Will call this Olefin's Black Madonna post
Our GM informed me and three other PC’s that with our time in service we would have been at the battle of Czestochowa and thus gave us information from that battle in the Module including the information about the minefield that we would have encountered during the battle).
We approached Czestochowa, avoiding the minefield and bringing our vehicles to a halt as we got to the ruins, finding a safe place to hide them and leaving a squad with them to defend them, with one PC as well. We then proceeded thru the ruins, having to avoid rubble at one point and an unexploded shell. We got to the foot of the hill the monastery was on and took a trail, then went to the cave he had described.
When we got there we broke out the three flashlights we had and also made some torches in case the batteries went out. We left three Berets on guard and went into the cave with the rest. The place was a maze and we lost one of the flashlights crossing this underground river. Piotr had a crossbow bolt come out of nowhere and nail his vest. Our engineer spotted two traps and disarmed them.
We finally got to the room the Madonna was in, with the dead paras and two dead GI’s just standing there and this maniac rose up, shouting like a banshee and bringing up an AK! One of the Berets went down hard, but Narsimha and I, who had our pistols out and ready, dropped him with several shots to the chest. We ran over and he was still alive (he had on a vest) so we wrestled the AK out of his hands and knocked him out cold. Piotr was kneeling by the Madonna as we tied up the nut we had found.
We found a trap on the Madonna so I had our guys gather up anything of value, including the nut that was in the room, and take it out thru an exit we found at the back of the altar, while we tried to disarm the trap. We also took down the two GI’s and the Beret who had died and put them in one of the crypts with the monks, after we stripped their gear. We succeeded in disarming the trap and wrapped the Madonna up and got outside.
We gathered up everyone and got back to the vehicles (after we had to kill a pack of wild dogs who we stumbled across) and found out they had been in a firefight with 20 marauders from the 9th Tank Division, with two guys dead and one wounded and one Russian jeep shot up and useless. We stripped it of what we could get, grabbed what was useful from the marauders that we could carry and started for home.
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