Session Twenty Seven

The twenty seventh session of the Adventures of the Dragon Crag was on the 30th May 2022.

## Party Members Present

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

## Synopsis

### At Fort Vikram

#### Planning the Attack

The day of the attack had dawned - not that we saw the sun of course, for it was many leagues to the surface where the denizens of Deadgate went about their daily lives, picking their noses and scratching their arses, completely unaware that some of the most heroic feats ever to grace the surface of the Old World were about to be performed. We had scouted Bonk's cave and now, with the help of our fine friends, we would kill him. The Yellow Moon Night Goblins had constructed a large barricade in the entrance tothe cave that we used last and so the plan was for some of Vikram's Sons, various other friendly adventurers, and Horst himself to assault this barricade, distracting the goblins, whilst our party along with Vikram (and some more of his sons), Reinhardt, Leah, and Callisri made a flanking attack through some other tunnels.

#### Some Gas Bombs and Clear Liquid

Snorri was still pretty beat up after his last encounter with the Night Goblins and Alexi's Old Kislvian Remedies didn't seem to be working so well. Therefore Vikram gave him some strange clear liquid and asked whether the Dwarf was deserving. "Of course I am" Snorri scoffed, and downed the vial. It remained unclear whether he was actual deserving. Since the clear liquid didn't seem to do much there and then, Snorri decided to make some gas bombs so that he could stand at the back and lob them. With the help of Brandr and Rel, he made some larger ones out of old beer barrels and smaller ones out of water skins, filling the containers with the gas that seeped up from the levels below. We gave the larger bombs to Vikram to use at the main barricade and kept the smaller ones for ourselves.

### A Flanking Manoeuvre

#### Sneakin' Around

We all left Fort Vikram in high spirits and made for the tunnels that would lead us to Bonk. We sensed that the Goblins may have guards so we decided to sneakily explore the tunnels ahead. The Prof attempted to go invisibe, but all he achieved was filling the air around us with ghostly voices. So it came down to Rel. She chose this time to be sneakiest cunt ever and moved off ahead. She found that there were indead goblins in the tunnel ahead - squig hoppers infact. She also found that a small secondary tunnel bypassed them. The rest of the party sneaked the bypassing tunnel, while Vikram and some of his sons waited the attack from the other side when we gave the signal. Once we were in place, we attacked. We came from one side, whilst Vikram came from the other, catching the Goblins in a net of tough dwarfen flesh. The squig hoppers were speed bastards and took a wee while to dispatch, but in the the end Aleksi battered a fleeing squig like the cricketers of the north: Boris Ursus, founder of the Kislevian Cricket Team (and also Kislev itself). After the fight, Brandr asked for his Ring of Aegis back from Snorri.

#### A Very Snotty Lake

After the fight with the squig hoppers, we continued westwards through the tunnels. We came to a fork - one passage headed north, the other south. Our party took the north passage whilst Vikram, Leah, Callisri, and Reinhardt went south. The northern passage opened up into a largeish cave. In the cave was a wee lake in which there were probably various types of Underground Fish. Just as we were dreaming of juicy, sweet underground fishes, several piles of snottlings accompanied by a couple of Goblins emerged from the darkness. The Prof cast a new spell that caused a section of the cave containing a few goblins to be plunged into impenetrable darkness. We fought the snottlings in and out of the darkness. Part way through the fight, we heard a loud bang and the cave shuddered and shook as though there had been an explosion a short way off. Once we had killed the snottlings, Vikram came running in and told us that part of the tunnel had collapsed to the south, trapping Callisri and Reinhardt. We came to their aid and Snorri used the last of his precious mining explosives to free the trapped pair.

### Showdown with Bonk

#### The Battle of Bonk's Lair

After we freed Callisri and Reinhardt, Vikram told us that the large explosion had come from the main barricade and that Horst and his sons were holding a shield wall against a great number of goblins - they needed help and fast! Vikram ran back to join the shield wall whilst the rest of us entered Bonk's Lair through a secondary tunnel, completing the flanking manoevre. We came upon the battle field and saw dead bodies lying about us - mostly goblins, but there were also a couple of dwarfs and humans. The shieldwall was holding in the far corner and in the middle of the cave was Bonk himself, alongside Bonk was the red-hatted leader of the Yellow Moon Night Goblins: a particularly nasty Goblin shaman called Skreetch Yellow Eye who had one red eye and one in the shape of a yellow moon that pulsated.

#### That's Wizard's Chess

Valiently, our party charged into the fray, forcing Bonk to engage us and relieving the battered shieldwall. Immediately, Aleksi let loose some well aimed shots at Bonk, causing himsignificant pain, while Brandr and Snorri charged forth. The Professor engaged Skreetch in a dastardly game of Wizard's Chess, blocking many of the Goblin shaman's spells, whilst managing to get a few of his own off. Reinhardt followed the two dwarfs into close combat with Bonk, but in a nasty turn of events was swalled whole by the giant squig (who began the process of digesting the poor adventurer) causing the party great distress. Meanwhile, Rel, Callisri, and Leah had been beset by Goblins and struggled to fight them off. We redoubled our efforts to take down Bonk and Snorri issued the final blow, blowing the giant squig's brains out with a well aimed shot from his pistol. Skreetch was visibly upset and egaged Brandr and Snorri in close combat. Unfortunately for the ugly goblin, the dwarfs got the better of him and Snorri finished him off with the sharp end of his Azthrund.

#### Victory! We have Victory!

With Bonk and Skreetch dead, the rest of the Yellow Moon Night Goblins began to flee. The Shieldwall broke formation, attempting to cut down as many of the bastards as possible. We saw Bonk's belly bulge and a very sloppy Reinhardt flopped out of his mouth along with ample mucus. He was hurt and slightly digested, but alive. Brandr cut out Screetch's yellow moon eye and put it in one of the Professor's bottles of brine. The day was ours and the threat of the Yellow Moon Night Goblins was vanquished - a way down to the fourth level of the Ruins had been secured, and we could now begin to broach the subject of our gas problem. At this point, Snorri felt a warm glow in his belly as Vikram's clear liquid kicked in and some of his many wounds were healed.