DMPC Grimm:
Grimm spend his action slicing the orc Desmond just dropped throat.
RD 4
orcs - attacked one hit Malcolm
Des - charged and dropped an orc
Grimm - sliced orc's throat
Karnog -
Valtida
malcolm
RD 4: DMPC Karnog
Karnog tries to whack the orc by Vatilda again.
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He swings wide and misses.
Malcolm attacks the Orc in B6.
Malcolm opens up a gash on the enemy.
The oracle attacks again,
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connecting with her heavy mace, the creature wobbles but remains upright.
RD 5 Orcs:
A5:
The orc near Vatilda continues to press his attack on her,
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+2 human
B, 6:
The other orc attacks Malcolm
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+2 human
Round 5
No longer having her foe's attention split with Malcolm, Vatilda steps back and stows her mace. With her now free hand, she blasts him with a dark bolt of force.
Kalim calms his breathing and lowers his heart rate before moving on.
Malcolm continues to attack the Orc in B6.
Desmond runs over to flank with Karnog, swinging at another orc.
Vatilda's touch attack will hit the orc. The orc falls to the ground.
Des hits the orc with his attack but it was still standing until Malcolm stole the kill.
Karnog will crush the orc that fell at Vatilda's feet, smashing its skull.
Combat over.
Now that the orc archers have been killed what are you doing?
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Kalim you spend some time with your second wind healing up a bit and catching your breath, what are you doing next?
"That silence spell will wear off momentarily. I don't think the others would have been warned, lets loot these guys and heal up before we move on the rest of the orcs. "
Karnog pulls his wand and offers to heal anyone injured.
I will need plenty, Karnog.
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You all find that the camp, as expected in relatively fresh, there is cooking flight of pigeons on their camp fire. The meat is roasting away.
Gear wise they have the following:
3 comp longbows (17 str)
1 comp longbow (18 str)
6 cure mod potions
3 cure serious potions
2 expeditious retreat
3 msw short swords
3 msw daggers
+1 dagger
msw greataxe
+1 breast plate
3 mithral chain shirts
237 GP
Kalim pokes the fissure with his long spear.
The opening is thick with webs but you can clear away the dense material that fills the openings. Hundreds of tiny spiders scurry around frantically. The fissure a rough opening barely 3 foot wide at the cave mouth, but it opens up slightly before it takes a bend to the left. You have filtered light to see that far but unless you move inside the fissure you can see nothing else.
Kalim lights a candle and quietly enters the fissure.
Karnog and the others, you can make out the cave entrance below, near the ruined city. from your point of view it appears as if there are two orcs guarding. It looks about a mile off and the there is a killing field leading to the cave.
"Now that would be a bad place to caught in the open. Anyone see any cover or means of approach?"
As you move inside the fissure it is a tight fit, but fortunately, you are not burdened with bulky armor. The candlelight flickers and you can see the bend leads through a descending "S" pattern, which makes it hard to see further than 15 feet ahead. You come across another dense spider web area that burns away with an oily smoke when you touch it with your candle flame. Hundreds of tiny spider drop to the ground charred.
Kalim soldiers on.
Desmond after scouting the area you mange to find a small path that leads down near the ruins, but unfortunately you'll still have 50 feet or so to cross of open terrain. You did not find any stragglers. You do report that you only observed two brute orcs standing ready with polearms and bows.
Kalim when you get get to the bend and burn away the webbing, you observe that the cave takes a step descent for another 20 feet, or so, and it dead ends to what appears to be a hole in the ground.
"Would it make sense to try to draw them out somehow? Maybe a message that the human settlement is now protected will bring out the raiding party. Then it would be a matter of finding a way to make their killing field work against them. .. I realize there is considerable risk in that plan, but... we do need a plan."
Are we not near the entrance to their lair, or do we need to track them?
"Not so much tracking, as finding a means to engage without slogging across that," Karnog gestures to the flat, cover-deprived killing field presented at the front of the orcs' camp.
"Fifty feet? Perhaps a thrown rock or some similar distraction could buy us enough time to engage. I wish I held onto that silence spell now."
One of the guards wonders out roughly 40 feet, he jams the end of his polearm into the ground, and then drops his britches. This is followed by a squat. He is roughly 20 feet from your hiding position.
Kalim proceeds.
Malcolm whispers to the others.
Can we take him out from here? Maybe it will draw the other and we can do the same, then get closer.
Kalim you get on yoru hands and knees at the edge of the opening and peer over the side inot utter darkness. There is a cool damp breeze as an updraft. Attacked to the pits wall are a series of wooden planks spiked into the rock. You begin to descend...
Karnog whispers back: "Do it! Keep it fast and quiet!"
Karnog draws his crossbow and readies to shoot the squatting orc just before Desmond and Malcolm get him.
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The orc who is obviously squatting - doing his business - with his britches down starts to grumble to himself, oddly enough it sounds like he is singing to himself.
Tell me who all is shooting or throwing a ranged weapon at the orc. If you are go ahead and make your roll against this flatfooted orc. I'll assume you all timed your volley at the same time to maximize your potential success and minimize the risk of him shouting a warning.
Vatilda gestures and mutters a few guttural words before thrusting her open hand toward the orc currently evacuating his bowels.
Malcolm fires a shot with his Light Crossbow.
Kalim carefully climbs down.
Will save:
The orc is frozen as he does his business. He is quickly dispensed with by the group without much noise.
It doesn't appear as if the other guard took notice...yet.