Carilius Damachles Personal Memoirs/Research Notes

Record: 116.339
Date: Year 116 on Firthtag the 11th day of Kalt
Current Location: Pine Grove, Northern Faerin
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Major Events:
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☼ - I wake up refreshed after the previous nights poor sleep.
☼ - Molar leads us back to where they found an entry way into what appears to be the Skaven den
☼ - Some Skaven died
☼ - We sprung some traps
☼ - Managed to find a peaceful solution to the Skavens digging up bodies, thanks to my diplomatic abilities
☼ - Through this we learned the man who was paying them was called Tarndarc, and they told us where their next meeting spot and time were
☼ - I tried to speak to a noble woman later that evening at the tavern, who quickly demanded I stop talking to her, so I went over to have a drink.
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Details:
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I woke up this morning feeling much more refreshed then I had the previous day, even though I had slept all night I had been absolutely exhausted. When I woke up I headed downstairs for some breakfast, Tycone and the others sitting around a table. I joined them, and we began to talk about what had transpired the day before whilst I was resting.
 
It turns out they followed one of the Skavens back to what appeared to be the entrance to their den, while others came upon a place where there was a cart that may have had some dead bodies on it at one point. We decided to go check out the Skaven Cave and set out towards it.
 
After a quick bit of travel, we came to the entrance to the cave, which was really just a small hole in the side of a mountain. We started heading in with Tycone leading the way. Tycone had to take a bit of time to try and squeeze his way into the hole but he managed to make it. As we followed behind him, he managed to spring a trap that caused a large number of boulders to fall from the ceiling, but he was able to dodge out of the way of it in time to not take too much damage.
 
Tycone worked to move some of the stones out of the way in order to try and make it through and is able to make a decent sized whole. Once he finished he tried going through it, and suddenly we hear him roar, followed shortly by the smell of smoke and singed hair. He continued to crawl through the hole and was able to make it through all the way, we all followed shortly after, and began to hurry as Tycone and Sypha had gone in ahead of us and we began to hear the twangs and snaps of bows and crossbows.
 
Quickly moving forward I found myself in a small alcove with a passage at the other end that was blocked in the middle by a line of barrels. Behind the barrels were three Skaven, a battle ensued between them and us. At one point they knocked over a barrel, and about 4 or 5 rats poured out and began attacking us as well. We managed to make fairly short work of them however.
 
Once they were dispatched we continued through the passageways, moving deeper and deeper into the cave, we came across what appeared to be some sleeping quarters, and a toilet hole of some form. As we started going down one passage way, "Someone" noticed that there was a strange carving in the wall of the cave. I came up to inspect it and found that it appeared to be some kind of explosive trap. After informing the rest of the party I recommended we try to crawl underneath it. I went first, getting down on all fours and started to crawl... my tail however, did not get the message apparently, and ended up setting off the trap. With a loud bang I found myself with a burning sensation in my tail, it was not a massive hit, but I certainly didn't want to take any more. As we continued along I kept an eye out and managed to help find 2 more of the traps.
 
To avoid the last few traps we had to crawl through the tunnels, and as we came around a corner we found ourselves face to face with a group of Skaven women and children, most of whom wore little to no clothing, and behind the group stood an old Skaven, with 2 guards protecting him in front. The old Skaven started to speak and was demanding to know why we came all this way, and what we wanted, as this was happening Malor fired a shot at one of the guards and luckily missed, I stepped in between him and the others as the guards raised their crossbows as well. I managed to convince the elder Skaven to have his guards lower their crossbows, as I had Malor lower his as well, this was tough enough without his blind hatred interfering. As the mothers were pushing the younger ones back after this, one of the young boys came around his mothers feet slipped by and proceeded to piss on my shoes... I began to feel outraged.., but I knew I had to keep a calm demeanor. After both sides were calmed, I learned the elders name was Skrak as he talked about himself in the third person. Skrak and I began to talk. As we did Sypha muttered a spell, and began to speak the language of the rat folk as well. We asked why they had been digging up bodies, and they said it was because they were getting coin out of it, and after pressing a bit further we discovered they had been meeting someone named Trandarc along with where and when they were meeting him every week. I turned and conferred with the group, wherein I learned we had taken their last payment, after some more conversing and calming some disagreements, the group decided to offer up their payment, and in exchange the Skaven should leave this valley as soon as the snows cleared up. Skrak agreed, we threw their bag of coin over to them, and skrak disengaged the traps to let us out.
 
With that we left and went back tot he tavern, I was relieved we had been able to get through that situation without further blood shed. Once back at the tavern I noticed the Angry noble woman in the back, and decided to go try and talk to her, she made it clear that she didn't want to talk to me, I'm not sure what I had done to anger her so, but assumed it must be something to do with my race. Tycone walked up and tried to talk to her as well, and she said she only would if he knocked me out, well after that I went over to the bar and had a drink.
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New People Met:
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Skrak - Leader of the Skaven Den
☼ - Race: Skaven
 
Some Angry Noble - Angry
☼ - Race: Human
☼ - Sub-Race: Angry