The Character's journey should have been uneventful, but as dusk approaches, a storm suddenly breaks. Soon the Characters are wet through and their coach or barge is being buffeted by strong winds, making it very hazardous to continue. Unfortunately, this being the Empire, it is not safe simply to stop and wait for the storm to pass. Many strange creatures live in the forest, and few of these are likely to be sheltering from the storm.
\nThe rain falls in torrents from the dark, roiling clouds. Overhead, lightning flashes across the sky. In the distance the strangled cry of some strange creature can be heard. It is a night to be indoors, for who knows what lurks under dark trees in The Empire’s forests.
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\nA loud thump directs all eyes to the back of the bar where a man with protuberant eyes appears and begins to mop up something on the floor. This is @Actor[Fagor]{Fagor}, who has come up from the cellar to clean up evidence of the earlier assault on the inn. Unless the Characters go to have a look at what he is doing, he finishes after a few minutes and then takes his bloodstained mop and bucket into the kitchen. @Actor[Otto]{Otto} the ‘landlord’ is nervous about the party’s presence (given what is to happen later) and this shows in his mannerisms. He constantly fingers the bottom of his apron, twisting and turning it with suppressed tension. He attempts to send the Characters on their way as quickly as possible by claiming that the inn is full. @Actor[Otto]{Otto} makes no effort to make the party feel welcome. He has a coach party in residence, who have just retired for the night, and he ‘wants no “ladies and gentlemen” of the Characters’ kind tonight, thank you’.
\nIf the party insists on staying (unless they wish to die at the hands of whatever lurks in the forest), @Actor[Otto]{Otto} eventually (and grudgingly) allows them to do so. He continues to behave ungraciously — any drinks, for example, are served in unwashed tankards.
\nEventually @Actor[Otto]{Otto} heads into the kitchen with a muttered, ‘I suppose you want feeding as well...’ He is actually leaving to organise the rest of the Mutants while @Actor[Hans Jinkrest]{Hans} keeps the Characters occupied. @Actor[Hans Jinkrest]{Hans}, in his guise as a road warden, questions the Characters in an attempt to find out who and what they are. @Actor[Hans Jinkrest]{Hans} asks his questions in his ‘official’ capacity, using the excuse that he believes the Characters to be Bandits. If the Characters mention the ferry, @Actor[Hans Jinkrest]{Hans} claims it was attacked (and the ferryman carried off ) by Bandits. This, he explains is why the inn is so securely locked.
\nHe also manages to imply that the Characters are in league with these same (non-existent) bandits: ‘I think your sudden appearance has unnerved the landlord. Mind you, he could be right ... Who else would be out on a night such as this?’ @Actor[Hans Jinkrest]{Hans} is clever enough not to press this line of argument too far, and he seems to be satisfied by any reasonable story the Characters care to tell him.
\nIf the party mentions the Mutant in the stables, @Actor[Hans Jinkrest]{Hans} is surprised. He believes all the Mutants to be hiding in the inn. He feigns further shock when told of the body: ‘The landlord assured me that the stable boy had run off. No one bothered checking for him up there. Well, he can wait till morning to be buried.’
\nIf the Characters mention either the body or @Actor[Grat]{Grat} to @Actor[Otto]{Otto} he looks very worried and shocked. However, his real fear is the Characters have uncovered the Mutants’ business here. He changes the subject and looks to @Actor[Hans Jinkrest]{Hans} to bail him out.
\nOnce @Actor[Hans Jinkrest]{Hans} is sure that the Characters have no official connections, he excuses himself and goes into the kitchen. Characters who state they are watching @Actor[Hans Jinkrest]{Hans} as he leaves will notice his ‘wound’ and the bloodstain with a successful Average (+20) Perception Test.
\nBy now the Characters should be suspicious and be trying to find out what is going on. A Character stood at the bar can overhear @Actor[Hans Jinkrest]{Hans} and @Actor[Otto]{Otto} in the kitchen. ‘Don’t panic, @Actor[Otto]{Otto}. They are only travellers. Tzeentch will be pleased to have their souls as well. Use the kurts in their food and we’ll deal with them later.’ @Actor[Hans Jinkrest]{Hans} then passes @Actor[Otto]{Otto} the phial containing the kurts. After this @Actor[Otto]{Otto} has the phial in his possession.
\nIf @Actor[Hans Jinkrest]{Hans} hears anyone attempting to sneak into the kitchen he comes back into the bar. He closes the door into the kitchen with an air of finality, making it very awkward for anyone to push past without a very good reason.
\nA short while later @Actor[Otto]{Otto} returns bearing bowls of hot stew. Each bowl contains two doses of kurts. Characters should make a Very Hard (-30) Perception Test to notice its taste in the food. Characters with the @Compendium[wfrp4e-core.talents.9h82z72XGo9tfgQS]{Acute Sense} Talent will automatically pass this Test. Characters noticing the odd taste can identify it with a Challenging (+0) Lore (Herbs) Test or Easy (+40) Lore (Poison) Test.
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\n@Actor[Otto]{Otto} is surprised to see the Characters as he believed the inn to be secure against outsiders. Making an ill-concealed attempt to hide his surprise, @Actor[Otto]{Otto} invites the party into the @JournalEntry[The Inn and Bar Room Interior]{bar room}.
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\nThere is a trail of blood stains on the floor (unless @Actor[Fagor]{Fagor} has had the wit to mop them up as well — this depends on how much help the players are going to need in working out what is going on) that leads to the loose paving slab. This has been lifted to give access to the hidden shrine built below the cellar. Depending on the circumstances, the slab is either raised or lowered. When the Characters first arrive, it is closed, but it will be opened during the ceremony. The closed slab may be discovered with a successful Challenging (+0) Perception Test or by following the bloodstains.
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\nA magical, two-foot-high statue of Tzeentch stands in the middle of the shrine in the centre of a strange moving pattern.The pattern constantly shifts between a sinuous symbol of Tzeentch and an octagon. The statue is made from a greenish stone which seems to flow and move when observed. Any Character observing this and the shifting floor pattern must pass a Challenging (+0) Cool Test or receive 1 @Compendium[wfrp4e-core.journal-entries.u7IJ1xm4pO5s9QgS]{Corruption}. The image of Tzeentch can be smashed (it has T 5 and W 5). However, unless it is destroyed in a single Round the shrine’s guardian @Actor[Daemon]{Daemon} appears to defend the statue. Once the @Actor[Daemon]{Daemon} is destroyed, the statue can be broken easily and the lines on the floor will fade and vanish.
\nAgainst the wall is a locked (Difficult (–10): SL 3) wooden box containing @Credit[10gc 29ss 15bp]{10GC 29/15}. A successful Average (+20) Perception Test reveals a loose stone behind which is hidden a pouch containing a Potion of Strength. If this is drunk, the imbiber gains +20 Strength for @Roll[2d10]{2d10 Rounds}, after which @Roll[1d10]{1d10–Toughness Bonus} @Condition[Poisoned] Conditions (Average) are gained.
\nThe Mutant @Actor[Wilhem]{Wilhem} will be in here either participating in @JournalEntry[The Ceremony]{the Ceremony} or lurking at the foot of the stairs.
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\n@Actor[Hans Jinkrest]{Hans} and the Mutants assemble in the cellar to conduct a ceremony using the magical energy of the statue to summon a @Actor[Daemon]{Daemon}. Shortly afterwards the ceremony begins, and faint, discordant chanting fills the inn. This continues for half an hour, while @Actor[Hans Jinkrest]{Hans} ritually sacrifices two Humans as the summoning requires.
\nAs the ceremony begins @Actor[Fagor]{Fagor} sneaks up to the Characters’ room and listens at the door. Characters not suffering from the effects of kurts who pass an Average (+20) Perception Test hear him approach the door. If @Actor[Fagor]{Fagor} becomes suspicious the Characters are not unconscious or, for example, the common room door is open, he returns to the cellar and warns the other Mutants, who close the trapdoor and continue the ceremony. If given the opportunity, @Actor[Fagor]{Fagor} hides somewhere in the inn and attempts to attack a lone Character from behind.
\nIf all appears well, he immediately returns to the cellar and joins the other Mutants in the chant.
\nUnless the Characters intervene in the ceremony, the statue transforms into a @Actor[Daemon]{Daemon}. It appears as a shapeless ball of undulating pink and blue magic with shifting screaming faces pushing from its rubbery hide as claws slash and scintillating sparks of colour steam in its wake. Remember, the @Actor[Daemon]{Daemon} causes Fear 2, so anyone who does not score at least +2 SL on a Challenging (+0) Cool Test will not be able to approach thing.
\nUnfortunately for @Actor[Hans Jinkrest]{Hans}, he is unaware of the ritual to bind the spinning @Actor[Daemon]{Daemon} and it immediately attacks him and the Mutants. The @Actor[Daemon]{Daemon} is set upon slaying all it sees and pursues any fleeing Characters after eviscerating anything near it.
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\n(Challenging (+0): SL 3). The landlord’s room and two of the bedrooms are empty and unremarkable. However, the two beds in one room are bloodstained and the bedclothes are scattered about the room. The beds’ occupants were obviously stabbed and then dragged from their beds. Trailing stains lead out through the door, but disappear at the sill.
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\nKnocking at the gates brings no response, leaving the Characters the choice of @Compendium[wfrp4e-core.skills.sRuMlaPU5xdIrwhd]{climbing} over the wall or finding another means of entry.
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\n@Actor[Grat]{Grat}, one of the Mutants, is in the hayloft. He is feasting on the body of one of the stable boys and will not hear the party approach. He notices their presence as soon as the door is opened. The six horses in the stables are terrified by @Actor[Grat]{Grat’s} presence and flee from the stables as soon as the door is opened. A Character making a successful Average (+20) Animal Training (Horse) or Challenging (+0) Charm Animal Test will be able to prevent this happening, but any other Character runs the risk of being trampled by the leading horse. A successful Average (+20) Dodge Test allows the Character to leap out of the way. Anyone who is trampled takes a 1d10+4 Damage hit to the leg (modified by Toughness Bonus and Armour Points) as the horses escape into the yard. The horses can only be persuaded or forced to re-enter the stables if they are calmed and lead by a successful Hard (–20) Charm Animal Test.
\nAs soon as he is aware that somebody else is in the stables, @Actor[Grat]{Grat} climbs onto the roof and hides on the other side of the roof ridge. Characters climbing into the hayloft find the damp corpse of the stable boy. He has been killed by a sword blow to the head and his right arm bears the marks of @Actor[Grat]{Grat’s} teeth.
\nWater is dripping from the trapdoor leading up to the roof, and the ladder beneath is wet and smeared with blood. Once the trapdoor is open, the Characters are greeted by torrential rain. This has made the roof very slippery and anyone venturing onto it must make a successful Challenging (+0) Athletics Test or slip. A Challenging (+0) Athletics Test allows a Character who has slipped to catch hold of the edge of the trapdoor and not slide off the roof (which results in falling 5 yards) to the ground below. If @Actor[Grat]{Grat} is discovered up on the roof by a successful Challenging (+0) Perception Test, he will fight until slain. His suckers allow him to move about on the roof with no danger of falling off. If the party leaves the stables without discovering him, @Actor[Grat]{Grat} returns to his feast until summoned by @Actor[Otto]{Otto}.
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\nFrom the common room the Characters can hear the horses in the stable if @Actor[Grat]{Grat} is still present...
\nShortly after @Actor[Otto]{Otto} has shown the Characters to the Common Room he participates in @JournalEntry[The Ceremony]{the Ceremony}
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\nInside there is a coach belonging to Cartak Lines of Altdorf. This coach arrived before the Mutants attacked. Its passengers and crew were drugged and are now either dead or tied up in the cellar.
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\n\n
A trail of fresh blood leads from the door; any Character examining this who succeeds in an Challenging (+0) Perception Test realises that a body has been dragged out of the building. However, no sign of a trail can be found outside thanks to the heavy rain and the mud.
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\nIf the party decides to halt its journey, the cries of the Beastmen swing straight towards them after about half an hour and approach at a fast rate. The cries stop suddenly before they reach the party and the @Actor[Bovine Beastman]{Beastmen} pull down their prey, and the forest falls silent but for the sound of the storm. It is only a matter of time before the @Actor[Bovine Beastman]{Beastmen} become aware of the Characters’ presence...
\nIf sensible, the party will continue its journey at this point. Those who stay notice strange shapes lurking at the edge of their vision. The @Actor[Bovine Beastman]{Beastmen} and @Actor[Eyestalk Mutant]{Mutants} observe the Characters for a few minutes and take the opportunity to surround them if this possible. They then rush into the attack. If the Characters decide to retreat have them make Challenging (+0) Drive, Ride or Sail Tests (as appropriate) to escape. Failure of these results in a battle with the beasts of Chaos. Unless the party moves on, similar attacks occur throughout the night.
\nThe Chaos hunters (two Beastmen and four @Actor[Eyestalk Mutant]{Mutants}) attempt to overpower the party and then dispose of them in their own inimitable fashion. If both the @Actor[Bovine Beastman]{Beastmen} are slain or subdued the @Actor[Eyestalk Mutant]{Mutants} flee if they fail a Challenging (+0) Willpower Test.
\nThe four mutants resemble normal humans, but each bears some mark of Chaos.
\n