Wednesday Notes

## Yearlings

### Session 1 (24 Erntezeit, 2476)

* Draco Darkstar, Sergei Menmann, Romulus Hil, Remus Hil, and Semund Schoter, recruited into Blackcliff Academy as Yearling Nightstalkers
* Put naked in pen full of kids
* Branded Blackcliff symbol onto all kids by nurse
* The Commandant whipped Semund for calling her ma'am instead of sir
* Told to stand until sunrise or be punished
* The moon Morrslieb came out during the night and caused Semund to have a seizure. A Witchhunter smelled Semund but he didn't get caught
* After sunrise, food and batons were put into a circle and the kids fought over them
* Sergei, using his super strength, brought back an entire bag of food for the rest of the squad to guard
* Remus killed a poor innocent child that was helplessly lying on the ground to intimidate the rest of the kids
* Recruited Igor and Helena von Averhart to the squad
* Sergei fell asleep while on watch, causing and ambush that killed Igor. His death will forever be on Sergei's hands. However, the group managed to kill two of attackers but two managed to escape; one of which being Marcus Jaegen.
* After the night the group was selected by Valmir Schwarzhauer

### Session 2 (20 Jahrdrung, 2477)

* 6 months after previous session, everyone studied and became Yearlings
* The brothers Zachariah Jaegen and Marcus Jaegen are racist assholes
* Woken up before sunrise because a first year had tried to escape
* The escapee is caught, whipped, and executed by the Commandant for treason while everyone cheered
* Right after, Valmir told the squad to pack up and pick weapons since the entire school was going to defend against greenskins.
* On the way, the group was tasked with scouting 10 miles ahead with a group of pike-men
* Semund trips loudly and alerts a group greenskins
* Remus forcefully takes a pike-man's position in line to be next to Romulus so that he can steal his kills
* Orcs target Remus and Romulus since they looked the weakest
* A troll badly injures Semund by vomiting on him
* Group kills greenskins and Sergei's cat, Imane, carries the fight
* After returning, they're requested by doctor to help Sister Anastya
* People getting sick by drinking water contaminated by a rotting corpse
* Corpse explodes and Nurglings pour out and get killed but Semund gets bit
* Finds tent with the Sister in it surrounded by corpses performing a ceremony a chaos god
* Sister was a Plaguebearer of Nurgle
* Corpses explode with Nurglings and the sister transforms into a monster
* Group runs and reunites with Valmir

### Session 3 (3 Pflugzeit, 2477)

* Right the after the battle, the group is questioned by the commandant for why they helped the cultist and what she gave them
* Spent 3 weeks at school
* Draco, Sergei, Romulus, and Semund are summoned by Valmir to go to a camp outside of Blackcliff and look for Otto.
* Helena and Remus are on toilet cleaning duty
* They are told to go to Iron Rock and take notes on everything they see on the way there and back
* Otto will be going to Barak Vart so the squad will be alone
* After the first day, the squad makes camp next to the South River
* Semund goes foraging and gets lost in the dark
* He finds fruit on a tree but hears voices telling him to join them
* He runs and bumps into someone that calls herself "mother". She wants him to go into a lake with her but he refuses
* She brings him back to the camp
* Symbol of Shlaanesh is on the ground next to Semund and on his back in the morning
* Warpstone crashes down into the ground around a mile away
* Semund runs after it and the group discusses whether to go after him
* he arrives at the warpstone and fills his bag then eats one
* Semund grows horns and Romulus shoots him in the chest
* The squad is unable to kill their friend off and tell Semund to run
* Semund eats his the rest of his warpstone and transforms into a beastman
* He runs back to the warpstone just in time to find a horde of other beastman gathering there
* **\*Semund leaves the party\***
* The group continues their journey south to Iron Rock and reach where the East Trail meets the Howling River
* They see a sea of greenskins at the base of Iron Rock
* After making camp , the group hears a loud yell from Iron Rock shouting "WAR!" and see greenskin start marching toward the warpstone meteorite
* The group quickly start riding north back to camp but see an orc riding a huge dragon in the sky yelling "WAR FOR THE IRON CLAW!" as he summoned an arc of green lightning out of his hands
* All the horses scatter, separating the group
* Sergei arrives back to camp first and tells Valmir what happened then goes back out to help find Romulus and Draco
* Everyone returns and tells their story to Valmir

### Session 4 (18 Sigmarzeit 2477)

* 3 months pass:
	+ There was a battle against the Greenskins
	+ Siegfried Kircheis, a student at Blackcliff, loses his entire squad during the battle
	+ Valmir brings Siegfried into the squad
	+ **\*Siegfried Kircheis joins the party**
* They leave for Altdorf to celebrate Sigmartag and will be hosted by Draco's parents Matthias Darkstar and Johanna Darkstar
* Johanna buys everyone huge sausages then takes everyone to the tavern to gamble
	+ Romulus plays darts with a dwarf
	+ Dwarf gives the group 2 bottles of Bugman's Ale
	+ Sergei and Remus get drunk
* Johanna takes the group to the zoo, where captured beasts from all over the world are held
* Sergei takes Imane to Draco's father first because he is afraid that the zoo will take her
* Overhears Valmir talking with Matthias about what happens while they are Fivers as well as the dreams some of the student's experienced.
* The group goes to the zoo and sees rats with a sign that says this proves rat people don't exist
* They see a huge lizard that lizard people ride with a sign that says this was bought from an elf for 10,000 gold
* Find a family of Bretonnian Roselles in a cage with a sign saying they want to be there
* Johanna gives the group 6 enchanted weapons
* There will be a tournament tomorrow between: The Empire, Bretonnia, and Kislev
* Sergei and Imane will be fighting for Kislev while the rest of the group will fight for The Empire
* Go to Bright College for the night

### Session 5 (19 Sigmarzeit 2477)

* Wake up in Bright College
* The group is taken to breakfast at an upscale tavern by Draco's mom.
* Sergei can't read so he random chooses the Stirland course on the menu
* They listen to a bard talk about Averland
* Tournament ruleset this year has changed. Instead of being a battle of small teams, the tournament is now one big fight with all three countries.
	+ each person will be worth 1 point and highlighted people are worth 10 points
* Sergei joins the Kislev team and is invited by Gustadolph Bokha to join him with several other Kossars
* The remaining members of the group join Valmir
* Imane is not permitted to fight
* When the fight begins a dark shroud covers all fighters. This cloud randomizes the location of all groups.
* Main Group (The Empire):
	+ The main group finds themselves with several other Empire guards, however a group of Grail Knights stands in front of them.
	+ Quickly noticing the strength of the Grail Knights, the group flees towards to Kislev men to attack them instead.
	+ Sergei's group attacks several empire men and defeats them.
	+ Valmir, Draco, and Romulus deal the final blows on Kasaars. One of them had a golden aura which awards bonus points.
	+ Romulus begins to reload.
	+ A group of Kislev ice archers begins shooting frozen arrows at the grail knights.
	+ Noticing one of the grail knights weakened, Draco attacks and defeats one of them, stealing the score from the archers.
	+ A second grail knight charges the group, but is quickly surrounded and defeated.
	+ Romulus continues to reload.
	+ The group continues to move around the hill and finds Sergei and his group in a battle verse men of all nations.
	+ At this point Sergei has been chosen to have the golden aura. Making him stronger, but also a beacon for all remaining warriors.
* Sergei (Kislev):
	+ Sergei is joined by Gustadolph Bohka, 2 Kreml Guards, and a Armored Kossar
	+ Sergei defeats a highlighted Bretonnian and draws the attention of those around him
	+ He is then highlighted himself and attracts a crowd
	+ Sergei is attacked and is almost knocked out
* The rest of the group starts attacking Kislev and target Sergei
* Draco begins to shoot the dart spell at Sergei in hopes to K/O him before another group can. Several attempts are made to force Sergei into submission, but he fails to conceded.
* Several Ice archers respond by attacking Draco, Romulus, Remus, and Siegfried.
* Valmir is knocked out by a Kislev guard.
* Gustadolph is also knocked out by (empire guard?, Remus, idk)
* A grail knight knocks Sergei out before Draco or another member of the group.
* Now up in points from Sergei's elimination and with almost no time left on the clock, the remaining boys flee and attempt to wait out the timer.
* Kislev still wins
* Sergei and Draco talk to ice witch Mishka Sergerevich

### Session 6 (1 Sommerzelt 2479)

* Around 2 years later:
	+ The group rarely left Blackcliff but sometimes left with Valmir for scouting missions
* They start the day in the barrack.
	+ Each room/cell contains 3 student:
		- Remus, Romulus, Sergei + Imane
		- Siegfried, Draco, Helena
	+ There is a cage in the hall where misbehaving students are put. Most of the time a noseless child is in it (Rafael)
* After the drum tower is rung, no guards come to unlock the cells like they usually do
* Romulus tries to pick the lock but breaks his knife inside it while Sergei attempts to hack the bolt with his sword breaker
* Guards eventually come in to open the cells but find that Sergei, Remus, Romulus’s lock is broken.
* The Guard eventually gets the broken knife out and they leave
* The guards were late because the commandant has a special announcement planned
* On the way to the announcement they see Dee, Doh, and Dum, a mutated set of triplet roselles from Sylvania that look like Semund.
* They also see Marcus and Zachariah but Marcus is growing slower than Zachariah for some reason.
* The commandant wants people to investigate the source of the disappearing caravans and to solve the issue.
* Sergei and Romulus volunteer the group
* They cannot bring weapons that a hunter would not use and must wear rags over their armor
* They leave and go north on horseback (Sergei rides Imane)
* They encounter a merchant caravan guarded by 40 jade dragon soldiers traveling the same direction. Siegfried goes ahead to talk to them:
	+ They say that many people that go through stirland disappear
	+ Warn not to camp near or in the woods at night
	+ We would need to reach Talabecland in 1 day
* The entire group eventually catches up to the merchants
	+ The merchant’s name is Zhang Haiwen
	+ The group sells salt for 30 crowns, buys a telescope that can see 1 mile away for 5 crowns, and 1 incendiary grenade for 1 crowns
* They arrive in Stirland and a young boy throws poop at Sergei but Sergei dodges out of the way.
* Another girl offers poop to him but Sergei refuses
* They find an inn and request 6 rooms
* A Dwarf loudly enters the inn enraged by the poo on his face
* Sergei laughs at him for not dodging the poop and the dwarf pulls a weapon out at him
* Sergei offers him a drink if he can best him in arm wrestling
* The Dwarf refuses but offers a repeater pistol for the Bugman’s. Sergei accepts and gives the gun to romulus
* The dwarf then leaves after refusing to give them his name
* The next day, after sleeping at the inn, Draco meets a female high elf that is traveling the empire
	+ She is observing the empire while acting as a bard
	+ Draco asks if she would accompany us and for some odd reason she agrees due to Draco’s 9 year old rizz.
	+ She tells them to call her Whit but tells Draco her true name in Eltharin
* Whit thinks that the disappearances could have something to do with her cousins, the wood elves
* They enter the forest and hear goat noises and a dying pig
	+ Sergei sees that it is a beastman killing a boar
	+ Whit notes that this could be the source of the disappearing travelers
* They keep traveling and find a lit up inn with locked doors
* Draco knocks on the door and is introduced by a bounty hunter and can see a few patrons on the ground floor
* The bounty hunter has a wound gaping wound on his back that is bleeding through his shirt
* The man claims that he has hunted beastmen before
* Whit begins looking behind the inn
* Horses become agitated and neigh outside the inn (Not the group’s horses)
* Helena goes to check on the horses alone
* They suddenly notice that all the patrons in the inn have suddenly disappeared
* The group goes back to check on Helena but she and the horses have disappeared
* Draco leaves to find Helena while the rest check on Whit in the back and see her examining a trail of blood
* Sergei looks through the windows on the ground floor and see overturned furniture
* Sergei climbs to the second floor and looks through the windows
	+ he sees a group of beaten and tied up people as well as a few dead bodies
* Sergei climbs down and tells the group
* Draco finds the horses dead and a tentacle creature eating somebody next to Helena’s unconscious body
* Draco attacks the tentacle creature
* The rest of the group hears a loud crack and sees all the lights go out in the inn
* They then see an arc of blue lightning behind the inn and hear the locks in the inn click
* The tentacle monster near Draco and Helena quickly runs away to the back of the inn and Draco goes to help Helena
* Helena has a bite wound on her neck that is glowing with a pinkish blue fire that is not hot but instead saps heat
* Draco attempts to cauterize the wound, but the spell's complexity is causing the cast to fail.
* A pink monster starts coming out of the inn’s entrance and Sergei and Remus attack it
* When it is killed, it explodes into two 2 tentacle monsters

### Session 7 (3 Sommerzeit 2479)

* The fight continues
* Draco successfully cauterized Helena but she screams during the process and bluish purplish flames receded
* Helena says that there is still one more that went into the house
* Everyone hears a voice say something like “WE WILL BECOME ONE” from inside
* Sergei finishes off the last blue tentacle monster and he heads into the house
* He see a gigantic figure (Chaos Spawn) covered in tentacles and a mass of bodies fused together
* A pink monster (Pink horror) comes out of the blue flames behind the Chaos Spawn
* Siegfried join in on the fight
* Sergei uses his Slayer experience to bring it close to death and Siegfried finishes it off
* After the Chaos Spawn dies, it begins to expand as if it was going to explode
* Sergei books it out of the house on Imane but Siegfried is a bit slower
* The house explodes and bursts into flames and Siegfried gets knocked out by the shrapnel
* A group of 6 pink and blue horrors appear in the flames
* Whit yells to run as she summons a comet of Casandora on the group of monsters barely missing the kids
* After the comet wipes the monsters out, 8 more blue horrors appear
* The squad works together to finish off the 8 blue horrors but not before one of them burst’s Sergei’s eye
* A group of witch hunters and road wardens approach the group after the fighting is done and accuse the kids of being chaos cultists
* Siegfried convinces them that they are not cultists
* Road wardens drag the kids away
* Whit appears with 2 guards and brings the group to a waystone but refuses to heal Sergei’s eye
* Draco witnesses the realignment of the waystone from Whit.
* Whit says her farewell and gives Draco a Spell Ring of Wyssan's Wildform. She also gives him a letter of introduction to Saphery, should Draco find himself there.
* They return to Blackcliff and find Valmir waiting for them at the entrance
* Valmir brings Sergei to the infirmary and they see a room full of maimed children that stayed at Blackcliff instead of going on a mission
* Helena (Doctor) says that Sergei’s eye is gone and she gives him an eye patch
* They go back to the barracks and see Zachariah had returned without Marcus
* Zachariah tells a story about how Marcus snapped at a villager in Averland with a knife then ran away
* The commandant had already activated the poison and supposedly killed Marcus

## Fivers

### Session 8 (29 Kaldezeit 2480)

* Year and a half later
	+ reputation is better at Blackcliff
* During the night before we leave as Fivers, Draco hides a single spell on his skin under a bandage.
* Chimes ring in barracks and 3 bald Morr monks say that its time for our dooming
* Doomings:
	+ Romulus: There shall be no ravens to pick upon your bones.
	+ Remus: No spear shall end thee, but thou will wish it did.
	+ Sergei: Violence begets violence, but peace begets death.
	+ Siegfried: Upon bright sands is both promise and blood.
	+ Draco: Laugh not in the face of the flatulent lest thou gut twist.
	+ Helena: Beware gutters and drains for they are the edge between worlds.
* Valmir opens the cells and tells us today is the day we leave
* He gives his warnings and tells them to protect Draco since he is a mage. Then he takes their belongings for safekeeping since they cannot take anything as Fivers
* He tells us to go to Bechafen of Ostermark if we manage to get to the empire early
* Draco talks to Konrad and gives him his magical belongings.
* Romulus gives his salt to the cook in kitchen
* Commandant gives her Fiver speech
	+ Every squad will be dropped at a randomly decided location and must survive there
	+ They must all return after 29 Kaldezeit 2484
		- If they come too early they will be killed
		- They have up to 1 month after the date to return or else they are killed
* They get on a fancy coach that will take them to their location
	+ The coach has 1 driver in front and 10 nightstalker soldiers guarding
* They start heading south into what they think is the badlands
* After a week they are sedated and fall asleep and find themselves naked in a wasteland
* They are surrounded by soggy quagmire and it is raining
* They start moving north
* Imane senses something and they go towards sound
* They find a greenskin stuck under a rock
	+ He says he will put in a good word to Gurgzac the green prophet leader of the bloody hands tribe
	+ Says something about the exalted champion of the red god Skarbrand and he is between them and the Empire
	+ Greenskin then says a bunch of random shit really quickly
	+ He claims he was trapped by some orcs and they should be coming by soon.
* They kill the greenskin and take his spear.
* They keep moving until they smell smoking meat and hear orcs grunting
* Sergei sneaks up on them and sees two huge orcs cooking a goats with a giant spear
* The group decides not to do anything risky
* They find loot on the ground containing large weapons, armor and leather from orcs. It's an old battlefield.
	+ They create leather clothing and take some weapons
	+ They take a giant one-sided piece of armor to use as shelter
* They decide to follow Imane and have her search for food
* Imane finds a exiled surgeon from the empire
	+ He was exiled for rape
	+ They take his clothes and kill him
	+ They take his medical supplies but do not know what the medicines do
* They continue to follow Imane as she finds a group of Large boars near a pond
* They manage to kill 3 boars
* Helena is badly injured.
	+ Draco cauterizes her wound but leaves a scar on her chest.
	+ She remains in a critical state.
* Siegfried, Romulus, Remus and Helena are sick

### Session 9 (30 Vorhexen 2480)

* Helena is in bad condition and the rest of the group attempts to help her
* Siegfried prays to Myrmidia and says he will preserve the weak from the horrors of war in exchange for a boon for Helena
* They hear a man scream nearby
* Romulus and Remus check . They jog for around 30 seconds and see 2 humans chained with 2 giant orcs pushing a cart full of coal
* There are 8 humanoids wearing black fish scale armor whipping the chained humans and orcs
	+ They have horns coming out of their helmets
	+ They are chaos dwarves with Khorne insignia.
* Siegfried wishes to help the prisoners to satisfy his goddess but the party determines that they would stand no chance
* They eat the boars and Romulus, Remus and Siegfried recover a bit from their cold
* They decide to find shelter
* Sergei find a cave with dwarven writing on the walls and a staircase going underground
* They go down the stairs and find the light of day and a waterfall
* There are two statues of dwarves, one holding a big stone sword and the other with a sconce holding a blue gem
* There are two huge doors and they open and see a massive passage way
	+ These are passages called the “underways” that go between dwarven strongholds
	+ The passage is seemingly going southwest
* They survey the chaos dwarf cave until the night and all but Sergei and Draco go to sleep in the cave.
* The two catch a glimpse of big orange hair in the moonlight and recognize that they see 4 dwaven slayers.
* As Draco whispers to Sergei, the slayers instantly turn their heads towards them.
* They duck out of sight, then an axe lands inches away from them. Narrowly missing Draco and Sergei.
* Draco wastes time thinking of a good plan and finally tells Sergei to run and tell the others while he talks with the slayers.
* As Sergei begins running, the slayers yell and begin charging at them
* A slayer with no ears, nose, teeth, and only 1 eye jump 20 feet and attack Sergei and breaks both his daggers with his swing. He then calls him unworthy and punches him to the ground
* At the same time Draco talks to a more articulate slayer and convinces them to fight the chaos dwarves for their dooming
* They eventually decide that the dooming was not worthy enough for them, and tell Draco to witness their dooming at Karak Eight Peaks.
* Draco declines and both groups go their separate ways. Sergei and Draco go back to the others.
* Helena shoots up from her rest, but wakes up no memory.
* Discombobulated, her eyes drift around. Sergei waves his hand in front of her.
* She bites at Sergei and they quickly give her food and water as she must be starving.
* Helena smells something behind waterfall and they find out it contains small chunks warpstone
* They start traveling down the underway and reach fork with 2 paths each with a sign written in Dwarven.
* Draco tries to convince that they should go West. He lies and says he can read it. The group believes him, but doesn't trust that he's leading them in the right direction.
* Siegfried prays for direction and a sun appears pointing in one direction, the same direction as Draco wanted.
* They follow the sun and reach an opening that leads to the sea
* They see a ship sailing across and they get its attention by flailing their arms, yelling, and shooting darts into the sky.
* A rowboat comes out and a man speaks out in a few languages that the party doesn’t understand until he speaks in Bretonnian
* Party trades the medical supplies to be allowed on the ship
* The man’s name is Muhammad from Al-Haikk in Araby
* They board the ship and look at the map
* The ship will be traveling to Al-Haikk then to Tor Yvresse in Ulthuan.
* The party offers their services to protect the ship and help out where possible in exchange for passage to both Al-Haikk and Tor Yvresse.
* The current plan is to find medical help for Helena in Araby and depart as a group to Ulthuan.

### Session 10 (33 Vorhexen 2480)

* They spend 3 day traveling on the ship
	+ Helena is still brain damaged
	+ Get to know captain Mustapha
		- speaks 4 languages
		- Wife is named Tajmeel
* On the fourth day, they stop at Al-Haikk for the salt and to resupply
	+ May take a few days or up to a few months
* Mustapha wants the party to keep traveling with the merchant ship after their stop at Ulthuan to help negotiate trades
	+ In exchange, he will request for the Minister of Medicine to help heal Helena
* They refuse and Mustapha says they can instead earn money by doing sewer watch
* They will stay at sunshade tavern
* Mustapha explains the saintly seven or Ministers of Al-Haikk
* Mustapha leaves and his wife speaks to the party
	+ Do not to trust the Minister of Medicine
		- She hasn’t aged a day
		- Probably uses foul magic
	+ Habib, a roselle sailor will also be working on sewer watch
* ships starts docking
	+ A government official/harbor master talks with Mustapha and examines the ship
	+ Mustapha talks to him about the party
* Official then greets the party
* Al-Haikk has sewer system under the city that has greenskin and other supernatural problems and needs the sewer watch to "maintain order"
* They see that the standard of living here is extremely high and the official explains some rules:
	+ cannot enter source, house of seven ministers without permission
	+ murder = death
	+ stealing = lose hand
	+ no dueling
* The government official takes them to the Minister of immigration and public security Abdul for papers
* They each sign a work permit
* Draco asks why he is a minister
	+ he’s been very effective in maintaining the peace in Al-haikk
* Helena is unable to work so Abdul requests for minister of medicine Lyla
* Lyla agrees to take Helena as a patient
* Abdul takes the party to the Minister of Medicine’s Hospital
* The hospital is much cleaner than they are used to
* They meet Lyla and she checks Helena’s injury
	+ Depending on the severity, the group may need a rare flower to treat her
		- found on the top of a nearby mountain
		- Must be picked when the sun is setting
		- Must be brought back within the day
* Lyla smells like cinnamon
* Lyla knows that the party has been warned about her so she proves she is not a vampire but her youthful appearance is a secret
* She tells Draco not to use fire magic in the sewer if he doesn’t want to blown up
* Lyla says Siegfried would be good working at a brothel
* They go to Sunshade tavern
	+ They find the captain and his wife but everyone other than a woman dancing on the table are non-Arabian.
	+ The dancer’s name is Caria and her father is the captain of the sewer guard
	+ Sergei begins singing a Kislev song to the music
		- music starts to stop and other drunk Kislev men begin to sing along
		- Caria leaves upstairs
		- Sergei talks to the men and asks him about sewer watch
		- They say that there no money in sewer watch and they are mercenaries working for a collector
		- Sergei asks to join them but they say that their boss would not trust them
		- Also their work permits allow them to only work in the sewers
	+ The captain of Sewer watch comes down the stairs
		- name is Yusef
	+ He says he can upgrade their work permit after a week of working at the sewer
	+ Yusef says a collector is looking for a mage
* Yusef introduces the party to some new team mates
	+ Big man with mustache from Talia named Leonardo
		- crossbowman
	+ Ugly dwarf slayer named Snorri Nosebiter
		- missing teeth
		- orange beard of a slayer
		- metal nails nailed in the top of his head
		- nose is pretty much gone
	+ Yusef’s daughter Caria
* They head into the sewers with their new group
* After a while, they hear swearing in Estalian and metal scraping
* Yusef says they are illegal immigrants and tells the kids to go talk to them since they are less intimidating
* The group approaches them and sees two people begging them for food while trying to start a fire with a flint and steel
* They remember Lyla’s warning not to start fire in the sewers and Draco manages to stop their attempts
* The two immigrants run away leaving behind rotting meat
* Snorri smells that the meat is rat and begins following the scent
* The smell leads him to a wall which he opens by pushing a brick
* The groups hear 2 voices speaking in Reikspiel
	+ One of the voices is Human while the other is not
	+ Human exchanges warpstone to the non-Human for information on some minister. He says that this will help keep the surface safe
	+ The group sees that the there is a hunched figure
	+ Romulus approaches quietly and sees that the figure is a huge rat
* Romulus signals everyone to join him
* Leonardo says that the rat is called a skaven and they killed his entire family
* They run forward to arrest the man and kill the skaven
* As they the group charging at them the man sprints down the hall and the skaven begins to throw a green orb
* The moment the skaven takes out the flask of green gas, Leonardo screams to run
* Before it is thrown and as everyone begins to run, Romulus shoots the skaven but the orb still hits the ground and a cloud of green gas comes pouring out
	+ Sergei and Draco manage to escape the gas
	+ Siegfried falls behind
	+ Romulus, having stayed to shoot the skaven, falls behind
* Siegfried takes a small breath of the gas right before escaping and takes serious damage but stays conscious
* Romulus takes a full breath of the gas and falls unconscious while still inside
* Sergei runs back in and pulls Romulus out
* Romulus is seriously injured and is coughing up flesh
* Youssef is lying in the gas presumably dead
* The group leaves the sewer and races to the ministry of medicine and has Siegfried and Romulus treated
* Siegfried has no permanent injury but Romulus’ lungs are literally liquid
* Romulus lives for now
* In his final breath before surgery he says “Abdul”
* Since Romulus was the only that clearly saw the man, Sergei and Draco take Snorri to investigate minister Abdul
* They go to his ministry but find that he has already left
* Sergei brings Snorri to sniff out the building as Draco demands to the guard to summon the minister of war
* They find nothing and leave

### Session 11 (4 Nachexen 2481)

* 2 Days after
* Romulus lives and recovers enough to move around but he needs rest
* Leonardo takes over the sewer watch group and pays each member 10 shillings
* The party continues to try to find minister Abdul but they do not have an appointment
* Sergei and Draco and Siegfried gathered information during the 2 days
	+ Draco:
		- Person that is looking to buy the artifact:
			* He is from Sylvania
			* Willing to pay 200 gold
		- Person that has the artifact
			* Name is Ivan and he is from Kislev
			* Has the artifact known as the Eye of Khemri
			* Is looking for a mage to appraise the artifact
			* Unsure the value of the artifact but is hesitant on the 200 gold offer.
			* Looking for muscle for protection against Sylvanian man
	+ Sergei looking for mercenary group that would hire the group
		- Learns more about Leonardo
			* Is a skilled mercenary from Tilea
	+ Siegfried finds Myrmidia temple
* Sergei takes care of the injured Siegfried
* On the third night the group is sleeping at the tavern
	+ Remus and Romulus in one room, Sergei and Siegfried in one room and Draco alone in a room
* Caria knocks on Sergei and Siegfried’s door and asks for help in fighting the skaven to avenge her father. The two deny and she begrudgingly leaves.
* Later, Romulus hears a screech outside his room and wakes up Remus
	+ Remus investigates out the window and sees 2 red eyes
	+ Greasy black stuff splashes on window
* There is a loud explosion and everyone wakes up
* Romulus shoots at the creature and they see a furry black creature run away
* Skaven pour into the room and Remus and Romulus run out
* The rest of the party come out of their rooms
* Remus kills one of the skaven and it melts into a black pool of liquid
* Leonardo comes out of his room
	+ Pees on a cloth then wraps it around his face to use as a mask.
	+ Tells everyone to do the same
* Caria comes out with a whip
* Romulus hears noises such as wood breaking in the room beside him
	+ opens the door and sees a massive rat ogre, aka a PackMaster
* A rat comes out of Remus and Romulus’ room carrying a green gas bomb
* Draco casts Drop on the bomb and it explodes and kills the nearby skaven
* The party works together to kill the giant rat ogre
* Leonardo and Snorri finish the remaining skaven off
* Guards come and take the group to minister Abdul
* Abdul talks with group
	+ He’s been giving skaven warpstone for information on the other ministers he is investigating
	+ Romulus talks with Abdul for a while
	+ Abdul compensates the group for the injuries to Romulus by hiring Snorri to find the flower needed to heal Helena
	+ Abdul also gives the group a Writ of the Fifth Lore in exchange for dealing with the skaven in the inn
	+ Abdul upgrades the groups work permits to allow them work outside of the Sewers.
	+ Abdul promises to expedite the shipment of salt so they can leave faster.
	+ In return, the group must remain silent about the dealings Abdul has with the Skaven.
	+ As they leave Abdul asks Draco to report to him what he finds about the Artifact and in return he will tell the group of the location of a old battlefield with a bunch of Dwarven made weapons.
* Remus and Sergei go with Leonardo to learn about Tilean fighting styles
* Sergei and Remus decide not to learn the fighting style and join the rest of the party in the ministry of salt
* Draco, Siegfried, and Romulus are escorted by Kislev mercenaries to find Ivan at the ministry of medicine.
	+ Lyla welcomes them and tells them that the medicinal poppy is required to help Helena.
	+ They tell her they already have a someone fetching the flower for them.
	+ She says they should bring Helena along to wherever they are off to next as she could use some fresh air.
* They go see Ivan who's getting his back stepped on by one of the nurses.
* Draco explains he is here to appraise it and that he's likely the only mage here able to understand its power.
* Ivan offers Draco 15 gold, but Draco bargains for 20 gold and 5% of the value of the sale if he decides to sell it.
* The group head to the ministry of salt where the artifact is held in a secure room.
* Ivan does some secret stuff to unlock the vault.
* Draco begins to appraise the amulet
	+ The amulet is simple looking wooden locket that seems to resonate very little magic.
	+ Upon further investigation, Draco finds several layers of a very sophisticated ward that seems to shield the artifacts true power.
	+ These wards emit a strong aura of Shyish, the purple wind of magic, aka the lore of death.
	+ Draco pauses and tells Ivan that he lacks understanding of what the artifact does but senses a strong magic underneath the wards. Continuing on with the appraisal could be dangerous to everyone.
	+ Ivan renegotiates the deal and says he'll pay double. Draco thinks and counters with triple the original payment. Ivan agrees.
	+ Draco recalls a spell from his grimoire and is able to cast Magic shield on himself after a little time.
	+ Sergei and Remus finally arrive and after some intrusion into the room, the group stands back as Draco begins to channel the powerful magic.
	+ Draco begins to unlock the wards each layer harder and harder to dispel and requiring more and more power.
	+ Draco unlocks all the wards and discovers the true power of the artifact. He reseals the wards and dispels his shield.
		- The true name of the artifact is the Eye of Nagash
		- It has the ability to enslave and control vampires
		- The artifact is incredibly potent magic and is of high wizard level of strength.
* Draco tells Ivan he should definitely not sell it. The artifact contains immense power and in the wrong hands would be devastating.
* Draco appraises the amulets in the 10s of thousands of gold, but is cut off by Ivan as they amount would only tempt him.
* Draco is paid his 60 gold and Ivan agrees to not sell it under any circumstances.

### Session 12 (11 Nachexen 2481)

* 2 days pass
	+ They rest
	+ Romulus feels a bit better
	+ Snorri went to gather flower, hasn’t returned yet
	+ Caria still holding a grudge against the party
	+ Helena still under ministry of medicine’s care
* On the third morning, they go meet Minister Abdul
* Guards easily allow them inside this time
* Draco talks with Abdul and tells him to gather the other ministers to discuss the talisman
* Abdul notifies the group that there is another trading ship from Lothern that will return soon
	+ The group declines to board the ship since they need to wait for Helena to recover
* Abdul returns and brings the group to the gathering of several other ministers
	+ Ministers of Salt, Religion, Medicine, and the Sultan are present
* Leads to palace
	+ Minister of Salt is named Sa'id
		- He is fat
	+ Minister of Religion is named Idor
		- He talks for the Sultan for sits behind a curtain
* Draco reveals that the artifact is the Eye of Nagash
	+ Draco asks them to allow the party to take it Ulthuan where it will be better protected
	+ Lyla wants to destroy it herself
* Sultan decrees that they will buy the Eye of Nagash from Ivan but the party must take to Ulthuan without any support from natural born Arabyans.
* They will also provide 120 Crowns
* Lyla volunteers to join
* The party splits up
	+ Siegfried: goes to the church of Myrmidia
		- On the way he sees smoke and finds Beastmen eating people
			* They do not notice him and he walks by
		- Finds the chapel and introduces himself to some guards
		- The guards test him and let him in
		- He asks about how to travel to Ulthuan
			* Need a Rlven navigator
		- No priest wants to join the journey to Ulthuan since there is a Kornite invasion
			* There is a Bloodthirster in the plains
		- The priest tests Siegfried for a promotion
			* He is asked what to do with a prisoner
			* He executes the prisoner with a knife
		- Priest’s name is Saif
		- He gives Siegfried plate armor with Myrmidia’s symbol
	+ Sergei and Remus look for mercenaries to hire and find a place to buy equipment
		- They buy a magic red robe for Draco for 6 Crowns
		- Buy 3 sets of chain armor for Sergei, Remus and Romulus for 11 crowns each
		- Find a jeweler to create 4 replica eyes of Nagash for 5 shillings
		- Buy a warding amulet for 3 gold
	+ Draco finds the ship with elves
		- Talks to elf
		- Gets them to agree to take the group to Ulthuan
	+ Romulus follows Lyla to Ministry of Medicine
		- Snorri is there with the flower
		- Romulus talks with Snorri and Leonardo
		- Lyla comes back with the potion and gives it to Romulus and Helena
			* Romulus mostly recovers but Helena does not
		- Lyla takes Romulus into her office and locks the door
			* She tell him that she is a vampire of the ancient Lahmian bloodline.
			* She can go into the sun and is completely immune
			* She wishes to destroy the eye of Nagash herself and doesn’t want it to be used by anyone
			* Bringing it to the elves is acceptable
			* She is not able to bring any accomplishes and needs someone to feed off of
* The entire party gathers at the tavern
* They convince Snorri to join the journey for 25 crowns
* They also manage to convince Caria to join for 5 crowns
* The next morning, they prepare to leave
	+ buy 4 kegs of ale and 10 days of rations for a crown
* Sergei runs back to the bazaar to make some last minute purchases
	+ He buys a hand mortar and 5 bombs
	+ Fails to find a enchanted jewel stone
* Draco receives the Eye of Nagash from Lyla
* Snorri smashes Helena in the head and she regains her mind
	+ she shortly passes out from the hit
* Elf named Maeron greets the party and leads the party up the ship
* They meets two guards named Arathion & Arhalien and Galifreius Squire of Tyrion
* Bel-Aethlec lore master of ship
* Kyriela is the captain and her aunt is Whit
* They find out they serve House Emeraldsea, Kinfolk to Teclis and Tyrion.
* They begin to set sail and Sergei, late from shopping, runs to catch the boat.
	+ He barely boards the ship on time and they set sail for Lothern.

### Session 13 (16 Nachexen 2481)

* 2 days of sailing
	+ Helena still injured from Snorri
	+ Snorri is sea sick
	+ Lyla looking after Helena
* Romulus and Draco argue about the deception of Lyla to the party
* Romulus asks Lyla about the vampires of Sylvania
* Romulus asks Lyla to teach him about medicine
* Sergei manages to convince Illidial to teach him
	+ Illidial takes watch from the top of the ship and Sergei copies her by climbing to the middle
	+ He sees a Norsca trading ship but Illidial says they are harmless
* Siegfried lays on the floor below deck to get used to being at sea
* Helena wakes up
* Maeron replaces Illidial in keeping watch
* Illidial teaches Sergei how to camouflage with paint for 2 days
* Romulus asks Sergei to spar but a Leviathan is spotted before they start
* The leviathan is a giant corpse
* Princess Galifreius tells us that the corpse contains treasure and they sail towards it
* They prepare to fight whatever else may be going for the leviathan.
* Sergei gives Helena 2 scimitars
* Sergei camouflages himself with paint
* Lyla feeds on Romulus’ blood one more time to powerup for the fight
* Sergei and Romulus wake up Snorri after lots of effort
* They notice a vampire ship approaching the Leviathan
* Sergei is given a spyglass to watch the vampire ship
	+ Ship is built with old rotten wood and has torn sails
	+ He sees vampires on the deck of the ship
	+ Huge 5 foot wide bats flying above the ship carrying people with handguns
* Bats start flying towards the ship and they get shot down by the elves + Draco and Romulus
* Sergei sees wakes on the surface of the water then something climbs on the deck of the ship
* Huge flying monster comes flying over
* The main group covers the back half of the ship while the elves cover the front of the ship.
* The fight persues, the group kills vampires, large bats, wraiths, and other undead.
* Snorri jumps on a large bat and flies all over the place.
* Draco and the Elves manage to attack the vampire ship and force the remaining forces to flee. Snorri is rescued from the water (he can't swim).
* The group enter the Leviathan and are permitted to take one treasure they find or a large sack of gold.
	+ Draco takes a magic Grimoire titled the "Book of the Phoenix"
		- Has several new spells and an ability to resurrect or die.
	+ Sergei takes a magic eye but it's cursed so he trades it for the gold instead.
	+ Siegfried takes a magic ring called the "Khaine's Ring of Fury"
	+ Romulus takes the Horn of Vaul.
* The group return to the ship and continue sail for Ulthuan.

### Session 14 (10 Jahrdrung 2481)

* 2 weeks of sailing
	+ See island Ulthuan and arrive at its capital Lothern
* They see a statue of Aenarion and learn about him from the captain
* They will be sent to the foreign quarter where non elves are sent
* An elf asks Draco for the papers Lady Mellisandirei, Whit, gave him then leads the party to lady Malene
* They reach a building called the emerald estate
* They talk to Malene and giver her the Eye of Nagash
* In return Draco asks for permission to go to Saphery
	+ She can ask the phoenix king for us but does not trust them enough
	+ They can either help Whit outside of Ulthuan or help her with espionage in Ulthuan
	+ They decide to stay and help Malene
* They are given a room watched by two elven guards
* A elven girl named Yakari comes into the room and says she will be assisting them
* Draco looks around the rooms for an escape and finds a paper that says “pearl” on Reikspiel
* They climb onto the roof and climb down the other side
* As Siegfried climbs down, he is found by Yakari since they were being loud
* Yakari decides to bring the party outside
* Draco asks to be taken to the dock with the rest of the group to speak with Whit before she embarks
* They are escorted through the foreign district with Yakari leading them.
	+ On the way a group of dwarfs bump into them and a mild confrontation occurs but is de-escalated, no combat.
* The reach the docks and Draco convinces the guards to bring them to Whit by manipulating them
* The group speaks with Whit who is stressed with preparations for her Journey.
* She basically says what Lady Malene does and says the easiest way to get a meeting with the Phoenix king is to gain the favor of house Malene and Cadwallen, which would be a majority vote for Lothern.
* The group inquires more about House Cadwallen is instructed to go to a brothel in the foreign district which Lord Cadwallen frequents
* They say their goodbyes to Whit and head to the Brothel
* They enter the Brothel
	+ Seigfried is complimented on his looks and they say he could make good money here
	+ They speak to the owner of the Brothel who turns out to be….Lyla
* Lyla says she has many acquaintances and Lord Cadwallen is one of them.
* The group tells Lyla to put in a good word with Lord Cadwallen and she agrees
* The group returns to Lady Malene
* Lady Malene says that to get her vote the group needs to do one of three things.
	+ Aid Whit in her battle (pretty much too late)
	+ Investigate the Slaanesh growth in Lothern (concerning to the group)
	+ The final option is to steal a jewel back from Lord Cadwallen
* The group deliberates and agrees that even though they need to get Lord Cadwallen’s vote, stealing the Jewel is the easiest of the options.
* They tell Lady Malene they will steal a jewel and she says that she can get them in the Royal Ball at Lord Cadwallen’s Manor in three weeks.
* The group return to their quarters and prepare for their heist.

### Session 15 (29 Jahrdrung 2481)

* 3 weeks later:
	+ Ball will be empire themed
	+ Romulus is dancer he's the star of the show
		- will dance with Remus
		- introduced as a prodigy dance in human standards
	+ Draco scouting
		- emerald shaped as teardrop size of egg
		- Vault second floor of ball location
			* guarded by 2 guards
			* Magically warded
			* emerald will be showed off during the ball
		- Draco makes a spell scroll for Move Object Spell
	+ Sergei infiltrate
		- Malene gets a servant outfit
		- Human children servants ride dumbwaiters up and down
		- gets replica from Malene
* Day before the ball
* Dumbwaiter stops
	+ 1st floor kitchen
	+ 2nd office same floor as vault
	+ 3rd floor his bedroom
* Prince comes and tells them he can duel someone for a distraction
* The next day they get dressed up by servants for the ball
* Ball starts with drinks and narcotics
* After 30 minutes, romulus will perform
* Lord Cadwallen wants siegfried to be his boy toy
* Seigfried ends up replacing Remus in a dance with Romulus.
* Following the dance, Lady Malene further introduces Draco to the lord and says Draco is interested in artifacts, suggesting that he should show off his private collection.
* Politely agreeing, Lord Cadwallen takes Draco upstairs and by tapping on the wall and uttering a phrase under his breath opens the door to the vault.
* While appearing mesmerized by the collection, Lord Cadwallen tells Draco that if he can convince Seigfried to stay and live with him, he will give the group any piece of his collection.
* This gives Draco a new idea to pivot the plan to steal the jewel. He tells Lord Cadwallen he will be right back with Seigfried.
* Draco heads back downstairs and tells the group of his new plan.
	+ Siegfried will join Draco upstairs and distract the lord, aiming to have his back turned from the jewel.
	+ Sergei will aid in this by giving Draco the forged replica to make the swap.
	+ Sergei will take the spell scroll made by Draco and move the real jewel out of the vault. He will then deliver the jewel to Lady Malene.
* After filling in everyone on the plan they head upstairs.
* The plan is executed flawlessly. Siegfried distracts, Sergei uses the scroll from a distance and takes the jewel, Draco makes the swap.
* After the swap is done, Siegfried “fakes” having second thoughts and heads downstairs. The rest of the group follow with Sergei taking a back route through the Kitchen to draw less attention with the jewel in hand.
* Lady Malene is given the Jewel, a massive relief for the party.
* Draco finishes the night with a performance of his magic.
	+ He lights a massive brazier of fire.
	+ He then mesmerizes the crowd with fiery birds that combine into a phoenix.
	+ The crowd applauds and seems to be impressed with his skill at a young age.
* Afterwards, Lord Cadwallen (apologies?) to the group for possibly coming on too strong on Seigfried and allows them to leave the party early, something very rare.
* The group take this exit with no hesitation and return to the residence of Lady Malene before the jewel is discovered to be a fake.