Festival of Roses

"My Lady, we really shouldn't be out here." Claryssa insisted for the hundredth time. Both girls wore cloaks to keep them from the rain, each wearing black for the poor young woman lost the night before, as well as their boots from their time at sea.

"I want to get something for Lady Alicent. I think it might help her to know we care enough to look for something." Lady Kylie replied.

Market Row is bustling and busy, as it usually is.

Kylie and Claryssa: Make an Awareness (Notice) Test, TN15.

Kylie: 9 - Fail

Claryssa: 12 - Fail
Destiny Point Retry: 14 - Fail


Claryssa notices something at the back of one of the shops. "Kylie, those are the candles you're obsessed with. Perhaps Lady Feyther might like one?"

And the shopping was done. Kylie found one with the House colors of Feyther, and exited back out to the street.

A cart being drawn by a large, sleek hound clattered along Market Row, the shoppers moving to the sides to allow it passage. The man who had been watching Kylie and her handmaiden saw his moment. As the crush of pedestrians temporarily became close and confusing, he shoved the young noblewoman into an alley, separating her from Claryssa.

Kylie was momentarily stunned. At first, she thought it had to do with the cart and as a Lady she was inclined to take the accident in stride. Now, she realized she was being attacked. She didn't have her dagger on her. She always left it where she slept thinking night was when prowlers attacked. She saw the folly of that now in her attacker's eyes.

She groaned at the harshness of the shove, before she began screaming. "CLARYSSA!!!!"

"Shut up!" the hooded man barked, clapping a hand over the young woman's mouth. "Silence yourself, or I'll cut your throat for you." There was a silver flash, a dagger in his left hand.

Kylie struggled against her attacker, terrified though she was. 'What is this is the same person who killed Leana??'

However, she'd screamed loudly enough for the whole keep to hear. "Let go of her."


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Initiating Fight

Agility for Initiative 18
Combat Defense: 12 Base, 15 Ringmail/Braavosi Blade/Left-Hand Dagger
Armour Rating: 0 Base, 6 Ringmail
Health: 9

The cutpurse swung around as he heard Claryssa's voice, drawing a slender blade, longer than a short sword but not so long as a rapier. "Are you going to make me?"


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Initiative: Agility (Quickness) 23

Action: Acrobatic Defense
Combat Defense: 17
Armour Rating: 7
Health: 6

Fighting (Fencing), TN17 20

Claryssa's weapon finds armour concealed beneath the cutpurse's cloak, deflecting her blade before it can do any damage. But, to his surprise, his own attack also meets resistance.


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Cutpurse is hit: (Agility 5 * 1 degree) - 7 Armour Rating = 0 Damage

Action: Acrobatic Defense
Action: Attack, Fighting (Fencing), -1B Training 16
Combat Defense: 17
Armour Rating: 7
Health: 6