Dan's 2025 Board Gaming

The King’s next task for Thebalt was to journey South West and find out what had happened to the King’s sister, Morgaine. She had never arrived from the mainland, and many now thought her dead. However there had been a recent sighting of her galley off the coast.

Thebalt travelled to the coast, and found the ship hidden in a cove. It had clearly been deliberately beached and left there. Thebalt searched the deserted ship. At first it looked like it had been attacked, but Thebalt got the feeling that had been staged. The blood splatters had a pattern to them, the damage looked artificial, and he doubted the Captain would have had the time to neatly write in the ships log the fact that it had been attacked in clear, legible prose.

On the shore, Thebalt found wagon and horse tracks leading East. Travelling East to the settlement of the barbarian tribes, at first they denied them entry. They pointed to the many heads impaled on spikes around their perimeter and told Thebalt he would be next if he did not leave. Thebalt clearly and eloquently explained that such displays may have been intimidating on the mainland, but here on Avalon, with its wyrdness and monsters, the spikes barely roused Thebalt’s notice. The guards were confused, and decided to let Thebalt in to talk to their Chieftain anyway.

The Chieftain explained that Morgaine and her entourage had come and paid to buy fishing boats some time ago. They had paid too much, but the Chieftain had let them do it and watched them sail to the cursed island to the East.

Thebalt summoned his ship and sailed to the island himself. On it was a labyrinth-like necropolis. It took some time to map out, but eventually Thebalt found Morgaine’s laboratory within it. Morgaine explained she simply wished to carve out a part of Avalon for herself where she could work in piece and not be hidden in Arthur’s shadow. Thebalt explained that Arthur was begging her to return and be by his side. Morgaine agreed to return to Arthur, so Thebalt escorted her and her court back to Tintagel.