Session Sixty Six

The sixty-sixth session of the Adventures of the Dragon Crag was on 17th April 2024.
== Party Members Present ==
* Brandr Sigurdson
* Snorri Morgrimson
* Relnwe Adiath
* Professor Meino Osterhaus
* Aleksi Lehtonen
== Synopsis ==
=== The Crystal Cave ===
We found ourselves in a blown up passage surrounded by many orks, dead at our hands. Cedroc and Katrina went about checking that the area was now clear – it was. With this Ork party now dealt with, we asked Cedroc to show us to the crystal caves. He said it was north and east and that they were going to explore the main entrance of the Blacktooth Orks’ lair. We headed west towards the crystal caves. We passed the forge works and came to a dank opening with a funny smell that we had come across before. It was all slightly damp. As he himself came from a dank hole, we sent Aleksi in to have a look around. He went in, and a trickle of water came out. He lit a torch, revealing a large room which was also faintly illuminated by another source. Aleksi called for the Professor to come through. Water covered the floor and Aleksi bottled some. The professor saw a small shining crystal high up in the roof – it looked like glass and it was emitting a dim light. The rest of us joined them. Most of the room was covered in wet soil with a small amount of moss and grass growing on it. Water trickled into the room from the east – it came from small, intentionally made holes in the wall. There is also a stone plinth. Snorri went to have a look and found scraps of a scroll. It read: ‘Let the record show that the attestation is in the ale – the engineers and glass smiths have worked well.’ This was clearly some kind of farm. We, however, wanted to find the source of the smelly water.
=== The Armoury ===
We headed south from the room and came to another road. From here, we headed west back toward the forges to check out the pumps and see if they had anything to do with the smelly water. It turned out that they didn’t – the water there was clean. We headed south again and came to a huge armoury, larger than Aleksi’s entire village. It was, unsurprisingly, completely wrecked. It looked like it used to be very well defended, but was now covered in rubble. We had a little look around and Snorri came across something a little strange: a tunnel gouged out of the rubble in the western corner of the armoury. We scrabbled through and it came into another small passageway, this one of dwarf make. We were then very surprised to emerge onto the stage of a theatre. Rel explored a little and discovered this was a complex of theatres, linked with tunnels for actors and stage runners.
=== All the World is a Stage ===
Now on stage, Brandr was moved to recite a line from the dwarf play, the Book of Grudges: ‘for the spanking and shaving of the dwarfen envoy to Ulthuan on occasion of his drunken revels.’ As he did so, in a booming voice, Aleksi felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. We were being watched. Brandr continued reciting Grudge 50, ‘The routing of Radnock’s scouting party’. Then he read grudge 54: ‘The killing of two goats in the western Karaks’. He came to Grudge 67: ‘The slaying of the longbeards of karak dum.’ Then he reached grudge 74: ‘A cartwheel getting stuck in the gate hinges of karak dar.’ At this point, the Professor felt the force of deception all around him. There was something of a trick about this place. Brandr read grudge 93 ‘the slaughter and feasting upon the brave warriors of karak azon by ogres’. Then grudge 103 ‘ the splinter received from a spear of clan skyre rat by grimbor ironbeater.’ He then switched dwarf play and began to recite The Monotony of Lead. Then, he switched back to the book of grudges and came to the fall of Karak Izril. In this, he mentioned skaven and Aleksi’s unease grew to a climax. Brandr then recited Grudge 1175: ‘the fall and slaughter of all humans and dwarfs in the settlement now known as skaven blight.’
=== A Flaming Wedgie ===
At this, the walls about us began to crack and we heard the horrendous patter of a thousand rat feet. Skaven poured out of concealed holes and rushed towards us. We immediately turned and fled down the small tunnel back to the armoury, rats biting at our heels. In the tightest section of the tunnel, brandr turned around and braced his shield, hoping to buy us time to escape. Snorri grabbed the grappling hook and attached it to Brandr’s breeches before running out of the tunnel with the rope. Whilst brandr braced himself against the skaven swarm, the rest of us, now back in the armoury, heaved the rope, pulling brandr out of the hole and giving him the biggest wedgie of his life. Snorri quickly hurled an incendiary bomb down the tunnel and the screams of at least forty dying rats set ablaze assailed our ears. We turned and fled once more, back to the forge and into the crystal cavern.
=== The Parade Ground ===
Catching our breath in the farm, we soon heard approaching skaven voices, so we snuck westwards back to the great door. Waiting here a while, we headed back eastwards. In the tunnels to the south, we could see hundreds of he lights – the skaven search parties We dimmed our own lights and covered our tracks as we headed north, away from the skaven. Eventually, we came to a large empty square. This was clearly a parade ground.
== Next Session ==
Session Sixty Seven
== Previous Session ==
Session Sixty Five
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