Dinner was a very pleasant meat, potatoes and red wine. Ondurin asked the party many questions about themselves and divulged that he used to be a physician. Throughout the meal Wilhelma Vonrueter Wilhelma was very flirtatious with Klaus and Ricknar while Anya tried to find out as much as she could about the outside world but was quickly silenced by her father and Wilhelma. Sanne and Sothelim did not say a word throughout the dinner, Sanne kept her head down while Sothelim glared intently at his dinner plate wishing he was elsewhere.

After dinner Lothar, the manservant, showed Klaus and Ricknar to their rooms. Lothar led them out of the old manor and into the extensions which were added by Ondurin (as he was not the original owner of the manor). The extensions branched out at odd angles, some passages led to nowhere while others suddenly ending abruptly and by the time the group reached the room they were thoroughly lost. Lothar gestured and the pair entered the modest lodgings, Lothar then slammed the door shut and abruptly locked them inside.

Klaus and Ricknar were not impressed but Klaus was confident in his ability to bash the door down if necessary and right now sleep was on his mind, he discussed his opinions on the VonRueters and went to bed. Ricknar checked the room for hidden viewpoints or passageways and secured the door in case of a surprise entry and decided to sleep.

The pair were awoken by a familiar chill, Klaus lept to his feet and grabbed his flail and met the ghost of Gustav Vonrueter. Gustav appeared different to what the group had seen him last, his chest was bare and was marred with long straight cuts at right angles to each other, as if he had been dissected.

Gustav told the group that his father had used his soul to lure them here and that they were in grave danger and that his father , he then faded out of existence. Klaus and Ricknar decided to confront Ondurin, if they were lured here there would have been others and perhaps there family were kept here under duress.

Their first action plan was to escape the room, initially they tried to knock the knock the pins out of the door hinges but then more successfully they superheated the door hinges via Ricknar and booted it down.

The second action plan was to confirm the family members innocence and act accordingly. The Ricknar suspected that Anya was in the most danger judging by the way that Ondurin and Wilhelma treated her, they were unsure about Sothelin, had mixed feelings about Wilhelma but were unanimous in Sanne’s innocence.

Klaus remembered how to get back to the old manor and the pair had much more time to examine the mishapen maze of the extension. The hallways appeared to be altered by magic, Ricknar commented that Ondurin must be a powerful magister indeed to affect buildings in such a manner.

The pair made there way back to the main hall and decided to visit Wilhelma, Ricknar noted earlier which room she was in in case he had the opportunity to take advantage of her advances from earlier in the meeting. Wilhelma’s room was filled with the finest Bretonian decour. Wilhelma sat by the mirror in a revealing nightshirt brushing her hair wile Elena sat on Wilhelma’s bed singing off key.

Klaus questioned Wilhelma about her father’s intentions but she merely laughed, surprised that they made it this far. Wilhelma did not know how to get to her father’s quarters but she could see the adventurers through her fathers playroom and out via a secret passageway but there was a catch. Wilhelma couldn’t stand her wicked and selfish younger sister and politely asked if the group could bring her her head, if they did Wilhelma would also offer herself as she liked to “have fun with some of Daddy’s guests” and they were the first ones in a while. Klaus pushed Wilhelma to the ground and cursing her evilness but Wilhelma simply laughed.

Elena appeared behind Ricknar and told him that her mummy was silly aunty Anya wasn’t that bad. Elena said she would take them through father’s playroom with no price to pay at all. Ricknar was unsettled by the strange girl and refused saying that they should see to Anya’s safety.

Wilhelma laughed and continued to heckle her sister, saying that she was cruel and sadistic but Klaus would have none of it. He ordered Ricknar to apprehend Elena while he restrained Wilhelma as the villanous pair could be no harm to them or Anya if they where incapacitated. Wilhelma enjoyed Klaus’s rough advances, thinking it more of a game than anything until Ricknar got a hold of Elena. Ricknar dropped the girl in surprise, her skin was cold and clammy as if she had no life within her small body. Ricknar told Klaus as the girl dashed between his legs and Ricknar pulled out his flail and hit Wilhelma square in the chest, fatally wounding her.

Klaus demanded a confession out of Wilhelma as he believed her to be a necromancer. Wilhelma stammered as best as she could that Elena was a gift from her father and that she had no magical powers. Klaus tied Wilhelma to the bed before seeing ot her wounds but her wounds were too grave and she died shortly after. Ricknar was unhappy with Klaus’s aggression, in four days he condemned a family to death and now killed a defenceless woman in the name of Sigmar. Ricknar demanded that Klaus smartened his act, Wilhelma may have been callous but she had committed no apparent crime and that Klaus did not have the right to say if a person lives or dies without common facts.

Ricknar covered the dead Wilhelma and arranged her in a dignified manner and the party left the room with the objective of rescuing Anya. The party was promptly halted by Lothar who attacked them. Lothar turned out to be an undead monster with amazing resilience and the party eventually put him down by setting him on fire, bashing a hole in his chest and repeatedly pummelling his head.

End Session

Character Logs

Klaus1

Klaus was resolute in his decision, the Lurchen’s were to stand trial for their crimes. The zealot bluntly insisted that cooperating was the only way in which their kids would remain alive and Rutger Lurchen reluctantly agreed as long as his children were kept safe. Klaus was eager to get moving and Brieg said his house wasn’t far away and that they could stay there the night so the group set out with the Lurchen prisoners in tow unbound. Klaus put them on a good behaviour bond, they were unarmed and were no match for Klaus or even Brieg who demonstrated his combat efficiency earlier that morning.

The group arrived at Brieg’s home only to find it in ashes. The goblins which had driven him off it destroyed his home and all he could recover was his father’s dagger, some damaged travelling equipment and a few coins. Night was approaching fast and the group made shelter in the freezing snow as best as they could. They constructed a lean-to but only found enough materials to fit the Lurchens and Klaus however Brieg was a resourceful man. He dug out an indent in the snow underneath a snow laden pine tree and lit a fire, he had done this before and he was confident he could attain a satisfactory night sleep out in the freezing weather.

The night dropped well below freezing and the howling wnds made matters worse, had they not have protected themselves they were convinced they would have frozen but still they had not escaped the night unscathed. Brieg and Klaus began developing signs of frostbite, for Klaus it was his nose and for Brieg it was his feat and they both felt they were frozen stiff.

Klaus had stayed up all night making sure the Lurchen’s did not try to escape so not only did he have the beginning stages of frostbite and perhaps hypothermia he was heavily fatigued from staying awake for well over 36 hours. The Lurchen’s however were not going anywhere, while Rutger and Mathilda fared well their children caught pneumonia during night and were in ill health.

The party pushed on as fast as they could till they found the road and eventually a coaching inn. The group shuffled in a fast as they could and came across a group of priests, one of them a the lector of Ubersreik who was returning to the city after a tour of the surrounding villages. Klaus told the man, (who’s name was Leopold) the events of the prior days and the Lector congratulated him and took the Lurchen’s into custody. The party then paid for a room and slept the day and night away, preventing their frostbite form spreading further.

The next day the party set off, Brieg who had no home then decided to become an adventurer. He had been talking to the innkeeper the night prior about a group of adventurers who had stopped a chaos cult from destroying the nearby town of Hugeldal. The innkeeper was under the impression that all adventurers where rich and famous and hauled in plunder by the cartload, Brieg liked the idea of being rich and decided that was his true calling.

After several hours of journey they came across a dying man by the name of Gustav Vonrueter who said he was set upon by beastmen. Gustav asked the group to return his families seal (a necklace which he was wearing) to his parents at Schloss Vonrueter and tell them of his departure. The party agreed and stayed with the man as he died.

The manor house was only a days walk from the main road and Gusav’s direction proved true. The manor was hidden in a dense gloomy forest and the group was relieved upon sight of it, it was now dark and they didn’t want another night out in the snow again.

Ondurin Vonrueter and his wife Sanne rushed out on sight of the party, begging for news about their son. Klaus handed the amulet over and told them the bad news and the family grieved. They invited the group inside and introduced them to the rest of the family. Sothelin was Gustav’s younger brother in his twenties, Wilhelma was now the eldest in her late twenties, Anya was Wilhelma’s teenage sister and Elena was Wilhelma’s five year old daughter. Ondurin broke the news to the family and invited the party for dinner as their servant Lothar was ready to plate up.

End Session

Character Logs

Klaus

Anierra pulled the heavy cupboard over the trap door leading down to the basement. Klaus, whom had been locked down below, hurled insults at the Elf and his compatriots, how dare they side with the mutant sympathiser! What right do they have to lock up a son of Sigmar while they let a heretic walk free!? Klaus looked over at the body of Anthea Flook and he felt no regret, it was something that had to be done, the same way a farmer shoots his horse if it is lame, Klaus must purge the mutant from it’s torment.

Anierra on the other hand was worried, Ricknar had told the Elf that Klaus was intending to burn the house down with the family in it. Why are humans so crazy? Who gave them a country again? No matter, Anierra’s immediate concern was to round up Mathilda and the kids, Rutger told the swordsmaster they would be most likely be hiding in some of the mining shacks. Ricknar however was more interested in Anthea’s mutation, more specifically the cause. Rutger told him that one day she left for Ubersreik and Rutger found her like that with no memory as to what happened, surely this was the work of the Warpstone which was romoured to plague the area, if Ricknar could get his hands on some of it his superiors would be very pleased indeed…

Anierra recovered the family who were somewhat hesitant towards the elf. Ricknar saw to Rutger’s wounds and the party decided on what to do about Klaus. He was a dangerous man yet Ricknar saw no wrong in his actions, he was by no mean as extreme as Klaus but he respected Sigmar and his values but was not prepared to punish the family. Anierra spent the night in the kitchen, guarding the trap door in case Klaus escaped and caused more trouble while the rest of the guesthouses’s tenants tried to get a good night sleep.

The next morning the party was woken up by a frantic door knock. “Mr Rutger, Mr Rutger!” cried a man at the door, his voice filled with urgency. Anierra woke up and answered the door and was greeted by a shabby looking man called Brieg. Brieg was terrified of the evil monster that answered the door instead of Rutger, Anierra being somewhat used to the slack jawed stares of mountain yokels commented sarcastically. Rutger appeared and calmed Brieg, saying that Anierra was merely an Elf and for the most part meant them no harm. There was coice came from inside the kitchen, Klaus calling out from his prison in the cellar was pleading with Brieg “Let me out sir, I have been captured by these mutant sympathises, I am a man of Sigmar release me good sir!”.

Brieg was very worried that Rutger was holding a man against his will in his basement but when he asked about it everyone told him it was a long night and left it at that. Brieg, who turned out owned a farm nearby and technically was Rutger’s closest neighbour said earlier that morning his farm was ransacked by a band of goblins and that they were coming this way, when asked about how far they were away Rutger said an hour and when asked how many it was evident that Breig could not count as his only reply was “lots”.

Rutger assumed that the goblin they killed the other night in the pantry was a scout and this was the rest of the gang, the group then let Klaus out and discussed there options. Klaus agreed to the temporary truce, he was not unreasonable and knew there was more at stake here than bagging a few heretics, after some uneasy exchanges with Anierra and Rutger the party decided to stand and fight. They had a defensible position which they could fortify and if they were caught out in the open against superior numbers they were doomed or otherwise known to Anierra “at a tactical disadvantage”. The party the proceeded to fortify the downstairs common and living room. The plan was to board up all the windows and leave the front door open, there they could eliminate the goblins superior numbers and fight them in small groups. The party was to protect the stairs at all costs as that lead to Rutger’s wife and children and even Klaus would not let any harm to come a woman and her children at the hands of greenskins, even though he had condemned them to burn only hours before.

Anierra and Klaus were to hold the front door while Ricknar provided long range support but it wasn’t long before they realised Brieg didn’t have a weapon. Rutger had provided him with a hammer (as in the literall sense) and a (superior quality) broomstick but that was it. Klaus, lent Brieg his cross bow under the express condition that he didn’t break it and party continued preparing the defences. Klaus, Ricknar and Anierra guarded the main doorway in the dining/lounge room, Brieg defended the common room via shooting out of the windows and Rutger with his long rifle would remain upstairs and fire down and pick targets of opportunity.

Klaus took the time to discuss the fate of the Lurchens with Anierra while they prepared, he argued the case of procedure in the Empire which was something which the elf was not up to par with. Klaus said the least he could do was incarcerate the family for the witch hunters to deal with, Anierra declined to comment. The party waited, waited and waited and soon all eyes were on Brieg, “Are you sure there were goblins Brieg?” asked an annoyed Rutger, knowing full well the exaggerated nature of his annoying neighbour, “Well I thought they were goblins…” Brieg replied unconvincingly. Just as he finished his sentence a small group of raggedy green figures appeared on the horizon, Rutger grimaced and the party hunkered down as the goblins had arrived.

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Grimsnot, gobbo war leader watched as his ladz advanced on the smelly humie building and it was bout time to! By Gork and Mork was he hungry. The gobboz had sacked a humie farm only hours before but it was slim pickings, the smelly runt tending to the place had fled and there was barely enough food to feed a sodding snotling, let alone a real greenskin such as himself. “At em ladz! Food time” he called raising his cleaver above his head while advancing much more slowly than his counterparts. After all, one didn’t get to be boss by charging head long into a fight right? That’s why Grimsnot was so clever, much more clever then these silly humies.

A crossbow bolt flew by and struck one of the leading goblins, Grimsnot didn’t care, he didn’t like that gitz any way. More bolts, bullets and even fireballs cleaved through the goblins as they hurried their way through the deep snow, eager to get to grips with the cowardly (and tasty!) foe. Grimsnot counted five defenders, two big tall things guarded the door (one of them looked like a elveses! But this did not scare Grimsnot) while another human threw fireballs behind them. The room next to them was guarded by an ugly man thing with a crossbow while up above another humie picked them off with a flame gun.

The humies at the door received the charge of his mighty gobbo war band FOOLS HA HA HA! The humies thought they were so clever, luring his gobbos into a trap like that but they weren’t as clever as Grimsnot, NO-ONE is cleverer than Grimsnot. While the silly humies were fighting his boyz he would break into the room next to them and attack them from two sides! No sodding orc would have thought of this, only a master gobbo such as himself could be so devious. Better yet the side room was only defended by the ugly manthing, victory would be swift.

Suddenly it was very hot, and Grimsnot checked to see if it was winter still, he could see snow but why was it so warm? Grimsnot soon realised why when a fireball exploded in his face moments later sending him sprawling into his snow and blistering his face. Curse that dastardly wizard thing! Grimsnot would eat him first once he was done writhing around the snow in pain!

The attack was going well, the humans at the front were busy while the Gobbos on the entry had gained entry and were fighting the ugly human, victory was close! Then something happened, his Gobbos burst from the side room running, far fewer in number than what went in. How could this be? Grimsnot watched in horror as the ugly human stood defiantly at the window, a blood soaked broomstick in his hand. Grimsnot panicked, how could a smally humie kill six gobbos by himself
armed with only a broomstick, he must be magic!! Grimsnot watched as the tall humies decimated his gobbos at the front door, this was not going to plan.

“Well one doesn’t get to boss by dying right?” said Grimsnot as he and the remaining gobbos beat a retreat. “Run” he screamed at the top of his voice as a large shadow appeared above him. The large humie swung his stick and chain down at Grimsnot’s head and he closed his eyes, “can’t hurt if I can’t see it!” he squeaked.

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The goblin slumped to the ground, half of it’s brains sunk into the snow next to it’s twitching corpse. Klaus swung his flail over his shoulder and looked back at the manner house, with the goblins defeated it was finally time to deal with these mutant sympathisers….

End Session

Character Logs

Anierra
Klaus

Mathilda lay on the floor crying, Klaus was holding Rutger in a vice like grip, Anierra was waiting, Ricknar was observing and Borki was wondering what the hell going on. Klaus was onto Rutger, he knew his game, Rutger was a murderer all he had to do was confess. Anierra turned it’s attention to Mathilda, intent on getting a confession from Rutger via Mathilda’s guilt. Mathilda looked distraught but Anierra read her expression intently, she wasn’t showing surprise at Klaus’s allegations, it’s as if Matilda was implicated as well. The elf tried this different approach but was interrupted by Rutger rushing to the defence of his spouse.

The mountain man showed surprising strength and broke from Klaus’s grip. Ricknar, sensing Klaus’s aggression, then proceeded to light himself on fire and interpose himself between Rutger and Anierra. Rutger eyes widened and proclaimed that Ricknar was a deamon as he attempted to strike Ricknar with his broom but Klaus grabbed him from behind and manhandled him down. Anierra immediately continued to question Mathilda, sensing a confession immanent. Mathilda began to speak, sensing the situation hopeless but the elf was interrupted by that oh so familiar chill.

The room temperature dropped and the party scanned the room, waiting for signs of their silent antagonist to return yet this time was different. The room temperature dropped again and the fire expired, the room was freezing and dark. The only illumination in the room was Rutger’s shielding spell, casting lights at crazy angles and creating a sinister ambience. Suddenly the room exploded in a freezing wind, the adventurers shielded their eyes and with a gale force blast a creature most foul materialised in the room.

The spectral form was in the rough shape of a human with a significant red tinge and it’’s dark red spectral eyes were a fearful sight and the party waisted no time at all at dispelling this creature the only way they knew how, with cold steel. Some of the group was rattled by the ghosts appearance, particularly Anierra but the elf did not waver and engaged the spirit with a deadly finesse. Klaus, having remembered talk of spiritual fiends from beyond the dead from his time at the temple called to the party to strike the creature down. Although it may appear not to damage the ghost each attack made against the fiend would disrupt it’s presence in the physical realm “Disrupt it enough” said Klaus, “And it’ll go away”

Anierra and Klaus pressed the assault with gusto but unfortunately to no visible effect. Ricknar, sensing hopelessness, sent a ball of fire the ghost’s way. The attack, like the rest, passed straight through the ghost but it’s reaction was very different. When the ghost was hit it’s form blinked in and out and this was the reaction they needed. The ghost, sensing a true threat, turned it’s full attention on Ricknar and launched a table at him. Ricknar attempted to evade the flying furniture but the suddenness of the attack caught him off guard and the heavy table split apart as it slammed into him, knocking the dazed wizard off his feet.

Borki, wondering why the hell he was in a house with shifty elves, crazy humans and hostile ghosts made his way to the stairs with an attempt to hall arse and return to the relative safety of the second story of the house. Klaus and Anierra made their feeble attempts at striking the ghost, Klaus however was particualr effective this time (most likely due to his exemplary faith in Sigmar) and caused the ghost to shift in and out again.

Ricknar pulled himself of the ground again and launched another attack at his otherworldly assailant. He launched a series of burning splinters at the creature, each projectile shifted the ghost’s presence further and appeared heavily unstable. The ghost raised the broken table and brought it down on Ricknar again, this time from behind and the wizard fell critically wounded on the cold floor. Klaus, in righteous fury, brought his weapon down on the creature and the ghost faded from view, the howling winds vanished and the room was still.

Klaus was onto Rutger seconds later demanding answers and who the hell was is ghost mate. The rest of the party was a little more reserved and tried to reason with the Zealot, the Lurchens were just as terrified of the ghost why would they be cooperating with it. Klaus wasn’t buying their Heresy and pressed further.

Rutger caved. He told the party he had something to show them, shame written all over his face. They followed him into the kitchen where he revealed a trapdoor and gestured for the group to follow him down inside it. Klaus and Ricnar warily followed while Anierra and Borki waited up top with Mathilda.

The cellar was dark damp and miserable, Rutger’s lantern only lit a small area, he gestured to Klaus to go on further and lowered his head in sorrow. Klaus readied his flail and ventured into the corners of the cellar. He was greeted with a horrific sight, huddled in the darkest shadows of the room cowered what appeared to be a woman. Her hair had fallen out, her clothes were raggedy and her skin translucent allowing full view of bone, vein and muscle. The creature panicked and lashed out at Klaus, scratching him in the face. Rutger cried out “Anthea no!” but it was too late, with a sigmarite battle cry Klaus plunged his flail into the mutated Anthea’s chest, sending her sprawling to the floor.

Ricknar hesitated, the fearful sight of the mutant stunned him and Rutger leapt to his sister in law’s defence, grabbing Klaus in the process “It’s not her fault! Leaver her you monster!” he growled. Klaus, shook Rutger from his grip and reminded the man the cult of Sigmar’s views on mutants. Rutger wasn’t listening, his concern for his sibling, no matter what she had become was too great “I was going to take her to the border princes when the winter was out, so people like you don’t get her” he sneered. Anthea was crying and she begged not to be killed, tear ducts visible through her translucent flesh as well us the rush of blood directed to her chest wound.

Klaus was done with this heresy and was appalled at the behaviour of the mutant sympathiser. He shoved Rutger aside and roared a mighty battle cry as he brought his flail down on Anthea’s head, spraying blood and brains on the walls of the cellar.

Meanwhile upstairs Mathilda heard Klaus’s attack and the death of her sister. She grabbed a rolling pin and set upon a somewhat amused Anierra who simply stepped aside. Anierra reasoned with Mathilda to back down, compliance was her only defence and she was lucky that it wasn’t Klaus she attacked. Mathilda made another half hearted attack and slumped to the ground in sorrow, weaping loudly as reality started to sink in. Fritz entered the kitchen, seeing Anierra standing over his crying mother leapt to her defence proceeding to wrap himslef around Anierra’s ankle while hurling expletives at the elf.

Meanwhile downstairs Rutger was feebly attacking Klaus with his broom, calling him a monster. klaus lifted his flail high,“Repent for your sins! That is the only way you shall stay living” but Rutger wasn’t listening, maddened with grief and rage he raised his weapon defiantly. Klaus didn’t hesitate for a second as he brought his flail down into Rutger’s chest with righteous fury. Rutger raised his broom to protect himslef but the heavy flail snapped the broom apart, opened a viscous chest wound and sent the poor man sprawling to the floor.

The cellar froze and exploded in a gust of wind. The creature had returned, red with rage it clawed out at Klaus. The blow passed right through him yet Klaus was inflicted with terrible pain, as if the ghost had reached out and froze his very soul and Klaus responded and swung back to no visible effect. Ricknar, luanched fire at the creature again and it faded out of existence for a second before attacking Klaus again. Although the creature once again leapt into Klaus his faith in Sigmar was true and the creature was unable to hurt him. The Sigmarite roared again and swung into the creature, banishing it from existence. Klaus wasted no time and moments after the zealot was onto Ricknar once again, “How come this creature only appears when your in danger?! how are you controlling it!!”. Ricknar wanted to know how Anthea had become a mutant in such a short period of time and questioned Rutger about warpstone in the area (as he had heard rumours). Rutger said he didn’t know how, only that she left one week and came back changed, he also said there was rumours of green rocks in the area.

Anierra shook of Fritz and told Mathilda to take her children and hide, the elf said it could not vouch for it’s safety with a maniac like Klaus in the party and it was best if they dissapeared. Fritz did not listen and charged heroically at Anierra (who was grudgingly impressed with the 9 year old’s bravery) and kicked the swordsmaster in the shins as hard as he could. Anierra was taken back by the strength of the child and hopped around unceremoniously all the while cursing expletives in Eltharin. Mathilda gathered her warrior child up and thanked the elf for it’s mercy and went and hid.

The ghost returned, yet this time it was different. Klaus and Ricknar watched as the ghost stood over the body of Anthea and looked down with sorrow. Instead of it’s red spectral form it was in the form of a transparent old man which slowly begun to fade into nothingness. Rutger said it was his father in law Joseph and that he musn’t have known Anthea’s condition, only that she was locked in the cellar. Klaus wasn’t buying his lies, everybody was too innocent. “We shall have to kill the family and burn the house, that is the only way to remove the taint” he said to Ricknar.

Ricknar looked back alarmed.

End session

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Character Logs

Anierra
Klaus
Borki

The blizzard was cold and brutal. Ricknar Ruthur trudged endlessly through the white haze, he had seen a sign to a village named Blechwenden and he hoped that would provide him some shelter. Eventually he came across a fellow traveller stuck in the blizzard by the name of Klaus von Meyer. Klaus’s horse had just fallen in the snow and broken it’s leg and he had to put it down.

The pair continued onto the town where they came across the Blechwenden guest house. The owner, Rutger Lurchen led them into the lounge room and out of the cold while his wife Mathilda quickly provided a hot drink and some bread to the beleaguered travellers. Rutger then proceeded upstairs to prepare accommodation for his unexpected guests. A short time later there was a knock on the door and the Lurchen children, Fritz and Eselle, answered and were met with quite the surprise.

Anierra the High Elf gazed down at them with a frightening stare, Estelle ran away while Fritz valiantly attempted to defend his younger sister before Mathilda chased them off. Mathilda showed them inside and yet shortly after that there was another knock at the door and a very cold and pissed of dwarf by the name of Borki Burlasson turned up on the doorstep. The newly found group sat awkwardly in the dining/living room of the guest house and attempted to get to know each other while Mathilda was preparing drinks. The party also noted an average painting of two girls in festag finest hanging above the fireplace, it wasn’t the most technical of pieces but it was pleasent enough to look at.

Suddenly a cold snap hit the room and the fire went out in a peculiar fashion. Anierra attempted to relight the fire but to no avail so Ricknar simply clicked his fingers and the fire was relit. Anierra was astonished at this, the fact that a human was clever enough to cast magic (Anierra was quite new to the old world) and quietened down to ponder this. The rest of the party was surprised but held their thoughts. Fritz Lurchen oversaw this miraculous event and was in awe of Ricknar but Rutger quickly shooed him off and showed the party to their rooms.

While unpacking his travelling gear alone in his room Klaus was assualted by a “deamon most foul” when the air turned freezing and his clothes were moved by supernatural forces in front of him. Being the brave Sigmarite that he was he challenged the evil creature to show itself, his fellow party members peered into the room with a worried curiosity, clearly their new companion was crazy as he was brandishing his flail and talking loudly to deamons by himself in his room. Later Ricknar confessed to seeing something odd in his room but he was not as heavily troubled as Klaus was.

Anierra, or Anierr as the elf sometimes referred itself to, took the down time to explore the guesthouse, the elf also requested water to bathe in from Mathilda who was only to happen to oblige (much to the suprise of the elf, who knew humans bathed to!? They sure don’t smell like they do. Most intriguing!). While the elf was downstairs Klaus was a man on a mission. He searched the premesis and discovered two extra rooms that appeared to have been occupied. One of them was a bedroom in which it looked like someone had not slept here for a month or so, all the personal possessions had been removed but the bed was made and there was still plenty of women’s clothes in the closet. The other looked abandoned, Klaus observed a notable chill in the room, similar to the one felt in his room before his clothes were moved. He placed a brass penny inn the centre of the room to see if the ghost/deamon moved it but his ploy did not work. He left the coin there with the intention to check on it later.

Klaus’s attention then focused on the attic but as he approached Rutger appeared and informed him that dinner was served. Klaus was adamant to stay and check the attic but Rutger would not move until Klaus joined him and so they left together.

Dinner was rabbit stew with very little rabbit (due to the amount of unexpected guests) and sour wine. Everyone enjoyed it except for Anierra but the elf did it’s best to enjoy the free meal. During the dinner the party discovered that the Lurchens had been living in the house for the past five years. They had inherited it from Mathilda’s father Joseph when he died several months prior in a goblin attack while travelling to Ubersreik and that they buried here outside the guest house. The family then ran the guest house ever since.

After dinner while Mathilda was washing up and Rutger was preparing the Elf’s bath the party remained at the table to discuss the situation. Another cold snap hit the room briefly and the painting of the two girls fell off the wall and in front of the fire with no visible external force. The party investigated this, some thought it was more odd than others but they found nothing maleficent about the painting so they decided to hang it back on the wall. Mathilda interrupted them and thought it as odd that they were holding the painting, the party told her that it had fell and asked her who was in the picture. Mathilda replied saying it was her and her sister Anthea when they were younger, when the party asked where was her sister now she said that she had gone to Ubersreik about a month ago because she hated the cold so much.

Klaus excused himself from the table with the intention of exploring the attic and made his way upstairs only to find Fritz and Estelle. Klaus asked them about the odd occurrences such as objects moving and cold snaps and the children just blamed each other on pulling pranks. After much haggling and convincing Klaus succeeded in shooing the children away, allowing him to search the attic unobserved. The only noteworthy item Klaus found was a locked storage chest, he returned to the party shortly after.

The tired group then retired to their rooms for the night. Anierra returned and found the bathwater supplied by Rutger ready. The elf eased into the bath to contemplate the days events but was immediately greeted by that so familiar chill. The elf stood up and checked it’s essential areas encase the ghost/deamon decided it wasn’t moving inanimate objects any more and waited. The ghost/deamon replied by attempting to move the Elf’s sword right in front of it, this was proof enough for Anierra and the elf donned it’s ceremonial armour and unsheathed it’s great sword and proceeded to Klaus’s room.

Klaus was relieved someone legitimately saw the evil creature and armoured up as well, they talked it over with Ricknar and Klaus and Anierra found and questioned Rutger. Rutger denied any knowledge of strange behaviour and Klaus showed him upstairs to the spare room with the penny. The penny had moved since Klaus had left it there last but Rutger was unimpressed. Rutger also said that the empty room belonged to his deceased father in law and that the vacant room (with the made bed and closet) belonged to his sister in law Anthea whom he mentioned had gone to Ubersreik and he politely bid the party farewell as they were annoying him.

Ricknar, Anierra and Klaus then decided on a plan of action. The hauntings were most frequent in the dining room or in fact wherever a group of people were, they decided to camp out in the living room and await for this “creature” to contact them as they had reached the consensus that whatever this thing was it was trying to get their attention and not necessarily harm them. They asked Borki if he wanted to join them but he told them to fuck off because they were all crazy and he wanted to go to sleep.

Later that night Borki awoke to a terrifying fright. He was being attacked by a large white fiend, it was trying to envelope him in some sort of nefarious death grasp. He jumped from his bed, deftly avoided the foul spirit and ran screaming to his party members downstairs in his underwear. The party was quite mirthful at the sight of the naked dwarf, Anierra particularly, but when Borki described his evil tormentor they stormed upstairs to strike it down. Rutger was there heroically clutching a broom and asked the party to investigate as he had heard Borki’s scream. Klaus opened the door and prepared to charge in but the room was empty, the only thing inside other than Borki’s possessions was a white bed sheet crumpled on the floor.

Borki, red faced, swore to Grimnar that it had been a foul creature intent on destroying him and not a bed sheet, Anierra was highly amused and Rutger didn’t buy it but Ricknar and Klaus questioned him in regards to the sheet.

“Was that sheet there when you went to sleep Borki?” asked Klaus

“No,” Borki replied, eyeing the sheet off

“Was that sheet there when you prepared the room Rutger?”

“No,” replied Rutger

“Where did it come from?”

“The Linen cupboard I guess…?”

“Where is that?”

Rutger pointed down the hallway, “Down there” he replied, puzzled at the zealousness of Klaus’s voice.

The group checked the cupboard, it had been open and the sheet pile was a mess, as if something dragged the top sheet off and disturbed it, Rutger told them it wasn’t him that did that. Klaus and Ricknar argued their case, they believed the house was haunted and the ghost was trying to get there attention, to tell them something. They believed the ghost to be Joseph Flook, returned from the realm of morr to haunt the manor. “Well suppose there is a ghost…Why would it haunt us” Rutger replied. The party was stone walled, why would a ghost haunt the guest house? Why was this man so hard to convince? What was the ghost planning?

Suddenly there was a loud crash from downstairs, as if something broke. The party raced down towards the noise, Rutger and his broom stick in hot pursuit. The noise was coming from the kitchen, it sounded like pots and pans bashing together and being thrown around, the ghost!

Klaus and Annierra carefully entered the kitchen first. They could see the pantry door open and pots and pans flying out of it, as if being thrown. Klaus cautiously approached and readied his flail, the Elf similarly prepared it’s weapon and waited for Klaus’s action. He rounded the pantry and gazed inside and was met with quite a surprise. A small green goblin stared back at him, it’s faced half buried in a sack of flour chomping up what it could. The Goblin paused when it saw Klaus, it’s eyes widened and it emitted a single squeak of terror before Klaus slammed his fail down on it’s ugly green head. The flour bag exploded, covering the pantry, Goblin and Klaus in a thick white powder. Klaus staggered back, temporarily blinded by the sucess of his own attack while Anierra deftly stepped in and cleaved the Goblin in two, staining the white flour red in the process.

Rutger was surprised, “Bloody Goblins!” he said. Food was scarce in the grey mountains this time of the year and he wouldn’t put it past that this one was desperate so desperate it robbed the place for whatever food it could get. Borki, knowing too well the devilish nature of the greenskins, reminded Rutger there is never such thing as one Goblin. Rutger asked if the group would accompany him tomorrow morning on a patrol to root out the remainder of the critters from the area. The party agreed much to Rutger’s relief, “lucky I brought this broom!” he said cheerfully and started to sweep up.

Mathilda’s scream was heard from the lounge room. The adventurer’s ears perked and Rutger dashed out of the kitchen to her aid, the party hot on his heels. Mathilda was in the lounge room, paralysed with fear while tears of terror ran down her cheeks. Upon the wall written with charcoal from the fire was the letters ANT, the first three letters of Anthea’s name. The party was fixed on the wall but Ricknar’s eyes where on Rutger to gaze his reaction, the colour drained out of Rutger’s face, as if he had scene a ghost and then suddenly he was composed and starting playing the situation down. The letters were far to high on the wall for the goblin to write them besides, when could a goblin write Reikspiel? The party was forming questions and Rutger was getting exasperated in talking them down, Mathilda was inconsolable. Suddenly there was a silence, no one spoke and all that was heard was the sound of the chill wind beating against the manor.

“Rutger….who is the eldest out of Mathilda and Anthea?” asked Borki

“Well…Anthea was” replied Rutger

“Was?”

Rutger stammered “Well she’s gone to Ubersreik!”

“Really. A lone woman, travels the four days to Ubersreik by herself in early winter?” asks Klaus aggressiveness in his voice

Rutger begins to pale, “Yes that’s right”

the party encircles him

“So Joseph gets “killed by Goblins” going to Ubersreik right? And now a month or two later Anthea leaves her home and “goes to Ubersreik” as well?" asks Klaus

“That’s correct” replies Rutger, turning even more pale

“Leaving you the guesthouse…”

Silence

“Here’s what happened Rutger…you killed Joseph and his daughter Anthea and now she’s come back to tell us, to tell us you killed them!” says Klaus with vehemence.

Upon hearing this Rutger face hardens, his colour returns and he sneers, “I ain’t telling you nothing” his face naked with rage and contempt.

End Session….

Character Logs

Anierra
Borki
Klaus
Ricknar