Summary of the previous session:
Behind the barricades, the adventurers met Hrgungdvar and Foxrouge who are adventurers themselves, and came to the aid of the suffering population of Old-Auheim. In the Black Bear Inn, Odilon Fußtreu, Constable of Old-Auheim's northern part Norbruck, told them of roaming bands Bleachlings as well as fugitives from Auheim camping south of the river. He believed that they fled from vampires but brought some of these creatures with them - better keep running water between us!
In Sutbruck, the derelict southern part of Old-Auheim, our heroes learned of strange happenings in Auheim. They met Snilkiss Samtstein, brother of the deceased Frundir Samtstein and leader of the refugees. They heard of shaking ground, rumbling earth, black snow, vampiric stalkers in the night, and other foreboding rumors.
On they pressed, marching through the night, fending off leathery creatures descending on them from the dark sky. And finally, well after midnight, they reached Auheim, a town seemingly lying in ruins with pyres burning at several places. Small creatures were burning large ones.
When they decided to end this, they confronted the doomchildren feeding the pyres, but suddenly a loud rumbling and shaking, the earth cracking open and lava welling up, interrupted the fight. In the center of town, a huge demon burst out of the ground.