Svart’s Journal – Game 13
Svart remembers back to the events of Lord Rennet’s Party…
Svart had heard of the party Lord Rennet was throwing. A party where everybody pretends to be a vampire. Svart was excited to make a costume for this party. I had collected and put together lots of cloth. Applying my great needleworking skills, I wrapped myself skillfully in dark rags as that is what vampires wear.
There are a lot of new people in town lately. No doubt that many of them are bandits here to spy for the witch. That or they are more Gothics here to take over Njord lands. This party will be a good opportunity to study people.
Along the way, I met a woman who was not feeling well surrounded by dark figures. Svart greeted them according to his disguise.
“Hello fellow humans. Are you going to the party of Lord Rennet where people dress up as vampires.”
The woman replied, “I was going, but I feel too weak all of a sudden. I was going to take this bottle of mead. If you are going, will you take it there for me?”
“Of course. It is no problem” and Svart took the bottle of delicious mead from the woman and addressed the figures around her, that darted back and forth like smoke covered in dark rags.
“Are you going to Lord Rennet’s party, my fellows?”
They hissed “No, we will stay here with the woman. Knut is at the party, and we fear to go there. You must be brave if you are going there.”
Svart replied, “I am brave as well as clever. Knut will be no problem for me”, and I left the group for the party, having outwitted even other vampires.
Svart arrived at the ‘Everybody pretend to be a vampire’ party dressed in his carefully crafted outfit. He drifted through the party pretending to be a vampire pretending to be a human. People cowered in fear, as Svart was so convincing that everybody thought he was a vampire. He could hear people cower in fear from him as murmurs went though the party.
To the side, Knut took the cigarette from his mouth and said “Eh! It is only Svart dressed in one of his magnificent outfits” in his husky, manly voice. Knut is Svart’s longest living friend left in Runeheim. Helgi, Rolf, Shanahan, Ms. V, and Victor, all dead or missing due to the Witch or her spies manipulating events against Svart’s allies. Svart hopes the Witch does not notice how he is friends with Svart and that nothing bad happens to Knut.
Eventually, he turned over the bottles over to the party, both his and the one he picked up from the woman along the way. The mead the woman had was quite good. Sweet and spicy!
Svart glided through the crowd just like a vampire would have. He looked after Graham winning money from some poor sucker that obviously didn’t know who he was dealing with! Then he came across the other needleworker I had met today, Tuva’s son. Svart stopped to admire the finely crafted outfit he had spoken of earlier. It was nice. Very nice. Svart wonders how he managed to cheat enough of his customers to get the resources to make such a garment.
While at the party, a man asked for everybody’s names. Svart made up a stupid human Rogalian name to give as still pretending to be a vampire pretending to be a human. When Dvart asked for his name, the seated man announced that he was Lord Rennet, in disguise! Svart, not wanting to miss a good opportunity for business, threw off his disguise and revealed himself as actually Svart, who is hardworking and dependable. Lord Rennet was impressed with Svart’s disguise and ability.
After that, the mead was growing low, and Svart returned home.
