At the Kansas City Renaissance Festival
Canterbury was aghast! The shrine to St. Thomas Beckett (Canterbury's famous pilgrimage point) had been disturbed, his new reliquary askew! Was something missing? Who would have done such a vile deed? And why did there seem to be extra bones there...
LegendQuest has concluded for the 2011 Faire year. Thank you to everyone who made it possible:
the staff of the Kansas City Renaissance Festival,
CipherWizard, the man behind the webpage,
the Rarer Librarian, who provided reverence for Wizards' spells,
the Queen's Maid, who assembled the Master of Canterbury hunt,
Leonardo da Vinci, who provided the pictures for the Master of Canterbury hunt,
The Role Players Guild of Kansas City Ltd., who ran the Delve, were the NPCs, and generally made stuff happen
Thank you as well, the players who came, and and thanks to you, JUSTICE WAS DONE!
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----- Did you miss the Trial? Here are the GUILTY PARTIES! -----
Saturday:
By majority consensus of the impartial investigators, the fae Moth was found guilty of theft from Chruch and England (she stole a perl). Further, she was found by her Queen, Titania of the Fae, guilty of violating the fae laws of trespass on mortal sacred spaces. She was sentenced by Queen Titania to return the stolen pearl, and banned from taunting mortals.
By majority consensus of the impartial investigators, Prince Brucella de Vulgar of Vulgaria was found guilty of desecrating a holy shrine - he placed the bones of a (minerature) elephant at the Reliquary. The King of Vulgaria interceeded on his behalf, noting the bones of the elephant were blessed by the Vulgarian Unorthadox Church. Brucella was sentenced by the King of England to wear all black while in England (to which he wept all day).
By majority consensus of the impartial investigators, Princess Jovianne of France was found guilty of theft of religious relics and attempted smuggling of said relics out of England to France. She was sentenced by the Queen of England to be a Vulgarian concubine for the remainder of her stay in England.
Sunday:
By majority consensus of the impartial investigators, Prince Brucella was found guilty of placing minerature elephant bones in the reliquary while sleepwalking, desecrating a shrine of England. Brucella was sentenced by the King of England to wear all black while in England (to which he wept all day).
By majority consensus of the impartial investigators, Princess Jovianne was found guilty of desecrating a shrine and theft of holy relics. She maintained her innocence in the latter. Lady Death volunteered her sevices as an expert on mortal remains, and confirmed that none of Saint Thomas Beckett's remains were missing from the pile recovered at the scene. However, the Queen of England reminded Princess Jovianne (and the Lord Chancellor, who in his concern for his head missed this point of law) that even if she didn't steal the bones, the attempt was a breech of the Queen's trust: treason against England. Jovianne was sentenced to serve as the handmaiden of the (self-proclaimed) Duchess of Kent, who was just herself sentenced to life imprisonment in the Tower of London.
By majority consensus of the impartial investigators, Moth the Fairy was pardoned of any mortal crime after she returned the pearl tothe Lord Chancellor. However, Queen Titania was not so forgiving for the violation of her will. She stripped Moth of her most precious posession - her wings - as a reminder to her and to all Fae that the bans of their Queen are inviolate.
----- How the crime happened (more or less) -----
Prince Brucella had brought his father's (the King of Vulgaria) favorite pet from Vulgaria, a minerature elephant. He had stowed it secretly in the hold of the ship, as a suprise to his father. However, the Prince did not remember whether the elephant required food 3 time a day, every three weeks, or every three months. Erring on the side of Vulgarian caution, he did not feed it for the entire three-month time on the water. When it arrived at English port, it was naught but bones (some gnawed, no doubt by ship rats). Afraid of his father's wrath, Brucella stuck the bones in a sack, and has been hiding them at every stop the Vulgarians make. When they arrived in Canterbury, Brucella snuck into the church late at night and hid the bones in the shiney room with the other bones!
Moth the fairy noticed the shiney mortal sneeeeking so deliberately around the church. She had never been inside - both the bans from her queen and the iron bindings on the church door prevented her. However, this night, the door had been not-quite closed when the shiney mortal entered. Unable to restrain herself, she entered. She explored the church, finding many of ther charges (moths) about and stirring them to dance in joy as she found delights in shining glass and the mortal shrine-keepers dreaming. However, she found one thing that transfixed her: a rearing dragon one pearl eye (the other an empty socket). Such mismatch seemed wrong, so she set to remedy it by removing the pearl for her own. Behind her, voices spoke in rapid, low French...
Princess Jovianne and her agent Phileppe entered Trinity chapel quietly. They had taken great pains to not be seen, but Harvest was a busy time, with many people burning the midnight candle. The cloaks they had procured had done them good stead (though Jovianne snagged hers outside the church, and was sure the tearing sound would give them away). They had watched Prince Brucella sneak very deliberately into the chapel, and out again, leaving the bag of bones he carried in the chapel. Their own remains, brought to swap with the sacred relics, may not be needed. Jovianne felt unhappy that the must leave behind these unblessed bones, but in her mind, what the Lord Mayor was doing with Beckett's holy remains - flogging them like some port of call for tourists! - was a far worse indignity to the blessed space. Working quickly, Jovianne and Phileppe managed to shift open the reliquary...
Moth pried as hard as she could, straining when the pearl gave with no warning. At that moment there was a muffled curse and clatter below. Utterly unbalanced, Moth fell, back and down...
As they opened the reliquary, Philleppe flattened his fingers and cursed. Suddenly, there was a crash, and the bones on top of the reliquary scattered. The noise and action frightened the French, and both fled, snatching up whatever they thought to. Both fled Canterbury, discarding their cloaks and taking fast horse back to Tunford Manor.
Moth found herself amid bones old and new, confused and frightened. Still clutching her pearl, she fled.
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