491 Earl Roderick (NPC), At the siege of Tintagel Castle
After the Duke of Cornwall apparently insulted my liege lord King Uther by leaving his house without permission less than 2 years after my most just and forgiving lord reached out and found common cause with Duke Gorlois and re-accepted him into his bosom once more.
For this reason my King raised his army and marched for Cornwall, so energetic was Uther that he ordered the army to advance before it was completely formed leaving orders for the strangelers to come once the reached the muster point.
The army arrived at the Cornish castle of Terrabil where we had heard from our spies that the Duke and the bulk of his army were garrisoned. However the Ducal treasury (and coincidentally the Duchess Ygraine) was said to be at Tintagel Castle on the coast, to this fortress did Uther and one fourth of his army travel leaving the remainder under Prince Madoc to siege Terrabil.
Me and my vassals had the honour of being at Uthers right and thus were the first to arrive at Tintagel and thus espied that a small harrying force was arrayed before the gate works that guarded this end of the stone bridge that linked to the main part of the castle on the island to the mainland. Sir Dalan supported by Sir Benesek le Beau Danseur and Sir Gorvannon the Leaden Tongue charged the force seeking to disrupt them and possibly force an entrance to the gate works and thus hasten the fall of the whole castle complex.
Once the inital force was dispatched Sir Benesek seeing that the Cornish whilst retreating in good order would need to open the main gate to return to safety bravely surged foward, unfortunately Sir Dalan at that moment was uncharacteristically wary, Sir Gorvannon seeing that Sir Benesek would be unsupported and thus heavily outnumbered tried to slow him until Sir Dalan could organise another charge.
Luckily Sir Benesek fought bravely against the odds and prevented the Cornish from closing the gate until help in the form of Sir Dalan and Sir Gorvannon arrived and swept aside the final defenders and proceeded to take the fortifications.
Sir Benesek whoever had entered personal combat with one of the Cornish barons, back and forth their blows where traded until the Cornish knight struck a massive blow against Sir Benesek and knocked him clean from his horse. Observing his liege lord being struck down Sir Denzil one of Sir Benesek's loyal vassal's fought like a demon to reach his lord, defeat the Cornish knight and carry Sir Benesek from the field.
King Uther seeing that Sir Benesek had been instrumental in the capture of the gate works ordered Sir Benesek to his own tent to be treated by his personal chirurgen too see to him, after some time however the good doctor left the tent in foul mood and held council with Uther, at this Uther called upon Merlin to assist and the Merlin entered the tent where Benesek was being treated with the doctor and after many hours both exited with signs of contentment on their faces.
[Through a combination of a crited chirugy roll and merlins help Sir Benersek gained a 3+1d6 and rolled a 6 rather than a 3+1d3 (which even with a roll of 6 on a d6 would have meant death) - through this Sir Benesek lost his suspicion of Merlin, Sir Gorvannon's was however increased because "It's not natural that Sir Benersek survived!"]
For this reason my King raised his army and marched for Cornwall, so energetic was Uther that he ordered the army to advance before it was completely formed leaving orders for the strangelers to come once the reached the muster point.
The army arrived at the Cornish castle of Terrabil where we had heard from our spies that the Duke and the bulk of his army were garrisoned. However the Ducal treasury (and coincidentally the Duchess Ygraine) was said to be at Tintagel Castle on the coast, to this fortress did Uther and one fourth of his army travel leaving the remainder under Prince Madoc to siege Terrabil.
Me and my vassals had the honour of being at Uthers right and thus were the first to arrive at Tintagel and thus espied that a small harrying force was arrayed before the gate works that guarded this end of the stone bridge that linked to the main part of the castle on the island to the mainland. Sir Dalan supported by Sir Benesek le Beau Danseur and Sir Gorvannon the Leaden Tongue charged the force seeking to disrupt them and possibly force an entrance to the gate works and thus hasten the fall of the whole castle complex.
Once the inital force was dispatched Sir Benesek seeing that the Cornish whilst retreating in good order would need to open the main gate to return to safety bravely surged foward, unfortunately Sir Dalan at that moment was uncharacteristically wary, Sir Gorvannon seeing that Sir Benesek would be unsupported and thus heavily outnumbered tried to slow him until Sir Dalan could organise another charge.
Luckily Sir Benesek fought bravely against the odds and prevented the Cornish from closing the gate until help in the form of Sir Dalan and Sir Gorvannon arrived and swept aside the final defenders and proceeded to take the fortifications.
Sir Benesek whoever had entered personal combat with one of the Cornish barons, back and forth their blows where traded until the Cornish knight struck a massive blow against Sir Benesek and knocked him clean from his horse. Observing his liege lord being struck down Sir Denzil one of Sir Benesek's loyal vassal's fought like a demon to reach his lord, defeat the Cornish knight and carry Sir Benesek from the field.
King Uther seeing that Sir Benesek had been instrumental in the capture of the gate works ordered Sir Benesek to his own tent to be treated by his personal chirurgen too see to him, after some time however the good doctor left the tent in foul mood and held council with Uther, at this Uther called upon Merlin to assist and the Merlin entered the tent where Benesek was being treated with the doctor and after many hours both exited with signs of contentment on their faces.
[Through a combination of a crited chirugy roll and merlins help Sir Benersek gained a 3+1d6 and rolled a 6 rather than a 3+1d3 (which even with a roll of 6 on a d6 would have meant death) - through this Sir Benesek lost his suspicion of Merlin, Sir Gorvannon's was however increased because "It's not natural that Sir Benersek survived!"]
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