Session 15 - The Fall of Chlothar

General Summary

A torch is tossed to see the rats approach.
Amongst the large pack of rats are some the size of medium dogs. One of them carries a distinctive waxed mustache.
All of the rat varieties take to attacking the party and even moving through what would normally be very defensible spaces with great ease.
Chlothar steps up in front of Woda at the front line and lets loose a large gout of fire decimating many of the smaller rats and injuring the larger ones but then takes a significant wound in doing so.
Woda is quite impressed that Clothar is able to use such magics.
Clothar is able to pull back putting space between himself and Woda but it gets filled with rats as they scuttle by.
At the pit the others are trying to get into the room on the other side of it and are facing some sort of rat man beast  in the room who is shooting at them.
Pressing that ratman back into the room some gain purchase to ascend the pit wall into the room or jumping across. One of the large rats runs past Woda and Clothar to the others at the pit making 2 fronts for them to deal with. Everyone is now dealing with two fronts.
Totengraber moved between the fronts offering cover with bow and arrow from shadow.
Belak manages to get into the room and amongst the party members in there the ratman is defeated and then transforms into a human and he looks somewhat familiar, perhaps a town resident.
Belak engages in conversations with a barrel but the damned thing just does not reciprocate. How rude.
Another ratman turns into a small rat and scales the wall of the pit up into the room and was seen but then the group loose sight of him in the shadows and were he is at is not certain.
Clothar falls in battle with the rats as they assail him in massive numbers bringing him down as Woda looks on feeling futile in her ability to assist in preventing it from happening.
Woda chases one of the medium sized rats off to another corridor and at the moment fighting in the room with the others seems to have halted some.
Clothar's death was not a waste. First of all, many rats enjoyed their last meal feasting of his body. Secondly, with their attention (and gluttony faces) all on Clothar, the others were able to focus on the bigger rats (the one's with the mustache). Totengraber runs to one side and another, but his wound keeps acting up and stopping him of doing really anything. Luckily, the others hold and rejecting a truce offer (by a majority, but not unanimously) they strike down the man-rat and another escapes. Weapons, liquor and many other smuggled goods appear to be stored in this room.
The group is finally able to take a breather. Woda, whom some had already done for lost, makes it back. Decision time. Can we afford to retreat, rest and regroup? Can we survive with our numbers reduced and and resources exhausted?

Report Date

25 Feb 2025