Enemy Of Mine Enemy
Character debuts: Captain Piers Audeley and Private Rafe Loriner.

The Summerlands, once a similar land to Albion, but on a different plane. It had lost the protection that the worship of the Mother brought to the land and had become infested with unliving. The Harts had sworn to help the remaining Humans who resisted the unliving to rid their land of the foe and restore the worship of the mother.

Captain Piers and Rafe Loriner travelled there, to help bring back the Mother in the body of a young woman of the Summerlands who had been born for this reason. The mission was successful and the "Boar Tabards" quickly gain recognition. Rafe proves he has a cool head for recovering bodies from prowling unliving, and is subsequently promoted to Corporal.

The Washing Of Three Tides
Character debuts: Physician Issac Trooper.

A village on the eastern coast of Albion, Trell was ever known as a strange place, surrounded by marshes which had consumed and drowned a ritual circle its inhabitants were never the same as most Albiones.
A Witch called Sycorax had taken up residence there and was creating abominations, creatures called Caliban which have turned out to be half-unliving, but with intelligence and cunning.

A mission to try to deal with Sycorax and her caliban was planned with Glycell leading the Harts who went. Loriner and Trooper were a part of that group. Trooper cuts open some Caliban but loses in a race with a ghoul.

The Heartland Games 1101
Character debuts: Lieutenant John Audeley, Sergeant Aaron Cooper, Privates Thomas Hobbes, Rufus Tanner, Eric Smith, Cobbler Stubtoe, Louise Jackson and Jacob Bowyn.

Excalibur gets nicked whilst Hobbes is wielding it. Trooper gets to cut up various bodies. Bowyn demonstrates that you can carry people in full armour. Mr Jackson vows never to drink damson wine again. Cobbler Stubtoe passes his probationary period and is made a full member of the company. Trooper shocks the assembled gentles by cutting up a member of dark carnival in front of them.

Faction Moots 1101
Character debuts: Lieutenant Hugh Thurstan, Lady Lucianna Romana Di Gracia

The Company impress all with their wood gathering skills. Hobbes and Smith foil a Skathen plan to set the Harts to war with the Unicorns. Tanner gains a reputation as Nevyn's bodyguard, whilst Cooper upsets the Brothel. Thurstan rushes in with the news of the appearance of the Story Fae through the Chalk symbols in Albion.

The Grand Tourney
Character debuts: Father ??? Cheevers

As part of the Council for this year Lord Hugo organised a grand Tourney to allow all to show their prowess in games of skill and arms.

The company attend the Grand Tourney and retrieve Excalibur, also get praise for their cake, the speed of Sgt Cooper, the archery talents of Tanner and the cover of a half-orc song by Hobbes. Thurstan dazzles all with his skills at bowling, fabulous wardrobe and his washing up abilities during the Council proper. Trooper cuts up Chi several times in one weekend. (Chi N'yann the Head Healer of Albion, is not known for his wisdom, he has a habit of eating things he shouldn't and as a Spawn of Light has to have them cut out of him). We host Sir Corrigan Grimmir's stag do, but he can't keep up and goes to bed early. Cheevers gives lessons in how to talk to the fae. The Company are assigned to the Winchester Battalion under General Aisla

The Gathering Of Nation 1101

Trooper and Cooper try to rescue the Huntsman's daughter (which turns out to be a bow of great power, only to end up with it in the hands of the ancestor Melanion instead). Thereby nearly causing Civil unrest within Albion - not that they knew that this would happen. Whilst on a roll, they also get psychically attacked, cloned and managed to release a powerful death knight into the Near Dark. The captain escapes this trouble by spending the day in the Brothel. Thurstan gets seven shades of hell beaten out of him by Mad Bill after getting fingered by Jac for attempting to infiltrate Bills organisation. He stumbles into the Harts camp looking bloodied and beaten and reveals Jacs treachery to all.

Into the Woods

Trooper and Rafe go off to Marchwood to help cleanse the forest of the fae; sorry evil influence. Trooper gets into some diplomatic discussions with some elves. Benedict Karlennon, cousin of Captain Piers, dies destroying the evil in the wood. Rafe Loriner slays an Elf Lord and drives off two others with some sharp shooting.

The Last Battle
Character debuts: Private Walter Tyrell.

The Company travel back to the Summerlands, this time to help the human resistance make a final push against the unliving and get rid of the last Necrolith (stone of great necromantic power). They make friends with the Vipers' Foreign Legion (or "Garlicks"), and the two groups spend most of the weekend desperately trying to follow orders. A powerful ritual has to be done to enable the resistance to effect the most powerful of the unliving lords, this needs an incantor and a mage ritualist, the Company and associates are the only group with any mage ritualists. The Company also prove to be one of the best trusted fighting groups, as with the Foreign Legion are frequently given the most difficult "watches". Lucianna gets to do a 285 point ritual - and just avoids killing everyone. Certain members of the Company make excellent "Elements". Rafe spends a lot of time watching the ritual circle, since he has only one leg, he is not at his most mobile.

Sergeant Cooper is made Deputy High Ranger of Albion, Captain Piers is promoted to military attaché and Trooper is made the royal physician, much to his displeasure (not to mention that of the Court!).

Bels Fayre
Character debuts: Private Robert Roberts.

The Council this year is to take place, on Orlaine, around the Faery Market that takes place in Albion once every 13 years. Knowing the normal diplomacy of the men around any large number of Fae, Captain Piers volunteers his men for "duty" that weekend and so most of them are with the Winchester Battalion and nowhere near Orlaine.

It then turned out that the Winchester Battalion was also to provide a bodyguard to the Queen for the Council and Sergeant Cooper is picked for this "honour". Part way through the weekend Private Roberts is sent with a message for Cooper and becomes bodyguard by default and takes a crash course in recognising "Nobles". Both fight well, in the nightmare realm, while attempting to wake Mai Ling and then on the Sunday when another mission into Trell is undertaken.

Sergeant Cooper impresses the Queen so much that she sends him a cake, whilst Private Roberts doesn't impress the Queen much at all with THAT story. Cooper is promoted to the position of High Ranger of Albion.

The Heartland Games 1102
Character debuts: Don Marcellus di Casiglione

Thurstan joins the Company full time as his duties elsewhere lapse. He is almost immediately promoted to Lieutenant and within hours has spent some quality time in the Brothel, creating a new Special for the Girls to wow their customers. Smith shows how to win Tug o War with just one person. The Company show cunning and inventiveness in winning Troll ball and Jugger. A strong unity is made with House Karlennon and the Blackwood rangers. Captain Piers starts courting Lady Charlotte Grey from House Falcon. Sgt Cooper and Hobbes help steal vital information about Bill Rogers from a Death Knight. Another of the Captain's cousins, General Hulce, assigns the company to the Norhault battalion under his command. Despite the growing hostility between the Harts and the Bears, the Company drop some 'Chaos Wamphyri', which improves their standing. Slightly.

Faction Moots 1102
Character debuts: Private Cartwright and Physician Robert Lately

Guesting with the Wolves for the first moot, the Company and associates have a fully functioning ritual group for the first time (with a little help from the Karlennons and Blackwoods). The Captain's Hat becomes more than just decorative.

Piers is promoted to General and placed in command of the Norhault battalion and Lucianna is given wardership over the Norhault ritual circle. Hobbes expresses his view of dark incantors to Reann in no uncertain terms. Mad Bill gets killed, and Jac returns to the faction revealing that he was working undercover all along. Thurstan returns the earlier favour by beating the hell out of him with a club, then puts the boot in. Jac also gets attacked by Cooper for wandering off with his Company dagger.

An attempt to ritually empower the company's daggers succeeds in fatally wounding every elder race in the market place luckily none are killed. Subsequently Cooper vows never to call on the ancestor's aid again. By helping to conduct a series of 4 rights to the Ancient Ancestors of the Empire, Marcellus and Lucianna help save the universe from the denizens of the void, thanks to Marcellus telling the ritualists that they were in the wrong place and where the right place was. Hobbes nearly dies.

After the muster The Company and associates, lead by Hobbes and Tanner, stand and sing for the fallen, many of the faction stand and join in this act of remembrance.

The Gathering Of Nations 1102
Character debuts: Private Spigot and Father Jackson Brewer

The Company somehow get the blame/credit for killing the Clan McBeth despite the fact that they spent the vast majority of the fight standing by the Bears' back wall doing very little. Physician Isaac Trooper is slain during the fighting whilst seperated from the rest of the group. The following night a vengeance demon attacks Stubtoe and Spigot (before being dispatched by various helpful bystanders).

In the final battle General Audeley is given command of the masses archers of the light-aligned factions. Under Cooper's command the rest of The Company skirmishes along the left flank until victory looks assured and then strips colours (in defiance of standing orders from General Sagramor), joins the enemy lines and seeks out Lament McBeth - assuming that he was responsibly for the previous night's demon attack. Upon return to camp The Company are formally removed from military service for their defiance of orders. Now free agents, they are recognised as Condottieri (mercenaries authorised to act in Scicilija) by Don Marcellus di Castiglione and Lady Lucianna - who announces her claim to the title Donna Di Brevari Di Moliani.

The Maestro's Masque

The Company arrive in Scicilija as the Condottieri di Lucianna Brevari Di Molinari. A ritual done to K'sarul marks all the Company as his servants, but does provide them with a sword capable of destroying demons. Over the weekend they avoid contact with many of the Harts there, since this would look bad upon her standing. The Company work with the Company of the Eagles Wind and other Condottieri units to protect both Dona Lucianna and Don Marcellus, and in the process they are asked to join the Knight D'Azur, an order of Knights sworn to K'sarul. Most of the company are diseased by the demonic plague that was abound at the time, Hobbes and his lady arrive with the Disease having decided that Italija is the place to go shopping. The Company do spend a lot of time hiding from an ancestor behind a bar, and Valerin Blackwood approaches the Company asking to swear the oath. This oath is never sworn and both Tanner and Valerin are assassinated by Saffron Daggers. Lucianna is declared Donna Molinari, and takes control of the house. Marcellus is gifted a Company dagger without swearing the oath, and becomes the first person ever given a dagger who is not oathsworn. Hobbes. Cooper and Lately kill everything in sight including a major demon who betrayed K'sarul.

A Matter Of Honour
Character debuts: Guest appearance by 6 NPC company members, kindly phys-repped for us by players from Clan McTaff.

The Company arrive en masse to petition the Lord Protector for return to active duties within the Harts Military. Whilst waiting for the Lord Protector to finish in his meeting they aid in the holding of the camp from Mirror Golems, and breach the whole in the protective ward around the field. Lord Hulce agrees that they will be welcomed back to Albion, but publicly strips them all of any rank or title for a year and a day and places the Company under the jurisdiction of Alistir Crowlee. All the Company with the exception of Rafe and Marcellus leave to dispose of the dead after the massacre at Kingsfield.

Springs Dawning

A small number of the company's officers attend an evening of socialising at the Brighthelmstane Library. As far as we can discern little of import occurred (or at least if it did, they won't tell the rest of us about it). During the archery competion Piers proves he's not a bad shot with Cooper's longbow, whilst Cooper shows that what he lacks in accuracy he makes up for by having an absolutely ludicrous rate of fire for a crossbowman.

The Queens Beard
Character debuts: Miss Megan Fletcher, Private Jonas Butcher and Private ??? Barnes.

In an effort to enlist the help of the sorceress Brisane against the Death Knight, Mark Of Cornwall the Harts strive to strengthen the Arthurian enchantment around Brisane's son. The Company prove not to be too much use in this but - working in partnership with the beastkin - do manage to take down the unliving's scouting parties. Both Stubtoe and Loriner make the mistake of shooting the demonologist Miles Osborne Hulce, who is less than entirely amused. The rank and file are formally banned from martyring themselves in an attempt to take down the death knight but several have a good try anyway. After 4 hours of epic battle in the early hours of the morning most of The Company are sorely wounded and unable to fight, but the death knight is destroyed by General Sagramore. Victory is blunted however when the following day Stubtoe is murdered by some of Brisane's son's knights during what was supposedly an honour battle.

Celebration
Character debuts: Don Adamari Di Vicci De Molinari, Miss Charlotte Taverner, Private Shane Hollister and Private Tomas Breadan.

At a party held to celebrate the deteat of the death knight, Cooper takes a small squad to rendez-vous with the Seneschal of the Molinari family who brings aid to those regions worst affected by the earthquake. Any festivity is marred by the murdered of Reyner (Albion's deputy High Ranger) after Miles Osbourne Hulce is demonically possessed and goes on a killing spree.

The Heartland Games 1103

Declining to participate in the actual games The Company confines itself to socialising and repairing any political damage which has occured over the previous year. The Harts' old enemy Lucan Farsailor is finally defeated, when - in the midst of a battle against the united might of Harts, Dragons, Bears, Vipers and Archers Guild - he accidentally strikes Felix Wytchwood and is claimed by The Fury. Hobbes manages to have one of the blessed daggers stolen off him during the fight, however it is thankfully returned later in the weekend. Relations with the Archers Guild are strengthened. Relations with the Bears are repaired. The Sword Of Suns Dawning which Stubtoe obtained is returned to the Incantors Guild who created it. Tjhe Harts turn out in force to support the Dragons in their stand against the unliving former-empire of the Heartlands. Bowyn spends the Sunday as acting-corporal (in the absence of anyone of higher rank) and is promoted to full Corporal at the end of the weekend.

The Harts and Wolves withdraw from the closing ceremony of the games in disgust at the blatant corruption. They are joined by the Vipers and Dragons who reveal that they have already began running their own games - with greater fairness and an emphasis on the cultural identities of the participants. It is agreed that such an idea would be far preferable to participating in Orcas and Spittle's farces next year. Other factions later give their agreement to this idea too.

Faction Moots 1103
Character debuts: Mister Christopher Taverner.

Don Marcellus is sworn into the Company at the rank of Lieutenant. Charlotte Taverner leaves her younger brother with The Company in the hope that he can see something more of the world. A large number of Harts (including many prominent persons and good friends of the Company) are lost in a single, tragic day. The people of Albion are plagued by disturbing dreams which appear to relate the Wytchwoods in some manner. The Hunter is freed from his madness and resotred to his former glory. Several senior members of the archers guild are almost abducted when the come under the influence of 2 very powerful vampires. Ties with the Cymrijan Dragons are strengthened further and news emerges that their lands have been invaded by Imperial forces. Donna Lucianna comes into possession of a stone which seems linked to some primitive ancestor which poses a threat to The Hunter, The Mother and Puck. The assembled Bears, Dragons and Wolves succeed in destroying the liche which was threatenning the security of both southern Caledonia and northern Albion.