Jewel of Mahadur: At the Abbey of St Walpurga

continued from the previous post.....

After a day or so's ride Mlle Givenchy and her irregulars arrived near the Abbey of St Walpurga; the ground not being suitable for horses, they left them in a barn of a farm nearby.   Meanwhile Gentleman Jim and his band of adventurers were also nearby....

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Mlle Givenchy and her irregulars move on foot past the small chapel that remains in use and head towards the abbey ruins.

Gentleman Jim and his band reach the still standing abbey gatehouse.

Mlle Givenchy and her irregulars move towards the abbey ruins ...

They can see the whats is left of the abbey church and the ruins of the cloisters....

As they enter the cloisters, they think they can see someone moving in the distance. Mlle Givenchy investigates the cross. Fiddling about near the base she pushed a small carving and the side panel fell off - a large jewel slid out of a rotten fabric bag - "Hey I found it ! the jewel it's here ..."

As Mlle Givenchy started to move the jewel, a shot rang out and whizzed passed her head. Bess on the other side of the cross saw someone in a nearby ruin and took a shot with her musket; Mimi next to her saw him as well and fired her pistol - between them they got him and he fell backwards into the ruined building.

Gentleman Jim arrived on the edge of the cloisters and saw someone moving a large jewel; he fired his pistol at them but missed. He had duck down quickly as two shots one from Bess and the other from Sally on the opposite side of the cloister hit the wall near him ....

Gentleman Jim turned round and found that he had no support, where were all his men ? He found that two had decided to search the gatehouse, some had got lost in a thicket and two had wandered off to the north of the abbey.... He thought to himself 'whoever got the jewel will be long gone by the time I get this lot organised' 

Mlle Givenchy moved off with the jewel covered by the rest of the irregulars .....

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Mlle Givenchy and her irregulars reached their horses without further incident. They mounted up and rode hard and fast to the north-west with their prize.  Meanwhile Gentleman Jim finally got his band together in one place and decided to search the ruins for other valuables ....

[a first play though of the draft 18C pulp style rules. We found quite a few issues with them, so I've quite a few edits to do - mostly for Movement, Combat, Character/Faction sheets. Another thing we realised was that we needed to get the scenario set up a bit more tightly, e.g. figures nearer to the proposed centre of action, so we could get more characters into play.]