Gorthug slammed his fist onto his chest in a salute to the fallen human leader. "You died a warrior."
The sun is starting to set in the west. Meanwhile, the tower is cleared of humans. Thorjo wishes that the humans would be more difficult, but if anything, they will get more numerous in time.
(you all recieve 333 xp.)
"We are done here. Lets collect what treasure they have here and move on."
Well, he did have a nice breastplate that was masterwork, until Ak'iss poked a hole in it. He also had a nice longsword that was masterwork.
Agatha's detect magic shows up on the lieutenant's breastplate. No doubt there are more items in the treasury.
The little kobold pokes her head out from the stairwell. "Is he dead?"
Upon seeing his corpse she scowls and runs up, jumping on his chest several times in anger, her 25 pound frame not making much of an impact.
After that she and Bitey go to check out the treasury.
The treasury is accessed on the cellar floor. There are four boxes that can be open, along with the casks of wine.
If the boxes aren't locked, Thorjo uses mage hand to lift the lid from each box from a distance and casually tosses the lids aside.
Two of the boxes contain foodstuffs. Wheat most likely. The other two boxes contain the humans' treasury. There is five hundred gold sovereigns in each box, indicating that the country is quite rich. The humans' personal effects are located on floor 3 and 2. Quite a catch to show to the Warchief, if you ever get to meet him.
Gorthug would gladly wear the breastplate. With Dex16 a Breastplate is optimal for him. That, and he would see it as a sign of respect for the dead human.
The breastplate has a hole in it, which can be easily repaired.
Once the watch tower had been depopulated and pillaged, Gorthug repaired the human's breastplate and happily put it on. It was a sign of conquest, and respect to a valiant foe.
"We should make haste back to the war camp. The war chief will want to hear of this."
Rauusk claims the human's longsword. He glances at the casks of wine, and takes his share of the gold, but goes to poke through the humans' personal things before leaving, looking for any evidence of the raid the humans were planning, or anything else of interest.
"We should make haste back to the war camp. The war chief will want to hear of this."
"We have the other watchtower to take care of, first." Thorjo states without emotion.
Before they leave, Thorjo checks to see if he can see the their next target from the top of this tower, just to make sure that it isn't lit, for any reason.
The next tower over doesn't look lit.
"Good, they don't know what has happened yet. Lets get over there before they realize something is going on. If we get there in the dark, all the better. They won't see us coming."
Grumbar makes his way back outside the tower to retrieve his axe before calling for his warg. He lets the warg eat his fill before mounting up to wait for the rest of his war party.
The lieutenant's personal effects call the breastplate a magical breastplate that turns away attacks. It grants AC+1
Thorjo of the Burning Death wrote:
How long will it take to get to the second watchtower, by mount? Will we have to rest before we reach it?
and weren't we to leave the watch towers in flames?
"Come, we can tear down this tower one we clear out the other one. Causing it to fall now might alert them that we are coming."
Grumbar, your knowledge of Engineering falls up short on how to make the tower fall. You've got nothing. Meanwhile, the tower stands empty of human life, since you got rid of the humans who lived here watching for orcs.
"Let's go."
Thorjo descends the tower and heads to where they left their mounts. He mounts up and rides in the direction of the next tower.
The little kobold hops on Bitey's back and heads out toward the other tower with the others, prominently displaying her new open wound like a badge of battle.
It takes the group about half a day to reach the next tower. It looks the same as the last tower. So far, so good, it doesn't look like a wizard's tower at all.
Rauusk tried to spot any watchers - how many, and how attentive they were to their surroundings.
There are two guards not being attentive to their surroundings. This map shows the details.
Surprised that they were able to get this close to the tower without being seen, Thorjo kicks his mount into action. The worg surges forward to attack the closer of the two guards.
Thorjo dismounts and casts his remaining spell for the day, trying to get both guards in the flames' area, if possible.
Start of the surprise round.
SURPRISE ROUND.
Following the sharp eyed Thorjo, Grumbar spurs his warg as well. He unleashes carnage by crashing into the human with claw and steel but the movement of his mount throws off his aim.
The warg attack was successful. The warg (or worg) managed to mangle the human. But the human wasn't in line with Grumbar's axe.
He made his will save, so he's affected by the hex for one round.
Deciding to follow Grumbar's lead, Rauusk charged the other human with his warg, then leapt off and assaulted the man with his new longsword. *Fitting that a human weapon end the life of that miserable weakling.*
ouch. One human dispatched.
Yes, the attack did miss. But both humans were burned.
botting Ak'iss the Witless.
Ak'iss attacks with her light crossbow on Bitey.
She barely misses the human knight. Humans go this time. One human attacks Raussk.
The other human attacks Thorjo of the Burning Death.
oops. Okay ignore the second attack.
2nd round