While Sigmar's cult is popular in Arnsberg as much as anywhere in the Empire, town itself grew out of fusion of old Arnsberg with the local monastery lands of the Order of Verena. This all makes priests of the goddess relatively powerful in the city' hierarchy.
Bandit's transformation into a mutant (With a sigil of Tzeentch on her, no less!) caused considerable discussion. Can they trust her now? Will her taint spread? Should they kill her or try to remove the cursed symbol surgically? And, this being Warhammer, is there really any difference between the two? Dwarf suggests surgery to try and cure the Elf. Nobleman is opposing the idea saying she'll turn into monster. Halfling supports the Bandit making the Noble even more vehement on the idea of burning the mutant. Zealot also voted for surgery: "We need to remove this unholy symbol before it burrows it tendrils into her brain!"
Now, as I already wrote, Zealot has talked about this whole cult business with the high priestess of Verena. Meanwhile, Noble visited town's high priest of Sigmar. Sigmar's priest is a large, jovial fellow. Former templar, he now serves as a high priest of Sigmar's cult in Arnsberg. This all happened a session or three before this whole "Honey, I Turned into Mutant" incident. So, now discussion naturally turned to the matters of religion:
Noble: "Let's discuss this in a matter of rational men."
Zealot: "Yes. Let's!" [player turns to me] "I run as fast as I can towards temple of Verena."
Noble: [to me] "I stand there, shaking my head sadly… And then run as fast as I can towards the temple of Sigmar."
While Zealot was convincing the High Priestess to help them, Noble visited the Sigmar's temple. In comes the High Priest all drenched in blood!
"Never mind me! We are just gutting the pigs for the winter!" says he, while taking his apron off. He takes Noble in his study and offers him some beer and tobacco for the pipe. He starts to tell the story of how, as a young man, he went on the raid against orcs only to end up fighting against his own companions who bought some sort of lucky charms that turned them into monsters.
Noble: "Well, you see…"
Priest: "and then I had to kill them, KILL THEM ALL! Ha ha ha!"
Noble: "Yes, indeed but…"
Priest: "But I couldn't kill them! I bash their heads with my hammer and they grow two new ones! What's a man to do then, eh?"
Noble: "Funny story that one…"
Priest: "So I decided to burn the fuckers and burn they did! Boy, that was sure funny! SO! What did you wanted to tell me?"
Noble then explained the story about the mutant and how it seems to him that entire party has conspired against him. So priest explained him how taint of Chaos is hard to spot and that unfounded paranoia is just the kind of thing Chaos cultists want to start. There's no need to distrust his long time friend, Bullwick the Halfling. In front of the increasingly dumbfounded Noble, priest proceeds to explain how his Zealot colleague is obviously, well, a zealot and dwarf barber-surgeon is a long time resident of Arnsberg. Really what's all of this fuss about? There's nothing wrong these folks.
Noble: "What the hell?"
Preist: "So, with these matters aside, let us go now and burn some elf mutants!"
Noble: "Yay!"
(GNN)
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