Jarlyn’s place

I activate my shield of the faithful and steadfastness, but the shield does not seem to work even though I know I prayed well. We charge towards the camp and reach the edge - segment 12. Glaive runs through and attacks and as she hits it glows (much like when Jarlyn hits evil); it drops - disemboweled. Perrol attacks another, but botches - he spends a hero point. Kross fires two exploding arrows and hits DCV 11 and 13, blue tinge envelops about 20 orcs and they drop. We notice that the tent glows red again. Ghoral misses the same one that Perrol missed. Jarlyn keeps heading for the tent. The orc next to Perrol takes off running. For this camp, 1/4 runs off following this guy, 1/4 is gawking, and 1/4 heads towards us. Glaive, Perrol, and Ghoral keep heading towards the tent. Kross fires an arrow at one of the guards in front of the tent, hits DCV 7 in the right hand and it’s “mince meat”, he drops his weapon. Kross fires the second arrow, hits DCV10 in the chest and he drops.  Jarlyn moves 12m more towards the tent. The three guards outside the tent move to confront Jarlyn (x2) and Glaive (x1), they all miss. Two more guards come from around the tent, one on Jarlyn and one on Glaive. The 1/4 of the orcs that were paused, also start running away. Glaive attacks, hits DCV8 in the right shoulder for 6 body and his long swords falls out of his hand and he’s dazed and her second attack misses. Perrolmoves next to one by Jarlyn and attacks but misses. Ghoral moves next to the group on us and hits DCV 10 in the vitals for 14 body and splits them in half. Kross fires an exploding arrow to the right side of the tent and hits DCV 6, for 8 body and 29 stun, ~13 orcs drop. His second arrow hits DCV 10 (by 5) in vitals and he drops. Jarlyn attacks one and hits DCV 8 in right shoulder for 11 body and he drops and his second attack misses. One orc attacks Jarlyn but misses. The remaining orcs that were coming around the left side of the tent just keep running. Glaive, Jarlyn, and Ghoral notice three tranparent entities that come out of the tent, with two attacking Jarlyn and one on Perrol. They miss Jarlyn, but hit Perrol  with DCV 11 and is drained of 10 stun. Glaive moves to help Jarlyn and hits DCV 8 for 2 body but misses second attack with DCV 5. Perrol  hits DCV 8 for 7 body and it wails. Ghoral attacks the orc in front of him and his right arm drops off and he drops. Glaive attacks the ghost in front of her and hits DCV 9 for 10 body, it wails, then she misses with DCV 4. Perrol hits DCV 11 for 8 body and appears to be dissapating. Kross fires an arrow at the tent flap opening and hits DCV 10 for 5 body, but about three meters in front of us, the arrow hits a “shield” and drops. Ghoral attacks another ghost and misses. Jarlyn attacks one that hasn’t been hit yet; hits DCV 10 for 14 body and then DCV 8 for 7 body and it dissapates. Five orcs that were downed in the first group by the exploding arrows jump and run away. Perrol notices a huge flare up of magic from inside the tent and tendrils of magic creep towards where the bonfires were. Also, the biggest orc we have ever seen, opens the tent flap, steps out and closes the tent flap; he stays behind the shield and says “you will feel the wrath of Sunkrag”. We also notice our blue tinge starting to fade slightly. Glaive attacks the ghost and misses with a DCV 6.  Perrol misses too. Ghoral moves to attack the orc but hits the force field, so he attacks it but misses. Sunkrag move to Ghoral and says “you will be my first”, but misses. His sword has no issue getting through the force field. Kross delays. Jarlyn attacks the ghost in front of Glaive, but misses, and he attacks the one in front of Perrol and hits DCV 13 for 11 body and it dissipates. The ghost attacks Glaive but misses. Glaive kills that last ghost. Perrol delays. Ghoral backs up a few feet to taunt Sunkrag, but Sunkrag follows anyway. Sunkrag swings at Ghoral but misses. Perrol makes his teamwork roll and slips behind Sunkrag and attacks, hits DCV 5 in right arm for 17 body; uses a hero point to move it to his shoulder. Ghoral notices that his eyes glazed over a little. Kross fires two arrows at Sunkrag; hits DCV 13 (by 10) in the chest for 15 body and second hits DCV 15 (by 10) in the chest for 15 body; he falls forward to the ground. Kross notices that skeletons are rising from the ashes. Jarlyn attacks the shield and it seems to bounce off. Glaive attacks the shield and hits DCV 12 for 9 body then DCV  for 7 body. Perrol notices that the shield seems to be weakening and he attempts his Magic Dischord spell but it does not work. Ghoral beheads Sunkrag to prevent him from becoming a zombie or skeleton. Glaive attacks the shield and hits DCV 14 for 9 body. Perrol starts his spell again and is taking extra time. Kross moves up towards the team. Ghoral attacks the shield and hits DCV 4 for 6 body. Jarlyn hits the shield with DCV 4 for 10 body. The tent flap flies open and a human figure in a back cowl is there. Glaive thinks it looks like it might be the Lord Marshall. A green bolt goes flying by Ghoral. Glaive attacks the shield and hits DCV 14 for 12 body. We see large cracks in the shield and then it reforms. Ghoral attacks the shield and it bounces off. Kross fires two arrows at the shield and hits DCV 9 for 4 body and DCV 10 for 5 body. Jarlyn hits DCV 7 for 12 body; the shield spiderwebs and then slowly reforms. Perrol uses his spell again the shield wobbles and then shatters. Glaive and Perrol make the teamwork roll and work with Ghoral. Ghoral attacks and hits DCV 14 (by 10) for 21 body in the left arm and it is lopped off. Glaive hits DCV 6 in the chest for 7 body and he goes down. Perrol hits DCV 11 (by 10) in chest for 18 body. The skeletons tumble. Kross picks up Sunkrags head and shouts at the remaining orcs/goblins and they scatter.

 We also confirm that it’s a whithered Lord Marshall. We find spell components (worth a couple gold) and 4 gp, 8 sp. We eventually get the tablet out and call the ship back. We eventually get the tablet out and call the ship back. On the way back to Tietha we are intercepted by a warship that escorts us back. We are met by some Paladins from Favored of Kilbern and a couple Hellreavers. Aldus Manus and Julliene meet us. They take the stone to a temple. There is a discussion among the high priests in town. We find out that it was an alter from one of the red gods churches, Lord of the Graven Spears; extremely evil. Aldus Manus asks us what we need; we have time to think.

We earn 5 xp.

We go to Lord Redwater’s office, as requested. In the office is the new captain of the guard, two sargeants and Lord Redwater’s wife. The Lord says he was calling a council of war because the actions of the orcs/goblins (of burning their dead) is abnormal and he’s wondering if it has something to do with necromancer. Kross says this is something that might be done to create skeletons or ghosts. The Lord is looking for advice on what to do, because he doesn’t believe they can withstand another attack. He thinks we may need to attack them. Kross also mentions three types of skeletons: regular, clawed (that could scale walls) and hunter (hunts the living). As we are discussing, someone is knocking on the door and he says there is someone approaching the wall that looks like they want to talk. By the time we get there, they are walking back. One guard says they say “The Great Sunkrag says we will starve and it will be a great sacrifice to his father”. As they are walking back, Kross fires at once that is not looking. Hits DCV 8 (by 5) for 6 body in the right foot, second hits DCV 7 for 8 body in the right thigh; he drops. The one orc picks up the other one and starts running. Kross gets off one more shot at the guy carrying the orc and hits DCV 16 (by 10) in the stomach for 9 body, the second shot hits DCV 9 (by 5) in the stomach for 4 body; the orc drops. We go back to Lord Redwater’s office. While there, a cat comes in to the room and hisses at Kross. Perrol does detect magic and sees a blob of magic behind Kross. Segment 12. Glaive attacks blindly behind Kross and hits for 5 body; we hear a wail. Perrol attacks and hits DCV 11 for 7 body. Ghoral delays. Jarlyn does detect evil  and sees the blob and pulls out his mace. The blob seems to overtak Kross and he hears something say, “Attack the Lord, attack the lord”, but he fails. Kross dives for cover. Glaive does a double attack and hits for 4 body and 3 body, consecutively. Ghoral swings but misses. Perrol attacks with DCV 13 for 6 body, it appears to be getting less solid. Jarlyn attacks and hits DCV 10 for 10 body and the ghost disapates. We realize that we need to look for ghosts before we discuss anything of importance. Perrol and Jarlyn do a sweep of the keep and finds nothing. Perrol says he’s seeing flashes of magic from the back of the orc camp where the tent is. Even though it is a long distance, Jarlyn detects evil from that same area. Perrol also notices that Jarlyn’s holy symbol has a faint magical aura. We suddenly remember that there were many “good” orcs and they were just a scouting group. We are discussing the best plan of attack. We decide that all of us but Kross will attack from the backside. Jarlyn decides to pray for strength in battle, insight as to whether this is the best plan and asking for any help as to what is special about my holy symbol. I hear a tired voice say, “What do you want? You have the means to defeat these guys and you have the boons. Although when those hundred skeletons attack, we will be screwed. To find out more about my holy symbol, we should talk to Aldus Manus. He says the Necromancer has a tighter control over the skeletons”.  We decide that they will send about 20 guys and Kross out to draw them in, but Jarlyn gets an uncomfortable feeling about. So we decide, to sneak behind and use an amulet.

We head out of the castle on the horses. The horses get away a little bit from Glaive and Ghoral and they make noise, but we aren’t followed. We do see one of the good orcs and ask what he has seen, but he’s no help. We say goodbye and head up the trail; we periodically see “good” orcs. We make it around to the backside of the camp. Jarlyn prays and then Ghoral uses his boon to ask for success in battle and to defeat the necromancer. Jarlyn starts glowing and then a voice through him says, “I like to help those that help themselves”. Then Jarlyn touches everyone and they start glowing blue, including Jarlyn. We end here…..no xp

It’s about 8-9 pm at night; Glaive, Perrol, and Ghoral are up on the walls. Glaive notices some noise coming from the camps outside of the walls and Ghoral notices them getting weapons ready and milling around. They seem to be mobilizing for something. Around the same time, the lieutenant comes up to Perrol and tells them that Lord Redwater requests our presence. At the same time a runner wakes Jarlyn and Kross up to see Lord Redwater. We arrive at his office and find him in rapid talk-fire mode with the Captain. He sends them away. He then asks if we could go to meet the supply ship since we made it past the hoarde before. We decide to go get the supplies and we take three soldiers. Perrol and Jarlyn leave behind their arrows and bolts, respectively. We head over the wall and head down to the beach. As we are putting the boats in the water Kross and Ghoral notice a boat anchored in the distance. As we get closer, we notice a flicker of fire and then as we get closer we see it spreading and we see fighting. Ghoral sees some rafts near the ship. Kross takes the time to fire a couple arrows and hits both times in the left arm (7 body) and right foot (5 body) of one orc. He fires a couple again, the first hits DCV10 (by 5) in the chest for 7 body and the second hits DCV 8 (by 5) in the vitals for 8 body; the orc drops. One of the marines on the ship is throwing off the grappling hooks and we yell up that we are coming on board to help. Perrol and Kross are the first on-board, Glaive and Ghoral are next, with Jarlyn and the three marines are last. Perrol does a “move by” on a orc and hits DCV 8 (by 5) for 6 body in the vitals; the orc goes down.

Segment 12. Glaive is on deck and attacks an orc, hits DCV 6 in the back (chest) for 6 body and he drops and her second attack hits DCV 10 in the thigh for 7 body. Perrol attacks an orc near him and hits DCV 5 and hits in the chest for 6 body. Kross climbs up the mast. Ghoral does a half move to the nearest orc and hits DCV 4 for 9 body in the left arm; he drops. Jarlyn and the marines make it on board the ship. There are four orcs trying to set fires; two break off to go into the hold and the other heads toward another hold entrance. Several orcs and marines go down; post segment 12 recoveries. Glaive hits on twice for a little damage. Perrol attacks and hits DCV11 in vitals for 6 body and the orc drops stunned. Ghoral hits DCV11 for 3 body in shoulder. Kross fires at the first two orcs that were going into the hold; first hits DCV 6 in the vitals for 2 body; second shot hits DCV 11 (by 5) in the stomach for 2 body. Jarlyn moves next to the two that are going down into the hold; first hits DCV 8 for 11 body in right leg and it goes down and he hits the second for DCV 14. The first orc throws his oil and fire down the hold and the second drops his torch down the stairs as he dies. Jarlyn yells at the three marines and tells them to go down to put out the fire; one runs down, one grabs a bucket of sand and heads down and the last one dumps some cloth in seawater and heads down. Glaive attacks and hits DCV 14 (by 5) in vitals for 7 body; it drops. Perrol hits DCV 15 (by 5) in shoulder for 8 body; it drops. Ghoral misses. Kross aims at the next two that were heading down the other hold; hits DCV 8 for 7 body in the chest, it drops, and the second hits DCV 18 (by 10) in the right hand for 9 body, he drops the torch at his feet. Jarlyn kills the first orc that he maimed. Glaive gets over to the two guys going down in to the hold; hits DCV 15 (by 10) in stomach for 7 body, it drops, and second hits DCV 10 for 4 body in the stomach; he dies. Perrol attacks hits DCV 15 in the head for 8 body and it drops. Ghoral hits DCV 6 in chest for 11 body and he drops. Its the last one. We take control of the fire. There are three dead marines and one that is injured. Jarlyn heals the one marine for 6 body. The captain is injured and I heal him for 6 body. We talk with the captain and tell him of the situation. We ask him to wait for us while we get an item of great importance back to Tietha. He asks for a writ from Lord Redwater, which we agree to try and obtain. He will stay offshore, farther at night but closer during the day. We unload the supplies and head back. As we approach, we smell and see a couple bonfires in the orc camps; smells like burnt flesh. We see some people walking the walls with spears and bandages. Someone from the wall sees us and one of the marines hails the person on the wall. Kross goes ahead and brings some arrows up and sees that almost all are wounded. Kross learns that there was a full on rush about 15 minutes after we left. The orcs were using grappling hooks and crude ladders. Once Jarlyn heads to the triage area and heals three soldiers that are expected to die for 4, 7, and 10 body, respectively. A sargeant comes up to Jarlyn and asks him to see Lord Redwater, he’s hurt. As we are going down, he asks what we should do with the dead orcs. I say we should talk to Kross on the best method. I get to Lord Redwater and heal him for 9 body. The lady thanks me. The dead orcs are beheaded and the bodies are thrown into the ocean and we crush and bury the heads. We also get people digging again. We see between 100-150 orcs left and 35 men at arms (started with 75). It is noonish time. One of the old lieutenants approaches us and lets us know that Lord Redwater wants to see us.

1 XP

We start with segment one in the battle, Glaive recovers. Ghoral attempts to hit a zombie but misses. Perrol jumps down and is able to attack a zombie next to Glaive, hits DCV 10 (by 5) in vitals for 8 body and 32 stun; the zombie stops moving. Kross fires at a zombie near one of the guards and hits DCV 12 (by 5) for 8 body and next shot hits DCV 14 (by 5) for 7 body; it drops. Jarlyn attempts turn undead and is succesful on four zombies. Glaive attacks the one that was turned away from her, hits DCV 2 for 10 body, it drops. Perrol attacks one that was turned and hits for 5 body. Ghoral attacks the other one that was turned and hits DCV 3 for 9 body, it drops. Jarlyn notices that the Troll that was turned is sauntering back. Perrol is attacked and is hit for 5 body and 25 stun (no body and 15 stun taken). Kross fires at the Troll that was burning and hits DCV 5 for 7 body and second shot hits DCV 7 for 7 body. Jarlyn attempts to turn the troll that returned, a red light shoots out and red globe forms in front and then shatters and moves on; the troll pauses. A guard beheads a zombie and some guards gang up on the last turned zombie and it drops. The burnt troll picks up two zombies and throws them over the wall. The “good” troll grabs the burnt troll and heaves it over the wall. It almost hits Ghoral but he is able to jump aside. The troll shatters its leg and attempts to get up. Glaive kills another zombie. Perrol attacks one and hits DCV 10 for 7 body; it drops. Glaive  misses. Perrol attacks a zombie and hits DCV 10 for 7 body. Kross fires at the troll outside and hits DCV14 (by 10) for 12 body and the second hits DCV 10 (by 5) for 8 body. Ghoral attacks the troll and hits DCV 11 for 12 body and it drops. Two guards kill another zombie. One of the guards next to Glaive goes down with a hit to the vitals. Post segment 12 recoveries. Several more zombies are killed. Jarlyn attempts to turn the troll outside but it just pauses. The guards kill another zombie. The troll picks up four more zombies and tosses them over. Glaive attacks another and kills it. Perrol attacks two and hits one for 3 body and another for 5 body. Perrol is hit in the vitals for 3 body in the vitals and the second hits him for 2 body. Kross fires at the troll and hits DCV 11 for 9 body and it drops. Jarlyn turns undead on the two zombies in front of Perrol and they crumble. The guards kill the last zombie. Jarlyn turns two more zombies outside and then I go down into the courtyard and heal two guards for 10 body each and Glaive for 6 body. Ghoral notices that the two zombies come back outside. All of the sudden, a green ray shoots out of the dark and hits Ghoral doing 8 body and 24 stun. Glaive and Perrol notice a green glow that hits Ghoral and he sways. Perrol yells out that Ghoral is hit; get him down. Kross attempts to get him down and a green bolt flies past him and he gets Ghoral down. We have a tense night, but Jarlyn picks off the remaining zombies.

Day breaks. It appears that ~1/4 of the goblins have disappeared. The digging in the chapel starts with the morning. During the day, people rest and Glaive makes magic items.  Kross collects some arrows. At dusk, we see a fire arrow out at sea. One of the guards says, “hot damn” and runs off; it’s the resupply.

Glaive and Jarlyn notice one of the orcs from another camp examining one of the Trolls and then starts beckoning others to come over. We let the others know and Kross decides to concentrate on the one Troll and hits him twice in the head for max damage - 7 body each. The helmet falls off. Kross takes two more shots to the head and hits for 4 body and 7 body in the head. Glaive and Jarlyn notice that part of the Trolls head looks caved in, so we believe he’s dead. Jarlyn notice that the arm on the other Troll starts to move, so he lets Kross know. Kross targets the other troll and hits him once for 4 body, which causes the helmet to fall off, and the second sinks all the way into the head with just the fletching showing. Ghoral completes 2 fire arrows, so Kross fires one at the siege engine and it goes inside the apparatus. Kross fires again and it goes inside again. Ghoral notices that the Orcs may be trying to get organized but the goblins are going bonkers.  Ghoral also sees two orcs heading toward the siege engine. Kross fires a regular arrow and hits a Goblin in the chest, it falls. Kross fires again and hits an Orc in the vitals for 5 body, he drops. Eventually the siege engine catches fire and topples. We are finished wreaking havoc and it takes a couple hours for them to reorganize.

The lord approaches Jarlyn and asks for him to bless the dig we are about to do inside, so he does. As he’s praying, he feels a hand on his shoulder. He looks up and a non-descript man is there that asks what we are trying to do. I explain that we want to remove the evil from below the temple and take it away to keep it out of the hands of the evil hoard and away from the castle to save the people inside. The man (appears to be an angel) and he says that if I remove it, it falls upon me to return i to Aldus Manus. I accept the task. I tell the lord that it’s ok to start digging and he and goes off. I then tell everyone of my task. Later than night Perrol notices there isn’t much noise from the camps so he gets Ghoral. Ghoral notices that there seems to be fewer goblins in the goblin camp and less activity at all the camps. Perrol listens some more and it seems real subdued in the camps with people whispering. Jarlyn notices a “distrubance in the force” and not a good one. He thinks the Necromance is up to no good. Perrol sees different hues of light coming from the tent. It’s late evening. We set watches with Perrol having the first one. Early on in the watch, Perrol notices a mass of energy heading toward the castle. He tells a guard to wake us up. He takes off and rouses his corporal on the way. The corporal talks to Perrol and raises the general alarm. Perrol notices two large forms in the mass. Then he sees the large shapes flinging other objects, which he notices are  orcs and goblins that land in the courtyard. In the mean time, we are awakened and start heading out to the battlements. Perrol yells down at guards coming out to let them know that some are in the courtyard, segment 12.

Glaive jumps off the battlement into the courtyard. Perrol delays, but lets everyone know what’s happening. Kross moves to Perrol to look at what is happening, but can’t see anything. Ghoral goes to the wall and sees about 48 orcs and goblins plus the two trolls. Jarlyn goes to the castle wall and enables his Shield of the Faithful - successfully. Ghoral notices that each Troll picks up two more orcs/goblins in each hand and tosses them over. Ghoral lets everyone know they’re incoming. Perrol fires an arrow at one of the trolls in the shoulder for 4 body and the second arrow hits in the same shoulder for 8 body. Glaive lands in the courtyard next to an orc and attacks; hits DCV12 (by 5) for 4 body in the stomach and the second one is a botch, she spends 2 hero points. Perrol aims at the same troll but the other shoulder; hits DCV 3 for 7 body and DCV 4 for 2 body. Ghoral tries to climb down but slips and falls; takes 10 stun and is prone on the ground. Kross goes to grab a torch and throws it down. Jarlyn attemps turn undead on one of the trolls and the energy washes over it. In the courtyard, one of the orcs gets his arm chopped off. The troll with the arrows in his shoulder picks up four more orcs/goblins and tosses them in. The other troll starts to walk away. Glaive attacks an orc and hits for 5 body in the shoulder and the second attack hits in the shoulder for 3 body; bounces off. Perrol fires at the Troll but misses. Ghorals stands up and moves next to an orc. The zombies attack; two attack Ghoral and one hits for 6 stun and the other misses. Three attack Glaive and miss. Four other zombies stand up and the other seven attack other humans. One hits a human and he shrieks and falls, another hits a human and draws blood, and the rest miss. Kross delays. Jarlyn attempts to turn the other troll, it pauses as it’s bending over but continues on and throws two more trolls in. Kross runs to grab some oil. Glaive attacks and hits DCV 4 in the chest for 3 body and hits DCV 13 (by5) and uses one hero point to get max damage, i.e. 12 body, in the shoulder; it crumples to the ground. Ghoral attacks one and hits DCV 5 in the right should for 9 body, it’s shoulder comes off. The humans attack and kill one zombie plus more come out of the barracks. The archers on the wall are firing at the troll. Perrol fires at the troll twice and misses. Glaive attacks one of the orcs in front of her and hits DCV 8 in the thigh for 7 body and the leg comes off and the zombie falls to the ground and her second attack hits DCV6 (by 5) in the chest for 6 body. Perrol  hits the troll with one arrow in the shoulder for 5 body. Kross throws oil bag on the troll and hits in the chest with a splat, falls to the ground where the tourch is and the Troll catches fire. Ghoral attacks and misses. Jarlyn concentrates on four zombies in the courtyard fighting the humans and after spending a hero to up his presence attack and the all four crumble. The humans attack kill a zombie and one chops off the arm of another zombie. The troll that’s burning seems confused. The zombies attack and injure two guards, two attack Ghoral and one hits for 5 stun. Two attack Glaive, one hits for 5 stun and the second hits for 4 body and 24 stun; Glaive is unconsiuous, but standing. We do post segment 12 recoveries and Glave is just dazed.

Perrol listens/peaks in the (dark) tunnel and hears the sounds of eating. He does detect magic and is stunned by the magic/evil object, but for a split second there is square object with magical in front of it. Ghoral peaks in and sees the tunnel curves, but nothing else. We head down the tunnel, but do security systems along the way. As we are about 10 hexes in, Perrol estimates the eating is about 5-10 hexes in front of us. Before we reach a corner, the eating stops and Kross and Jarlyn smell a sickly, sweet blood, i.e. battlefield blood. The eating starts again and Ghoral peaks around the corner. He sees a dig site with packs to side and a crack in a wall and a dark horned shape gnawing on what looks like humanoid bones and a pool of blood. Then Ghoral hears it say “more morsels”…segment 12.

Ghoral feels something enter his brain and takes 20 damage and he’s a minion. Perrol says “it knows we’re here and it wants to eat us.  Glaive delays.  Perrol activates a sunrod and holds. Kross holds.  Ghoral turns around with a scowling look (envisions he is being attacked by orcs)  and says die orcs. Then the GM says “April Fools”….

Ghoral looks around the corner and there are 8 orcs trying to dig into a collapsed section; it looks they are on breakfast break (cow). They’re eating in the dark. The tunnel widens around the corner so that it can be two abreast. Ghoral tells Glaive and Perrol overhears and tells Jarlyn and Kross. Perrol pops on the sunrod…segment 12. Glaive holds and asks Ghoral how far ahead they are, says five. We hear a clatter. Perrol and Kross hold. Ghoral goes in all defensive and goes in 3 hexes and holds. Jarlyn says go, Glaive goes in 3 hexes and holds. Jarlyn goes in 3 hexes and then does his Shield of the Faithful spell (successfully). Perrol goes in 4 hexes and stops. Kross moves 4 hexes and fires one explosive arrow and hits; orc 1 - 23 stun and 6 body  (drops), orc 2 - 19 stun and 6 body (drops), orc 3 - 12 stun and 3 body, orc 4 - 25 stun and 8 body, orc 5 - 22 stun and 6 body (drops), orc 6 - 23 stun and 6 body (drops), orc 7 -  19 stun and 5 body, orc 8 - 22 stun and 6 body (drops). Perrol notices that 5 are slumped over, one looks dazed and the other two are still standing. Glaive and Ghoral finish their hold action by moving to and orc thats still sitting up to their left. Perrol moves to the same hex as Perrol. Two of the orcs pick up their pick axes and the third shakes off being stunned. Glaive attacks twice, hits DCV 13 (by 5) in vitals for 6 body (dead) and then she does a coup de grace on the one on the ground. Perrol moves to the other Orc that’s still on the ground, hits DCV 6 in chest for 6 body (dead). Ghoral moves up to the last one standing, hits DCV6 in chest for 11 body ( he drops). We quickly finish cleaning up the rest of the unconcious orcs. We find the equivalent of about 2 sp.

Ghoral and Jarlyn stay at top of cliff to watch the cave while rest go back to the castle. We miss much discussion. Kross goes back to get Ghoral and Jarlyn. We decide to use Perrol’s boon to ask for “justice to reign down on the Trolls, Orcs, and Goblins”. Jarlyn and Perrol go to the top of tower. Perrol begins making the request and Jarlyn prays during this. Suddenly lightning strikes the tower and Perrol gets knocked down; Jarlyn is glowing. Jarlyn (channeling the Skyfather) starts looking over the hosts  and then looks at the castle. Jarlyn says that the energies released if I were to interfere with the item of power would be devistating. Perrol and Kross feel the air suddenly dries and they feel a charge, tingling in their arms. A lightning strike hits halfway between the castle and the host of orcs/goblin; another strikes in the center of the one of the orc camps - Perrol sees there is a tent that is hit but it just glows (we guess necromancer is here); another strikes the center of another orc camp and forks out; another strikes the siege engines and they are destroyed; another strikes the back orc camp again; lightning hits the goblin camp; another hits the middle of the goblin camp. Jarlyn turns back toward Perrol and says live well and fight hard and the glow fades and Jarlyn is back in the praying position. Perrol’s boon disappears. Perrol can tell that 3-10 were thrown and there are many limp figures in the center of each blast. Some of the orc camps and the goblin camp scatter and one (and half) orc camp does an organized retreat.  Ghoral starts making some “flaming arrows” for Kross. In the mean time, Kross targets the Trolls. Kross fires hits DCV13 (by 10) in head for 7 body and 35 stun and then hits DCV 14 (by 10) in head for 7 body and 35 stun. He fires again but this time both shots go to the first troll, hits DCV 11 (by 10) for 7 body and 35 stun in head, hits DCV 6 (by 5) but bounces off and it drops. We hear the lord say we are going to let him keep his arrows. The other troll recovers from being dazed and looks around. Kross fires again; hits DCV 12 (by 5) in the head for 5 body and 25 stun, second shot hits DCV 4 in hand but bounces off. The troll is dazed again. Kross fires again; hits DCV 8 (by 10) in arm for 6 body and second shot hits DCV 10 (by 10) in shoulder for 7 body and he drops.

“We call it a night….” Next week we plan to use the flaming arrow to take out the other last seige engine. We gain 2 xp.

Kross heads back to the castle, crosses the river, and goes up the wall after getting the ok. Kross tells us the plan, i.e. get the boat, bring everyone and stuff, except horses back. A private, Kross, and I go back to get the everyone. We make it safely back, get everyone loaded. The private says “Thank Kilbern” when he says our arrows and crossbows. He says they only have about 30 arrows and 20 crossbow bolts left. We row back and we get off before we get to the cove. We get everything and ourselves in fine. We go to see Captain Ullerson and I ask what the “relic” or object is that the Orcs may be trying to find. He said he’s just there with the young Lord, so isn’t aware of anything. He also says who the plan is to hold out for reinforcements/provisions that are expected in two days. We get to the Lord’s room and enter. Perrol and Glaive notice a cat watching the group as we walk in. Perrol does magesight and sees several magic items on the Lord or in his desk, but he also sees a magic blob behind us, but nothing is visible to the eye. Perrol says there is something “there” and points and then pulls his sword and tells someone to get the cat. Glaive tries to grab the cat but misses. Perrol holds, Kross does a half move out of the way and pulls his sword. Perrol moves in and takes a swing at the magical entity, hits DCV 11 in vitals for 5 body. There is a blue shimmer and a shriek. Ghoral had his weapon in hand hits DCV5 for 9 body in the left leg. There is a big shriek and Perrol sees it slowly dissolve. I still did my detect evil and I was able to detect that it was evil before it’s gone. Then the Lord, Captain, and private then pull their weapons. We tell the Lord about the Orc outside and the Necromancer and what Burn told us. I give him background on Thordar and why there is reason to believe Burn. He tells us that the priest is Alarch Tarn, which Alarch is a ranking that’s usually meant for a mid-sized city. I ask if we can see his quarters. We head that way and do detect magic and evil as we go. When we get to the chapel, Perrol schreeches and takes 33 stun and I take 25 stun and throw up. I detect evil like I’ve never detected before; it’s underneath the chapel. I activate my Steadfastness mental defense, the second attempt works but the connection seems fuzzy. We continue to the priests quarters and search it and find a journal. Not much in it other than a couple weeks ago he says can’t wait to get out of here. Looking further back, he says “being here is draining….”. I do detect evil again in the room and I’m able to tell its from underneath the podium/alter, and then I take 21 stun. We head to the alter and I notice that when I’m near the alter, my connection with my God is better. We notice the alter is not attached and attempt to move. After a couple tries, we send the seargent to get more men. We are able to move it some more. We see an inscription. Perrol studies it and determines it says the following:

“Once set in a wall of black, now behind walls of white, the alter stone lies buried. The sacred place built around it.”

Glaive and Ghoral don’t find any secret doors or anything. We ask for the lord to come down to show him what we found. Then we go to the library right by the meeting room. We don’t detect any magic or evil in the library. We search and find one scroll in a chest that’s different. It’s a map of keep called Stonegard and it has a black square in it. Kross notices that almost half of the foundation could cover same foundation. He also notices there may be an entrance on the cliff face. We explore for the tunnel on the cliff face and we find what might be a set of stairs and then above it is a place in the cliff wall that has a crack. There are fresh orc prints going into it, i.e. within the last 24 hours…..

We earn 2 xp.

We pick up from last week when the server was down.

We wake up the Orc we captured and start interrogation. Find out that he is not with the group  that is seiging the castle. Said he was asked to watch by his leader, Burn, who reports to the King of Thordar. Perrol knows that Thordar is home of civilized orcs. We decide that Kross and Jarlyn will sneak down to the castle. We try to camoflauge a little bit. As we are getting ready to cross the river, guards from the castle notice us and start firing at us. We franticly get their attention and get them to stop, after removing the camaflouge. We cross the river easily. The guards yell down and ask what we want. We ask to come up and they agree. Kross carries Jarlyn up the wall. We tell them that we are here at the behest of the Lord High Marshall to see Lord Redwater because of the scouting groups that have all went missing. He leads us to a corner tower. The guard talks to a leader, possibly a lieutenant, who asks questions about who we are. We ask to see Lord Redwater and he says wait here. An older gentleman comes down and we follow him to Lord Redwater. We tell him our story as we walk. We relay the same story to Lord Redwater once we arrive. We decide that Kross will inform the group that we will bring them back via a dinghy in the morning at low tide. Kross goes back.

Glaive is looking out and sees Kross coming. She also notices ~10 orcs break from the group closest to the river and start crossing the river. Perrol notices that they start crossing and one of them starts swimming and then goes down and never comes back up. The others look around and then head back to their camp. Kross tells them the plan. <Got work call, missed some stuff>. Burn finds the group in the night. He wants to parlay. There is much discussion and he says they are to follow , as in trail them, the other orcs if the castle falls to see where they take stuff. He offers a necklace that’s from the Sun God, Ophal’. Perrol does magesight and discovers his weapon and armor are magical. The team decides to let them go. He offers to take the horses to hold them for us. He also tell the team that the party is led by an Orc called SugKrag who claims to be a God’s son. He has a human necromancer following him.

Earn 1 XP

We see Vinnie and he seems nervous. We walk over and he says he has some information we would be interested in. We allow him to continue. He says there is price on our head, if we didn’t know, and we will probably hear from the Red Daggers. He tells us that the slave traders are the ones that have put the price on our heads. He doesn’t know where they are, but hears rumors that they are in Aarn.

We go to the market to get some supplies. I buy two weeks rations (1 sp/day = 14 sp); I don’t find any of the mental defence magic items I was looking to buy. Others buy what they need. We go back to the inn, eat, and then head to bed; nothing happens. We eat breakfast and start heading to the city gates to go out of town. About half way there, Perrol hears a good luck on your mission whispered in the air and Glaive notices Julliene off to the right.

We travel for a week and arrive at Athring, approximately mid-way to Eisburk Castle, which is our final destination at the base of the mountains. Perrol notices that there seems to be a lot more soldiers that seem to be at a higher sense of readiness than what a small town would normally have. We are stopped by town guards on the edge of town. One of them asks us what what our business is and Perrol explains and asks for a good inn. We are directed to the Brown Boar Inn. He starts to look uncomfortable and asks if Glaive is with us. Perrol says she is with us and personally vouches for her. He asks us to wait here and he goes back to talk to the other guards. He says what we are doing and they decide it’s fine to let us pass. He comes back and welcomes us in.

We pass the Pink Pig inn and we notice there are already drunk people coming out of the Inn; it’s 2 pm.   We continue on and find the Brown Boar Inn; it looks more reputable. As we unmount, a youth will arrive, ~15 years old, and offer to stable the horses. He even offers to help Glaive down, which seems odd. Glaive and Perrol notice he hesitates when he sees Glaive preparing herself for an attack. We head in to then Inn. We get two adjoining rooms and baths. He unlocks the bath door as we get settled in our room. I go to take the first bath and there is a bathtub with a magical item in the bottom that radiates heat. He says he found it in Azarthond, near Ghoral’s home. We all take our baths. We go down to eat and talk to the wife and son. Perrol asks about all the city guards and she mentions that it’s almost festival time and time for the stocks to come in. She also says that about 1.5 months ago, two merchants were killed that is unsolved. Uneventful night ensues. We get another weeks rations, 1 sp/day and I give an extra sp for picking it up for us. We hit the road and travel for another week and are along the coast. Glaive sees and hears two Orcs hiding behind a couple trees on each side of the road in front of us. She hand signals to let us know they are there and the general area. We get about 50 m out and then we ready our range weapons.

Segment 12. Glaive and Perrol hold. Kross fires two exploding arrows and does 20 stun and 6 body (x 2) for first orc, then 20 stun and 6 body then 18 stun and 5 body for the second orc. Ghoral holds and Jarlyn starts cranking his bow. The two orcs start to run away. Glaive and Ghoral move out to flank the orcs. Perrol fires and misses. Glaive moves forward 10″. Kross fires his last exploding arrow; hits 23 stun and 7 body for the first, he’s wobbly, and 22 stun and 6 body on the second, he’s wobbly. Also fires a normal arrow and hits DCV 13, by 10. Hits him in the head, he drops. Jarlyn moves forward 6″ and fires his crossbow, misses. Ghoral hears three thunks and he jumps clear of his horse as it goes down. He notices three arrows in his horse and jumps behind it for cover. He throws a dagger at the one Orc that is standing and hits it in the chest for 6 body, he falls. Glaive’s horse bunks her off and breaks off to the right. Perrol moves forward 10″. Kross moves forward 10″. Jarlyn drops his crossbow and grabs his shield and then moves forward 12″. Three arrows whiz past Ghoral. Glaive have three arrows go wide of her. Glaive sees there are 6 more orc, bowmen, three on each side of the road. Perrol gets off his horse and moves forward 4″ and then looks and sees all of the bowmen. Ghoral sees one bowmen, ahead and too his left. Glaive moves 7″. Perrol does a double shot and misses both. Kross dismounts, moves to the left and climbs a tree and looks around and sees all of them. Ghoral looks again and sees one more guy, then throws a dagger and hits one guy in stomach for 6 body and he’s wobbly. Jarlyn sees two of the orcs and moves forward 6″. Glaive is hit in the shoulder for 3 body in shoulder, then in head and she drops and last shot hits her in arm, but no damage; she’s at -2 stun. Jarlyn’s horse gets hit in the chest for 7 body and 16 stun. My horse bucks me but I land ok. Unfortunately, my horse bolts in Ghoral’s direction, a hoof hits him for 9 stun in the vitals. Glaive recovers from being dazed. Perrol does half move and fires, hits DCV 3 for 7 body in the left leg. Kross fires and hits DCV 11 in chest for 6 body on first shot, second hits DCV 10 in vitals for 6 body, he drops. Ghoral throws another dagger and drops another. Jarlyn actives his shield of deflection and moves forward 6″. Two orcs fire at Jarlyn but he deflects. Glaive gets hit in left leg; she’s down to 5 body and 3 stun. Perrol fires and misses. Ghoral throws a dagger and hits in left leg, but glances off. Kross yells that Glaive is in trouble and fires; hits DCV 16 in right leg for 9 body and DCV 10 in the head for 3 body. Jarlyn does a move through and hits DCV 6 in the hand for 15 body and he drops. An orc fires at me and hits me in left shoulder for 1 body and 11 stun. Glaive takes a healing potion and heals 4 body and 11 stun; moves forward three spaces. Perrol fires twice misses. Ghoral moves forward 3″ and throws a dagger; hits in the stomach for 6 body. Glaive closes on one and attacks, misses. Perrol fires twice and misses again. Kross fires at one hits DCV 9 in the chest for 5 body, second shot hits DCV 9 in the shoulder for 7 body. Ghoral moves forward 5″ and it bounces off there arm. Jarlyn moves in to an orc and hits him it the vitals for 13 body, he drops. The last orc takes off running. Perrol fires and hits DCV 4 for 8 body and 27 stun in the left shoulder; he’s wobbly. Glaive holds. Perrol misses with his second shot. Ghoral moves 5″ and throws his last dagger, to hit in the left shoulder for 1 body. Kross fires and hits in the head for max dmg, he drops.

Jarlyn perform paramedics on Ghorals horse and it needs to be healed. I heal for 5 body. Perrol determines these are Gray orcs, which are typically more intelligent but not as strong. Ghoral gives his horse a healing potion for 4 more body. Jarlyn heals Glaive for 8 body, only needed 2. Kross tracks down Glaive’s horse. Ghoral marvels that this is a damn good ambush spot with the hunter blinds.

1 xp

After a very long break, we are back to gaming………….!

The following entry did not make it in from the last session. “The next morning we go to the palace and are shown directly to Julienne’s office.  She tells us the scouts she sent to find the Grand Lord Marshal’s men should have returned 4 days ago but haven’t yet.  She asks if we will go and we say yes.”

We are on our way between the market and the university so that Glaive can look for some glass disks  (spell components) when we are bushwacked! Two pairs of archers come from the left (one pair) and right (one pair) side of the street. Ghoral and Jarlyn are not surprised. Ghoral blocks for Perrol and and is hit for one body. The other pair fire at Glaive but miss. Perrol advances and attacks one on the left. He hits with DCV5 for 3 body. Kross crosses the street and up to the top of the building, he notices two other guys in the street. Jarlyn crosses to the right side of the street and attacks one archer; hits DCV of 7 for 8 body in the left hand - his hand is smashed and unusable. The two guys on the roof turn and look at Kross. Four more archers come around from the end of the street and Perrol hears on say “Aim for the bitch” and fire. Only one hits but nothing gets through.  Then six more people come out, three on each side from the alleys to attack. Perrol and Kross hear a light whistle from one fo the guys on the roof and the two guys on the roof reach under their cloaks and pull out crossbows. One hits Kross in the arm for 8 body and 16 stun. The second hits a DCV of 12 in the left thigh for 6 body and 12 stun. Post segment 12 recoveries. Glaive moves behind one of the melee guys that is next to Jarlyn and attacks. She hits DCV 9 for 4 body in the leg and then she hits DCV 6 for 6 body in the arm. Perrol moves directly behind a melee guy and hits DCV of 5 for 3 body in the vitals. Ghoral attacks the guy in front of him and hits DCV 10 for 14 body in the stomach; he crumples to the ground, entrails on the ground. Kross sees the one guy he’s looking at on the roof reloading his crossbow. Kross uses fast action to pull bow and uses a blast arrow against one guy on the roof and hit DCV8 for 6 body and 17 stun. Jarlyn backs up so no one is behind him and attacks a melee guy, he hits DCV 6 for 7 body in stomach and he drops. The three archers near us, drop back six paces and then drop to the ground. The injured archer turns down the alley and run, we hear a loud crash and screaming. Two guys attack Jarlyn and one hits DCV of 11 for 7 body and 28 stun in stomach, only 12 stun gets through. Two more attack Ghoral and one hits for 7 body and 28 stun, 13 gets through. Perrol hears one of the archers at the end of the street say “same target”, so he lets Glaive know and she aborts to martial dodge. The archers fire and one hits her in the thigh for 7 body and 14 stun. Ghoral says everyone should run down the alley to get out of the line of fire for the archers. Jarlyn yells for Kross to look in the alley first. Perrol attacks and hits DCV 13 in the head for 12 body; the rapier goes through his head and the guys drops. Five more guys come out from the other end of the street. Ghoral attacks one guy and hits DCV7 for 6 body in the leg. We hear another whistle and the crossbowmen target Kross. First one hits DCV 11 for 10 body and 10 stun in left hand; 2 body gets through. The other hits DCV of 12 in left arm for 7 body and 14 stun; 1 body and 1 stun gets through. Kross does a 1/2 move and peeks down the alley; he sees it’s barracaded and smells an oily substance - he yells it’s a trap. Kross lobs a bolt of blasting between the archers and hits; #1 - 24 stun and 7 body, #2 - 20 stun and 5 body, #3 - 19 stun and 6 body, #4  - 19 stun and 6 body, #5 - 18 stun and 5 body, #6 - 22 stun and 6 body, #7 - 16 body and 5 body.  Jarlyn attacks the the shiny guy with double attack; he hits DCV 13 (by 5) for 12 body in the stomach and then hits DCV 11 for 9 body in the left shoulder; he crumples. He did notice a red flare, the guy is evil.  Perrol hears one of he archers say - dwarf. Perrol forewarns Ghoral and he dodges. One arrow hits him for 5 body and 20 stun; 5 stun gets through. The second hits but bounces. Other two miss. One melee attacker misses Ghoral but the second attacks Jarlyn and hits DCV 16 in head for 8 body and 40 stun; Jarlyn spends a hero point and moves the hit to the hand, no damages get through. Glaive moves behind the melee guy fighing Jarlyn. More battle ensues, I was distracted for a while. Perrol attacks melee guy and hits DCV 6 in vitals for 6 body, he drops. Kross firs another bolt of blasting at the archers and hits; #1 - 16 stun and 5 body, #2 - 19 stun and 7 body, #3 - 22 stun and 8 body, #4 - 16 stun and 5 body, # 5 - 18 stun and 6 body, #6 - 25 stun and 8 body, #7 - 25 stun and 6 body (5 guys are stunned). Ghoral moves to one of the stunned archers. The crossbowmen attack Kross, one misses and the other shot bounces off. Jarlyn attacks the melee guy in front of him and hits DCV 7 for 12 body in the chest, he drops. He did notice a red flare, the guy is evil as well. There is a piercing whistle from the melee group that was coming up from behind us, they run. The archers that are not stunned run, one picks up one of the stunned guys as he runs away. Post segment 12 recoveries. Perrol runs up and does a move by on one of the stunned archers; hits for some damage. Ghoral kills the archer in front of him. Kross attacks one fo the crossbowmen, they haven’t ran yet, and hits for 5 body and 20 stun. The crossbowmen run and jump off the buildings. Jarlyn moves in to the alley to check on the first guy whose hand was destroyed. Glaive, Perrol, and Ghoral hold. Kross fires at the guy running and hits DCV 14 (by 10) and hits him in the head; he drops. I perform parmedics on the one guy and then heal him for 9 body; he stabilizes and carry him to the street. The one archer I also perform parmedics and he’s not too bad. We tie both up. The archer wakes up and we interrogate. He says he’s with the east side thieves guild. He says a bounty was put up by someone in Aarn - 100 gp. He says there were 19 of them, which means 2 were not with them, probably the crossbowmen. We are checking all the bodies, but only find weapons. Perrol uses magesight to check for magic and don’t detect any. I don’t see any evil. The guards arrive and ask us questions and take the two guys away.

We make it to the market to get the clear, polished glass disks. Perrol and I go into the store and pay 1 sp each for two glass disks. Glaive pays Perrol back and let’s him know they are for a spell to make her less visible. We go back to the inn and we see Vinny, he was the guy that tried to capture us before; Mr. Miggins supposedly kicked him out of town.

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