Viking Bastard
Adventurer
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When the party enters Little Gromnburg they are greeted by nothing but hostility. “Go back to yer home witches!” People just stand in the distance and stare at them, some mumbling prayers or exorcism, but most just hurl curses at them. “Ya can’t corrupt us ye filthy pigs!”
Someone screams, a woman’s voice. “Nooo! My baby!! The witch’s got my baby!” A hysterical young woman runs in the party’s direction. “Somebody help me!!” She crumbles down into the muddy street crying. “Somebody... ::sob:: took my baby...” A crowd starts to form in a circle around her, all staring, but none offers aid.
The party makes it’s way through the crowd and Incognito helps her up and asks what happened. The woman tells them that someone snatched her daughter when she was playing near the church and dragged her inside. She claims it was the witch that she’d seen sneaking around the church at night. Then suddenly she realizes that the PCs are not of her kin and her complete demenour changes and she screams at them: “Ye all are not one of us! Corrupt pigs!”
Incognito slaps the woman who falls back down into the mud. “We pigs are the only ones who seem to be willing to save your girl, so watch it!” Kurk kicks open the front doors of the old church and they storm in.
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The church is big and majestic. Nearly 25 meters from floor to ceiling, all made from black stone. There used to be six big mosaic windows on either side of the church, but now they are all broken and have been replaced by bits of wood. This results that the only light inside the church comes from the broken entrance. The church has been stripped of everything of any real value ages ago, long before the Gromnburgians came. There’s nothing there but dust and spider webs, and lots of both. Even the church benches have been taken away. The only thing left is the stone altar and that’s just because it’s too heavy to carry out.
From the other end of the church a faint crying can be heard. The little girl sits on the altar, hugging her knees. As they approach the girl they hear a dark, snakelike voice: “Who’s there? Looks like we have some friends over to play with.” A young pale fellow, wearing a long brown leather trench coat, levitates a couple of meters over the altar. They could’ve sworn he wasn’t there a second ago. Incognito points his pistol at the pale stranger and threatens to shoot if he doesn’t unhand the girl at once. The stranger just laughs at the PCs, claiming that their little toys can’t harm him.
“Yeah whatever.” Incognito remarks as he fires his pistol, but the bullet just goes straight through the stranger’s flesh without really affecting him in real way. He just laughs, “Oh darn, you put a hole through my coat! Now I have to kill you.”
Just as he prepares to attack, fangs and talons ready, Stickler screams out: “He’s an vampire, open the windows!” The three capes start tearing down the wooden plates covering the windows. Sunlight floods into the church, hitting the vampire who howls in pain as it crashes into the floor. As the capes tear the wood from the remaining windows the burning vampire flees up the stairs to the church tower.
Incognito grabs the girl and runs outside while Stickler and Kurk follow the vampire up the staircase. Outside, Incognito gets greeted by a big crowd of people armed with torches and hayforks. A tall skinny guy waves a shovel at him: “Put the girl down ya freak!!” Incognito puts the girl down who runs to her mother and puts her arms around her neck. “Mommy, the sun burns...” The shovel waving skinny guy turns to the mob: “This building may once have been a house of the lord, but now it is infested by spawns of the shadows! We must destroy it and all it’s evils with it!!”
About halfway up the tower the vampire falls down from fatigue. It’s badly burned and the repulsive smell of burned dead flesh fills the air. Kurks swing his axe at the vampire, but it jumps up and grabs it in mid-air. Stickler prepares to attack as well, but the vampire gives him a kick to the head, while still holding onto the axe, sending Stickler rolling down the staircase. Kurk is able to wrestle the axe of the vampire’s hands and with a quick left hand strike he seperates his foe’s right arm from it’s owner. The vampire, now terrified, flees further up the stairs.
Downstairs Stickler is greeted by a terrifying sight. The whole floor has been covered in oil and five barrels of gunpowder have been placed in the middle of the hall. Stickler screams warnings at his partner, but Kurk decides to follow the vampire up to the tower. Kurk catches up with the vampire at the top of the stair, not able to go any further up because of the sunlight that shines through the glassless windows in the top room. The vampire goes into a frenzy and leaps at Kurk, who wrestles it down with ease. He gets a good hold of it and draws the vampire with him to the top room, (lacking any kind of church bell now, somebody pinched it years ago). It starts to burn as Kurk forces it into the light. It screams in pain. Kurk throws the vampire out the window. “Fry bastard!” It bursts into flames and then explodes halfway down. Only ash lands on the ground.
Meanwhile downstairs, somebody throws a torch through one of the windows. Stickler quickly throws it back out, but three other torches get thrown in immediatly and ignites the oil on the floor. Stickler runs over to the staircase and screams: “Kurk, get your butt down here, it’s about to blow!” Kurk runs down the stairs as fast as he can. When he gets down every inch of the floor along with the gunpowder barrels are burning. The two capes run through the fire and smoke trying to find their way out. The doors have been barricaded so they jump out one of the windows.
When they’re out they just run as hell away from the church as it goes up in a gigantic blue fireball. Showering chunks of debris over the neighbourhood.
They go and reunite with Incognito and then go to Leeta to get their part of the bargain. The Leeta is at first a little bit relunctant to pay up, but when she’s been shown the proof of the vampire’s death she gives them the identity of the witch hunter, who turns out to be an Gromnburgian immigrant named Gerald. Last time she knew he stayed in the Mad Cow Inn over in the eastern worker’s ward.
When the party enters Little Gromnburg they are greeted by nothing but hostility. “Go back to yer home witches!” People just stand in the distance and stare at them, some mumbling prayers or exorcism, but most just hurl curses at them. “Ya can’t corrupt us ye filthy pigs!”
Someone screams, a woman’s voice. “Nooo! My baby!! The witch’s got my baby!” A hysterical young woman runs in the party’s direction. “Somebody help me!!” She crumbles down into the muddy street crying. “Somebody... ::sob:: took my baby...” A crowd starts to form in a circle around her, all staring, but none offers aid.
The party makes it’s way through the crowd and Incognito helps her up and asks what happened. The woman tells them that someone snatched her daughter when she was playing near the church and dragged her inside. She claims it was the witch that she’d seen sneaking around the church at night. Then suddenly she realizes that the PCs are not of her kin and her complete demenour changes and she screams at them: “Ye all are not one of us! Corrupt pigs!”
Incognito slaps the woman who falls back down into the mud. “We pigs are the only ones who seem to be willing to save your girl, so watch it!” Kurk kicks open the front doors of the old church and they storm in.
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The church is big and majestic. Nearly 25 meters from floor to ceiling, all made from black stone. There used to be six big mosaic windows on either side of the church, but now they are all broken and have been replaced by bits of wood. This results that the only light inside the church comes from the broken entrance. The church has been stripped of everything of any real value ages ago, long before the Gromnburgians came. There’s nothing there but dust and spider webs, and lots of both. Even the church benches have been taken away. The only thing left is the stone altar and that’s just because it’s too heavy to carry out.
From the other end of the church a faint crying can be heard. The little girl sits on the altar, hugging her knees. As they approach the girl they hear a dark, snakelike voice: “Who’s there? Looks like we have some friends over to play with.” A young pale fellow, wearing a long brown leather trench coat, levitates a couple of meters over the altar. They could’ve sworn he wasn’t there a second ago. Incognito points his pistol at the pale stranger and threatens to shoot if he doesn’t unhand the girl at once. The stranger just laughs at the PCs, claiming that their little toys can’t harm him.
“Yeah whatever.” Incognito remarks as he fires his pistol, but the bullet just goes straight through the stranger’s flesh without really affecting him in real way. He just laughs, “Oh darn, you put a hole through my coat! Now I have to kill you.”
Just as he prepares to attack, fangs and talons ready, Stickler screams out: “He’s an vampire, open the windows!” The three capes start tearing down the wooden plates covering the windows. Sunlight floods into the church, hitting the vampire who howls in pain as it crashes into the floor. As the capes tear the wood from the remaining windows the burning vampire flees up the stairs to the church tower.
Incognito grabs the girl and runs outside while Stickler and Kurk follow the vampire up the staircase. Outside, Incognito gets greeted by a big crowd of people armed with torches and hayforks. A tall skinny guy waves a shovel at him: “Put the girl down ya freak!!” Incognito puts the girl down who runs to her mother and puts her arms around her neck. “Mommy, the sun burns...” The shovel waving skinny guy turns to the mob: “This building may once have been a house of the lord, but now it is infested by spawns of the shadows! We must destroy it and all it’s evils with it!!”
About halfway up the tower the vampire falls down from fatigue. It’s badly burned and the repulsive smell of burned dead flesh fills the air. Kurks swing his axe at the vampire, but it jumps up and grabs it in mid-air. Stickler prepares to attack as well, but the vampire gives him a kick to the head, while still holding onto the axe, sending Stickler rolling down the staircase. Kurk is able to wrestle the axe of the vampire’s hands and with a quick left hand strike he seperates his foe’s right arm from it’s owner. The vampire, now terrified, flees further up the stairs.
Downstairs Stickler is greeted by a terrifying sight. The whole floor has been covered in oil and five barrels of gunpowder have been placed in the middle of the hall. Stickler screams warnings at his partner, but Kurk decides to follow the vampire up to the tower. Kurk catches up with the vampire at the top of the stair, not able to go any further up because of the sunlight that shines through the glassless windows in the top room. The vampire goes into a frenzy and leaps at Kurk, who wrestles it down with ease. He gets a good hold of it and draws the vampire with him to the top room, (lacking any kind of church bell now, somebody pinched it years ago). It starts to burn as Kurk forces it into the light. It screams in pain. Kurk throws the vampire out the window. “Fry bastard!” It bursts into flames and then explodes halfway down. Only ash lands on the ground.
Meanwhile downstairs, somebody throws a torch through one of the windows. Stickler quickly throws it back out, but three other torches get thrown in immediatly and ignites the oil on the floor. Stickler runs over to the staircase and screams: “Kurk, get your butt down here, it’s about to blow!” Kurk runs down the stairs as fast as he can. When he gets down every inch of the floor along with the gunpowder barrels are burning. The two capes run through the fire and smoke trying to find their way out. The doors have been barricaded so they jump out one of the windows.
When they’re out they just run as hell away from the church as it goes up in a gigantic blue fireball. Showering chunks of debris over the neighbourhood.
They go and reunite with Incognito and then go to Leeta to get their part of the bargain. The Leeta is at first a little bit relunctant to pay up, but when she’s been shown the proof of the vampire’s death she gives them the identity of the witch hunter, who turns out to be an Gromnburgian immigrant named Gerald. Last time she knew he stayed in the Mad Cow Inn over in the eastern worker’s ward.
