Dan's 2025 Board Gaming

Thebalt travelled East into the swamps where he found the asylum that housed the rest of the infected people of Tuathan. It was protected by the Red Guard, the very military unit he had petitioned the King to establish. Although he thought they would be dismayed to learn that their brothers had been thrown into battle unsupported, they were in fact happy that they had had the opportunity to die in battle. Thebalt found many who were willing to follow him in exchange for the opportunity to have a similar death.

Thebalt then led his force of elite Red Guards North to the castle construction site. There he found that work had stopped after a number of workers mysteriously died during the evenings. Thebalt waited until evening himself, and standing on the cliffs to the rear of the castle, he noticed the glyphs on the beach below making and ominous magical glow. He felt drawn to them, but the sensation passed.

Travelling back inland, building a lift mechanism to allow for swift travel from the cliff tops to the swamp, then heading back East to the beach, Thebalt did indeed find many dead bodies at the base of the cliff. It would appear that the workers, upon seeing the glowing beach in the evenings, had been compelled to walk off the cliffs and fall to their deaths. Thebalt destroyed the magical glyphs drawn into the beaches, ending their magical alluring effect.

Thebalt reported his findings to the castle, and the workers were happy to resume work. He then returned to King Arthur who had a new task for him. The King confided that he had travelled to Tuathan at the behest of a lady who appeared in his dreams. Only once here did he realise that this lady was a Foredweller, one of mankind’s enemies. She still haunts his dreams. The King has asked Thebalt to track her down and assess her. If she’s a friend, find out what she wants. If she’s an enemy, kill her.