The Reunion
Amos joins Norgrim in The Bad Pfennig where Thindra is reunited with them shortly after. They exchange stories of their journeys apart over ale. Amos successfully spreads gossip about how he and another dwarf helped this knight of Myrmidia rescue the Baron's daughter. Norgrim pays a Strigany woman 6d to tell the future for him - has the Baron's assassin left town already? He draws 2 Jokers and a Jack! Taciana Petraska has a rare insight - yes! He was killed by Gazrin one-horn, the terrible corrupted wound took his life.
Magdalena and Farfordda arrive at Holzbek Manor. Sir Gerhard Von Reiter ushers them into the yard and speaks with them out of sight - he is glad to see them, Lady Eisenhal has taken command of the house, Ada is with her son Gilbert upstairs and never out of the sight of her knight. Von Reiter is out of his depth, he is a warrior not a diplomat. Steward Meyer has been sent for, but is unlikely to arrive for some time yet - thinking of it he sends out men to meet him part way now. Brother Holsenheiner, the Priest of Morr is with the Baron's body - he wants to burn it, Von Reiter objects - this would be an unfitting send of for his liege lord.
They go upstairs and speak with Holsenheiner - Norgrim had told him the story of how they rescued Ada but not who she was, he has since put it altogether. He showed them the Baron's abdomen wound - a gaping bloodless gash clustered with spherical nodules like cysts, shifting in colour through pink to blue. Sometimes they blink he said. And they are spreading. Farfordda agrees to persuade Von Reiter to have the corpse burnt.
They get Von Reiter to send for the dwarves who arrive not long after (in the intervening time Thindra spots a northern noble she recognizes from Felangst in the bar and on the way over they pick up a newly printed broadsheet about the Baron's death - at the same time as the clock tower was struck apparently - 2 minutes to midnight, also it says he'll be laid out in state in the temple of Sigmar).
Magdalena manages to convince Von Reiter that they should burn the Baron here in the town, he agrees so long as they perform all of the appropriate ceremonies first in the temple of Sigmar. Then he arranges an audience for them with Lady Eisenhal - they want to see Ada. Farfordda announces Magdalena to Lady Eisenhal in the manor library. She thanks them for rescuing her niece, then calls in her Knight. They spar politely, she tells them she thinks this place is not safe for her niece, on the borderlands with her fathers killer still out there. The party say their services are for hire- then ask to see Ada and Elena has her brought. Ada is over joyed to see the them and introduces her cousin Gilby. Lady Eisenhal is not keen in having them all play in the yard, but she is expecting guests so must leave them - Magdalena manages to invite herself to this dinner, the others can meantime have the run of the house but Ada stays up here.
They retreat down to the kitchen to wash up. It is nearly 7 and the first dinner guests are expected when a visitor arrives calling on Magdalena - word has got around town that Lady Holzbek's saviour is here. It is Kepler Von Karzburdger who Magdalena unhorsed at the jousting at the Middenheim Carnival. He takes her to one side and makes plain he knows that it was she who was in that prison wagon bound for Hope Square, wouldn't Middenheim love to know that? He is not invited to this dinner but perhaps they could have dinner together tomorrow?
Session ends 7:30 on 2nd Nachgeheim, dinner is about to be set...
