Monday, November 21, 2005

Bressal O’Toole (1421)

Bressal O’Toole
Clan O’Toole Champion

You are Bressal O’Toole, the muscle and war leader of Clan O’Toole. Your first cousin Donnchad O’Toole is the clan leader. You have been best friends since childhood. While Donnchad was destined to be the clan leader you were destined to be his right hand man. As a youth, you spent time in as a page Dublin amongst the English to learn their ways. You picked up on the ways of the knight during this time, and now can ride a horse and wield a lance as good as anyone.

Currently, the clan is facing troubling times. There is a famine that is wreaking havoc with countryside. You are have entered a jousting contest at your cousin request to try to win the hand of Generis, Cormac O’Reilly’s sister. While not thrilled with the idea of marrying Generis if you win, the alliance it could provide could prove invaluable to the clan’s future.

Fergus O’Sullivan will be at tournament along with your uncle Fiachu McDermot. Fergus is quite mad, but he’s part of the clan so you keep an eye on him. More than that, he hates the English as much as anyone, so that is good enough for you. Some of the groundskeepers have been talking about how he ventures out for days at a time to Dublin. Giving the English a pain in the rear may be all fun and good, but your clan has all that it can handle without drawing their ire. You need to make sure he keeps his activities a secret so that Donnchad can do the real work. Your uncle Fiachu is a troublemaker and royal pain in the ass. He needs to be kept quiet, too. Lastly, Áine O’Toole will be accompanying you to the events.

In the end, you are to help Donnchad in any way you can. You can do this primarily by keeping the rest of the clan quiet and making them look normal. This will be some task, since none of them listen and they are all crazy. It is especially important to make sure that the meetings between Donnchad and Cormac O’Reilly happen without incident. Finally, you need to win the jousting tournament at all costs to secure that wench Generis as a wife. If you can do that and have something unfortunate happen to Niall in the process, you might be able to secure the O’Reilly dynasty for yourself.

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