Session Fifty One

The fifty first session of the Adventures of the Dragon Crag was on the 8th August 2023.

Happy 2nd Anniversary!

## Party Members Present

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

## Synopsis

### A Bloody Battle

#### Aleksi joins the fight

Aleksi had set up camp with Adler and Brenda while the rest of us explored the elven ruins. He said it was to protect them from anything in the woods, but really he just wanted to watch them canoodle. After nothing exciting happened, he fell asleep. As he is wont to do, he had a fever dream. He saw four large shadowy figures, one of them was slightly brighter than the others. It was covered in blue glowing eyes and chittering mouths. In the distance he saw a woman with an arm outstreched above very small human figures. She was cowering before the shadowy figures. He saw a normal human leave the embrace of the woman and then Tor arrived, wielding his hammer, and smashed the shadowy figure in the mouths. At that point, he woke up, bolted upright, and felt sweat pouring from his enormous brow. He felt alarm and tried to think of what it could mean. Then, he heard the unmistakable shot of the Azthrund from the ruins and thought that he ought to go and help his friends. As he got closer, he heard the cries of an avian creature in battle and he passed the carcass of a giant eagle. He went around a corner and saw Snorri burying his azthrund into a hippogriff bearing a strange knight.

#### Battling Birds on Balconies

Aleksi joined the fight, loosing two arrows at the creature. The hippogriff then bore down on Snorri. The Professor reached out his hand an began to magicallty throttle the strange knight. Brandr then threw an object for the first time in his life, a javelin that managed to hinder the beast. Then, the hippogriff smacked Snorri up into the air, while the kngiht brought down his lance, goring Snorri's chest. Rel then brought the hippogriff down with her spear, nearly breaking her weapon on the beast's armour. She then severed its leg tendons, while Brandr nearly smacked its leg clean off with his hammer. The knight then fell head first into a bear trap that Brandr had lain. Whilst the knight struggled free, Rel finished off the hippogriff by pulping its organs. Aleksi ran over to Snorri's side who lay bleeding to death. He clasped his hands over the gaping wound and somehow staunched the bleeding. The knight broke free of the trap and advance on Rel. Hands still covered in snorri's blood, Aleksi whipped his gromril arrow from his quiver and shot the knight's head clean off. As the knight's body fell to the floor, both his and the hippogriff's corpses corroded to nothing before our eyes. Before it fully disappeared, Rel saw the mark of Tzeench burned into the knight's chest.

### Returning to the Rivet

#### A Visit from Durak

With Snorri on his feet again, armed with the new information on how to fix the waystone, we could return to the Rivet. We picked up Adler and Brenda on the way and made our way back to the climb down to the hrukidron. Snorri kept saying ow so the Professor magically silenced him. At the hrukidron, Durak came to meet us. He told us that scouts have been following the beastmen and there is infighting in their leadership, but it can't be long before they reform and assualt us again. Therefore, we needed to get a move on with fixing the waystone. Dorrin had come with Durak and he gave us a huge chunk of the crystal from the Flatland Peaks that we had asked him to get.

#### Fortifying the Wellspring of Power

To complete the ritual to fix the waystone, we needed fortify the Wellspring of Power. With the help of a couple of dwarf engineers as well as Adler and Brenda, we got to work. We set up barricades, caltrops, oil slicks, and rough terrain. As we worked, we were approached by a dwarf ranger by the name of Burlok Finnson. He greeted us in the name of Behram Gunderson and asked if we were Brandr and Snorri of Clan Forgekeeper. We said yes, and he gave us a letter from his lord who wished to speak to us about what we had found in the deeps of Karak Azgal. He would be with us within a day.