A Game of Ice and Fire, Part 5: Normalcy

Sometimes, things go accordingly

This past week was pretty standard affair for our group (aside from some really inappropriate jokes).  I have no glimpses into my GM'ing process with this post, just an update of where the party is in the story.

Following last week's unfriendliness at Masha's Inn, the group set off and reached the nearby city of Deep Den, where the Trevayne's share a distant relationship with Lord Lydden.  They dropped off the bandit to receive the King's Justice, spent the night as guests of Lord Lydden and met up with Lucius, the young assassin in training, and begrudgingly traded the bandit's horses for a cheaper (though not in their minds) price on a warhorse for Zoren.

After a few days travel, they reached another inn of note, Dag's, where they quickly received a cold welcome.  Between the reserved fear of the stableboy, serving girl, and matron, they assumed word had come down from Masha's and were preparing themselves.  Once a couple of sellswords approached the party and accused them of murder, they knew something was up.  Zoren and Elan taunted the two and tricked them into going outside while they locked the door to the inn and had Zoren block it off.  This restraint honestly surprised me.  After Elan's quickness to shot first, ask questions later, I figured these two sellswords were dead.

Talking with the owners of the inn, the group learned that the heir of their rival house, Aiden Buckwell, had been by a day or so before on his way to King's Landing.  During his stay, he told tale of the atrocities House Trevayne committed against his smallfolk; murder.  He brought proof in the form of a bloody shield bearing House Trevayne's sigil.

Learning of the accusations being levied against their house, Zoren surprised the sellswords by opening the door causing them to rush in.  He shield bashed one into unconsciousness and the other fell where Elan drew daggers on him.  They offered the two their lives if they left right then and did not come back.  They agreed.

Now the group has to watch itself on the last stretch towards King's Landing and hope to clear their house of crimes they did not commit.