Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Niall O’Reilly (1421)

Niall O’Reilly
Brother of Cormac O’Reilly

In your youth you spent time as a squire to an English knight, learning the ways of the enemy. When you were 16, you fought at Agincourt and learned that the English weren’t the only scum in existence, but the French were, too. You were a blooded veteran by the time you arrived back in your homeland. You immediately began training your brethren in the ways of the English. That is, until recently.

Your brother Cormac is the leader of the O’Reilly clan. His wife is another story entirely, but more on that later. The O’Reilly’s dominate the area immediately to the west of Dublin (Cavan/Meath). He has allowed you to operate with a free hand to drive the English back over the Pale, but famine has struck. There is no easy solution to this militarily, and trading with the other Clans in Ireland has been for shit. So Cormac has decided to shake hands with the devil and negotiate with the English. He has arranged for a dance/joust this weekend (the full moon) in the town of Dun Boyne.

The thorn that has always been in the side of the O’Reilly’s is Generis, your sister. She refuses to be married off, and now you have been saddled with guarding her on this trip, for she is the prize in the joust. This couldn’t be a bigger pain in your ass, because you actually want win and sell that bitch off to slavery once and for all. She would fetch a nice price to the Clans of the west. So your plan is to leave her to her own devices once you arrive in Dun Boyne and have your guard – Geoffrey Fitz-Eustace – trail her and report her goings on back. He’s a bit slow (but don’t call him that) and seems to be smitten with her, so that should be easy. This will leave you more time to get necessary things accomplished.

Now back to Cormac’s wife, Úna. This woman didn’t exist when you left as a youth, but when you got back, Cormac seems to do her every dictate. The worst thing is, she has a French accent. No one else can detect it because the closest thing they have heard to a Frenchman is a Norman screaming in pain, which isn’t even close!

So, that makes the things you are looking to do this weekend pretty clear. You need to find out what that French spy is up to, and how she uses her magical powers to possess your brother. Then you absolutely have to make sure Generis makes it to the Joust. Finally, prove yourself more cultured than the English swine and defeat their best warriors in the joust on Saturday.


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