The Witchfinders – First Session notes

Just a few quick notes from today’s game session.

The characters created were:

Blackjack Davy (Fighter) – A mercenary sort, just in it for the money (and the free booze, and the occasional wench)

Hubert McIre (Specialist) – A Scotsman, and thus the butt of many a joke

Pearl (Specialist) – The daughter of a Witch, now a fanatical Witchfinder

Judge Killbody (Cleric) – An unscrupulous Witchfinder, whose career proved short

Theodule (Halfling) – A homicidal French midget with even fewer scruples

Marmaduke Pennycock (Cleric) – Poor Judge Killbody’s replacement

The players’ notes (what I can make of them anyway):

Father Wilfred – The local pastor at Witchingham

Vicar Bertte – (I have no idea who this guy is)

Rupert, The Baron of Witchingham – The local Baron, a sickly old man, and a re-married widow

Christopher – The Baron’s son, a dimwit

Genevieve – The Baron’s mulatto wife from the West-Indies

Penny – A woman rescued from devil-worshiping cannibals

Doctor Godfrey – By all accounts a quack, and most likely linked to the above-mentioned cannibals

Captain Alistair – The Baron’s Guard Captain, who is rumored to be in relations with the Baron’s missis

Innkeeper R..? – (Another name I made up on the fly, and have now forgotten)

Something Wife-Witch – Possibly relates to rumors about the Baron’s wife

Theodore the Monk Accursed Something Something – Who’s ghost is rumored to haunt the Castle

Rumors:

People have disappeared mysteriously.

Black-cloaked strangers roam the countryside.

The Baron’s wife is a witch.

A few decades ago, an angel fell down from the heavens at the side of the Baron’s castle.

Winged fiends have been spotted at night.

A snake-oil salesman was through these parts some time ago.

Those who bought the miracle medicine are the same who’ve since disappeared.

The Baron’s keep is build on a monastery, that was abandoned when the monks fell into devil-worship and debauchery.

The Guard Captain is in secret liaisons with the Baron’s wife.

The Baron’s son Christopher is a dimwit.

Confirmed facts:

People have disappeared. They’ve possibly been kidnapped.

The Innkeeper of the Black Rooster wayside inn is not the same man, who until recently ran the inn.

The men at the Black Rooster were cannibals who murdered travelers staying at the inn. They worshipped a demon idol. One of the men matches the description of the snake-oil salesman.

One of the kidnapped women was held at the Black Rooster.

There is a secret passage which leads from the Black Rooster to a demon shrine.

The shrine at the Baron’s Keep has seen only little use, possibly only one regular visitor.

The Baron keeps a local man prisoner at the keep. The man is most likely innocent of witch-craft. He is, however, a drunk, and a blasphemer.

The Baron’s son Christopher is a dimwit.

The game session had swashbuckling action, vile cannibal cultists, secret passages, demon idols, rumors of witches, kidnappings, ghosts, and winged devils (among other things), and the skull of a player character cleft in twain by a heinous villain. More on the actual goings on later. Stay tuned.

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