Session Thirteen

The thirteenth session of the Adventures of the Dragon Crag was on the 24th November 2021.

## Party Members Present

* Brandr Sigurdson
* Snorri Morgrimson
* Relnwe Adiath
* Professor Meino Osterhaus
* Aleksi Lehtonen

## Synopsis

### Ambush in the Caves

We lay in wait on the top of our cliff like five dirty cats for the bandits to come. We had lit the passage below with a torch and had left a piece of ham on the floor to entice the ogre into a compromising position. The bandits charged in - there was Gunter, an Ogre, Durrac the Dwarf Ranger, and two nameless thugs. The battle was begun when Snorri dropped a bomb on the Ogre and Gunter, slightly singeing them both. Thereafter, arrows were let loose by all with ranged weapons, including one of the thugs who had a pavise. Snorri shot Durrac in the leg, shattering his armour. After Aleksi winded Durrac quite badly with an arrow, he noticed a small cloaked figure scurrying around in the darkness behind him. Gunter and the Ogre began to climb the cliff face towards our position. Gunter used a grappling hook tied to the ogre's belt. As the ogre climbed the cliff, Brandr, Snorri and Rel took turns wacking him with their various implements and firearms with Rel managing to shoot the Ogre's mace out of his hand. Just as he reached the top of the cliff, Aleksi shot the Ogre in the leg, severing an artery and knocking the ogre backwards off the cliff. Gunter was pulled down with him. In the meantime, Rel had managed to silently descend the cliff in the darkness and was poised in a flanking position. After several attempts, the Professor managed to get a magical choke hold on Gunter, sqeezing the life out of him. Brandr swung down the cliff using the rope we had set up and brought his warhammer down on the choking Gunter. Snorri also tried to acrobatically jump of the cliff, but caught his foot and tumbled down, landing on his arse at the bottom. His armour was badly damaged. Rel charge the thug with the pavise from the darkness as the Professor crushed Gunter's throat bringing him to the floor and making his face go a bright shade of purple. Aleksi didn't heal Gunter and Gunter died. We had yet again won the day. We were left with several bodies and a badly winded dwarf.

### The Cloaked Figure

Aleksi and the Professor decided to go after the figure in the darkness that Aleksi had spotted. They briefly glimpsed the thing running off - it was a furry creature with a tail and a cloak. The Professor summoned a shadowy horse from thin air and the pair mounted it saying "together, we ride!" They pursued the creature into a large cave and ran down the creature on the shadowsteed. Aleksi jumped the creature from the horse's back and gave it a Kislevite Kiss, knocking both himself and the creature out. Rel then arrived with a torch to see a knocked out Skaven lying next to an unconscious Aleksi with the Professor stumbling around tin the darkness above them. Luickily, Rel had brought a torch. Rel slapped Aleksi to wake him up and tells him that the creature is a skaven, not a furry dwarf. The three wrapped the skaven up in a cloak and brought it back to where Brandr and Snorri guarded Durrac.

### Questioning Durrac and Finding Gorek

We awakened Durrac and he told us that Gorek was in the mining camp to the east. We found Gorek tied up in a corner and he told us that he had heard noises in the dark - the scurrying of many feet. We decided that it was more skaven and that we ought to move. With Gorek, Durrac and the captured skaven, we returned to Gunter's bandit camp. Aleksi covered our tracks.

### Back at the Camp

After arriving back at the camp, we set up a few more defenses. We experimented on the skaven and Rel singed its whiskers with a torch. The Skaven didn't give much away. Gorek said that he thought Durrac would know why the skaven were up in the upper levels of the ruins. Durrac said that they had found green rocks in a cave wall - probably warpstone. Durrac said Gunter had a contact on the surface who was willing to buy the rocks and pay a lot of money. Gunter's contact's hair was partially on fire. It was possibly flame-head.

We had found a small journal on Gunter, but it was written in some sort of code and Brandr found a pouch with a bright white stone in it.

### The Prof and Rel Ride a Horse

The Professor and Rel rode off east back to the bandit mining camp and see that the tent that we had neglected to search had been completely ransacked. The Prof felt that there had been something magical there but it had long gone. They figured that the skaven must have come to the mining camp from the east, suggesting that there was a way down to the next level in that direction.

On their return to the camp, the Professor made a rock look like a green stone (warpstone) and showed it to the skaven. The skaven, however, saw through the ruse. We decided it was time to kill the horrid creature, so Brandr crushed it with his hammer. All the dwarfs were pleased by this and Snorri could finally get some sleep.

### Finally Getting Some Rest

It had been a long day and we all needed some good rest. Bradnr went on watch first and painted clan Forgekeeper's sigil on a plank and displayed the skaven's head on a spike outside of our camp along with the sigil. In the morning we let Gorek execute Durrac in the name of Clan Forgekeeper. Durrac's head was chopped off with an axe. We gave some loot to Gorek to safely take home for us and the Professor gave him a letter to send. Rel then messaged Blair on the Discophone to ask if she knew who Flame-Head was. She didn't. She also didn't want to meet Grey Wizards in her area.

We decided to set of West to find the clan hold of Clan Stonepick and the way down to the next level of the ruins.