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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 2858270" data-attributes="member: 3448">Dame Brionna secured Dridall in an unused apartment in the palace, posting several guards with orders to neither allow Dridall to leave nor anyone else to come in. She then headed to the palace supply and gathered up all seven ounces of orichalcum that were present, hoping that Alistair had remembered correctly that the alchemical metal could neutralize warpstone's foul effects. She quickly dropped one ounce into a bottle of wine that had been delivered to Lord Alistair's chambers with the complements of the palace wine steward. Both the orichalcum and most of the wine disappeared in a flash of light, shattering the glass bottle in a fiery blast. Dame Brionna, lightly scorched, simply nodded with satisfaction. Her efforts to protect Princess Cecilia, Alistair's aunt with the sight, went less well. The Princess was not in her chambers but had left a note behind. "The ratmen are in the sewers. I must go to find them to keep the city safe." Dame Brionna mentioned this to the rest of the group on their return. Kit nodded. "I'll take care of this." Kit quickly found her contact with the guild. "Princess Cecilia has gone into the sewers, looking for the ratmen. You must find her and bring her safely back to the palace. But be careful; the skaven are dangerous and they have agents throughout the sewers." "She will be safe under our watch. And we know of the skaven; there have already been some clashes between our people and the ratmen in the sewers. You should know as well that something big has started moving through the sewers today, towards the main square of the city, I think towards the cathedral. We're not certain what it is; perhaps an ogre? But it moves fast." "The rat-ogre. We'll organize warriors to fight it when it arrives." "What should we do about other ratmen in the sewers?" "If you can kill them, do. But be careful." Kit's contact smiled. "People in our line are always careful, or we're flogged, hanged, or worse. You can rely on us." "I know." The group gathered and realized that Alistair had slipped off from the Cathedral. Dame Brionna was nearly apoplectic, but without any idea of where he had gone, there was little they could do to keep him safe. As best as they could figure, he had slipped off nearly a half-hour earlier, while the rest of the group had worked to secure Princess Cecilia, gather the orichalcum they needed to protect against warpstone, and organized the defense against skaven attacks. The best they could do was to prepare to meet the rat-ogre, so she resolutely gathered a group of Archducal Guards and led them out into the great square. While the crowd was greatly diminished, hundreds of people still thronged outside the cathedral. And all of them began screaming when an enormous creature, perhaps twenty feet tall, with the face and claws of a rat but the muscles of an ogre or a giant, smashed up through one of the sewer grates. The rat-ogre clawed its way through the crowd on the steps of the Cathedral and slammed through the great doors into the sanctuary.</blockquote>

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