S02E02

## Highhome Brought Low

"We would like you to be comfortable," Mykaal Dyre said with a deep grin. "We appreciate your unique skills and look forward to your continuing service."

Alon, Clyde, Rook and Wilfred looked at him skeptically.
"You will have to spend a night or two here in the dungeon, but that's only because we're searching the castle. We're making sure it's free of traps or lingering fighters. And we'll be modifying the northeast wing for your comfort."
"Surely, this doesn't apply to me," said Alon.
"Of course, you don't need to wear those restraints." Mykaal waved for a guard to remove Alon's shackles. "But I'm afraid even you will have to stay in the dungeon, Master Redwyne. You may feel dislike for me and my family, but our moves against the Glenbains were acts of vendetta. These are matters of the noble class and are not your concern."

- Mykaal Dyre asked where Ser Maurice had gone. The group didn't know.

- The group argued with Mykaal Dyre, convincing him that they should not be held in the dungeon. They successfully changed his mind, which enraged Sergeant Griff, a Lannister Soldier. Sergeant Griff knocked out Mykaal with a savage punch to the head. Mykaal left, embarrassed and upset.

- Sergeant Griff made the group sit at a table in the dungeon. He asked them again where Ser Maurice might be hiding. The group didn't know, suggesting perhaps they use the scent of pig and the stables to track him.

- Sergeant Griff was angered. He produced a deck of playing cards, remarking, "You're going to play games with me? Then I'll play a game with you." He dealt three cards to each member of the group - the lowest total dies.

- Alon, Clyde, Rook and Wilfred drew and exchanged cards, trying to get the lowest total. In the end it was Wilfred who held the bad hand. Sargeant Griff ordered his men to raise their crossbows. The moment before he was shot, Lartel Dyre entered, ordering Griff to bring everyone up for dinner.

- The group were brought to a long dining table in their own dining hall sitting beside them at the table were two dozen Lannister soldiers, mostly officers. The Dyre family (Maedalyn, Lartel, Mykaal and Melinsa) were at a second table with a few local nobles.

- The group could tell that the Dyres wanted to make the dinner look casual and effortless, but they had actually calculated the setting so they could observe everyone in the hall. They noticed that Mykaal and Maedalyn were passing each other coded notes while exchanging pleasantries with the nobles.

- Alon rose with his glass, giving a toast to House Dyre. The soldiers hammered their fists on the table in approval. Lady Maedalyn rose, and so did the rest of the room. She gave a toast to House Glenbain, saying, "It is good to have good enemies. House Glenbain has honoured us by being our worthy adversaries. But now their time is ended."

- Rook provided a jester-ly distraction while Alon Redwyne pocketed one of Maedalyn's coded notes. Alon broke the code, revealing the message:

Xu Maru - Dealt With

Tornita Quet - Dealt With

Septa Fransheshina - Dealt With

Hacks - At Large

Maurice Figgybottom - At Large

- The group were brought back to the dungeon and left with a single guard. In order to give Alon a 'private room,' the guards put a blanket over the bars of his cell.

- The group new there was a secret tunnel out of the dungeon, but it hadn't been used in centuries. They couldn't recall where it was. Alon used one of his compartment rings to drug a cup of water and offered it to the guard. The guard took it, drank and fell unconscious. The group stripped him of his armour and weapons and found the tunnel.

- They passed through a series of tunnels under the castle wall and emerged just inside the outer wall at the southwest tower.
- Inside the southwest tower, the group could see two guards talking quietly. They were dispatched expertly. The group closed the door behind them, took more weapons and armour and headed up the stairs.

- At the top of the stairs stood Ser Jon Hallan, champion of House Dyre. He grumbled in his monstrous voice, "Oh, I like you. You got balls. The Lady thought you'd stay down there all night."

- Clyde and Rook bravely attacked Ser Jon, but found themselves outmatched. Wilfred went to the bottom of the stairs and tried to open the door out, finding it held shut from the other side. Alon took a torch and lit the door on fire. The door swung open revealing two dozen Lannister elites pushing the door closed with a mantlet. Alon and Wilfred surrendered.

- Clyde and Rook looked passed Ser Jon to the edge of the southwest tower. They raced past him and leaped into the moat thirty feet below. Having been wounded in the fight with Jon Hallan, neither of them made it across the moat. Their near-dead bodies were fished out of the moat.

- The group was thrown back into the dungeon, this time locked in cells with guards watching them constantly. Alon was given a private room... a small, dark cell in the oubliette... with velvet pillows.

## Experience

- Alon, Clyde, Rook and Wilfred received 15 XP, 2 Glory

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