What We Do in the Realm of Shadows - Episode Five

This past Sunday we finally got in another game of What We Do in the Realm of Shadows - our Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Soulbound Role-Playing Game (making use of Champions of Death!! 

In our last episode, the group FINALLY made it back to their homeland of Neferatia in Shyish, the Realm of Death... only to find themselves in the middle of a battle between the Children of the Bell (Maggotkin of Nurgle forces) and a complete Stormhost of the Anivls of the Heldenhammer! Having fought their way free, we found them at the beginning of this episode fleeing into the nearby hills! 

Just when they thought they were out of harms way and stopped to take a breath, they heard the most horrific noise - a cross between the screaching call of a massive dragon and the terrified wails of a thousand dead souls! Neferata, herself, then swooped to the ground on her Dread Abyssal, blocking the path of the fleeing vampires and their companions...

Before speaking, however, Neferata maneuvered herself upwind of the group,covered, as they were, with the blood and gore and projected vomit and mucus and viscera (and Nurgle knows what else) from the scores of Daemons and Rottbringers they'd slain... 

She welcomed them all home but expressed disappointment at the lack of an ARMY they'd promised to raise and return with, centuries ago.... Perhaps when she ejected the Khorne-worshipping squatters on their lands she might have to give their keeps to... another... Perhaps their old rivals at court, Lady Simone the Deceitful and Count Blandula! 

After basking in their dismay, Neferata gave the group a new mission. She explained that the Stormcast Eternals engaged in the battle behind them would soon defeat the servants of Nurgle and plans were already set in motion to turn them against the Horde of Khorne across the mountains to the East... but then MUST NOT GET DISTRACTED. There were MORE Nurgle forces to the Southwest and The vampires and their servants were to ensure that the Stormcast DO NOT find out about them and turn that way instead!!

So off they went, skirting around the battle and made their way in the general direction they supposed the other Nurgle forces lay. 

Along their travels, they encountered a Duardin necromancer they recruited to their task with the promise of MANY FRESH CORPSES to ply his trade upon! 

Later they noticed they were being followed by three Fellbats. After about a day or so, the Fellbats swooped down to confront them and it turned out to be Lady Simone the Deceitful and Count Blandula, who'd come to taunt them and ensure them that they would FAIL and that they, Lady Simone the Deceitful and Count Blandula, would soon have castles of their own! 

After another day's march, the group encountered a pair of patrolling Pusgoyle Blightlords and decided to kill them... 

Pusgoyle Blightlords engaging the player characters over land grown foul by the taint of Nurgle! 

The Pusgoyle Blightlords were terrifying opponents, but were eventually overcome... 

And that's where we ended things...