Session Five

The fifth session of Adventure of the Dragon Crag was on the 29th September 2021.

## Party Members Present

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

## Synopsis

### Breakfast at Our House

The party awoke after the first night in Our House. Snorri made eggs for everyone (sunny-side down, of course) whilst Brandr went down to the workshop to inscribe a rune on his hammer. Final preparations were made for our mission down the Norgunson Mines.

### Going to the Mines

We left the house and found Ranulf skulking around outside the door and then went to the Norgunson Hold. There we met Rangr in the courtyard and he introduced us to his daughter, Runa who would be our guide. Runa led us through Dragon Head Pass towards the mine.

### At the Mine Entrance

We arrived at the mine entrance after a short walk from Skalf's Hold. It was very busy with dwarfs and humans carrying piping and metal contraptions. Runa took us to see Furtin who told us there had been a terrible calamity in the mine. He brought us inside a small structure and told us that, as they were delving into the deep natural caverns of the mines, they ran into underground rivers that were blocking the way. They had built a pumping system to divert the water. However, somehow the pumps had been turned on too soon and had flooded some tunnels whilst opening up entrances to other natural caverns. Those who were sent to rectify the situation never returned. Our job was to find the pump and turn it off, but also to find the openings into the natural caverns, block them off, and find any beasties that managed to get into the mines.

Snorri asked Furtin for some mining explosives and he said that there would be some in the mines - we should secure them.

### Exploring the Mines

#### Going Deeper

Runa led us down the mines. We decided to find the cavern entrances first. The journey was quite boring but eventually we the tunnel narrowed and there were only two tracks left. This was an area of recent excavation. There were also signs of battle here.

#### Mine Supply Room

We entered a supply depot with four entrances. There were signs of battle all over - there were severed hands and discarded weapons. There were also elf and dwarf-made arrows in the ground. We decided to follow Brandr's enormous nose, but the Professor's scent (correctly identified as Panther Badlands by Rel) was getting in the way. Brandr found the air smelt most foul to the east, so we went that way.

#### Greenskin Camp

After going through some more tunnels, we found we had to splish-splosh through some shallow water. We surmised that this was some of the diverted river , for, the was indication that the water used to be higher. After passing upstream, we came to a dimly lit cave. There was the remnant of a pile of smelly corpses and Aleksi found the prints of Greenskins. We decided to look for them before they could cause any more harm.

#### Battle in the Supply Room

We went back to the supply room where we found that all the lights had been extinguished. At this point we were ambushed by Greenskins (four orcs, two goblins, and one orc big'un to be precise). The fight commenced and most of the party were caught unawares in the darkness. Brandr charged forward and was met by two orcs who fucked him up real bad (fate point used). Ranulf then killed the orc big'un by chopping off his arm. All around the battle raged. Brandr managed to get back to his feet, severly injured, and, finding new strength, absolutely cunted one of the orcs (32 damage!). Ranulf then shattered an orc head like ice, whilst the rest of the party finished off the stragglers. In the end, only a couple of goblins were left. One seemed to be being strangled by an animated shadowy garrote but, as the Professor wisely told us, it was just the Greenskins' god punishing the goblin for cowardice.

#### Camping Underground

After winning the fight we scalped all the Greenskins, bagging seven scalps. Then we healed the wounded and made camp for the night, ready to continue when morning came.