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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mikeawmids1" data-source="post: 9258513" data-attributes="member: 7030604">The Enemy Within (Warlock!)Session 5, 01/02/2024It is very early in the morning, and the remaining PCs are hiding out aboard the Berebeli, the barge owned by Adeline's cousin Josef. Stammig languishes in a jail cell, while Kalvin is afflicted by a sudden onset of Hisplayerwasn'therethisweek-itis. To make up the numbers, the party is joined by Basso Quartjin, another of Adeline's interchangeable cousins.The PCs decide to confront Friedrich Magirius in his townhouse. After the break-in at the Merchant's Guild, Captain Goertrin has stationed guards around the estate. Adeline and Basso lead the guards a merry chase, while Fritz and Gustaf scale the wall. With Kalvin absent, they avoid Lady Isolde and make a beeline for her uncle.They burst into Magirius' study and present the evidence taken from his office. Magirius confesses he was initiated into the Ordo Septinarius by Councilman Johannes Teugen, but he had no idea that he was joining a cult! He thought it was a secret club for cool merchants! Now that Teugen is planning a human sacrifice, he wants out!At that moment, a gaunt, faceless, bat-like horror crashes in through the window! Fritz activates his Nightstone, plunging the house into inky darkness! Fritz and Gustaf extract Magirius, just as the Watchmen return to investigate the sound of breaking glass. The PCs fight alongside the guards to slay the winged daemon.Captain Goertrin arrives on the scene. After hearing Magirius' confession, he is inclined to believe the PCs have been telling him the truth all along. He agrees to raid the warehouse where Teugen and the remaining members of the Ordo Septinarius are planning to conduct their ritual. He agrees to let the PCs go in first, and signal his men when the cultists have assembled.The ritual will be conducted after nightfall, in a large warehouse owned by Franz Steinhager (another cultist). Gustaf jumps onto the roof from an adjacent building, while Fritz, Adeline & Basso behind some crates behind the warehouse.The cultists begin to arrive as the sun sets over Biskerstaf. Crusher Braugen and a dozen burly dock workers set up a perimeter around the warehouse. Gustaf sees them bringing in an unconcious woman to be sacrificed.Councilman Teugen, recognisable by his golden chain of office, begins the ritual. Gustaf signals Captain Goertrin to raid the warehouse. The Watch mobilize and clash with Braugen's thugs. The sounds of combat alarms the cultists, who abandon the ritual and flee through the back door - where the rest of the PCs are waiting for them! The majority of the cultists are apprehended, but Teugen runs back into the warehouse.Goertrin and the PCs corner Teugen and demand his surrender. The desperate Councilman invokes his daemonic patron and transforms into an awful spider-like monstrosity! Basso is impaled on one of the abomination's eight spear-like leg, and Captain Goertrin loses an arm. Adeline picks up the Captain's halberd and hacks the Teugen-thing apart!After treating the Captain's wounds, Goertrin recommends the PCs leave town. Teugen may have been a deranged cultist, but he was also a prominent official, and his involvement will have to be hushed up to avoid widespread panic. Kalvin bids farewell to a tearful Isolde, and Magirius thanks the party for saving him from the cult. The party return to the Berebeli and cast off onto the River Vessen, which will carry them to the capital city of Fesselburg and whatever misadventures await them there.TBCNext session scheduled for 08/02/2024</blockquote>

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