Short session, 2 hours only and the players did some shopping and recruiting first so not a lot accomplished. Still, they went to a new section of the castle, found a few trinkets, had a dangerous fight and lost a few people…

Castle Xyntillan, by Gabor Lux. https://emdt.bigcartel.com/products

System: Worlds without Number, by Kevin Crawford

Adventurers – Player Characters (PCs):

• Loic (Jason), Adventurer lvl 1 (partial expert/partial healer)
• Cordélia Lenoir (Marjorie), Necromancer lvl 1
• Paul Neref (Olivier), Warrior lvl 1
• Noah (Isaac), Expert lvl 1
• Monmon (Edmond), Warrior lvl 1

Retainers:

• Eudes le Bâtard, Man-at-Arms (lgt), Comte de La Frenaie’s young bastard son, Morale 9
• Bruno, Man-at-Arms (lgt), dreamy-eyed, Morale 9
• Paul-Jean Paul, Man-at-Arms (hvy), cousin of deceased Jean-Paul Jean, Morale 5
• Pierre-Jean Pierre, Man-at-Arms (hvy), escaped friar, Morale 9
• Louis, Man-at-Arms (hvy), scrounger, Morale 7
• Edgar, Man-at-Arms (hvy), have a pet hawk, Morale 8
• Charles, Man-at-Arms (hvy), scrounger, Morale7

Crypt

• Zachary, Elementalist, strangled by Malvina Malévol and electrocuted in front of the Anteroom
• Jean-Paul Jean, Man-at-Arms (hvy), lackwit, ripped apart by stuffed animals

Previous Infractions:

Eliminated Tristano Malévol the Love-Lost. Eliminated Merlerik the Ancient. Smoked the Ruined Quarters Angered a werewolf washwoman. Stole the Reliquary of Bygone Kings. Infractions rating: 2

Rumors:

• Fausseflammes? I would rather go to Malinbois, a much better place!
• Wearing red will keep away the Scarlet Specter… for a while.

We start in Vyônes. The adventurers have a buyer for the Reliquary of Bygone Kings. Fortunately they found its secret before selling it; a hidden compartment held an antique spear tip. They sought a capable artisan to assemble the spear tip into a potent weapon. The artisan, Noah, joined them thereafter. They also recruited a few other Men-at-arms, amongst them is the cousin of deceased Jean-Paul Jean who wants to retrieve his corpse. Cordélia decides to triple their hiring fees (she has now 4 retainers by herself).

Gatehouse:

• Dozens of ravens perched on the gatehouse.
• They go at the double doors, two skeleton sentries are quickly dispatched.
• Past the double doors is an entrance passage with murder holes, door at their right is stuck, Monmon kick it in.
• There’s loud singing coming from further away but first they stop by an ominous statue depicting a zombie or leper. Cordélia notice a hidden compartment in the pedestal. Inside is a brain in a jar, she breaks the jar and turn the brain into a pulp.
• Next there’s a mess hall full of cobwebs with singing skeletons acting like they’re drunk. Cordélia destroy most of them with a Smite the Dead (necromancers can be potent undead hunters in WWN). But the remaining skeletons pick up their rusty swords and charge. New retainer Charles is slain in the ensuing melee.
• The PCs search the mess hall but are interrupted by the sounds of rattling chains, a red specter appears, barely visible, demanding a blood sacrifice! Most weapons they have don’t seem to work against it. He inflicts a terrible wound which bleeds profusely on Monmon but Loic heals him with magic. Monmon counters with a stab of his powerful spear and hurt the specter. Paul hit it with his magical dagger. The PCs hears the chains fading away, they follow.
• They’re now in a chapel with a strange procession of monks. The red specter already waiting for them goads the monks in taking a « blood toll ». One monk points the PCs with a clawed hand. Combat ensues. The adventurers managed to slay the dark monks but have lost Edgar and Pierre-Jean to their sharp claws. Fortunately the red specter did not join the fight.
• On an altar, Paul finds a fossilised ammonite and as he takes it he gains primordial insights (xp) at the cost of his sanity…

Wrap up:

• XP: Participation: 1 Treasures: 0 Secrets: 1 Total: 2
• Treasures:
• Crypt: Charles: skewered by a drunken skeleton, Edgar: throat slashed by a dark monk, Pierre-Jean Pierre: clawed to death by a dark monk
• Quote:
• Infractions: