Brokk looks after Tobruk and heals his wounds. We continue our journey down the Khyprian Road. After a while we come upon a small hamlet called Freistadt. It is basically a couple of small buildings and one large building. The large building is a coaching inn, which is a mini fortification where you can stable your horse, a tavern, an inn and a fence around it to keep some form of protection. They are common throughout the Empire. The inn is called the Crossed Lances.

There is a small gathering of peasants that are watching something happen. They have someone lashed to a stick and someone is addressing the crowd. The man is wearing armor and weapons, and has a wide-brimmed hat. He has four henchmen along with him.

The dwarves head into the crowd and try to see what is going on. The man is going on about how “We have tracked this foul creature of darkness through forest and mountain, across our great lord Sigmar’s empire to this savage wilderness. He thought he could escape Sigmar’s wrath, he thought wrong!” People in the crowd are chanting “Burn him!”

Brokk asks one of the townspeople who the heretic is, and they say they don’t know. They just arrived in town with him.

The heretic speaks up, saying “Oswald, you fool, you know…” and doesn’t finish as one of the henchmen clocks him with a club. He has longer hair and looks sturdy, but is really beaten up. He seems like a Norska, with a Scandinavian look.

Tobruk asks one of the other townspeople what he did, and she says that he was communing with the devil. He and He then approaches the witch hunter, which and the man greets him warmly. He says that Sigmar favors dwarves. Tobruk asks if the man could be put into service instead of burning him, and the man laughs.

We start thinking that the witch hunter does not have any charges because he is being very vague. Brokk tries to turn the crowd from being rabid into questioning the witch hunter but it doesn’t take. He continues chanting “Where’s the proof?”

Tobruk asks the man if he’s done anything, and he responds that he was just helping in the fields and they arrested him. The thug goes to hit him with the club again and Tobruk goes to stop him. The witch hunter whirls and draws his rapier, his eyes ablaze. The man who was going to strike the prisoner tries to hit Tobruk and misses.

Jean, the cartographer, moves away toward the tavern.

Brokk steps in between Tobruk and the witch hunter and says that he is Brokk’s prisoner, so the man can’t touch him. He sneers at Brokk.

Tobruk is hit in the chest by the guard he is near, and hits him in the chest. Tobruk grapples him. One of the thugs takes two arrows, one in each arm, and then a third in his chest, breaking his ribs.

Maruviel looses an arrow and hits the witch hunter in the chest, but it doesn’t wound him much. He retreats and fires his pistol at Brokk, hitting him in the arm. Brokk turns and hurls his bola at the man, trapping him.

Tobruk slashes the guard in the leg and he falls. A second blow hits him in the gut and destroys his internal organs, killing him instantly. “We’ll make kidney pie later!!” Tobruk says.

Vedasi shoots one of the guards right between the eyes with an arrow. The prisoner, Geeves, breaks out of his bonds. The witch hunter drops his pistol and gets out of the bola. Vedasi fires an arrow at a fleeing thug and kills him. Jean shoots Oswald in the right arm and he drops his rapier. He goes further insane (he was already doubly so) and now thinks that he is worthless. Tobruk chops that same arm right off and he falls to the ground, dead. The last guard is shot dead and the group checks all of the bodies. We take a bunch of their equipment. We notice that they have scars on their backs but don’t realize that they are probably flagellants. Brokk heals himself.

Jean reads the witch hunter’s book and they are insane ramblings, about how he is going to conquer the world with his mental powers. He also has a thigh bone with him with a stylized hammer on it, the mark of the Cult of Sigmar. We pile the bodies into the burn pile and set it ablaze.

Geeves, the man who was about to be burned, goes to the stables and finds all of his stuff. He comes back and asks help to be healed. Brokk says that we should go to the inn and he will help him. Geeves introduces himself and says that he is a traveler who was working as a farmhand nearby and was arrested for no reason. Brokk heals him quite well.

We head into the taproom. There are men playing cards in the corner. Tobruk buys a round for everyone in the bar and explains that they were madmen, and apologize for the mess. They seem to accept us.

We speak with Greeves and he says that he came from the north and was captured by a neighboring clan. He was a captive for a long time until they got raided and then he fled south. He has some skills with healing and alchemy. Brokk gets to know him a bit and they sit and eat.

The others get up and check to see if one of the other bar patrons is Wolfgang Kellerman, as he might be the one who could give us a “quest for hidden treasure” as the note we found had said.