SESSION 261: Fiddlesticks and Poppycock
Words from the dead lead to an end best left dead.
Day 210 Continued (13.21 Orcs): Carla had a idea. Blindly searching for the B-Team has not been overly rewarding. She would speak with the dead shaman. Sure fire way to real answers she assured the others. To make this happen Biff would have to dig out his special speak with dead head from his troll head of holding and then they would need to find an intact tongue to sew into the head so it could speak. The plan came together. They would find out what Tegar knows of the B-Team. They had two questions. Did they use them wisely? You decide.
Q: Was the B-Team (yes they were a bit more precise in their wording) here?
A: They were fifty feet away from us in the Chamber of Dreams to the north, they crossed the barrier and we destroyed it. They are trapped waiting to be consumed.
Q: Where are they now?
A: They crossed over the gulf to where Lhutep is god and the final answer, consumer of worlds. The ever hungry. Give praise! The worm shall consume all!….
Tegar’s spirit once more dissolved returning to whatever hell holds all dead orcs. The gang backtracked and made their way to the Chamber of Dreams. It was bisected by six indentations that appeared to once rest six identically shaped rocks (?). Dolec crossed the line. He appeared to be in a tunnel but behind him he could see his companions. The warrior shone his light down the tube, nine creatures of ghoulish complexion and distinctly canine-like heads ran towards him upon all four limbs with elongated arms bearing clown sized hands with the wicked curled claws of a murderous beast. “What the stink, where did he go?”, was all Saff could get out before he fell back into our reality. Just seconds behind, the ghouls barfed forth from the unseen portal. Gah! They fought until Carla called down the holy word. Then they were dust.
Dolec explained what he had seen. It was decided that whatever lay beyond was too dangerous risk. They would fall back and return to the surface and come up with a plan to bury this lair forever sealing in the dwellers in the dark.
Returning to the surface the arena was just over there and required inspection. Charred corpses of many orcs and a pair of owlbears filled the arena. Saffron the pyromaniac had been devastatingly effective with her fireballs the previous day. Looking around they found a bit of loot. Bunny began investigating the cells. The first contained the corpse of a goblin apparently dead from smoke inhalation. Bunny figured that she was bound only to find more bodies, at best, as she progressed from cell to cell. This made her a little loose. The third cell was home to something still alive and she brazenly waltzed in. It was a cockatrice and Bunny was flat-footed, “No no no not again!”.
She did not want to be petrified again. Her primal brain took charge and she dodged the chicken-thing’s attack and made a hasty escape from the cell with the thing fast on her heels. The rest of the gang acted fast, unleashing a flurry of ranged attacks. The beast already bearing injury was quickly dispatched, with no accidental petrification. They left the pit only to be ambushed yet again. They had not been all that quiet and orcs still roamed the village looking for revenge. Once the advantage of surprise waned so did the lives of the orcs.
Smoke could be seen coming from one of the large building adjacent to the main gate. Saff had not started this one. They moved through the village towards the gatehouse hoping to finally eradicate the beastman presence.
The C-Team: Carla, Bunny, Saffron, Charles, Dolec, Nara, Lester & Biff
ROLECALL
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
648 (633) days at beginning of session (also applies to recuperation)
Join us for session Two-Hundred-and-Sixty-Two when we ask the questions:
Should we pass through the portal?
Can we actually find the B-Team or must they find their way back to us?
Dreamlands, what the heck is that?
Might it be best to simply nuke the joint from orbit?
How many orcs can possibly be left?
Tale of the Tape
Potion Brewing 42 days (started Day 194): Elapsed 15
KILLS
Dreamland Ghouls (9)
Cockatrice
Zughurtz & 5 orcs
LOOT
245 sp
754 gp
Topaz (3) 15 gp each
Ring of Protection +1
Battle Axe +1 (extra attack 1/day)
Bone staff of XXXXX
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