SESSION 36 – February 18, 2018

SESSION 36 – February 18, 2018

We make plans to go after Aloshia.

Otiben goes to town and hires men, gets some healing salve and healing herbs from the druid, and asks some questions about old towers or structures in the southern woods.

We get no nibbles on a more exact location for Aloshia.

As we debate, Bori, chief of the Stonespears shows up with his ally, the dhief of the Blue Crows. They bring a tale of ogres taking away whole villages and destroying the villages. They hope we will help.

After asking questions, we learn that the ogres have also taken the remnants of villages of warriors who went off to fight with the ogres near the dwarves to the west of the Vale.

We agree, that the ogres are a more severe threat than Aloshia.

We go north and follow the trail left by the mixed force of ogres and goblins.

Along the way, we come to one village with a carrion crawler in it. Urman blasts it with a lightning bolt, ending its threat. A bag of silver the ogres must have overlooked on those who resisted them in that village is found in the stomach of the beast.

We travel a couple of days and come to a river, and use a more challenging ford than the one a half day’s ride further north. The ogres didn’t want any large group of people seeing them.

We camp where the ogre’s force camped, and continue the next day.

A group of four ogres and four goblin archers attempt to ambush us, but we spot them. Batukhan severly injures one ogre that Rip finishes off. Otiben easily takes out one of the goblin archers. Puk tries to recruit one of the goblin archers to his new tribe. Zho ni and the dwarf charged another ogre, but missed. One of the Blue Crow scouts shoots and injures a goblin archer.

The ogres move in, they miss Urman’s guards, but the archers manage to his. One ogre kills one of the lead Blue Crow scouts.

Urman again favors lightning bolt and drops the ogre threatening his bodyguards and evaporates a goblin. Puk continues to try and convince his opponent, but he flees, so Puk tries to recruit the other.

Finally, the ogres are dropped, Puk is forced to slay the second archer he is attempting to recruit. Puk then goes after the first goblin, and that goblin just gives up. Urman ensures he will be helpful, and charms him.

We learn the ogres knew someone was following them, and these were left behind to stop us. The main force of ogres is about a day and a half north of us.

All the prisoners are to be used for sacrifice, the goblin doesn’t know why.

We learn that the goblins are raised to server the ogres, and don’t have tribes. The goblin is honored to take on the symbol of the Seer, an eye.

The goblin traveled past the wizard, Mydius, and confirmed that the ogres are crossing by boat to get around the mountains.

We suspect that the ogres have found the long lost orc capital and are using the prisoners either to dig, or to be sacrificed for some unknown purpose, for some unknown result.

The goblins are not good with numbers, but there are at least a dozen more ogres, and many more goblins ahead. We make camp after a few more hours of travel.