Session Twelve

The twelfth session of Adventures of the Dragon Crag was on the 16th November 2021.

## Party Members Present

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

## Synopsis

### Fighting Thori

The fight with Thori and his gang of miscreants broke out quickly as Aleksi let arrows fly at the dwarf (both of which missed). Aleksi's arrows were answered by arrows from the thugs' longbows. Everyone stood around listening to the sound of arrows harmlessly clattering off the hold's walls. Snorri added to the cacophony by firing blindly in the general direction of the enemy to no avail. Finally an arrow struck home, embedding itself in the Professor's arm and hitting an artery causing a fountain of blood to spray on the floor. It was clear that he would die if he did not receive treatment quickly. Thankfully, help was at hand. Aleski arrived to aid the Professor and pissed on his bleeding arm and in his mouth. Aleksi assured the Professor that this was an Old Kislevian Remedy and would help heal the wound. Aleksi then bandaged the piss-covered gash, stemming the blood and saving the Professor's life. After the echoes of Snorri's gunfire and the Professor's squeals of pain and disgust had dissipated, Brandr bonked the rogue dwarf on the head, knocking him out for a few minutes. In the end, aside from the unconscious Thori, only one thug remained alive. The party surrounded him and Snorri finished him off by hooking the poor thug's gooch with his pickaxe and slamming him headfirst into the stone floor.

### Questioning Thori and meeting Dunri

#### Poor Little Dunri

We tied Thori up on a chair and left him around the viscera of the thug Snorri obliterated. Meanwhile, the Professor took the the image of one of the dead thugs. Snorri found the source of the sniveling that had led to the fight in the first place: a young dwarf named Dunri Alricsson. He had been traveling with Gorek and was of the same clan. He told us that they were mining and prospecting and the thugs captured them, killing two cousins but keeping him and Gorek alive. They had been forcing them to lead them to caves to look for untapped veins. Dunri said there were at least four other bandits, one of whom was very large indeed - Dunri didn't get a good look because he was hooded most of the time. Dunri suspected that they had taken Gorek to some caves in the east.

#### Making Thori Speak

Thori awoke to a bloody scene. The Professor in the disguise of another thug was also tied up in a chair next to him. The Professor was then theatrically taken off to receive Aleksi's pipe. It was made known to Thori that there was nothing soft about the pipe. However, Thori was a stubborn dwarf and the threat of a hard pipe perturbed him not. In the end, it took the threat of having an elf piss on him that made him spill the beans. He told us that he worked for a human called Gunter and that Gunter had a pet ogre. He told us that the rest of the bandit band had gone to the eastern caves as Dunri suspected. We also asked him about a way down to the next level of the Ruins. He told us that he knew a collapsed stairway that could still be used far to the west. He said it was in the old hold of Clan Stonepick. He wouldn't tell us which clan he belonged to, but we got it out of him with some of the Professor's classic knavery. He told the Professor (who still looked like the Thug) that he was a member of Clan Thorekson. Unfortunately for the Professor and Aleksi, Thori knew nothing of magic stones or a Kislevian boy called Nikolai. We sentenced him to death in the name of Clan Forgekeeper and Brandr gave him another bonk on the head with his hammer. This time the bonk was fatal.

### Healing and Making a Display

We decided to head back to Zambor's Well so that the Professor could leave the Ruins to get healed at the Temple of Shallya and so that we could make a display out of the bandits bodies to warn off any other potential bandits. Before he left, the Professor drafted a notice of the execution of Thori in the name of Forgekeeper to give to the Lawbringers, citing Subsection X of Section 3 of the Dwarfen Common Law pertaining to Warfare and Prisoners. As the Professor left to get healed by non other than Lady Hilde herself, the rest of us made a fine display from the corpses of our defeated foes. Rel wrote our warnings in many foreign and ancient tongues, and Aleksi wrote 'contact Kislevian Embassy if you haf seen nikolai, thank.'

### Pursuing the Bandits

We decided that, rather than wait in their camp for the bandits to return, we would pursue them in the eastern caves. We headed off and passed many abandoned dwellings and workshops where the dwarfen walls were still strong. After a while we came to the end of dwarfen construction and entered the caves. Our passage led north east and we came to a larger cave with a damp and rocky floor. From there we took a passage heading slightly northwards. Aleksi took a wee in the corner of this cave. He had a heavy stream. We found our way to the top of a cliff edge overlooking another passage. Way to the east, through the caves, we could see the faintest point of light. We decided that this would be an excellent place for an ambush. We wanted to make a trap but Aleksi had left his trap making tools at home.

### Setting an Ambush

Aleksi went off ahead to scout out the source of the light. He breathed really heavily but thankfully no one heard him . He moved further forward and stubbed his toe on a rock. This time some one heard him and shouted to their friends in alarm. Aleksi began to leg it but his attempts at zig zagging failed to prevent an arrow from nestling itself between his shoulder blades. We pulled Aleksi up to our cliff top hide out with a rope. We waited half an hour but nobody followed Aleksi. Thus, Rel went to try her luck. Brandr decided to follow her at a safe distance just in case she ran into trouble. Like Aleksi, she didn't move very silently and was spotted. Brandr managed to sneak in behind Rel and yelled something about having to take loads of loot up to Zambor's Well. They targeted Rel with a longbow and shot her in her right arm and, as she ran off with Brandr, she heard a shout and some heavy footfalls, like an elephant falling off a cliff. They had taken our bait: an ogre and several bandits were careering towards our ambush position.