Chapter 3: The Rogue and the Flower

Eleanor
Rin
Pippin
Royal Seal
Alpine
Magical weapons
Sanctuary of the Lost

## Scenario Text

### Part 1

"I am Agard Greyfrost, 3rd Lieutenant of the palace guard. It has come to our attention a heinous fugitive might be hiding in Haymarket Town. For three days, the roads will be closed."

In the meantime, what do you do?

### Part 2

The search party finds the fugitive. Jack manages to warn Rin slightly first. But not enough to avoid Agard's eye. As Rin, with a young girl on their back, tries to flee, Agard chants:

*From whose white shell did man emerge*

*Does even greatest houses purged*

*From frozen rivers, frozen winds*

*A second age of night begins*

*Saber, I name thee: Alpine!*

His swords glow blue. Agard swings a sword in Rin's direction, releasing a light blue wave, that solidifies into a slash of ice ranging across a street, bisecting a nearby store. However, smoke appears in place of where Rin was. They have vanished. The commotion is lightly audible.

In the meantime, what do you do?

## Part 1

### Calen

Calen and his bandits began assassinating all of Haymarket Town's local guards and seized three houses to start the headquarters of a revolutionary militia.

### Jack

Jack offers to join the palace guard's search party for Rin with the intention of aiding and abetting the fugitive. He was able to warn Rin seconds before the royal military police found them.

### Jatin

Bought a spear and shield with the looted money and a book on spirits and legends. Spent the rest of the turn reading the book.

### Michael

Michael worked odd jobs around Haymarket Town to earn money while teaching the Void Crawler how to retrieve objects.

### Nick

Nick introduced himself to Agard and shook his hand, reading his history and learning about his hunt for Rin and Eleanor.

### Nicole

Nicole convinced Agard and his team that she was a relative of a former captain of the royal military police who had died, and they noticed she had 'misplaced' her royal seal so they gave her a new one.

## Part 2

### Calen

Seized the local smith's shop and armed himself and all of his bandits, returning to their stolen houses. Five palace guards, notified of the disturbance, were sent to deal with the problem; Calen killed them all, but not before all of his bandits were killed by the royal military police.

### Jack

Jack asked Ba'az about Rin's Vanishing Art and where Rin might be. He was too late, and found Rin dead by Agard's sword. In gratitude for his attempt to help them, Eleanor gave him Rin's silver feather before disappearing.

### Jatin

Made money accelerating some smugglers' business using the speed of the Chaos Horse and bought a bow and arrow.

### Michael

Michael repeated the actions of his previous turn.

### Nick

Nick read the street to determine where Rin went, then told Agard he would direct him and the other palace guards to Rin's location in exchange for money. This resulted in Rin's death.

### Nicole

Nicole kept spending time with the royal military police under the guise of the captain's relative, and at the end, Agard assigned an escort, Pippin, to make sure she got home safely.

## Ending

After Nick points the way, Agard finds Rin. Palace guards are ordered to surround them.

*Vanishing Art: Flicker*

Negative space zig zags Rin's body in spirals until they are hardly visible. All the guards surrounding Rin die of slash wounds. Jack now arrives. Rin poses to flee, but Agard jumps into the air, spinning his swords in a circle, and ice surrounds Rin.

"Hand her over," Agard says.

"They told you I stole her away, didn't you? Stupid boy, they mean to kill her, and you're following them like a dog."

Agard steps close to Rin. A sword emerges from their back.

"In the name of the crown, you have been sentenced to die." Rin falls over, dead

Agard bends down to the young girl. She is terrified.

"What is your name?"

"Eleanor," she answers.

"Wrong," Agard says. "Eleanor, illegitimate daughter of Lord Ulfren, is dead. What name you take now is none of my concern. Never set foot in the Greater Capital again." Agard walks away, ordering his men to prepare the horses.

Eleanor gives Jack a silver feather charm.

"Thank you," she says, "for trying." She disappears into the street.