SESSION 256: Where in the World is the B-Team?
After dithering for the better part of a week… Carla assembles the C-Team to lead an expedition to the orc lair in search of B-Team but instead they get their first taste of the curse…
Day 194 thru 200 (12.20/0704 Gormandia Ferry): Many days of dithering and pontificating on what to do about the unknown whereabouts of the B-Team. On the third day a plan bubbles up. They would go to the last known location. The orclands, but first they wanted to be prepared. Troops and supplies were needed. They would grab a squad of riders along with the requisite supplies and pull Saff and Bunny off of furlough. During this time the temperature hovered around freezing with semi-regular snow continuing to build the base.
Day 200 & 201 (FerryàCaravanserai): Snowing. Travel was slow and took the better part of the day to get to the hub (Caravanserai). Felix relished in pointing out how they could do things better. It took a day and half to get things and people together.
Day 202 (Caravanseraià13.20/0507): A good day to travel clear and a bit warm (3-4 degrees). They rode to the final controlled sub-hex a mile or so north of the orc base and setup a forward camp garrisoned by the squad of riders.
Day 203 (13.20/0507à13.21 Orcs): Cloudy mild snow (20 hrs). The hobos marched south right into a returning orc war party. The two groups almost walked into each other and were only a meager 20 yards (60’) apart. Both groups stared at each other dumbfounded momentarily before leaping to action. There were 60 orcs with four carts carrying an assortment of items and being pulled by ten human slaves each. The fight was grand. A wave of orcs washed over the gang. Nara was able to get up a temporary protective bubble to give Caral a chance to conduct a prayer to drive them to victory. Lester was buried under a heap of the goons. Biff had his nose bashed in for being a race-traitor. He responded with a blade hungry for any blood. Saff blasted a fireball at the back end of the host incinerating a good dozen of them and then followed up with confusion and then sleep. Dolec began wading through the beastmen showing his growing martial prowess. Charles was having a rough day bumbling and fumbling. Nara then started screwing with their psychological well-being, scrambling orc ids making a mess of their innate instinctive impulses. The orc got their blows in but they could not hold the hobos wave of murder.
They liberated the slaves and found out that they were a pacifist commune collective that lived isolated in the wilds. The orcs had appeared nine days ago, raised their village and enslaved those that they did not eat or kill for fun (and then eat). Carla informed them that they were domain building and they could become peasants. The forty accepted a new life as the first settlers of Gormandia.
During this time the fighters turned their attention to the last living, but sleeping, sub-boss orc. Charles grabbed it and gave it a good slapping to wake up. It was time for a good old fashioned interrogation, “Tell us what you know! Where are our friends?”
“I know you! You are food just like those before you! We ate them all after we tortured them real good! We started with fingers and toes. So delicious. They screamed ha ah ha ah ha ah ha ah…”. Charles drove Franz deep into the things face, “It was a boring conversation anyways”.
Lester and Biff concurred that they did not believe the story. “Orcs ain’t afraid of pain, existence is suffering”, was Biff’s point.
Carla called for them to do an about face.
Back to camp they went with the carts and their new settlers. Upon returning it became quickly apparent that they did not have the supplies to support another forty people.
Just another assault on the Gangrenous Orcs that failed to complete.
Day 203 (13.20/0507àCaravanserai): They packed up camp and returned to the caravanserai.
Day 204 thru 206 (Caravanserai): Cold snap and more snow keeps the troops on base. Delaying the second attempt on the orcs (actually 5th).
Day 207 (Caravanseraià13.20/0507à13.21 Orcs): Cloudy. Once more the force marches off to the field camp in preparation for another swing at the insidious Gangrenous Orcs. Tomorrow morning we try again. How will the fifth (!) attempt play out?
ROLECALL (C-Team)
Carla the Green High Priestess of TMB (C10) 350549 xp +10% <400001> CRT 1d12/III
Scars: permanent loss left index finger and scarring on arm
Bunny the Thief! (T10) 306096 xp <400001> +10% CRT 1d24/II
Light wound: permanent loss of pinky finger, off hand
The Henchmen
Saffron the Mad Fairy Queen of Ribbits (FY7) 195070 xp <200001> CRT 1d10/III
Moderate wound: Scar on abdomen
Lasting injury: -1 STR, mashed guts
Nara the Nearly Naked Purple Swami Girl (PS7) 109599 xp +5% <125000> CRT 1d16/II
Wraith Drained: -1 CON
Biff Bartley the Half-Orc Blackguard (HO7) 101166 <120000> +5% CRT 1d12/II
Charles in Charge the Myrmidon (F6) 83366 <120000> +10% CRT 1d20/IV
Franz the Grave Return (Lawful; XXXX) Sword
Critical Wound: Punctured lung (-2 CON)
Mostly DEAD. (-1 CON)
Dolec Da the Hero (F6) 62186 xp +10% <64000> CRT 1d20/IV
Missing five teeth
Lester Flanders the Warder of Oceana (P5) 43196 xp <45000> +5% CRT 1d16/IV
RESERVES
BoB, Rhags & Alamender are lawn ornament for the Basilisk Knights.
Chung Li needs 12 weeks (74 days) and a stack of coin to rewrite his lost spell book.
Elapsed: 53 days (from A-Team calendar) -INTERRUPTED-
Elapsed Campaign Time
635 (630) days at beginning of session (also applies to recuperation)
Join us for session Two-Hundred-and-Fifty-Seven when we ask the questions:
What unfathomable force curses each assault attempt?
Will we cause a paradox?
Tale of the Tape
Potion Brewing 42 days (started Day 194): Elapsed 0
KILLS
Orc War Party 750
LOOT
2300 gp
Gems (3): 500,500,50
Human Slaves (40) converts to families 2:1
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