SESSION 332: Retreat, Regroup, Retry
Rush Rammers corpse back to Gormandia for raising. Add some hobos to the mission and then try again. We will get to Dry Gulch…well hopefully.
Day 843 (10.25 0506à12.24 0307): Clear. Ramrod was dead. Again. Four times lucky now. It was time to b-line back to base. The retreat went sorta smoother. Attacked by a horde of giant wasps but the bugs could not get their rhythm against a foul noxious cloud of arcane farts well undermining the insectoid attack force. That night there was howling of some sort of canid species likely within a couple of miles of the camp.
Day 844 (12.24 0307 àLiwil): The following cloudy day they encountered a brigand crossing. The twenty plus of them had things to attend to and just wanted to cross the road. Carla struggled with not causing a situation to arise.
Moving along they made it back to Liwil for the evening of the second day. A dry royal road really does make a difference.
Day 845 - 847 (LiwilàGormandia): After overnighting at the fortified town they were greeted by a grim portent. The skies were a vivid purple. Like I said, definitely grim. They travelled on to Gormandia nevertheless. It took a coupb le of days to rally the replacement/supplemental troops and correct Ramrod’s absence of mortality for the fourth time.
Day 848 (GormandiaàLiwilà13.23 0407): Greeted by moderate rains our ‘caravan of traders’ set out once more for Liwil and beyond. This time they made it a day and a quarter before being ambushed.
Day 849 (13.23 0407à12.24 0407):A dumb-butt hill giant spearheading a gaggle of even dumbner ogres. It seems that the mooks of Winter continue not to have fallen back to their homelands. The fight was a bit of a mess as the goons got the jump on our hobos. The ogres were able to surround much of the gang as the giant lobbed boulders.
Katre doused an ogre in burning oil but it did not stop it from shattering Versamage’s femur, killing her horse and then leaving her pinned underneath.
“Imma gunna smash yu now horse. Nutin pershunal just bidnass”
Charles suffered a similar fate when a mighty club blow broke his shield arm and then finished his mount. He was a piss away from death. Chung-Li and Katre raced in to prevent another mortality on this road.
And then Dolec went into a kill frenzy, leaving him with Sloth and Steve level acuity for the next few days –“It waz tots…sumptin’ it”, came from our gore covered hero.
It seems that we needed more training, well any training, in mounted combat. Carla was knocked from her perch atop the wagon. Hitting the mud and then getting a pummeling. The giant kept throwing boulders. Things then began to tip in the favour of our hobos as Boris began carving through ogres. Dolec was able to neutralize his opponents without losing his mount allowing him to charge the giant. BoB followed up his attack with an exceptionally well placed arrow to the base of the lumbering mook’s skull. The hill giant was done and the table was fully turned. With Charles covered the rest of the tea were able to mop up the remaining ogres without any difficulties.
Whew.
Carla had some work to address the abundance of notable injuries. At least we had not wasted a day yet. Only half of it.
The CR-Team: Carla, Dolec Da, Charles in Charge, Chung-Li, Lady Versamage, Boris, Katre, Biff & BoB
ROLECALL
Carla the Green High Priestess of TMB (C10) 384033 xp +10% <400001> CRT 1d12/III
Scars: permanent loss left index finger and scarring on arm
Boris the Dwarven Lord (D9) 382525 xp +10% <400001> CRT 1d20/IV
Serious wound: permanent loss of CHA -3, carved up face
Wound: Bad leg (-5’ MV)
Multiple Injuries: lost 25 teeth (7 remaining), drools a lot CHA -1
Serious Injury: Brain Drain -2 INT
Serious wound: permanent loss of an eye (-1 to missile fire)
The Henchmen
Biff Bartley the Half-Orc Blackguard (HO8) 127113 <MAX> +5% CRT 1d14/II
‘BoB’ the Deadly Shade (N7) 89220 <90000> +5% CRT 1d16/II
Charles in Charge the Champion (F7) 91388 <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 (F7) 85075 xp +10% <120000> CRT 1d20/IV
Missing five teeth
Chung-Li the Elven Champion Sorcerer (E7) 140215 xp <250000> +10% CRT 1d8/II
Lady Versamage Knight Errant (K6) 66802 xp <85000> +5% CRT 1d16/IV
Katre Elf-Girl and Swordsman Conjuror (E4) 16959 xp <32000> +0% CRT 1d8/II
RESERVES
Ramrod the Cloned Magsman - Recovering from death (yet again)
Elapsed Campaign Time (start of session)
841 – Bimbles-Team (16.23 The Doom of Cthedrak)
843 – Carla-Team (10.25/0506 Road to Dry Gulch)
Domain Days
Gormandia: 5 (Start 838)
Bunnland:?doing something or the other?
Join us for session Three-Hundred-and-Thirty-Three when we ask the questions:
How the hell do merchants make this trip?
Are we a monster magnet?
Will we get to Dry Gulch without a mortality?
What is are Bimbles & Raul up to?
Tale of the Tape
Charles the ‘living picture’ sniffed his mortality.
Varsamage did not fair to much better.
Poor horses, two dead.
KILLS
Giant wasps (14) 1750
Hill Giant 650
Ogres (10) 1250
LOOT
15,000 gp
Harvested 4 wasp stingers
17,000 sp
18000, cp
Jewelry (4): 700,800,900,1000 = 3400 gp
Gems (4): 50,500,10,50 = 610 gp
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