Session 28: Where do we go...from here?

Samuel, Alice, and Rylos get together for breakfast around five weeks after their arrival in Novgorod.  Alice brings up the question...what now?  Where do we go, what can we do?  Samuel immediately begins to ask about Sofia.  Should she come as well?  He doesn't think it's likely, but brings up the topic. Alice asks, "Do you really want her to go on OUR adventures?" After several moments of thought, Samuel responds "Well...yes and no...I'd like her to go, but she would probably end up in danger and never make it back." Alice: "I was thinking she would probably end up dead."  The conversation continues along these lines, with Samuel being swayed against bringing Sofia with him.

Samuel: "Should we look for her dad?"

Alice: "We should have a little time before hell comes looking for us."

Rylos: "You cursed us, we're doomed."

They decide before they leave, they should investigate Sofia's dad's disappearance.  Samuel goes to talk to her while Alice heads to train the militia more. (Hand-to-Hand today.)

Samuel investigates and discovers where Sofia's dad was last. He, Rylos, and Alice all go to investigate.  Sofia appears and asks Samuel to go to her dad's old cabin.  Once there, she talks to him for a while on the porch, and then takes him inside.  A few moments later Alice receives a psychic message from Samuel that it will be a while, and she and Rylos go back to investigate.

Inside, she gives Samuel a drink of wine, which he reluctantly drinks.  He immediately gets woozy and is led to the bed, stripped, and she starts having her way with him.  He can't move, and cannot use any of his powers.  She starts changing in to an old, wrinkled witch.  She talks to him after she is done with him.  He still cannot communicate, but she is proficient in reading his mind.

She captured Sofia's father, and used him for eight months until he was a husk.  She has done this before.  She says Samuel will last a long time.  Then, she decides it's time to use him again.  While she is, Alice and Rylos return and see what she actually is.