Good Fortune and Prosperity
In the evening Amos goes to the smithy to clean up the warplock. Norgrim in the bar tells tales of killing the Brood Horror in the mine (mentions the remains found, but not the warpstone or items). Etelka, Axel's widow begs him to bring up his remains - he says he will (though failing to persuade the party in the end to re-enter the lower tunnels he will retrieve only an arm).
Farfordda hides up a tree near Wullies hut before moving inside the hut itself. It is early morning when old Wullie enters. Farfordda says he doesn't think him mad and questions about his trip in the ratmen tunnels - did he see the Horned Rat? He was a horned rat, a one-eyed, white furred rat. It is clear from what he says that he was in the same lair as Farfordda had been. Farfordda says his warpstone chip may have served as a beacon. It was an heirloom from his father he says, the greatest miner of the Middle Mountains.
Amos wakes from a dream in which he sees green lightning flashing from Karak Skygg at Morrsleib, on which a face splits open to swallow him whole and he gains 5 corruption… he then spends the morning working on the warplock, viewing it through Karlinsel's spectacles he can sees traces of Dhar. He helps Josef create a fuse then visits the bar to give Lucas' wife his wolf skins and asks her to fashion an outfit of sorts with a wolfs head.
Magdalena spends her morning showing the gaffer how they might set up defenses for the village. Farfordda gets some rest while Josef the smith mends his bow. At midday a posse of riders arrive, 2 knights with Ullman the Holzbek's huntsman. They have come for Ada. Magdalena distrusts them and asks many questions. The others gather and they tell the Knight the whole story of how Ada was abducted and stress to be wary of her aunt.
Finally they hand Ada over, dressed in chain, with helm, toy sword, stuffed toy from the steward and dog. She leaves happy and makes Magdalena promise she'll come visit. They ride for Holzbek aiming to get there that night.
Ullman stays behind, he tells them Von Reiter interceded in a fight at the Inn between Martina and Axel junior who'd just heard his father had died down the mine. They tell Ullman about the Brood Horror and show him the skull boiling in the pot. He is impressed. Wait till I tell Meyer he says. The Baron owes you. He tells them the Baron is in Holzbek and his injury inflicted by Gazrin Onehorn is serious, that there are many noble parties headed for Holzbek, and also that a monocle wearing scholar dropped by the castle the night after they were there, and left with Lady Eisenhal for Holzbek the following day.
He heads for Dunfurter and the party head down the mine shortly after (2pm) with Josef and a wheelbarrow loaded with gunpowder. The locals wait outside with bated breath.
They descend to the lower caves and Amos and Josef plant their charges in the steep tunnel down. They all leave the mine except Farfordda who stays behind to light The 100’ fuse. Boom. Two other cave-ins are caused but Farfordda gets out unscathed. Note originally Amos fumbled and took on corruption to reroll.
Martina, now returned, joins them to do some work fixing up the mines. She tells them more of her run in with Axel junior and plan to leave for Gladbeich (she tells the PCs she heard Etelka’s brother-in-law was hung in Lindenheim being mistaken for Heinz Gerber). Soon there will be no real engineers for the mine, hopefully some dwarves will answer Norgrims call.
Amos suggests that the Brood Horror skull be mounted above the mine entrance with a dwarf rune carved in it. The gaffer tells them about an old dwarf temple he found when he was young on the mountain south of Karak Skygg, in a hidden valley. He tells them the rune and Amos recognizes it as Gazul, but thinks better of it and in the end carves 'Good fortune and Prosperity'. Josef offers them 5GC of glimmerlead for a sun stone, but none of them are interested.
We end on the evening of 32nd, with the party planning to ride for Holzbek the following day… oh and Magdalena having failed a Toughness test knowing that more infection related fun is on the way...
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