Perrol’s Story

We’re playing again!  Yay!

Aldus Manus asks us to come back in two days.

Julienne offers to let us stay in a house which we accept.  We ask what’s been going on and she says that there have been attempts on the Regent Mother.  She also says that there will be a performance by a bard named Tiffany Lan and invites us to see her.

We decide to go shopping for more potions and go to the store where we went before.  The guy in the store immediately tells us to get out and says that he will not allow any dishonorable people in his store nor will he trade with them.  Jarlyn challenges him and the proprietor points at Kross and says that he is dishonorable and that as his friends we also may not trade with him.  I charm him to tell me where there is another store where we can get what we want and with some complaint he finally tells us.

We go to the other store which is close to the building which blew up.  I climb down into the crater to satisfy my curiosity about the filled in hole.

1 Dust of Imprisonment - Glaive
3 Seaweed that allows underwater breathing (Gillyweed) - Perrol, Kross, Jarlyn
1 Healing Potion - Glaive
3 Smokesticks - Kross
1 Lavoisier’s Useful Eluctuary (identifies potions, 50 charges) - Jarlyn

Total cost 14 gold

We are all glowing blue from the boon.

We are summoned go Lord Redwater’s office.  He asks us for ideas and we don’t have many.  One idea is to contact the “good” orcs.

Went to supply ship.  Fought Orcs.  Got supplies.  Went back to Keep.  Keep had been attacked.  They barely survived.  Orcs are retrieving bodies.

In combat.

We kill all.

Ghoral gets hit by green glowing bolt.  Not hard to guess where that came from.

The next day, digging resumes for the evil magic item.

Perrol walks around the keep looking for magic items.  He only finds them on one sergeant, the captain of the guard and the lordling.

Next day around dusk Perrol and others see a fire arrow coming from the sea.  I overhear a guard say something like, “Good deal!” and go tell the captain of the guards that the resupply ship has arrived.

The two trolls were hit and are on the ground.  Kross continues to put arrows into both of their heads until they appear to be dead.

Kross also puts fire arrows into the last siege engine and burns it to the point it collapses.

Later that evening I see with my magesight, glowy things coming

We are at the cave entrance.

I listen and hear eating noises and do detect magic and detect a square item like I did before but also started to see another shape in front of it before the intense magic of the big item overwhelms me.

I try to detect traps but fail.

We go about 10 hexes in and stop at a corner.  The eating noises are louder and there are multiple sounds and voices about 5 hexes away and further.  About 8 hexes away is the pile of rubble where there was digging.

I overhear Ghoral tell Glaive, “8 Orcs” and pass that on to Jarlyn and Kross.  I decide that there is nothing to be done but fight so I turn on the lightstick I am holding which starts segment 12!

We kill all the Orcs.

We go back into the keep and eventually decide that I will use my boon to ask for help from the Skyfather.  Jarlyn and I go up into the tower and I beseech the Skyfather to protect us from the evil around us and to rain destruction down upon them.  A bolt of lightning comes down and directly hits the tower we are in and blows the top off.  I am knocked to my knees.  Jarlyn starts to glow and is possessed by the Skyfather.

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Due to technical difficulties, I did not take notes at the time we played.

After defeating the Orc ambushers we followed their tracks back to a camp site near a wolf den.  We saw tracks going into the wolf den and checked it out.  There was a booby trap which I detected and disarmed and a few backpacks with nothing of particular interest or value.  We followed another trail that left their campsite roughly headed toward the castle and meeting back up with the main trail.

Further down the trail I spotted an orc showing his head above the grass off to one side and then ducking down again about 500m away.  Ghoral and Kross maneuvered into position and Kross knocked him out with two blunt arrows.  We took him prisoner, still unconscious, and tied him to my horse.

Even further down the trail we approached a rise in the trail leading to a ridge.  I spotted another orc, similar to the first standing beside the trail on ahead just down from the crest of the ridge.  Kross dismounted and shot this one with two blunt arrows and it went down.  We tied him to another horse.

I looked over the crest of the ridge and saw the trail continue down to a river.  At the river was the burned out remains of what was once a ferry.  On the other side of the river I saw the castle that we were heading for but it was clearly besieged by orcs and goblins.  There were 4 camps, 1 goblin camp and 3 orc camps.  Where the path reached the river, the river was just about at the mouth to the sea.  There were cliffs at the sea on both sides of the river.  The castle was near the cliffs and there didn’t appear to be orcs or goblins on that side of the castle.

After some discussion we decided to have Kross climb down the cliff on this side of the river, swim to the castle side and climb up the cliff and then climb into the castle to make contact with the people inside.  From our briefing we expect there to be a young Lord who is loyal to the old Regent group as opposed to most of the other young lords that want to claim a new line of kings.  With the young lord should be about 100 people with about 80 of them being soldiers.

As we walk along just below the ridge on the side away from the castle and orcs I take some opportunities to go up and look again.  With a couple of good rolls I see that there are two trolls in the goblin camp and occasionally one will grab a goblin and throw him for no apparent reason.

At this point we think we want to heal one of our captive orcs enough to get him conscious so I can interrogate him.  We are near or at the cliffs and still on the side of the ridge away from the castle.