We left our heroes in the middle of a fight with a sorcerer, with approaching cultists...
The sorcerer fired a cone of maggots and awful at Mormacar, failing to
reach him by inches. Burlok through himself into melee with the
sorcerer, closely followed by Gildiril who applied an enchantment to
Burlok's pick. Armando threw his sword into the air, drew two pistols
and fired at the sorcerer, entirely failing to hit him. Frida threw
rocks at the approaching cultists.
Then the sorcerer created a
ring of disgustingness that covered himself, Burlok, Gildiril and
Armando, the latter of whom immediately fled in terror, which given the
effects of staying in the circle wasn't exactly a bad idea.
A few
attacks later, the sorcerer had split in half, converting him into
basically a tumour on legs, the cultists had grabbed the coffin
containing Karl, Gildiril had miraculously escaped death, and a bunch of
vampires had shown up. Burlok's pick ultimately took out the tumour
creature, and the cultist numbers were slightly reduced, but the others
had still fled with the coffin, pursued by vampires.
Frida
patched up the rest of the team. Burlok decided to head into town,
while the others went back to the camp to retrieve Armando before
joining Burlok in Altdorf. By some miracle, despite most of the party
suffering from Nurgle's rot, nobody spontaneously turned into a
plaguebearer of Nurgle, and a local hospital was able to treat them
after some persuasion by Frida.
Burlok had acquired a note from
somewhere, and once those party members who could read had had a look at
it, we learned that we needed to talk to someone called Estlemann.
Frida found out that he was actually in the hospital, and having
convinced the staff that she was a doctor, was allowed to visit him.
The resulting conversation was short, given that a gang of witch
hunters were looking for him, but we did find out about his bookshop
that had been burned down (we were all outraged by the wanton
destruction of extremely valuable property) and the connected
underground room with the special collection. Estlemann begged us to
kill him, so that the witch hunters couldn't torture him. Frida
enthusiastically agreed. She'd been waiting a long time for the
opportunity to torture someone, and was absolutely not letting anybody
else get to do it. Burlok broke his neck and threw him out of the
window.
There was a brief altercation with the witch hunters, who
were reluctant to acknowledge the authority of people working for
Roderick, although Mormacar did note that the leader of the group was
rather attractive. Somehow we avoided getting arrested, and with the
assistance of a surprise flash mob, we were able to leave in search of
the bookshop.
The shop was still a bit on fire, so ultimately
Burlok decided to put his mining skills to use and dig his way into the
sewers to reach the special collection via a less burny route.
Gildiril, as resident book expert, investigated and found a lot of
labels with names on. Burlok's note had mentioned the name Ansel, and
sure enough the labels included Ansel Vorman. It seemed we were on the
right track.
Will the team locate the elusive Ansel and find out
about the mysterious necklace mentioned in the note? Will Mormacar and
Frida ever achieve their dream of retiring to open a beauty salon? Find
out in the next episode of Diversity Hires.
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