"It won't always be like this. One day they won't need me. When that happens I'll go off alone and die happy. Or maybe just get piss-drunk."

copper, vermilion, steel blue, violet, black and brown, gold,

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• home turf +3
• +1 sword of luck
• space survival
• Davan's luck
• take damage for mate 1 round
• wild surge 1/week
• Obie's ancestral memory
• languages
• May howl for wolf help
• +3 Gifts
• Pr 14+12
  • spear +2
  • defend family +1
  • defending party +1
  • sword +1
  • The Hammer +6
• str 12+1
  • tight chainmail vest, concealed +3/+3
  • home armor: +11/+11 with Boots
  • cause damage vs evil +1
  • Toughness +15/+15
  • Cause damage +6/+6
• ath 15+5
• awa 16+1+3 init
  • appraisal
  • innesian history +3
  • sense suicidal thoughts
• memory +1
  • +3 Strategy (one shot use of +7 strategy or tactics)
• wp 14+3+12
  • resist fear +3
  • return to monastary
  • cause shame
• rog 17+3
  • read+2+3
• Boots of Home
• Lists of missing persons from Inverray
• Bracers of Deformation
• 6 coins of body
• one use of moment of authority
• Davan's Luck, Royce's Languages, Isidore's Time-hands, Obie's ancestry, Nahuel's empathy 4, Kentosane's magics.
• Hope 4 war 2 change 1 home 2 celebration 1 air 1
• Chosen at the juncture: MacBoon, Fraser, and the Troublemakers so far. Home turf advantage Inverray. Can locate all MacBoons, can speak silently with troublemakers
• Blue Falcons: zailing bonus
• refugees: sense displaced
• families of close allies: mimic skill one round after use.
• Innesh legends: Focal state-avatar of their might
• Pair of dirks +3/+3 each
• holdout sgian dubh ("black knife") +1/+1
• great-kilt in clan tartan, with clan badge, tamoshanter (bonnet), sporran (purse), good boots
• concealed armor
• a set of pipes, penny whistle, and bodhran in his luggage
• soul magic hope 4 war 2 change 1 home 2 celebration 1 order 1 air 1
• shapeshifting 3
• empathy 4
• smithing 3
• gambling 5
• architecture 1
• Riding 16
• local politics 16
• Tactics 15+3
  • Field skill/hunting 12+1+3
• Interrogation 10
• Sailing 12 Zailing +3+3 captaing +1
• First Aid 10
• Poisons 11
• Pennywhistle 11
• Bodhran 10
• Highland bagpipes 11
• Connections to the Brotherhood, and the Shadows of Death
• Connections to the folks throughout Inverray
• Thieve’s cant
• Assay/appraise 12
• War faith 5
• Celebration faith 7
• Home faith 3
• Tarahinian 7
• Galdunic 6
• Emmish 6
• Maskovite 7
• Vesturian 9
• Danuan 6
• Kadian 6
• Barausian 6
• Windkin 5
• pterodian 1

Convictions:

• Proper use of trust means trusting a snake to be a snake. $
• You don't shit where you eat. Family is sanctum sanctorum.
• Threats are better quashed first, then questioned. But don't be wasteful about it.
• Anything that needs to be killed needs to be killed swiftly and efficiently, without attracting attention if possible. As Giacomo said, DON'T PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD. $
• Always hide your true strength until you have to whip it out.
• Business first, then drinks. Unless you need to ply them up a wee first.
• Never taint the family with evil. MacBoon will survive outside the Hells. they'll get what we want without losing who they are.
• Our neighbors get the courtesies they extend to us, and we don't withdraw them unless they do.
• But Our enemies get no protections, nor does anyone who aids them.
• We don't leave a man in Enemy hands, and we don't leave someone lost in time, and NO TROUBLEMAKER GOES ALONE.
• Homeland Day is the high holy day of the land. But don't think I'm stupid enough to let my guard down even for that day.
• When in doubt, have a sip of the family brew and a bite of food to clear your head.
• I'm at peace with my own end. My family is seen to. $

Relationships:

PCs:

• Royce: Time for the trial by fire.
• Obiefune: He's as immovable as a mountain.
• Isadore: More insightful than I realized.
• Davan: Good gods, I thought that was about to come to a bad head. Glad to have him back. $
• Nahuel: Died the death we all dream of. I'll help look after his son. $
• Kento: We are coming for you. Hang on. $

Family and close friends:

• Mother: I have to accept that she's probably dead. Most of my soul accepts that as the cost of doing business. The rest of me does not.
• Father: Time to see what I can glean from his memory.
• Malcolm: Will always be with us.
• Donald(next older brother): Is coming back into his own. I'm proud of him. $
• Margaret (older sister): Is the key to running the family now.
• Mary (younger sister): Will help Margaret.
• Ansley: ...The mother of my children <3 And currently the Lady of Inverray. I don't know if her job is harder or mine.
• Jonas (right hand Ender): I'm going to miss you, friend. You're one of only a handful of people who truly understood me. $
• The Troublemakers: I've spilled good blood with these boys More of theirs (the Vesturians) than ours. They're good men one and all.
• Salty (the commodore): We got a good man back home. He can help watch the skies.
• MacAigh (the general): A shepherd needs a good herding dog to watch the fence. He's the best we've had in a while.
• Michael Scott (family wizard): I don't trust him. He'll have some explaining to do about the mirror.
• The men: They're the reason we can stand against Vesturia. We need more.
• Aifric Fraser: He's a good solid man, and I've put upon him a lot. I'll need to smooth things over quite a bit when this is over.

Other:

• The people of Inverray: They are the sheep, and I am the shepherd. My staff and my rod comforts them. I keep the lions away by day and the wolves by night, and I do not sleep nor do I slumber.
• The priests: Da always said you protect the goose that lays the golden eggs.
• The gods: So long as they keep my interests, I will fear them, love them, and do as they say. What they do for my people, they do for me, and vice versa.
• The other free lords: We're in this together some of us more together than others.
• The Vesturians: They will remember the lairds of MacBoon 'til their dying days, but I'm no fool. I know what we're up against.
• Windkin: Will be welcome guests and friends in Inverray when I get back (see conviction 10).
• The Prophetess: I don't like to think about dealin' with her, but she did (mostly) protect Ansley, and she may actually be helpin' us. ...But she's a snake, and we all know it. She was feelin' us out. I need to tell the party what she learned from us.
• The other six: I will be checking on them, and I will clear their path if they need it.

MacBoon symbols:

• a pin of a claymore through a shell-encrusted cup
• wild mountain thyme (aka calluna, or heather, the symbol of Innes)
• Dress tartan: sky blue with even pivots of red, violet, and steel blue
• normal tartan: sky blue with complex pivots of red, violet, and steel blue
• hunting tartan: steel blue with pivots of red, violet, and sky blue

NOTES:

Machievelli = Vendale

The over-handed handshake: Gerrick reserves this handshake for those closest to him: Jonas and the troublemakers. The hand is presented angled up, as if offering an arm-wrestling match, and ends en a one-armed embrace.

Interred at the cairn in the courtyard:

• Rose Corbin, killed by guards at Ballymoran
• Giacomo, last name unknown, killed defending Rose and buying time for the party at Ballymoran
• Diogenes "Digs" Walker, died of wounds keeping the mains'l steady fleeing a Marsaukan ambush
• Jacob "Spider" Cartwright, died fighting the spider-web plague, with his soul intact
• Jacob MacKenzie, murdered by an assassin in Inverray keep
• Lorie "Greenie" Cameron, murdered by an assassin in Inverray keep
• Jonas Khalev, cause of death unknown, after the second breaking
• Sine MacEoghban, cause of death unknown, after the second breaking
• Fearghas O'Toole, cause of death unknown, after the second breaking