The man turns over on his back with great difficulty. A huge gash on the side of his head is visibly bleeding. As he turns, he lets out a muffled Ohhhh! Greta and Kurag recognize the man as Rabus Clarenston, owner of The Killin' Ground. He weakly says, When we heard the alarm, we all started to gather our arms when that half-orc and them two Freedom Town thugs that were in here drinking began attacking us. I was hit on the side of my head with an ale mug. I played dead while they found the moonshine. They got so busy with their drinking they forgot about me. Then you all came in and saved us. He then looks around at the bodies of the other patrons. Saved me he says sadly.
Greta moves over and channels, healing the men and anyone else who is close for healing.
Bormann wipes the blood off his axe as he asks, "Freedom Town? Is that another settlement or a rival one?"
Thanks Greta. Hopefully we get some answers from them later.
As Rabus mentions Freedom Town Kurag racks his brain to try and remember what he knows of the place.
It is another settlement but an unsavory one. Where Trunau holds itself to a strict code of laws Freedom Town is anything but. You can find all sorts of unsavory types there.
Aye! That you can! The wounded man tries to spit but not having the strength, the spittle just dribbles down his chin. Bah! The man says as he wipes his mouth with his sleeve. I was wary of 'em when they said they were from Freedom Town. Looks like my suspicions were correct! Is anyone else still alive? Rabus asks hopefully as he sees you checking the bodies. As he unsteadily gains his footing, feeling a little better aftrer Greta's healing. He will say to the group. My thanks again. As long as I am owner of this establishment, you all can drink for free. He then moves unsteadily to behind the bar. Good! They are still here. I do want to give these to you now. It ain't much. Here are two vials of remove sickness and two vials of Soothe Syrup I had been saving these, but I think you all might get more benefit from them. He slides the four vials accross the bar to you.
Bormann frowns at the description of Freedom Town and doesn't like the implications. "They may just be criminals acting independently, but if acting on behalf of Freedom Town, this could be an act of war."
Kursk gladly accepts one of the vials of remove sickness. Thank you my friend. Once this is over I will come back for your drink as well. You might have offered up too much though with the reputations dwarves and their capacity for drink.. Giving home an arm to lean on and dragging one of the unconscious men Kurag makes for the door. Come lets get you to the healers adn then we an get rid of this filth as well.
Thank you my friend. Once this is over I will come back for your drink as well. You might have offered up too much though with the reputations dwarves and their capacity for drink..
I am not worried. If it wasn't for you all, I wouldn't have a tavern to serve them in! He gladly accepts Kurag's arm and says to Bormann, I don't think it was anything organized by Freedom Town itself. It sounded like these were just mercenaries that hired out to the stinkin' orcs!
When you arrive back at the barricade, you see that Sara is looking much better. She waves at you all and Agrit flashes you a toothy smile. As a healer rushes past she says, Just put them over there and we will take care of them when we have the time.
After dropping the men at the the barricade Kurag gives a nod to Sara and Garith as he hurries inward to check out the homes on the way to the eastern lookout tower. Keep these men safe. Should we come back they might have information that we will need to obtain from them. This is no random attack. They knew when and where to hit us. We will return when this is over.
"Let's finish securing the quarter. We should check those homes near the the overlook and make sure the tower is clear of orcs. Last thing the defenders of Trunau need is some orc chief coordinating their assault from that useful a vantage point."
As you approach the first house, you see an orc passby an open window and you hear the sound of furniture breaking and glass shattering. There is also a crudly made cart outside the house piled high with orcan equipment, clothes, and bags.
Keeping quiet Kurag motions that he will approach the window and fire through that. Harnessing his greatclub he draws his bow and nocks an arrow ready to move out and assault when the others are ready.
stealth check moving forward
As Kurag approaches the window, the orc that has been walking back and forth in the window carrying valuables to load on the cart catches something out of the corner of his eye. Imagine his surprise when he sees a dwarf try to stealthily approach his window with his bow out. The orc drops his ill-gotten loot and shouts
Kurag then hears a huge commotion coming from inside the house.
Kurag sees that he was spotted and quickly moves forward to get an optimal shot. Once at the window he fires at the closest orc.
Point blank shot and favored enemy orc and sneak attack for
Kurag advances to just before the window and fires at the Orc standing dumbfounded staggering the beast.
One of the Orcs will advance to the doorway, taunting you in rough common, Come dwarves! Get head bashed!
Though his instincts are pushing him to charge right in, Bormann decides that it would be better in this instance to advance with a more united front with Sergei and really put the fear of the dwarves in these orcs... for the remainder of their short lives.
"Let's get them together, Sergei! he says as he strides forward at a pace compatible with Sergei's heavier armor.
Sergei nods.
"Agreed! They should know better than to attack a place defended by Dwarves..."
He then moves forward shoulder-to-shoulder with Bormann.
Sergei & Bormann advance to the door side-by-side.
The doorway is filled by three orcs. The stare resolutely at the dwarves taunting them.
Greta picks one of the orcs at random and casts charm person on it. Pointing at him, she calls out in Common. "You, wouldn't you rather come outside and discuss this like reasonable folk do?"
Greta casts a charm Person spell beseeching one of the orcs to come out and talk.
The orc in the back says, Brothers we no need to bash them, let us go talk to them.
Meanwhile the orc in the window will throw a javelin at Kurag.
The javelin finds a weak spot in Kurag's armor and wounds the dwarf.
Drosk[BOT] follows Sergei and Bormann hammer at the ready.
Greta will call out to the other orcs. "Your friend sees reason. We will allow you to leave without violence! You don't need to die here today!"
Kurag takes the powerful javelin throw to the chest as he coughs up some blood. $&#%! Broke a rib there at least. Need to finish this orc off quickly before he hits me that hard again.. He glances over to where Greta was asking for peace and after being injured Kurag was having none of it from this orc. This orc would pay for injuring him.
Taking careful aim Kurag draws back and releases another arrow at the invading orc.
Attack for
Hoping this was enough to finish the orc Kurag looks for the next target for his arrows. If the Orc is still up though Kurag beats a quick move out of firing line to the side of the house. He could always move and fire again next time if he needed to.
Kurag releases an arrow which blows the orc in the window backwards. He dies before he hits the floor.
One of the orcs in the doorway is surpised that his friend in the back wants to talk to the 'dumb dwarfs'. Still waving his falchion menacingly at you he says to his friend in Orc
Sergei delays (for the moment), but does not relax his grip on his weapon.
Bormann moves forward with Sergei again with an eye to bringing the orcs to battle. When within reach, he unleashes a powerful chop at the orc before him.
Sergei and Bormann continue up to the orcs and Bormann delivers a devastating blow with his axe.
The orc in the doorway slashes Sergei with his falchion.
The orc in the back still wants to talk to the dwarves and says in rough common, We wants to talk!
Greta tries to talk sweetly to his friends, but the other two orcs are not hearing it.
With a curse, Sergei takes a swing at the orc that just hit him.
Sergei, not wanting to be overshadowed by Bormann, delivers a devastating attack of his own.
Drosk[BOT] keeps pace with Bormann and Sergei.
Having taken out the orc at the window Kurag looks for another target. The rest of the dwarves were holdings he doorway plugging up the gap there. Judging the size of the window Kurag hopes that it is big enough to slip through.
Move action to enter through the window if it is big enough
Attack orc by the door for
Kurag launches himself through the window and sttacks one of the orcs by the door slaying it!
Sergei tries to finish-off the injured Orc in front of him.
Bormann gives Sergei a hand with the orc. "Keep the pressure on him, Sergei. He cannot stand up to us long!"
Sergei and Bormann both swing at the remaining orc. Sergei misses, but Bormann is able to hurt it a little bit.
The orc realizing that his end is near, tries to attack Bormann but misses.
The charmed orc in the back is confused and looks at Greta and says Talk?
Greta nods. "You should probably go home. We'll take care of your friends. Now run home!"
Drosk[BOT] continues to shout encouragement.
Sergei takes a swing at the stubborn orc in front of him.
Not wanting to fire into the scrum Kurag drops his bow and draws his greatclub as he moves forward to clear the doorway for good. Arriving in time to attack the orc Kurag still waits a moment for one of the others to step forward to flank his opponent. Once ina tactically viable spot Kurag brings the giant club down on the orc's skull.
attack with flank for
Sergei flanks the charmed orc and when Sergei steps up, they both deliver devastating blows which drop the confused orc. He manages to blurt out Talk? as he collapses to the floor.
"Where's your bravado now, wormfood? You picked the wrong time to attack this town. It is defended by dwarves!"
Edit: Almost forgot- needless to say, Bormann follows up his taunt with a savage chop with his axe.
Bormann, seeing the last standing orc staggering, finishes him with a cruel chop of his axe.
Greta looks sadly at the dead charmed orc. "I wish that could have been handled differently. Alright you two, gather close!" Greta prays and channels.
Kuragh will loot the bodies for more arrows to make sure he has enough to withstand the attack on the city. While he si dong that he will also liberate any potions of vials and hand them to Greta. Nice work all. One house down a few more to go to get this cleared out. On to the next in search of more invading orcs.
perception
Thanks for the healing Greta!
There is still the cart outside and a pile of stuff in the house. There does not seem to be any sign of the occupants.
You suddenly hear a dwarven curse and in dwarven you hear, If ye squash one more beetle, I'll squash ye! You turn the corner and Sergei and Bormann see a familiar-looking dwarf. Kurag and Greta just see an odd-looking dwarf dressed all in blue. He is surrounded by four orcs and a fifth is busy stomping beetles on the ground. The are laughing a jeering at him in orc. The are so pre-occupied, that they don't notice you coming.
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A platinum blonde, blue skinned dwarf stands there, fuming at the orcs as they crush another beetle.
"Ooooh! Now you're just mocking me. Time to teach you fellers a lesson about squishing stuff you don't understand!"
BB shuffles 5 feet towards one of the orcs. Despite his lack of armor, he seems quite confident as he kicks the orc in the abs twice with nothing but his boot.
With the area wide open in front of him, Bormann wastes no time in getting down to business. He rushes forward to get into the fray! "More orcs to feel the bite of my blade!"