Grandmother’s Report 12/8/12
Aloysia
Just before riding out to the group, Aloysia joined the
group. She was hired by Grandmother to keep an eye on the group. Then everyone
took the coach out to the Holtz farmstead, the lead that Kat got from the
Tilian. Riding up to the Hotz farmstead, smoke and fire were seen off to the
right. After some “quick” caucusing, everyone decided to investigate the smoke
and fire, even though it was to the right of their destination.
Bloodbath
The farmstead was in ruins when the group arrived. The barn
was still on fire despite the rain, and after a few party members investigated,
they found the animal pens had been smashed and there was a torch tossed in to
start the fire. There were no animals left in the barn. The house was also in
ruins, with blood on the floor in splotches. There was a chaos star painted in
blood. There were a few bedrooms in the house with empty bunks. Since no one
was alive, everyone decided to quickly ride to the Holtz farmstead to warn them
or see if they needed assistance.
The Farmstead
It took 20 minutes to get to the Holtz farm, and when they
did they found two people arguing. One was a mutant, the other man normal. The
other members of the farm were also mutants. The larger man said “I warned you
not to stop Tristan” but the other man said “My whole family are dead, damn
you!” and tried to stab the larger man. Aloysia managed to net Tristan and
other members of the Holtz family pounced on Tristan beating him into
unconsciousness. When the group said they were looking for Reiner Holtz, one
man started looking uncomfortable and an older man ordered him to talk to the
group. He said that he did encounter Florian but Florian sold him his cart and
horse and said he was leaving town quickly. However, he broke under further
interrogation and explained that he had taken Florian to sacrifice to the
Beastmen at the Hag Tree. Everyone in the area did this once a month or their
farms were attacked. Tristan’s family stopped making the sacrifices and they
were attacked. However, the Holtz’s wanted to stop. They wanted to save
Stromdorf. An older woman offered to take the group to Fredrik who was a shaman
of the Beastmen and willing to help. He said the only way to stop the beastmen
was kill the leader and capture the white stone in the clearing that was
emitting lightning. The group agreed to help, and started walking out into the
woods.
How to Commit Suicide, Quickly
After about 30 minutes, the group came to a large tree in a clearing
that looked like a hag. Once there, Fredrick (the shaman beastman) explained
that Iska of the Mad Teeth clan wanted to destroy man. But Fredrick’s mother
was human and he did not want to see that happen. After scoping out the clearing
where Iska was having his meeting, the team could see the stone and an altar
was the symbol of Khorne painted on it in blood. There were about 25 beastmen
in the clearing, and Florian who was bloodied. The team made a plan to attack
and launched an attack on the leader of the beastmen while Kat crept forward
trying to rescue Florian. Quickly, the beastmen attacked back. Shortly after
reaching Florian Kat was attacked and fell to the ground, as Heinrik shot Iska
and then got cut down. Aloysia climbed a tree and shot the beastmen that tried
to come after her, as Hanz launched into a fury with his halberd. Franz used
the stone’s augmentation of his Celestial magic to cast several spells,
wounding beastmen. Geita rushed to Kat’s aid then got cut down herself.
Finally, Iska fell with only three beastmen left. Hanz, Franz, and Aloysia
threw the stone and their unconscious party members in the cart and left for
the town.
Oh Sigmar! It hurts!
While most of the team were in the temple of Shallya trying
to heal their horrific injuries, Franz (or Franz the Uninjured as certain
members of the team started calling him behind his back) took the stone to his
friend Nicholas Shulman, another Celestial Wizard for viewing. After saying he
would need some time to look the item over, he stole it. Franz and Aloysia gave
chase, on horse, then in boat when Nicholas stole a boat and rowed out to a
vortex the stone was helping channel. In his attempt to draw the power into
himself, Nicholas was destroyed, and Franz almost died. Aloysia recovered Franz
and the stone, taking them back into town.
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