The Enemy Within Prologue: The sausage man can... (Session 3)

Session 3: The sausage man can... 

On the 30rd of January 2026 I ran the third session of my home Enemy Within Campaign.

 Afternoon, 1st of Nachexen, 2512

The Vagabond head to the second of Herr Fleischer's shop, where they meet the manager, a man named  Albrechte. During their discussion with the obviously drunk Butcher, they learn a little Hanna and Hans, as well as the fact that the Fleischer's used to live in this neighbourhood, and that this was Herr Fleischers second shop. It's a lot busier than than Herr Fleischer's newest shop, the meat's more affordable, and it attracts a lower middle class clientele.
    Some of the customers, getting frustrated because the Vagabonds are slowing down Alchrechte, start to joke about how he should go work for "Herr Stark" because then he wouldn't be slowing anyone down, thanks to Stark's lack of customers.
    
    Once they are done with Albrechte, the Vagabonds decide to go and investigate the local park, and the Fleischer's former home. However, they turn up nothing in either location and eventually set out for the location of the final of Herr Fleischer's butcher's shops. However, they stop on route to deliver some sausages to Frau Garten. She'd asked if they wouldn't mind running her the errand, and upon their return, Frau Garten starts flirting with Diethart Drechsler, insinuating that she might know more about the disappearance, so long as he is willing to take her to dinner at her favourite restaurant, Chez Louis.
Diethart Drechsler agrees to the rendezvous, and the Vagabond head onto the last butcher's shop. 

They arrive as Erich, the last of the managers, is closing up for the day. The shop has been bought out by the imperial gunnery school, who needed meet for the passing out ceremony of this years cadets.  Erich explains that this is the oldest of the shops, and that is was started by Herr Fleischer after he finished his apprenticeship. They also learn that Herr Fleischer served his apprenticeship alongside another local butcher, Emil Stark, but that the pair had had a falling out. Lastly, in passing Erich mentions that Albrechte's shop had suffered a break in, and when the Vagabonds mentioned that they might return and question him, Erich mentions that Albrechte will be closing up soon, so the vagabonds will need to track him down at the Green Bottle Inn. 

The Vagabonds decide  that despite it getting close to the time that Diethart Drechsler had agreed meet with Frau Garten, they would quickly visit Her Stark's Shop. 

Upon arrival the group find the shop to be run down and filthy, and Diethart Drechsler pretends to be a purchaser for the Imperial gunnery school. Based on this farce, he is able to persuade Herr Stark to give him a quick tour of the down stairs of butcher's shop. Finding nothing but meet that he probably wouldn't eat, Diethart uses the opportunity to question Stark, finding him to be jolly in a manner not supported by the state of his business, and learns that according to Stark, Herr Fleischer is poisoning people.

Leaving, the vagabonds circle around and discuss their next moves. Diethart settles of taking dinner with Frau Garten, Connie decides to check out the Gunner's arms, and Erik decides to check out the Green Bottle Inn. So the scene is set for the evening.

We had a bit of a slow evening. We opened with some Exp expenditure and a discussion of how character progression works in WFRP 4e, and events were somewhat slowed by a series of technical issues. As a result, we didn't get much done. 

Connie and Diethart earned 100xp each, while Erik earned 100xp for the session, and another 50xp for dropping a bit of his background during play. I was a little generous on this bonus, as Angie, Erik's player, is a little literal in her understanding of the rules of this minigame, and took crack at it despite being nervous about the process of dropping background elements into game.

Next time...we split the party.


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