A Chronicle of the Year of Broken Hopes,

Four-hundred and Ninety-Seven

In which five knights earn a public dressing-down, eat innards off the floor and still manage to win a battle.

Session Summary

• The knights return to Sarum still riding the high from burning an Essex fleet and pocketing the gold — only to find Duke Ulfius of Silchester waiting, and he is not impressed.
• Ulfius dresses down the five in open court, detailing exactly how their raid has threatened a fragile truce he spent years building with Ael of Kent. The knights lose glory for it.
• A feast follows, nominally in Ulfius's honour. Drusilla botches her seating rolls twice and spends three rounds dining with the hounds. She eats the innards and calls them crunchy.
• Aur tells ...