Mordheim Quest Campaign
Here is the next battle report with pictures from my group's "Mordheim Quest" campaign. This is a campaign in which the players each control a few heroes who together make up the adventuring party and the game master sets up the linked scenarios and runs the enemies and NPCs.
Earlier battle reports in the campaign can be found at the links below:
#1 http://www.sg.tacticalwargames.net/forum/index.php?topic=828.0
#2 http://www.sg.tacticalwargames.net/forum/index.php?topic=851.0
#3 http://www.sg.tacticalwargames.net/forum/index.php?topic=972.0
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Battle Report 4: Spider BarrowsPreviously, after accepting the quest to seek out and eliminate the orc raiders that had been harassing the town of Ostgate and the surrounding area, the party split into two halves to cover more ground in their search for the orcs’ encampment. One half of the party had unfortunately run into a nest of giant spiders in the Grunwald Forest and had been captured by the vile beasts.
The rest of the group, alerted to the situation by local militia who had seen the party right before they disappeared, moved quickly to mount a rescue. The captain of the militia lent them a few soldiers who guided them to the caves where the spiders made their nest. The group then embarked into the darkness to find their comrades before it was too late.
The rescue party consisted of:
Grungi Headsplitter – Dwarf Slayer
Erol Otis – Wizard at Large
Maximus – Pit Fighter
Hazkal Okri – Dwarf Engineer
Jade the Bitter – Amazon Champion
Gabby the Wraith – Amazon Scout
Overview of the spider barrows cave.
The group enters the caves with Maximus and Jade in the lead.
Jade advances down a passageway but doesn’t pay attention to the spider web behind her. A bad mistake . . .
Jade is taken down by the spider’s surprise attack but Maximus takes his revenge on the creature.
To keep any more ambushers at bay Erol Otis unleashes a fireball to burn the webbing.
Meanwhile, the rest of the group battles more spiders. Harold the NPC militia halberdier gets ready to begin his streak of unintentionally stealing monster kills (and XP) from the player characters.
They find victims wrapped in webbing to be eaten later, but these appear to be local villagers rather than their missing companions.
Gabby is caught in a web attack and slowly pulled closer to a gigantic spider.
Grungi find one of their companions and unwraps him from the web.
The Dwarf Slayer spots the gigantic spider and charges in to battle the monster, hoping to fulfill his slayer vow.
The slayer goes down, his vow fulfilled, while other rush in to take the fight to the vile creature.
The wizard, dwarf engineer, and one of the militia guards fend off more spiders, then check out some chests for loot.
The spider manages to knock down or stun all of the fighters it is in contact with. Will this be the end?
The wizard and militia gunner prepare to take down the spider with ranged fire, thus saving their stunned companions who were all about to be killed.
Maximus uncovers yet another companion.
The wizard used his fireball to set more webs on fire.
The group clears out yet more spiders from another chamber.
Having defeated the last of the spiders, the party discovers a set of stairs that leads up to a darkened doorway. What could await them beyond?
The group was ultimately able to find all of their missing companions. Unfortunately, Unlucky Eddie the Marauder and Rupert the Middenheimer had both succumbed to their injuries and died, while Grungi Headsplitter and Gabby the Amazon fell valiantly during the rescue attempt.
