The party paid their crew and set down the river. They decided to fish as they sailed to keep the rations high. Sigmar flew up when they saw stones by the eastern riverbank and could see the stilt houses of the druid-supporters in the distance but they didn't stop. Observing the land,she reported some hills to the south east and the rest forest.
When the karvi could not go any further, they beached it on the west bank and left the griffons and four rowers to guard the boat. Yerestor stayed becuase his player was late. They headed in a south-earterly direction as they could see it was more open, but boggy.
Travelling across the bogs they saw the spring and the animal carcasses piled into it. The bog mummy king and his 12 skeletons emerged from the pools and there was a stand off, the party were clearly foreigners but not Invaders or Norse. So the undead king motioned for Sigmar to remove her clealry foreign armour (as it couldn't really speak) and lay it as an offering. The party objected to that and motioned her to keep it on, since it was clear the undead were posioning the river. Once they had gone back and forth arguing, the king lost patience and order his retinue to attack.
The battle was a real slog. The supernatural HD was easiest to represent by adding another 6 AP onto the mummy, but the skeletons taking only 1 point of dmaage was changed to half-damage, due to the higher HP. Sigmar kept switching between her different weapons, using two of the 8 rowers with them to carry her pike. She repeatedly had the Eyebiter thrown at her, and towards the end got hit. She finally dispatched the mummy with her two-haned axe.
While this was happening, Althrow Tams had realised that they could weaken all 8 of the attacking skeletons by using beothony to weaken the undead, reducing their attack and parry and making them mosly ineffective.
Jogrill Borson realised that he had no armour and no apprecitive dex as he was still healing from his fight with the Bonethief. While engaged with four skeletons, he attempted to run and failed. He was chopped to bits by the skeletons. Four of the rowers moved to engage and the party bemoaned they would have to pay them as marines.
After a long fight, lasting many rounds, the remaining skeletons disengaged and hoisted the body of their inert king and bore him away. Losing 1 HP per round untl the party found them all inert.
Looting was good as eyebiter was distinctly silver and the neckalaces (I described them as torcs) were surely worth a bit.
They pulled the cracasses out of the river and spent a fogy night following it. Chosing it over a tower south or the hills north. Reaching Dorbog, they announced what they did and showed the torcs and Eeyebiter to Donnagh and Mish. Mish the druid healed them with the blood ritual and advised them that some things are best left buried. His control of Donnagh was obvious. The party was directed down to the docks where a repalcement might be found and men had been talking about magic.
They found the viking drinking alone. Althrow Tams was incensed at how it cost 70 sp to buy enought drinks. Was informed how to gain magic from a beloved horse.
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