Session 48: Good Violent Friendly Fun

General Summary

Making his way into Eschbach, Keller Poplarbreath arrives into town. There he makes his way to the local tavern, The Eschbach Shields.

At the same time Magnar wakes up and gets Arne & Archi. There they make their way round to the Eschbach Shields, and start talking about the local problems they have had with evil dolls.

They spot a stranger near the place where they regularly sit, and start talking to him. Turns out to be Keller.

Asking if he wants to join them he accepts. They then make their way to the Council in the town hall. Anselma & Reolus is there and take basic details of Keller to mark him up as passing through at the moment as a freeman.

They find a job where there was two murders in the town between 3 & 4 in the morning. The Burgeaters have put in for a bit of help as they need an idea of what killed them.

Making their way round to the Burgeater barracks, they are shown the bodies. The throats of the two men (both between mid 20s to 30s) was savaged by something the size of a human mouth. They effectively suffocated while they bleed out.

The majority remembers the Baobhan Sith, and Keller has heard stories of these vampiric female Fey.

They go round to the places where the bodies were found, on the east of the new town, one at the north side of the Eschbach Swords, and one to the south. Both lead to the Bawdyhouse.

On both, there is cloven hoof prints of a biped. They suddenly appear & disappear. Also, on the north path, there is the remains of a raven's feather.

They go to the bawdyhouse with Magnar going in first. The female attendant behind the bar, asked how he should be careful or Anselma may be upset.

Archi is greeted if he's a regular but it turns out that he supplied, potions, creams & ointments to the bawdyhouse for regular 'problems'. Keller goes outside and talks to two dogs fighting over scraps and a cat. From them, especially the cat, 6 ravens flew over and landed on top of some of the buildings, and when the two men left the bawdyhouse, two Baobhan Sith appeared, taking one each and killing them.

They haven't seen anything abnormal in the bawdyhouse so the killers weren't there.

They decide to leave and camp out in the woods afterwards to see if anything appears.

When camped out five ravens fly over, one landing on the bawdyhouse, two (one on the north end, and one on the south end) of the Eschbach Swords, and the other two take up separate houses.

Archi casts a spell on Magnar allowing him to fly. He takes off after the ravens. Also, Keller turns into a raven and follows after them.

When a man walks out of the bawdyhouse, and goes on to the north path, a raven drops down and stops the man. Keller can hear her ask the man if he knows where the Granny is and she grabs his shoulder aggressively when he says he doesn't know. Keller drops down and taps her head with his makeshift beak. At this point the man runs off south.

Two other ravens take off after the man and change into further Baobhan Sith. Magnar flies down and lands behind them distracting them while the man gets in the house and locks himself in.

Arne & Archi runs in after them, with Archi summoning and controlling a Cambion demon.

Arne goes to Keller, and Archi to Magnar as Archi is scared of Anselma coming after him if anything happens to Magnar.

Keller distracts and starts to prepare himself for combat by getting the cloud of spores over himself and showing his Dhampir aspect. Arne arrives at this point and hits the Baobhan Sith with a spell or two.

It does mention to Keller she thought that the Children of the Nazarene or the Van Richtens had wiped out his 'kind'.

She also had took major damage from Arne so launches at him missing him with a punch, but glamouring him enough to bite him damaging bones and getting some of his blood, healing a bit from that.

Magnar launches at the two Baobhan Sith doing a good few hits on them then Arne blasts them with a Lightning Bolt, and getting the Gambion to finish them off.

Arne them finishes off the other Baobhan Sith.

They are standing there, and one of the ravens on top of the Eschbach Swords changes and shouts down to them that they will find the Granny before trying to fly off.

Arne teleports her down and starts to try to persuade her that they don't know where is Granny is or who she is, or not knowing her 'sister' Adalwolf is. She isn't impressed, and Magnar stabs her in the back with his longsword.

Arne finishes her off in a gory mess, and the other raven has flown off by then.

They hear people clapping and turn round to see a few of the local guards standing there. The yare happy they sorted out the problem.... but then they arrest Archi.

They are charging him with summoning demons because of the Gambion.

They take him to the jail in the barracks, and keep him to the morning. They take him at sunrise to the townhall, where Maeven, Fleur and Father Tossil are present. Father Tossil says that since this is sudden, Archi is to pay 500 gold for trucking with demons, and he will be given a mission by the Father to get a unique item that the church wants. What this is Archi will find out later in the week, and if he didn't do this he could have been dunked in water, to see if he floated or not, burned at the stake or hanged.

There we left it till next time to see what happens.