John

The day started out well as, John and Kaelyn had attended a seminar about solving murders. With the seminar concluded, they had returned to the west gate and begun to rehash the day's teachings. Their conversation had barely reconstructed the crime scene when it was interrupted by a commotion outside the gate. The commotion was a verbal confrontation between two "not so polite" women. Apparently fate, circumstances or congruent travel routes had placed Miss Tammy and Miss Sally at Trinsic's West Gate simultaneously. Miss Kaelyn recognizing the situation was about to escolate beyond the verbal level, interposed herself between the two women. The two women, seeing that a fight between them, might also involve a Trinsic guard and possibly a night in jail, found their conflict was no longer worth it. "Those guards spoil all the fun". With the matter delayed, but far from settled, both women parted and went apparently their seperate ways.

Later in the day, a man approached Miss Kaelyn and John. Since Kaelyn was in her Duchy uniform and seemed to be in-authority, the man told her he had been kidnapped in Vesper and was seeking sanctuary within Trinsic's walls. Not having any reason to disbelieve the man and just being generally helpful, Miss Kaelyn agreed to give the man aid. The man entered the city, gratefully accepting the protection the female guard offered.

Having solved the mock murder numerous times in their conversation, Kaelyn and John decided to perform a patrol. Their trek led them to the Trinsic's popular, Keg and Anchor tavern. This pub held all the participants of the earlier events; Miss Tammy, Miss Sally and the kidnapped man. Miss Tammy claimed that the kidnapped man was a Vesperan citizen and that an accident had caused him a loss of his memory. She had locked him away to keep him from hurting himself until his memory returned. Miss Sally claimed that the man had worked closely with her husband, who she had not seen for years, and that the man was actually a citizen of Trinsic. The "kidnapped" man claimed that he knew nothing of the Vesperan barmaid Tammy and that he would not be put in jail again. With conflicting testimonies, the only thing that John and Miss Kaelyn were relatively sure of was that the man's name was Rob Blackwood.

Miss Tammy told Miss Kaelyn she had sent a runner to Vesper to notify Hanse Davion of the incident and he would be here soon enough to resolve the issue. Kaelyn just nodded and stood firm on protecting the man who obviously didn't want to go with them. As if on que, Hanse Davion did arrive and with him some of Vesper's top militia. With Kaelyn and John greatly outnumbered and with the situation going from bad to worse, Kaelyn said. "John go to the healers and get help". "That's an order." The order was confusing at best but John didn't like the way things were shaping up. As he walked not 15 steps from the tavern, he heard the scream of Miss Sally, weapon's crashing against armor and the pained groans of his comrade in arms, Miss Kaelyn. She was being overwhelmed by the superior Vesperan force.

The order, Kaelyn had given was an attempt to save him from something she knew to be eminent. Hearing the sounds coming from within the tavern, John knew that loyalty to his friend and duty to the Duchy demanded a certain response, but somehow, fear stayed his hand. He pulled out his spellbook overlooking the spells normally used in battle to find the one appropriate to this situation. With the power words spoken and John safely hidden within his invisible sheen, John wept, knowing that he would never become the self sacrificing hero that Kaelyn was. In the past he had used his incompetence as an excuse. But now that he had overcome a lot of his afflictions, and mastered some of the upper levels of his craft, he was still hiding in the face of danger, while a woman, common in appearance, got beaten in his place. He was no hero...