A Pictorial History of My Late Campaign Part 4

The last arc of "Le Vin Et La Vie" was a return to occult conspiracy.

To end a magical curse on her homeland of Gallia,

our heroine, Chevalieuse Vivienne de Malbec,

 her fiance, Giralomo di Sangiovese,

and their ally, Philippe de Bordeaux,

had been scouring the land for bits and pieces

of the god Dionysus

who had been made flesh and carved up by his sneaky Roman sorcerors. 

Now Onenharatase, a Huron shaman with shape-changing powers and a thing for booze,

had escaped the clutches of a trio of nefarious occultists.

These three sought to use Dionysus to usher in a new age of magic and monsters.

Vivienne and her allies journeyed to Massilia to confront the evildoers.

There they discovered their foe was the immortal alchemist Dom Perignon,

who had cut out his own heart and hidden it for safety.

His allies were the witch Rousanne,

a seductress and consorter with demons,

and the gleefully sadistic swordsman Riesling

(who was secretly a "patchwork man").

The villains had prepared themselves well for a deadly game of cat and mouse

but Vivienne and her friends had carte blanche from the king

so  they broke into the villains' house,

stabbed the heart,

poisoned Rousanne,

and burned the place down.

Vivienne found herself dueling the inhumanly-strong Riesling,

and she stabbed the hell out of him.

And Vivienne and Sangiovese lived happily ever after.

Many, many thanks to Mike AKA Black Vulmea at Really Bad Eggs for highlighting this goofy nonsense.  His essays on creating a swashbuckling sandbox and the endgame in sword-and-cape games are incredibly inspirational -- and next time I run a swashbuckling game (which might well be set in Waterdeep), I'll actually use them instead of making up every damned thing on the fly.