He bound your legs together at the ankles and upper calves in a cross-legged seated position. Placing your hands behind your back, he bound your wrists together. Finally, he placed a blindfold over your eyes, and swabs of moss in your ears. He left you there like that. At first you weren't sure if you were hallucinating, but you heard a high-pitched voice asking "Are you okay". You felt a small hand lift the blindfold up from over your eyes, fighting through the brightness you could barely make out a small woman hovering in front of you. You heard a tiny voice introduce herself as [[Snowdrop Cottontwill]] and ask "Can I help you somehow, strange wizard?" You know that fairy's possess magical knowledge, can be used as magical components for alchemy and enchantment, and just catching one alone would *probably* prove your magical prowess. You're tied up and she's flying in front of you. > [!success] What do you do? [[Snowdrop Cottontwill]] will introduce [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]] to [[Nintra Siotta|Miss Nin]], a powerful fairy if he wants. #### 4985 > [[Bedun Breckinsworth|Bedun]] is **22** years old, [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]] is now **14** years old, [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]] is now **8** years old, [[Sonni Breckinsworth|Sonni]] is now **5** years old. ##### [[Nintra Siotta|Miss Nin]] Tries to Make a Deal As [[Alyxandor Breckinsworth|Alyxandor]] leaves his bedroom the morning of [[Sonni Breckinsworth|Sonni]]'s [[Breckinsworth Magical Survey]], [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]]' bedroom door shifts to reveal a portal to [[Nintra Siotta|Miss Nin]]. She tells him she can provide Sonni with the powers to pass, otherwise she'll be sent to [[Dungannon]] like [[Augustus Breckinsworth|Augustus]]. [[Sonni Breckinsworth|Sonni]] becomes a [[Warlock]] of [[Nintra Siotta|Miss Nin]] as well. ###### End of Session Zero