Paris - What's Past is Prologue
Synopsis
Prologue
On or about the middle of April, 1096 the coterie goes their separate ways after the events of "Murder Most Foul in Paris" and "Parisian Aftermath".
Bolverk
Bolverk and his army travel south through spring snow and crossing the Seine upriver, there they turn north and skirting the City of Paris and the Forest of Vexin. The Army of Bolverk makes good time on frozen roads until they reach Beauvais eight days later. The town of Beauvais proves a good rest stop where the army refreshes its supplies over the course of a week. The army departs Beauvais at the end of April but is slowed on their northward march by roads turned to muddy muck by spring showers and warming temperatures. Five days of marching through knee deep mud brings the army and Bolverk to Amiens, a place where the fever for taking the cross has been stoked by Cuckoo Peter the mendicant friar who has take the pope's call to arms as god's gospel. Many a young man signs up to join the army for piety or for a chance to escape the monotony rural life, both peasants and a few nobles flesh out the army's recent losses and after a week the army marches for Saint-Valery-sur-Somme to the north-east. The going is slow but the army moves slowly but stops at a dozen small towns along the river Somme picking up recruits and fodder for men and beast. In Saint-Valery-sur-Somme the army rests for a few days and then turns due north for another week before coming to the edge of the ancient Forest of Desvres.
