Healing Buchart then paasing wand
Cela heals Buchart -23/51
Fernleaf tries to tumble around the Ogre, but Jaagrath Kreeg is quick and sees the little halfling and swings
Anaba -45/63
Fernleaf -29-26 = -55/53 He hits Fernleaf before he can get in position and Fernleaf drops unconscious before he can swing at the Ogre.
Rolande and Buchart are up!
Buchart hits with both attacks for 42 points!
Jaagrath Kreeg -132
Anaba comes out of her confusion after being attacked. Rages and goes after Jaagrath.
hit!
hit!
Jaagrath Kreeg gets cut to shreds and drops dead
Rolande holds his position clears the jam (move action) then fires at #5 Ogre on the wall (out of point blank range)
kills him and gets 1 grit back
Sekkimm starts casting a summon spell.
You hear a horrible female scream from the tower and see Dorella looking out a tower window 10' above the wall (+6 to AC from here). She casts a spell
Anaba, Buchart, Sekkimm, Rolande, Cela and Vale make a DC 18 will save (Confusion)
saves
saves
fails Confused
Jakardros fires at the remaining ogre
jits
hits and kills him
Cela is up - DC 18 Will save
Fahari -7
Vale-20/45 - Confused
Fernleaf -55/53 unconscious
Shalelu - blind
Anaba -58/63
Rolande -27
Buchart -39/51 - DC 18 Will save
Sekkimm - DC 18 Will save
Dorella Kreeg -48
Jakardros
Vale and Sekkimm are confused for 8 rounds.
Cela save
heals Fernleaf
Fernleaf -44/53
Vale
d% Behavior
01-25 Acts normally
26-50 Does nothing but babble incoherently
51-75 Deals 1d8 points of damage + Str modifier to self with item in hand
76-100 Attacks nearest creature (for this purpose, a familiar counts as part of the subject's self)
Vale goes nuts and attacks Cela
Cela -17
Fernleaf is up!
Fernleaf misses
Anaba runs (triple move) and makes it just inside the tower
Rolande double moves toward the tower
Buchart is up.
Sekkimm you can roll 1d100 to see your confusion result or I can. If you act normally your spell goes off
Buchart also makes it to the tower. Dorella Kreeg is one floor above and has to squeeze her large body through here to get out on the wall (door you came in) or go down to the courtyard.
Sekkimm rushes forward and attacks Cela
Sekkimm can resolve combat when he is back online.
Anaba and Buchart hear movement on the stairs, but don't see anyone.
Jakardros rushes out of the tower to help Cela
Cela yells "Get control of yourselves!"
She heals herself with the wand and goes full defense in case Vale or Sekkimm wants to attack again and Fahari is ready (readied action)
Cela -10
Vale stops attacking Cela and hits himslef
Vale-28/45 - Confused
Fernleaf is up.
Meanwhile at the tower...perception checks please
Anaba -58/63 Anaba senses there is soemthing invisible on the stairs ...maybe that blind fighting training is paying off!
She step forward raging and attacks where she thinks it is.
Anaba
hits
misses concealment checks
Dorella Kreeg -48-27 = -75 screams in pain from the hard cut.
Rolande -27
Rolande double moves to the first step down in the tower's lower stairs
Buchart -39/51
Fernleaf heals himself (it is on alchemist spell list no roll needed)
-33/53
Sekkimm babbles... and it is not the Brandy this time!
Buchart swing batter!
Sekkimm misses Cela.
Buchart hits for 25!
Dorella Kreeg -100
save -71/77 (raging hitpoints)
save uses 1 grit to gain evasion 0 damage!
Dorella, realizing she did not kill her foes you hear her curse and head up the stairs squeezing
Jakardros double moves out of the tower.
Cela is up!
I yell " you all are crazy!" And move to a clear spot. Fahari will stay out of harms way and take any AOO on manageable targets
Cela double moves with Fahari toward the tower and away from Vale and Sekkimm.
"What wrong with me stay back!! I'm under some spell...I don't want to hurt anyone!"
Vale drops his weapons and moves away from the party.
Dorella no longer invisible after attacking.
Anaba moves up the stairs and swings at the Ogre sorceress.
hits!
Dorella Kreeg -125
Buuuuchhharrrrttt!
Buchart rushes up the stairs and smacks Dorella Kreeg killing her.
YOU ARE OUT OF COMBAT! THE FORT IS YOURS!!!
Cela -10
Fahari -7
Vale-28/45
Fernleaf -33/53
Shalelu - blind (need remove blindness of dispel magic to heal)
Anaba -71/77
Rolande -27
Buchart -39/51
Dorella Kreeg -48
Fernleaf you have a wand of cure light wounds and can heal your self 1d8+1
healing everyone
After some healing Cela and Fahri are at full hitpoints
Vale -3
Fernleaf -1
Anaba -1
Rolande -25
Buchart -39/51
Shalelu - blind (need remove blindness of dispel magic to heal)
Rolande -1
Buchart -3
As if on queue the intolerable rain starts to come down more heavily, washing the blood coated walls and courtyard into reddish pools. The courtyard is muddy and difficult to move through.
After spending some time healing at a bit of rest, you realize no more Ogres or a Lamia are coming out of the Fort. With caution you proceed with a room by room search. You are unable to find the Lamia and appears she fled.
The scene inside and out is macabre. Room after room of dead mutilated rangers. Outside you find a giant cooking pot with six rangers inside boiling. Dead rangers hang from trees, nailed to walls, hung from beams upside down to be bled dry into large buckets like chandlers, some are even taxidermied, corpses lie bloated and bones of the dead lie in piles where ogres have eaten away all the meat. Heads of dead rangers are everywhere mounted on spears their milky eyes staring back at you.
You find Kaven still alive, but unconscious where he fell.
Scanning the rooms and dead ogres very carefully you find (Treasure sheet updated).
7 sets of large +1 hide armor
6 +1 ogre hooks,
50 large javelins
20 large longbows
A necklace of shriveled women's hands, each adorned with shiny copper rings. 21 of the rings are worth 10 gp each, while the 22nd is actually a ring of animal friendship
potions of cure serious wounds (3)
Large + 1 human bone ogre hook
Belt of giant strength +2
Wand of acid arrow with (43 charges)
Amulet of natural armor +1
Headband of alluring charisma +2
Ring of protection +1
Pair of soft green leather boots - The boots are a pair of boots of the mire.
You also find several maps several of which seem interesting or valuable:
- One detailing several of the smugglers' tunnels beneath Riddleport (worth so gp to
a smuggler)
- One detailing the first few poisonous levels of Viperwall (worth 400 gp to an interested party)
- One of the hidden paths of Lurkwood's interior (worth 700 gp to explorers set on investigating the mistshrouded woods).
Tiny jewelry box hidden in Commander Lamatar of the Black Arrows quarters. The coffer contains dozens and dozens of parchment sheets, all containing beautifully-written love sonnets to someone named "Myriana," who (if the sonnets are to be believed) is so beautiful that the moon itself was "blinded when it spied her dancing on the tarn," and who is "the truest grace to know Whitewillow's soft embrace." Using Knowledge (geography) you realize that "Whitewillow" is a
section ofthe Shimmerglens said to be particularly close to one of the portals to the First World.
The jewelry box contains a silver locket on a chain; inside the locket is a lock of silky golden hair. KN Nature check please (DC22)
You find stacks of the rangers swords, daggers, long bows, arrows, armor and clothes.
Vale and Jakardros agree that Lamatar did in fact leave Fort Rannick for 2 to 3 days at a time, once each month, on what he called his "communion walks," lone treks made through the region, supposedly to put him closer to the realm he had been charged to guard. Jakardros notes that
the commander was on just such a walk the night the attack on Fort Rannick came, which further indicates that treachery was involved. How would the ogres have known when exactly to strike the fort unless one of the Black Arrows told them when their commander was leaving the fort for a night? Both Jakardros and Vale become hopeful upon learning of Lamatar's affair, and cling to the possibility that their beloved commander may yet live, and is only hiding out in Whitewillow. Perhaps preparing to strike back against the ogres.
With the ogres slaughtered to the last you have liberated Fort Rannick. Yet the Order of the Black Arrows remains dead; Vale and Jakardros alone cannot carry the torch, as much as they
might wish to-they'll need help. Although Fort Rannick was built by funds from Magnimar over 4 decades ago, it's been under the jurisdiction of Turtleback Ferry for most of that time.
Jakardros pleads for yet another favor - someone needs to go to Turtlebak Ferry and tell they mayor what has happened, gather forces quickly to protect the fort should there be a counter attack.
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"I've been here in Naga. Could not bear to stay away from the magic day - probably stop somewhere probably in the eyes of the castle. We might be able to catch him now, if we look at this law circular tower,
but it may be difficult because of the area - Oh, and, indeed, a kind of sense that it is a form of leverage it will be difficult to guess what is in the law. Perhaps a giant snake or human, though. So, if we leave now do we get before it gets away. It can be useful, but it is also dangerous. Jakardros? what to do what do you think?"
Jakardros takes a grim assessment of the situation.
"We need to contact Turtleback Ferry and advise Magnimar of what has transpired and we are in dire need of reinforcements. I need a volunteer to go with all haste to Turtleback Ferry and secure reinforcements. I do not know if the Kreegs will mount a counter attack, but we are ill prepared if they do. Can any of you contact Magnimar and let them know as well - we will need men and funds to rebuild our damaged fort."
Area B7
"A vile pool of sewage sits at the base of a nook in the wall. The pool drains through a two-foot-wide sluiceway in the wall to the creek beyond, but a body of a Ranger is lodged headfirst inside it."
"The dead need to be cleaned up and properly burned with the rights which is our custom. The ogres should be burned as well, separately to prevent disease ...or worse. Starting a funerary pyre for all the dead will be a challenge in the deluge."
"We will take Kaven and he will suffer the Ranger punishment for the traitor he is. I beg that you not interfere. His headless corpse will be burned with his Ogre allies"
"The front gate is damaged. The ogres did their best to repair the doors , but until an actual skilled carpenter works on them, they'll remain in sad condition. They cannot be locked, but they don't open easily. It won't be a problem for a group of Ogres to push their way in again."
Area B9
"The cascade is the fort's primary source of fresh water and are coming in polluted by something."
"The inside of the fort is a festering mess with entrails, body parts and blood. We need to clean it top to bottom before the reinforcements arrive. I'd like to prevent the stench and disease as well as keep their morale up if at all possible."
He points at Area B5 (the pile of rubble) and several large dead eagles around the fort.
"The tunnel beyond winds up to a ledge that overlooks the fort, 120 feet up the cliff face above. This ledge rises a further 450 feet to a tor that once served as the nesting
ground for a group of giant eagles allied with the Black Arrows. I'd like to know what happened to them and if any survived."
"Chasing the Lamia now is ill advised. We need to shore up the defenses here, rest which we all need, especially the spell casters. Shalelu, my step-daughter is blind and needs healing if you can please. I am sure the Lamia is headed to hook mountain to report to the Kreeg Clan. She is a shape shifter and catching her will be near impossible in this rain on foot. I'd also like to find the commander and get reinforcements before an assault on the Kreeg clan directly. When will this damnable rain stop!!"
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shakes off confusion
What I meant to say was:
If I were the naga I would be getting out of here. Her teleport spell can't carry her that far - she'd probably come out somewhere almost in sight of the fort. We might be able to catch her if we leave now and circle the fort looking for tracks, but it could be tricky because of the area covered - oh, and the fact that she's a shapeshifter of some kind means that it might be tricky to guess what kind of tracks she's leaving. Probably human or giant snake, though. So, if we leave now
we might be able to catch her before she gets away. It might be worth doing, but it is also risky. Jakardros? What do you think?
Jakardros thinks for a minute and then says "Well if she is a large shapeshifter, she probably turned into a large flying creature, like Cela did as an eagle, and is already miles away."
After a short rest and some food, Jakardros and Vale start silently, but reverently together gathering the Ranger dead and laying them in neat rows in the old barracks (which you can tell is very unstable).
After an hour Lumpy rises again from the dead-undead. And stands ready for Sekkimm's orders.
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Might as well use Lumpy for body collection. I will assist, of course. I would like to collect some large arrows after that. The booty can wait, as far as I'm concerned. And some can be used for rebuilding the fort.
Good fighting, big guy!
Though I'm no fan of undead, I like what you'be done with him Sekkimm!
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The Rangers perfer Lumpy be used to remove the heavy ogres and place them in a large pile outside of the fort.
By nightfall the dead have been sorted and placed in their separate areas. Kaven is left unconscious and locked in a cell to be delt with at dawn. Is anyone going to Turtleback Ferry or contacting Magnimar (Lady Heidmarch)
Before the casters rest they ask if you have any spells that will start very large funerary fires?
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It would probably be best delivered by Cela in Person. As a large eagle she can get there in no time . She could also check on the rookery
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Yes the silver raven returned just before you entered the cave. Lady Sheila asked you to try t take the fort and report back.
Cela checks the Aerie and discovers only a few fledglings which have starved to death and eggs that are no longer viable - the eagles were wiped out.
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The Rangers perfer Lumpy be used to remove the heavy ogres and place them in a large pile outside of the fort.
By nightfall the dead have been sorted and placed in their separate areas. Kaven is left unconscious and locked in a cell to be delt with at dawn. Is anyone going to Turtleback Ferry or contacting Magnimar (Lady Heidmarch)
Before the casters rest they ask if you have any spells that will start very large funerary fires?
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Will oil and a Spark spell work?