Session 4 Blood Money

After recovering from the blinding light the party ends up in a dark space with mirrors floating everywhere. They have entered an interdimensional place, The Plane of Mirrors. Here they meet Marco and his dog Polo. They are part of one entity that guards and takes care of the plane of mirrors. He explains to them how the plane works, each mirror leads to a new locations, sometimes even new dimensions. It is a gateway to wherever you can imagine. He explains they will be able to get back home to Applegate Farm by jumping throught he right mirror. Plum has the idea to start a child crime/burglar ring but Roda takes the lead and says that they would like for the children to go home first and asks if it is possible to get them to their respective mirrors first. Marco does as asked being a very gentle entity.

While he is distracted by this Oliver sneaks off in order to explore and ends up slipping into the forbidden halway. The party follows him, not wanting to lose the kid in this plane. However it turns out he slipped through a crack in the gate that was supposed to keep the forbidden halways locked. Plum tries to follow but since he isn't the skinniest he gets stuck. Roda and Orn use this opportunity to prank him by shaving his butt. Then Roda uses his alchemy jug to get a bunch of mayo which they use to lube Plum up and push him through the crack.

Once he enters he tries to call Oliver back to him but the child is frozen in fear at the end of the hallway. He is quite far away so Plum decides to run but stops in his tracks when he hears beautiful singing coming from one of the mirrors. In it sits a beautiful but sad looking lady. However he is unable to interact with her. Her singing is then suddenly interrupting by a demonic chanting coming from yet another mirror. Plum cant help but be pulled to the pitch black mirror. Then the more he stares the more he is able to make out multiple cloaked figures in the darkness all chanting the same thing. The chanting echoes into his head and he want to run but it takes a while before he is able to pull himself away from it. He tries his best to ignore the other mirrors from then on and runs to find Oliver, gasping as he finally arrives and sees what he is looking at. It is an elvish man with a really intense stare. It's almost as if this man is aware Plum is watching him. So he stares right back like a predator looking at his prey. This has broken the man's hold on Oliver though and he runs to get help.

He goes to Orn and explains what's happened. Orn is incredibly concerned for his friend's well being. He rams his way through the gate and runs to get Plum, his divine powers warding off the influence of the other mirrors. He manages to reach Plum and pull him away. The elvish man's mirror seems to vibrate with energy, weakening them both. That is when Marco appears, displeased they went snooping around in such a dangerous place. They try to defend themselves but he knows he can not tollerate this behavior. He grabs a mirror and forces the party to go through.

They arrive back at Applegate through a muddy puddle.(Marco's punishment.) Plum is fucked in the head and tries to kill Oliver but the party stops him and ties him up before anyone can see. Winnie throws a feast in honour of her boy's safe return home. She intends on slaughtering Blue but Roda has gotten attached and so has Oliver. So Roda goes out to buy her a new bull for the feast.

Once that is done and the food is prepared they eat but Plum is still fucked in the head but lives up to his name as he tries to convince Franklin with his smooth words to kill the kid with him. However Orn overhears this conversation and intervenes just in time. Meanwhile, poor Tweakers gets thrown outta house because Skavens are considered vermin and vermin is not allowed in the house. However he comes back the next morning with the dead Hopkins' arm, having decided he would eat that since there was no other food out there. Orn is furious when he sees this and nearly burns the farm down. However the couple and Roda manage to calm the dwarf down before things get too bad. Roda, being the good guy he is, then pays the couple for the damages.

After this rather stressful morning the party receives a message from Derek, asking them to meet him at the tavern. They're a little suspiscious but decide to go. Once there Derek instantly invites them to have a drink. He seems to be in a rather good mood, even praising them. He explains that their actions caused the PD to leave Scheinfeld. Apparently the explosion in Schilderheim was so big the other troops were immediately called back. (Because well, their HQ in this area has basically been destroyed.)

He also informs them about his plans of assembling his own guard to keeps the people safe now that the imperial soldiers have been called to the front. He doesn't ever want these towns to fall back into the hands of the PD. Clearly, this change has awoken something in the almost broken man and he is ready to step up to the plate. If he can not defend his family at least he can now prevent similar tragedies from happening to other families. However he needs at least a few trained soldiers and he knows where to get them but he can not leave the town now that he has taken on such an important role. Thus the party is sent on a quest for soldiers together with Oswin a good buddy of Derek. They are sent to Nupstedt the only city that has a private imperial army owned by the local noble, in order to retrieve a couple of soldiers for Derek's local guard.

They stock up on supplies and decide to leave right away as Derek is willing to pay 10 gold pieces per soldier. However just outside of town they encounter none other than Lucius. However he doesn't look as good as he did a couple of days earlier in Schilderheim. His clothes are tattered and his overal appearance is dirty and unkempt. He is clearly on the run, despite everything though he still has a very large guard with him to protect him. The party has not forgotten how dangerous this old man is though and they instantly get ready to battle him eventhough Lucius himself seems to rather avoid a fight from breaking out but he is given no say in the matter. The party quickly attacks the guard and after a long battle which ends with the party beheading the monsterous man Lucius flees into the woods with the party.
While all of this is happening Oswin simply watches... to the party's and Franklin's astonishment. Frankin of course isn't a fighter but a butler but Derek had said that Oswin was a great fighter. He was even proudly showing off his PD wanted posters back at the tavern earlier. However Oswin isn't the type of guy to get into random fights unless he benefits from it. He isn't even willing to chase after Lucius, complaining this would make them late for their appointment with the noble.
What will our party decide? Chase after Lucius? Or join Oswin?