The prison break kicked off with an impressive aerial display from Vasuki, dodging arrows from the guards as she swooped in for a landing in the courtyard. Luckily, most of the troops from Sorrowyn Prison were diverted by the army battle being staged outside their gates. We ignored the guard towers for the moment and charged right into the main building, looking to release our targets as soon as possible. Daisy and Royce were looking for Viktor, Flik, and Flik’s daughter April, while it seemed Harold had a different person in mind.
We fought our way up to the second floor, the women’s cells, to find Humphrey and his daughter Phoebe already knee-deep in prison guards. It turned out the two of them, when they’d gotten separated from Daisy (before the game began), had come straight here and staked out the place for weeks, waiting for the perfect chance to attack. We teamed up to defeat the guards while Harold ran from cell to cell, looking for someone. As it turned out, his sister Anna was locked in one of these cells, and she shared her space with none other than April! With the two ladies freed, we continued our charge up to the third floor, where the prison records showed we should be able to find Flik and Viktor.
As soon as we stepped onto the third floor, a portcullis dropped behind us and left us with no way to run from the massive arbalest directed by the prison commander. Daisy rushed forward to try and kill him quickly, but there was no way we could reach him before he fired. Lucky for us, a prisoner next to the commander reached through the bars and restrained him long enough for Daisy to cut him down with her sword, though not before the commander retaliated with a sword to the prisoner’s gut. The old prisoner, as he lay dying, recognized Kuarjav as the man who had once taught magic to his son Roy. He asked for news of his son, but as Kuarjav had been imprisoned 30 years to the old man’s 29, neither was very up-to-date on old friends. Roy’s father asked Kuarjav to look out for his son, and died.
Meanwhile, Daisy found her dad Viktor sharing a cell with Flik in the corner and busted them out, greeting her father with a big bear hug. They seemed to be a little worse for the wear, but well enough to fight. There was some argument over whether or not we should release all of the prisoners, and eventually it was decided that we had to wait until it was safe to let them out. With the intent of seeing how the war battle progressed, we went back downstairs to the courtyard to find yet another group of assassins surrounded by dead Harmonian guards. Harold recognized their leader as Darius, an assassin of great reputation. As we feared, they had come for Daisy Saint-Anicet. One fight later, we restrained Darius for questioning to try and finally find out why there are so many assassins after Daisy’s life. He revealed that he is a warrior of the Beast tribe sent by Octavia, like the last group, and he bore a totem rune with the image of a boar. Most interestingly, he said that Octavia wants to stop Daisy from fulfilling some ancient prophecy, though he would not reveal what it was. Harold offered the assassin a chance to make a clean break and join us instead, but Darius chose instead to leap onto Harold’s sword, leaving us at another dead end. We pondered what all of this might mean for Daisy, and while Harold theorized that there might be some connection to Daisy’s mother’s family because the assassins all used the Saint-Anicet name to find Daisy, no one could think of any connection there might be between a respectable noble family like the Saint-Anicets and some savage Beast tribe.
Suddenly remembering the second part of our mission, we raised a hastily-made rebel flag over the prison, leading the Harmonian army outside to eventually surrender. We freed the rest of the political prisoners and invited them back to our castle as a safe haven and base of operations, guessing that most of them would now be seeking to exact revenge on Harmonia.
A girl fell out of the sky as we were leaving the prison. Royce swooped in on his dragon and rescued her in a heroic fashion. The girl recognized Flik and Viktor and was identified as Viki, a scatterbrained teleporter who tends to show up during times of major conflict and then disappear during banquets. With nowhere else to go, Viki agreed to join our team and went to the castle.
The Union Army forces at Liberty Castle had a grand party that night to celebrate the fall of Sorrowyn, though we have yet to decide what to do with it. During the party, Daisy carved a wooden mug for Harold with a rose etched into the side, much to the Narcissist’s delight. We did some talking and catching-up with Viktor and the other prisoners, then met with Caesar the next morning to decide what to do next. Our strategist told us that we needed to focus on liberating the region where our castle was situated, and to that end, we had to go to the enchanted forest to ask the elves for help. If we succeeded, the elves would open the floodgates and wash away the Harmonian castle just downstream from them, greatly increasing our chances for victory.
So, next week, we meet the Harmonian elves!
Recruited: Flik, Viktor, Humphrey, April, Phoebe, Viki, Anna
Investigations: Daisy and Anna
