Pendragon 6 Launch Celebration

Sample

### Events Part 1

* The Knights are all riding through the snow on the 9th of January on the way to Londinum to attend the Great Tourney for the Crown of the Kingdom
* King Lot shows up and rides through, forcing Dame Lynelle off the road
* King Lot recognises Sir Asterius as a representative from Constantinople and invites him to ride with him
* Sir Asterius is too courteous to refuse
* Sir Evrain manages to make Sir Asterius see the prudence in hanging back a bit
* Every one arrives at the gates of Londinium, and there is plenty of one-upmanship about who gets which camp ground etc
* Dame Temura realises she's been talking with Morgana
* Sir Asterius presents himself with his credentials to the Arch Bishop
* Dame Tenura goes spreading spooky ghost stories to find out what the Queens are up to. She's looking for Morgana but runs into Merlin
* Dame Lynelle is heading to make the Picts extra drunk
* Sir Evrain is on a mission of secret romance chasing Scholastix to get it to deliver a missive
* The party is by ways and means making their way to the courtyard of St Paul Cathedral
* We see the sword, embedded in the anvil, embedded in a stone. It was not there 30 minutes hence
* The Player Knights are the only ones to see this as everyone else is either in church or partying in the camps
* Dame Temura recognizes the sword as the Sword of Uther Pendragon
* This is where Sir Asterius appears from the service in the Cathedral
* There is an inscription in Latin: Quisquis hunc lapidem de lapide trahit, Rex est totius Britanniae (Whosoever pulls this sword from the stone is rightwise King of all Britain)
* Sir Evrain tries to pull the sword but fails
* It's now that the young squire they met earlier comes around (Wart)
* Dame Lynelle pulls up not only the sword, but the anvil and the stone as well. All in one piece
* Dame Lemura leads the group on a hunt for Wart's brother Sir Kay
* Londinium is however so chaotic that they loose Wart instead
* Scholastix lands, and keeps looking back towards St Paul's
* As they approach they hear Wart arguing with Sir Kay about a lost sword. He pulls the sword out of the stone
* Sir Asterius tries to get Sir Kay to swap out Clarent for his presentation sword, which he does
* The four player knights take the knee in front of a confused Wart/Arthur apart from Dame Lynelle
* The Archbishop comes out and wonders what is happening
* All Hail Lord Wart!
* King Lot comes out of the Cathedral, and does not take things quietly

### Events Part 2

* Dame Gwenhild is in the employ of the Archbishop of London to help keep the peace
* The Lady Macardis asks Dame Gwenhild to find out who the handsome knight is riding in the company of King Leondigrans
* Then late at night all the bells start ringing with the order to get everyone to St Paul's, now!
* And thus Dame Gwenhild joins the other Player Knights
* As the crowd is catching on to the theme of "All Hail King Wart"
* King Lot of Lothian complains that "shall we serve a beardless boy?" and goes to draw the re-seated sword
* Both Dame Lynelle and Sir Asterius lifts both the stone, anvil, and sword
* King Lot tries, and fails
* Next up is King Leondigrans. who fails
* Arthur steps up and pulls the sword, again
* King Lot would rather take Dame Lynelle for his liege than Arthur
* Dame Lynelle refuses, and spits at King Lot's feet
* Dame Gwenhild tries to pour oil on the water, but instead sets it on fire
* Lot's elder son Agravane attacks Dame Lynelle for the insult
* Sir Asterius is sarcastically taking notes of how the Brits are behaving in the face of divine providence
* Dame Lemura and Dame Gwenhild are trying to work out how to extricate Arthur from the courtyard back to the White Tower (of London)
* Arthur makes an impassionate speech to try to calm the crowd
* King Lot defies him yet again, at least verbally
* The crowd subsides
* King Londigrans is pulled away as his lands are being attacked whilst he's in Londinium
* The party goes on through the night, Sir Asterius has all kinds of difficulty keeping themselves awake
* Shortly after dawn Arthur draws the sword again
* The sword is taken to the altar in St Paul's so that it may be prayed upon
* Gwynhild is tasked with organizing the guard roster. She is short 3 knights for the midnight rotation, the other player knights step up
* The Sheriff puts Londinium into a curfew lockdown
* The night start out very quiet, as the curfew takes effect
* Dame Gwenhild hears the outside guards being murdered
* Picts come bursting through all three doors at once
* Dame Lynelle decapitates her first target
* Dame Temura shoots an arrow into a Pict's sternum, taking him out
* Dame Gwenhild takes out a pict's jaw, taking him out
* The second opponent onto Dame Gwenhild hits however, knocking her down
* Sir Asterius slices his opponent with a sword, but only manages to wound his opponent
* The Picts that had been busy killing door guards now enter. Dame Lynelle takes out both that come at her
* A pict rushes through the bow fire from Dame Lemura and strikes at her, but misses
* A second pict gets past Dame Temura, and reaches the altar to grab the sword
* Sir Asterius is the one who skewers him, along with the arrow from Dame Temura
* And thus the Clarent, the Sword of Peace is saved
* With the sun rising, Dame Lynelle swallows her pride and accepts the offer of an actual station
* The Player Knights meet King Arthur upon the morning, who is remorseful that he did not stand with them over the last night
* Dame Lynelle is formally knighted by Arthur, who is first knighted by Dame Lemura

### Trivia

* Mark Morrison appears from the studio of James Coquillat
* The Owl that turns into / from an old man is named Scholastix, in an apparent homage to Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo