In Ulfenkarn, dead is, sometimes, only a temporary state of affairs...
Despite having decapitated all three Vampire lords, burning their bodies and scattering the ashes to the winds... a rumour caught in our heroes' ears that ALL THREE had been somehow resurrected... AGAIN... and were prowling in the crypts below the city...
("Plot Armour", Muthafukkaz! You just CAN NOT KILL a named character!!)
The crypts below Ulfenkarn.
Kritza the Rat Prince, lurking as far from the heroes as possible...
(I love that this is where he started, snivelling coward that he is... it was disappointing that his action table always has him moving towards the nearest Hero, instead of trying to flee from them - as he DID in the Decaptiation Journey - and let the constantly respawning minions try to deal with the Heroes!)
Carmilla Du Sang and her Fell Bats and Kosargi Nightguard bodyguard
Lady Annika, the Thirsting Blade, was also lurking in the crypts... I just forgot to take a picture of her...
The Fell Bats swooped in and snatched Brutogg away carrying him back to their mistress...
Octren Glimscry ran off after them but encountered a horde of Corpse Rats... He quickly snorted some gravesand and stared at them all menacingly and made the lot of them explode, one by one...
With the rats out of the way, Qulathis sprinted past the gore-spattered room in which they'd dwelt to aid their beefy friend Brutogg... Her arrows missed the deftly dodging Vampire Lord and couldn't even connect with the Fell Bats! Not wanting to stick around and be a target for the Vampire Lord and her minions, she sprinted back to Octren, abandoning Brutogg!
Lady Annika swept forward with her Vyrkos Blood-Born minions... the room where Brutogg had been dragged to was so crowded, these deadly foes couldn't even get in to attack the Ogor!
Brutogg shoulder-barged past the Fell Bats and took a swing at Carmilla Du Sang... and it connected... HARD!!
Glaurio ven Alten III caught up to his bulky friend and fired his pistols, finishing off the deadly Vampire Lord!!
Glaurio and Brutogg then pounded and shot Lady Annika who seemed to be frozen with shock at the sight of Du Sang's death!
Qualathis returned at this point and started shooting arrows into the room
Octren snorted some MORE Gravesand and then destroyed every Fell Bat in the room...
Seriously, I think it's beginning to become a problem. They might have to have an intervention soon...
Brutogg them pulped Kritza the Rat Prince... and... that... that was it...
The heroes just had to survive the remaining attacks of the Vampire Lords minions until they realized their masters were gone and fled themselves (the end of the Round)
Brutogg was once again carried away by the Fell Bats, who them failed to even scratch the towering bulk of muscle and menace!
And there was much rejoicing...
Seriously, I think it took three rounds...? It probably took longer to set up than it did to play through!
The scenario LOOKED really tough... again... With Carmilla Du Sang on the table (Carmilla has an ability that shuts down all empowerments - which are one of the things that made the Heroes extremely powerful and, in some cases, kept them alive against these really powerful foes! So, obviously, she was the first priority...)... and some serious damage dealing foes...
Butogg got a VERY lucky hit in against Carmilla Du Sang on the FIRST ROUND and then Glaurio got in a couple of lucky shots and finished her off... and.. that was about it. It went downhill rapidly for the Vampires after that. With Glaurio's YOU-CAN'T-DODGE-THESE-BULLETS realm stone-empowered pistols, they were quickly dealt with - part of what makes them such powerful enemies is their ability to dodge attacks. About 50% of the time - give-or-take, depending on which vampire - when you do damage, they just ignore it... Glaurio had a weapon enhancement that disallowed ignoring his weapons' damage!
So... that's it for this campaign! Ulfenkarn is liberated! Huzzah!!
(Actually there was a page to turn to and passage to read among all the crises tables which said Radukar shows up and laughs at the heroes and reanimates the vampires and barges that they did exactly as he wished - put those vampires in their place for them, now they much bow down to his again, thanks a lot, suckaz! this is to set up the second expansion/third campaign Nemesis... which, I have read ends the same... you spend all this time fighting to build up characters to finally face the Boss Baddies.. only to read some narrative fluff that says "Jokes on you, they escape!" which is kind of lame...)
("Plot Armour", Muthafukkaz! You just CAN NOT KILL a named character!!)
So... I guess I need to finish up the rest of the Warhammer Quest: Darkwater miniatures!!
Initially we'd planned to start our family campaign next Tuesday, and then on the Family Day Long Weekend maybe play through the campaign - or at least one act - with some other friends... But then Amanda decided to go on a trip with a friend to Vancouver Island for two weeks, starting next week... so... we decided to forego playing this coming Tuesday (giving me a bit more time to paint miniatures, I guess...) and we'll start the family campaign in March when she's back!
I may still play through the campaign on the long weekend - or, some other weekend in February (I have traditionally held game weekends/Minicons/campaigns in February to celebrate my birthday...?)
If you've been reading along through all FOURTY-FOUR episodes of this campaign, thank-you! Hope you enjoyed the ride and the end wasn't too much of a disappointment. Despite GW's attempt to yank the rug out with the HA-HA! THEY GET AWAY! BS we have all thoroughly enjoyed playing if over the last year!
I'd hoped we'd be able to do the same with Warhammer Quest: Darkwater, but given the new format of the campaign system, that seems unlikely. We'll likely have played through it (possibly multiple times!) before the end of the First Quarter!? Perhaps we'll return to Warhammer QuestL Blackstone Fortress after that..? Or we could play through Silver Tower... or maybe I'll just focus on Soulbound and try to run more regular role-playing games!!
Also... if you haven't read ALL of the game reports and want to (or just want to look back at some old ones or see where we started: the Warhammer Quest Gallery Page has been updated with links to EVERY Game Report for ALL the (fantasy) Warhammer Quest campaigns:
(I should really do something similar for the Blackstone Fortress stuff at some point!!)











































































