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| - | ====== kc2 publish and be damned ====== | + | ====== Kingdom Come II: Publish and be Damned ====== |
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| Acryn remains in a state of flux. The nascent monarchy struggles to retain control as food rationing and wild currency fluctuations (caused by the King's attempt to confiscate riel and replace them with the Blackthorn pound) leave the poor to suffer. Factions within the city struggle for power, and assassination attempts against the influential are rife. In the slums and tenements, a scurrilous new newspaper has sprung up, claiming to be the mouthpiece of the 'People's Council', which has been printing some extremely unflattering woodcuts of the new King and his court. | Acryn remains in a state of flux. The nascent monarchy struggles to retain control as food rationing and wild currency fluctuations (caused by the King's attempt to confiscate riel and replace them with the Blackthorn pound) leave the poor to suffer. Factions within the city struggle for power, and assassination attempts against the influential are rife. In the slums and tenements, a scurrilous new newspaper has sprung up, claiming to be the mouthpiece of the 'People's Council', which has been printing some extremely unflattering woodcuts of the new King and his court. | ||
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| The party return to the revolutionaries at the behest of Faria Carver to crush them and convert the people the royalist way of thinking. They do try to talk them round first, but they fail to win them over and so cut them down, seizing control of the printing press. However, during the fight her Ladyship feels a terrible pain in the hand which shook Felip Caulson's and as she cries out the flesh shrivels into withered black uselessness. In the confusion, they don't spot one of the rebels fleeing through a back window. | The party return to the revolutionaries at the behest of Faria Carver to crush them and convert the people the royalist way of thinking. They do try to talk them round first, but they fail to win them over and so cut them down, seizing control of the printing press. However, during the fight her Ladyship feels a terrible pain in the hand which shook Felip Caulson's and as she cries out the flesh shrivels into withered black uselessness. In the confusion, they don't spot one of the rebels fleeing through a back window. | ||
| - | As they make to the Temple of the Tender to find a treatment for her Ladyship’s shriveled hand the city shifts and moves around them, buildings and roads reorganizing themselves into an inescapable trap as Arcus Blackthorn himself appears atop a huge white stallion, flanked by his flux knights. He's captured the rebel and is somewhat peeved about what he's learned - namely that the party have royally screwed him over and stolen all his purloined cash. Feigning regret he says that he must execute them for the good of the state...ie him. Fortunately, he makes the classic Blackthorn mistake of monologuing just a bit too long and is taken aback when Lady Rosemile lashes out through the flux directly at the source of his power. With a thunderous crack the great red jewel at the centre of the crown fractures as Arcus’ horse rears wildly. Arcus howls in pain and briefly his form seems to lose definition, but the power of crown seems more deeply rooted than in only the flux and it remains unbroken. With a slightly panicked look Arcus hurls a smoke bomb to the ground and winks out of existence as his cadre of knights merge into a huge armoured battle-weasel that unsuccessfully attempts to devour the party. With the weasel defeated the party are able to vanish into the crowded city streets, which are now a mass of backup traffic caused by the apparent renaming of every road in the city ‘Arcus Boulevard’ and demolition of several major bridges over the river. | + | As they make to the Temple of the Tender to find a treatment for her Ladyship’s shriveled hand the city shifts and moves around them, buildings and roads reorganizing themselves into an inescapable trap as Arcus Blackthorn himself appears atop a huge white stallion, flanked by his flux knights. He's captured the rebel and is somewhat peeved about what he's learned - namely that the party have royally screwed him over and stolen all his purloined cash. Feigning regret he says that he must execute them for the good of the state...ie him. Fortunately, he makes the classic Blackthorn mistake of monologuing just a bit too long and is taken aback when Lady Rosemile lashes out through the flux directly at the source of his power. With a thunderous crack the great red jewel at the centre of the crown fractures as Arcus’ horse rears wildly. Arcus howls in pain and briefly his form seems to lose definition, but the power of the crown seems more deeply rooted than in only the flux and it remains unbroken. With a slightly panicked look Arcus hurls a smoke bomb to the ground and winks out of existence as his cadre of knights merge into a huge armoured battle-weasel that unsuccessfully attempts to devour the party. With the weasel defeated the party are able to vanish into the crowded city streets, which are now a mass of backed up traffic caused by the apparent renaming of every road in the city ‘Arcus Boulevard’, and the demolition of several major bridges over the river. |
| At the temple of the Tender the Lady Rosemile makes a donation in return for treatment but is cast out when the priests find her crippled hand is the result of a dark curse from a source they dare not name. Alchemy proves no more effective. Faria Carver, who fled the city after making an attempt on Blackthorn’s life, confirms that the ‘the fifth’ has cursed her and it will take considerable power to heal the blight. With the printing press now under their control the party begin to flood Acryn with pamphlets reminding people of the glory days of Acryn, when monarchs of Salic blood sat the throne. The hypnotic power of King Arcus still holds sway but in taverns and smoking houses hidden from the agents of the King the people remember the glory of the true leaders of the city. | At the temple of the Tender the Lady Rosemile makes a donation in return for treatment but is cast out when the priests find her crippled hand is the result of a dark curse from a source they dare not name. Alchemy proves no more effective. Faria Carver, who fled the city after making an attempt on Blackthorn’s life, confirms that the ‘the fifth’ has cursed her and it will take considerable power to heal the blight. With the printing press now under their control the party begin to flood Acryn with pamphlets reminding people of the glory days of Acryn, when monarchs of Salic blood sat the throne. The hypnotic power of King Arcus still holds sway but in taverns and smoking houses hidden from the agents of the King the people remember the glory of the true leaders of the city. | ||
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