The Day the Reindeer Died

**"The Sinta Klaas Massacre Part 2: The Day the Reindeer Died"** is Chapter 6 of *The Vagabond Chronicles* series. The episode begins with the party arriving at Sinta Klaas' camp where they explained 'quite delicately' what they had done to his wife, Veronica Klaas (attacking her and chopping off her arm)

## Summary

Ziggy is being held by Sinta Klaas by the lapels and is getting screamed in his face. Donner offers the rest of the party outside some soup, which they are very suspicious of. Only moments later an arrow pierces his neck as he collapses face first into the soup, now dead. Bondo was about to take a bite but Rattigan smacks it out of his hands. Ziggy doesn't understand why Sinta Klaas is so upset, his wife is obviously mad. Outside people are screaming to take cover for the attack. Teddy slides inside and hits the bookcase as one book drops and hits him in his crown jewels. Sinta Klaas releases Ziggy and stomps towards the front door. Outside it's raining arrows. Rattigan passes an initiative test as he rolls out of the way. However, due to failing the risk test, dives straight into the cauldron of soup, taking 1 wound (so he has 5 left). Bondo takes an arrow straight to the head, suffering 2 wounds (now at 3 wounds). Herr Cupid near the party gets pepperpotted with arrows and collapses. Other people are ducking behind cover, the field medic Dasher is hiding behind the provision barrels. Comet has rolled underneath the wagon.

Initiative round starts. Ziggy looks outside and screams 'No Dasher, no Dancer, no Prancer, No Vixen, No Comet, Not Donner, No Blitzen!'. Teddy climbs up the bookcase and looks out of the windows. He sees Rudolph Smitz, who drinks too much so he has a red nose(or is it secret gout?) is fighting with figures, he might be in a bit of trouble. Ziggy uses his shield as an umbrella and runs into the storm of arrows to see if he finds anyone from the party (not noticing Teddy is up by the window). He sees the cauldron rolling down the hill with feet sticking out of it. Ziggy pushes Bondo into the cauldron and cause he has no clue which day of the week it is anymore, he follows.

The arrow rain has stopped and the party takes in the damage seeing Herr Cupid on the ground. They can't find Vixen or Blitzen, they're nowhere to be seen. They hear Sinta Klaas stomping out of the wagon, asking for an explanation. Ziggy blames it on his wife, though obviously she couldn't have fire the arrows, since Ziggy cut off her hand to which Sinta Klaas responds angrily. As soon as Bondo gets in the cauldron, Rattigan jumps out of it. Dasher drags him under the wagon and Rattigan offers him soup, misjudging the situation. Bondo goes over towards Dasher, who's staring at the walking cauldron. Teddy investigates the wagon and tries to open a lock box but fails. Instead he finds a drawing in a drawer that Sinta Klaas has made of him and his wife although he can't identify which is which. Herr Rudolph shouts out in alarm outside. Ziggy plays dead outside the door to which Sinta Klaas quickly apologises to Ziggy. Rattigan runs over to Ziggy and starts shaking him awake, Ziggy tries explaining that nothing is wrong but Rattigan doesn't understand. Sinta Klaas calls out to his crew and Blitzen comes running towards him. Bondo tries to look around from under the rim of the cauldron but he can't find a source for the arrows.

Sinta Klaas screams at his crew to unleash the slay and they hear a huge bloodcurdling scream from where Rudolph once stood. Teddy keeps investigating the wagon and finds a couple of small bags, Teddy takes them with him a long with the nice pen. Ziggy charges after the Sinta Klaas and Blitzen. Rattigan feels like he resurrected Ziggy as he staggers after him. The entire party, Sinta Klaas and his crew are walking over to a different wagon trying to prepare it. Sinta Klaas wishes the party good luck, announcing that they are surrounded and since he's not heard word of the sentries he's assuming the worst. Ziggy is trying to impress Blitzen by repeating her words second after his. Bondo realises that the crew is pulling the panels of the wagon to then try and lift it out. Out of the darkness four goblins appear with a loud screech, running towards the party. Back into initiative. Teddy breaks his picklock which is stuck in the lock, heading towards the front door, storming out of the wagon. Ziggy tries a manoeuvre but misses the goblin. Rattigan lifts his staff and hits a goblin in the ass. The party sees that a smaller wagon has been lifted out with four posts on top of which are different weapons (crossbows, a mini cannon and a cannon pointed at the sky). Bondo looks at the manual and gets a critical on arousal. A scream can be heard from the other side of the camp, as enormous Orcs run towards them. Dasher crouches down behind the wagon and starts flipping through his book. Comet starts unfurling a crossbow and tells people to 'man the weapons!'.

Teddy opens the bags and finds a lot of gemstones and he remembers he has two scrolls. One of the scrolls is actually bound by a necklace which has a very ornate picture of a wheel and hammer. It's made of copper. There's a hum to the scrolls. Ziggy kills a goblin in one fell swoop cutting the femoral artery. Bondo and Bob fail to attack the goblin. Dasher shoots out a hand and magic arrows hit the Orc into the chest, killing it. Bondo shoots the crossbow that's mounted on the wagon, but he fails to aim properly due to the power behind it. An Orc pins Comet against the wagon and runs a sword straight to him. The goblins attack Rattigan on his left leg so he's down to 1 wound. Bondo hits the Orc with the crossbow, severely weakened now and Sinta Klaas decapitates it with his axe. Blitzen takes out two shorts word daggers and plunges them into his chest before kicking off and flipping backwards, kicking the goblin in the face, killing it, landing in a catlike prowl winking at Rattigan. Teddy is STILL in Sinta Klaas' wagon as he sees lots of things moving around the west side of the camp. He screams out to the party that they have to go, running towards them. Ziggy dispatches of the second goblin(no one sees). The entire party jumps onto the wagon. Rattigan uses a magic point to cast minor magic, the other ferret clambers slowly up his bathrobe and grabs Rattigan's cheeks, squeezing them. Its eyes start to erupt green and gold, it intensifies into a pure gold and zaps Rattigan's eyes. Rattigan's hair stand up as he completely recharges, the ferret flopping into the pocket again. Dasher clambers up to explain to Bondo that the manual he's giving him relates to the box in the middle of the wagon, it's still closed. Bondo opens the crate and find round shiny black balls with fuses sticking out of them, about a dozen of them. It smells very strongly of black powder and Bondo gets aroused again.

Sinta Klaas stops and turns towards the party 'Well lads, looks like we've got ourselves into quite the predicament this time. I believe it's time for their last reindeer to DIEEEE. My name is Herr Sinta Klaas, come on then if you think you're hard enough.' It stays quiet but then a loud growl is heard from the darkness

## Trivia

* The intro is 20 min long
* Turns out Neil can do a great Donald Trump impression!
* Neil is like Doug (the dog from Up!) 'Squirrel!!'
* Turns out the show does NOT have a lawyer