Session 14 - The Obedient Ogre
April 25, 2009 - A brief side jaunt to outside the city walls leads to a band of orcs and another wand.
Thunderbomb senses a kinship in Thog and he decides that he is going to retire from the adventurer life and become a chef with Thog. They return to town. Upon arriving back in town they meet a swordmage who is looking for work. Thunderbomb passes on his Stormhammers cloak and etc. and sends him down to join the party.
The swordmage, named Vico, heads down and meets the party. Meanwhile, the party discovers a note on the duergar blacksmith's body telling of a small band of orc allies that have just joined up with the cult. The leader of the orcs has been given one of the wands of control water so that all the wands are not in the same location. A crude map leads into the caverns to the south and out into the mountainside, where the orcs have taken over a small abandoned tower. Huron, Brigs and Vico decide to go check it out.
After a short walk through the caves, they emerge into the wilderness outside Cauldron and spot the ruined tower a short ways down the hillside. They sneak in, assisted by the fact it is late at night. They crawl up the stairs and toy with the idea of fighting on the stairs, simply to be chaotic.
Inside the tower they encounter three rooms. The first contains a few orc archers and some fire beetles and a variety of cages. They kill the orcs and beetles and search the cages, finding only the corpse of a half-elf in one. They find some loot on him tucked in a fake boot heel.
The second room contains a large eating area and table full of food, a cauldron bubbling with stew, and a dozen orcs. Huron charges in and immediately falls into a pit trap. The orcs then tip the cauldron into the pit, though Huron somehow manages to avoid being burned. From a side pantry bursts an orc wearing robes, some kind of leader. Vico teleports into the thick of the orcs and is immediately surrounded, and a handful of other orcs charge at Brigs, who is hit heavily but uses his gnome racial ability to turn invisible and skitter away. Huron uses his boots of spider climb to quickly scale the wall of the pit and join the fight. The three work together though and take out the leader, who was bolstering the other orcs. They make short work of the others. They find a magic shortsword in the pantry.
The third and final room is a barracks with giant heavy wood beds. Two orc berserkers, a dire wolf and the orc chief attack as soon as they enter the room. Bonesaw catches up to the party at this point and joins the fray. At one point Vico marks one berserker and then teleports away. The berserker pursues, and crosses paths with the other berserker, who is charging at Brigs. As they pass by each other they high five. Later on in the fight this happens again. When the chieftain starts getting injured, he uses an attack that also heals him for 54 hit points, which blows the party's minds. They freak out. That being said they put him down and recover from his corpse another wand of control water, as well as a bunch of gold. Bonesaw also grabs a large bear rug from the floor and sticks it in the bag of holding.
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