On the Waterfront

Guiltag 13 th Pflugzeit So you stayed in the village all day, despite having been urged to hurry, by Goffman. And you were glad to have a stress free day. Max was keen to use his engineering education to help make some of the ramshackle dwellings a bit more solid, but after inspecting some of them decided that the locals had made just about as good a job as they could. And Kris used his ship-board carpentry knowledge to fit one of the pit traps with sharpened spikes and he showed the villagers how to do it, and they showed you where all the other pit traps were hidden so you didn’t have to worry about falling into them. You had dinner at Wilheim’s again and spoke about the beastmen and the witch girl but you didn’t learn much new. You tried to recruit some villagers to your expedition and Fredereich explained how they had fought against the beastmen and had had a hard time of it over the last couple of years, and it wouldn’t be fair to ask them for more sacrifice, but he said he ...

Backertag 11 th Pflugzeit The Muddy Mule was actually surprisingly decent for the middle of the marsh and you all got down to some beer drinking. Kris seemed especially keen to drown out any thought of the one-eyed bog daemons. And Max was chatting to Lilith, the halfling barmaid, who was keen to hear about your travels and was getting a bit flirty while her father was in the kitchen making the food. And Max was tipping her generously. Then Lufthanser and Doctor Balthasar turned up and bought you more drinks. Lufthanser was being friendly again, but was very keen to know what you were doing out in the marsh. Balden told him a load of nonsense, which wasn’t very convincing and Kris told him his drunken life story. Max, feeling the effects of the fight with the bog daemons went to bed early and when Kris passed out dead drunk, only Balden was left to fend off Lufthanser’s continual questioning. After telling them a story of the tooth belonging to his mum who had a medical condition,...

Aubentag 9 th  Pflugzeit You took a bearing on the compass and saw that it led straight along the lake, but you decided that it was too muddy and treacherous to risk following that line so you stayed on the bank. Balden took the tooth out and saw that it was wrapped in a page from the book ‘A Theory of Chaos’, and it read: the tooth of the moon and use that to complete the ritual upon the egg and thereby should the egg be saved and Zahnarzt turned away from the face of the moon. But know that the daemon still lives and in exactly one thousand years at the time of the eclipse then the veils be parted once more and then it may return to the world. You wondered that you might not have to worry about stuff happening for a thousand years but then you thought maybe it had happened a thousand years ago and was due to happen again soon. Then Balden tried to remember the spell that Goffman had used to animate the tooth, and he said some magic words but they weren’t the right ones and ...