Session Sixty Seven

The sixty-seventh session of the Adventures of the Dragon Crag was on 22nd May 2024.
== Party Members Present ==
* Brandr Sigurdson
* Snorri Morgrimson
* Relnwe Adiath
* Professor Meino Osterhaus
* Aleksi Lehtonen
== Synopsis ==
=== The Ride of the Professor ===
We found ourselves in the parade square, lit up by Snorri’s lamp. To the south, from the passage that we had come from, we began to see pin pricks of light growing larger, coming towards us. The skaven were on to us again! Snorri dowsed his light and we cut off the main passage into the dwelths. The professor conjured marsh lights and sent them off in the opposite direction to cover our escape. We waited for while and, off in the distance, we could hear the sound of battle. This gave us a cunning idea. We could lure the Skaven into the Orks and make them fight! We hatched a plan in which the Professor would ride off on his shadowstead and lead the Skaven into the Orks. Snorri gave the Professor his horn and the Professor bravely rode off, shining bright with magic light and tooting on Snorri’s horn. He jumped over a group of Skaven and galloped swiftly down the dark passages. For the rest of the party, the Skaven shouts of chase died down as the Professor led them off into the darkness towards the Orks. However, the sound of the skaven was replaced by the sounds of fighting nearby, so we went to investigate. Meanwhile, the Professor found a group of Orks and turned invisible. He dismounted and hid in a crevice as the Skaven who pursued him met the Orks and a battle ensued.
=== Creepin' in the Dark ===
The rest of us made for the shouting and fighting we heard nearby. It came from the ruined workshops to the east. On our way we encountered the Professor who hid in a hole. His invisibility had run out, but we still all trod on him. We came to a new corridor we had not been through before, which was blocked by a rockslide at one end. Through a hole in the rockslide we could see a Skaven rat in the hall beyond. We went northwards to a gap in the wall and peered through. Here, there were yet more rats. We had to be sneaky. The Professor, however, lord of darkness and shadowmancer extraordinaire that he was, stubbed his toe on a rock. One of the rats’ head snapped round and he came to investigate, throwing a torch through the hole towards us. As he reached the gap in the wall, Aleksi loosed an arrow while Brandr tried to pull it through. The rat dug its claws in, and it wasn’t until the Professor put it to sleep that we managed to slit its throat. With this rat safely dispatched we continued dodging around in the darkness, avoiding patrolling Skaven. We took another down as we progressed towards the fighting noises. After sneaking around a bit more, we heard a rat cry – they had discovered the bodies of their comrade we had slain.
=== Blade Bois ===
Rats began rushing towards our position and we ran south through another hole, while Aleksi shot arrows at the approaching Skaven. Soon, orks arrived and began fighting the skaven, giving us an opportunity to slip off behind a closed door. In this room, we found three mangled human corpses – the source of the fighting. Clearly they had lost the fight. The professor search the corpses and nicked his hand on something metal. He went weak at the knees, poisoned by a hidden blade. Snorri quickly administered anti-poison but, as he did so, Rel was jumped by a horrid rat with tail blades that whipped around. Suddenly more rats were upon us and we were engaged in a vicious melee. These included the largest rats we had ever seen. Unfortunately for them, we were a lethal fighting force that day and soon dispatched the rats with ease.
=== Ugma ===
After the fight, we passed through another door and came to a passage that had a hole in the floor. It looked as thought the passage had been forced up from beneath. Down the hole was a wet cave made of grey and white rock. ‘Oh boy!’ we thought, and jumped in. We scrambled down into the cave system and Snorri re-lit his lantern. The water in the cave flowed westwards, so we followed it upstream. It reeked down there, like the crystal caves but much worse. After some time we heard noises – a terrified squeal followed by a thump. We came into a wider section of the cave where we saw skaven being battered by a river troll. The skaven fled towards us so we charged them and soon cut them down. Once we finished them off the troll stopped and looked at us. Snorri readied his Azthrund and we prepared for the troll to attack. But the troll did not attack. Instead, it raised its bone club in a salute. It opened its ugly mouth and said: “kill rat good”. Then it turned around and began walking off. Looking back, it said: “Come, meet.” Intrigued, we followed the troll further into the wet caves. Soon we came to a crude gate made of detritus. The troll knocked on the gate and it opened. It then looked back at us and shouted “Ugma”. Three more trolls came and we held our breath. One of the trolls was taller than the others, with a more upright posture. The Professor couldn’t look away – he saw what the rest of us did not: this troll’s head glowed gold with cogs and clockwork machinery whirring within its thick skull. For an instant, its eyes vanished and were replaced by telescopes. Then, the troll addressed us clearly and with eloquence beyond the lowly station of a troll. He introduced himself as Ugma and said that we were friends as we were enemies of the rats and greenskins. The Orks had enslaved his kind and he was keeping his brethren safe. He told us that their cave was fed by canals and then he pointed to another gate to the east. He said that way led to a back entrance to the Blacktooth Ork lair. The entrance was too small for them, but we could fit through. We talked of a two-pronged attack, but Ugma was reticent – we needed more rapport. Ugma said that he could send his trolls to the main entrance to the lair as a distraction whilst we attacked from the rear. We told him that we needed to speak with our allies and that we would return. He told us of the location of a nearby cave we could meet him in. At that, we bid him adieu and went off to find somewhere to sleep – it had been a busy day.
== Next Session ==
Session Sixty Eight
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Session Sixty Six
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