agitating the agitator
Other than that, the adventurers are also quite shocked by their Butler who casually reports he found and killed a Skaven while it was trying to break into the cellar. He beheaded it. Markings on it's wrist identify it as belonging to Clan Eshin, the assassins.
After breakfast and planning, the crew splits. One part will head to the Koningsplatz to witness these so called bombers execution while Mandred & Felix head to the University Square where the Agitator Mayer Gauss will be speaking (see previous reports).
When they arrive on the square of the University, Mayer Gauss already has a large crowd surrounding it which is quite riled up. Tha Agitator talks about the crimes – real or imagined – that the cult of Ulrican has perpetrated against Sigmarites. Alleged massacres and persecutions of Sigmarites in Middenland, Hochland, Nordland, and Talabecland are featured in the agitator’s inflamed rant, including several references to the Bösel massacre. The agitator leads the demand for their Emperor to make a presence and vanquish the Ulrican bandits across The Empire. The mob cheers in response.
The temper of the mob is rising to fevered pitch as the agitator continues on, without actually telling them what to do he makes accusations and insinuations untill the crowd grab their pitchforks and torches and head towards the Chapel of Ulric. There they drag the priest and his two initiated out of the temple and hang them. After that they set fire to the building.
The Black Sheep hanging
In attendance are almost the entire Altdorf population, several officials, including the captain of the guard, several knights, Arch Lector Kaslain of Nuln, the Theogonist Locum Tenens, Chancellor Karl Heinz and several others. The alleged culprits are declared heretics and hanged amidst much pomp & fanfare.
Curiously, the Big Bad Wolf, Karl Heinz, looks not very pleased at the executions. An anonimus pries of Sigmar in the back however has a wicked gleeful smile on his face.
After the hanging, the adventurers reconvene at the university. However, they notice the enraged mob as they set fire to the Ulrician Temple. At that time, Mayer Gauss tries to sneak away. the heroes follow him and a frantic pursuit ensues...
chase the Devil...
Next he runs down the Koningsplatz & Volkerweg, a busy market street, where he upsets a nutsellers' cart and released a horde of penned up pigs. Still in the lead, he runs to Die Alte Kaizer Brucke where he jumps in the River Reik and dives underwater to a sewer-pipe. The sewer exits in the Necropolis in the Reikerbahn District where he tries to hide and sneak away in the cover of a thick mist. From there he heads to Toadseller Lane in the Singelfinen District where he dissapears in the muddy streets. They follow his trail to an old, abandoned warehouse...
... and you might get burned
After the conflict, the heroes find a buns of ritually slaughtered corpses. How the cultists managed to summon the deamons just in time remains a mystery...