Session Fifty Eight

The fifty eighth session of the Adventures of the Dragon Crag was on 1st November 2023.
Ranulf was a Butt.
== Party Members Present ==
* Brandr Sigurdson (late)
* Snorri Morgrimson
* Relnwe Adiath
* Professor Meino Osterhaus
* Aleksi Lehtonen
* Ranulf Schwarz
== Synopsis ==
=== The Persecution of Lupo Greenapple. ===
==== Rush Hour ====
Having learned about another of Dmitri's warehouses from Jaufre and having stayed up all night making a dress, we decided to head home to Our House to rest before taking further action. We planned to hit the new, North East Warehouse in the evening. As the sunlight began to fade over Deadgate, we ventured out of Our House and went over to the where we had been told the warehouse was. Ranulf decided it was time to leave the house and, for better or worse, came with us. We came into a square with lots of traffic - it seemed to be rush hour. The many street vendors were packing their wares. As we watched, we were shouted at by a high pitched voice. A halfing leaned out of his doorway and told us not to gawp and get in the way. We asked him who the hell he thought he was, and he told us that he was Lupo Greenapple, manager of this warehouse district. We told him we were just trying to look for work and his sharp little eyes narrowed. He saw straight through our lies. At this point, Ranulf slipped off and went about the warehouses searching for any signs of Kislevis.
==== Lupo's Nightmare ====
Meanwhile, the rest of us went with Lupo into his office. Inside, we were frank with him. We told him we were there to try and get into Dmitri's warehouse and offered him a bribe. This halfling, however, wasn't for turning told us that he couldn't take the risk. He knew Dmitri and what he was capable of and he was a professional afterall. At that point, the Professor turned himself into a copy of Lupo. It was all very sudden and Lupo stood for a second, pupil dilating in fear. He then opened his mouth and began to scream and run away, calling to his guard, Marco. Lupo pointed towards the Professor (who still looked like Lupo) and called him a witch, at which point, Marco drew his mace. Unfortunately for Marco, the Professor really was a witch, and Marco was put to sleep. The rest of us grapped Lupo and Snorri gagged him with his beard to stop him from screaming. Trying to rectify the situation, the Professor cast mindhole on both of them, removing the memory of the recent events from their minds. When they came round, we tried to bribe them again, but they still wouldn't take the money and so we left, unsuccessful.
==== The Greasy Horns ====
We went over to the nearby pub to mull over what had just happened. We bought beer and goat meat (from Otto's farm) from The Greasy Horns and sat around a table. We had royally fucked it. There was no way to do the job on the warehouse without Lupo telling Dmitri that it was us. Then there would be all out war between us and Dmitri in Deadgate. The only option, we decided, was to mindhole Lupo again. We decided that it would be up to the Professor and Ranulf to undertake this.
==== Lupo is Mugged. ====
As night properly fell over the city, the Professor and Ranulf shadily stood outside the Greasy Horns and watched Lupo's office, waiting for him to leave. The hardworking Lupo, already feeling a little shaken, like he was missing something, grabbed his briefcase and left the office for home. Little did he know that he was being stalked by two dangerous men. Lupo arrived at home and his three halfling children came to the door to greet their daddy. As they watched on, the Professor and Ranulf concocted a plan to wipe the poor halfing's mind again. The Professor would change into Marco, lure Lupo away from his home, then Ranulf would pretend to be a mugger and go for Lupo, allowing the Professor to get his hand on Lupo's head. The Professor, in the likeness of Marco, knocked on Lupo's door and told him there was a fire at the warehouses. Together they ran down an alley in which Ranulf was laying in wait. Ranulf jumped out and grappled Lupo, while the Professor put his hand on the halfing's temples and mindholed him, wiping all memory of the day. Ranulf, the mugger, took flight after a theatrical show of force from the Professor (Marco). Thereafter, the Professor took Lupo home, saying that he had received a bad hit on the head from the mugger. Lupo did not remember a thing from the whole day.
=== Raiding the Warehouse ===
==== Kislevi Songs ====
Back at the Greasy Horn, we decided it was time to raid the warehouse. We still had Marco to deal with, but that could be tomorrow's problem. Ranulf had managed to identify the Kislevi warehouse earlier. We returned to the square and all was quiet. There were a couple of people here and there, but everything was mostly shut up. Aleksi said he could distract the kislevis inside the warehouse if the Professor could sneak in. Aleksi spilled out onto the square, hardly having to pretend to be drunk. Then, he began to belt out a classic kislevi tune called, I'm a Jolly Fellow From Kislevland. Of course, this drew out the Kislevis in the warehouse who thought he was a lowly drunk sent by Arnulf to cause merry bother. They were right on one count. 
==== The North East Warehouse ====
While the kislevi warehouse workers came out to see the drunken ruckus and tell Aleksi to go to bed, the Professor went invisibleand slipped into the open door. There were a few people inside including an ogre and an overseer. The Overseer stood over a desk, writing in a ledger. Quickly, the Professor made him feel the worst stomach pain he had ever felt in his life and he left ot desk to lean against a wall. The Professor, still invisible siddled up to the desk and read:
'Chief; we're stacking the latest goods, and as you said clearing space for the next haul – you said it was in a few days? cos we had to ditch the other barn. Damn nosy bastards. We might need to find nother storage place. Arnulf's busy looking for us.
Anyway, this set doesn't look like anything special; decent worth, nothing to take up. We should be able to move on this stuff ourselves; I'l'ave the lads check a bit and do an inventor~,, (Ink blotches)'
We still had unanswered questions about Dmitri and the Meansest Dwarf's criminal rings, more warehouses to search, and the problem of Marco on our hands.
== Next Session ==
Session Fifty Nine
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Session Fifty Seven
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