Greengrass Holiday, 1376, Year of the Bent Blade

We find the orc "house" (previously belonging to cultists of some sort). We enter and find a bit of a maze. You can see a lot of big rooms. We find 6 orcs and what I imagine are 3 lady orcs. 4 more orcs and a leader comes and helps the fight. We manage to beat them. 

We continue exploring. We find an orc room, presumably the leader's, and loot it. We continue exploring, and find a door that appears to be barricaded. 

We decide to take a long rest in the leader's room. 

We return to the door and start clearing the barricade. We go in and see a circle with fancy sigils (I don't think religious ones?) and 3 boulders - and 1 very flat orc. Vondal says he thinks it's a summoning circle, maybe, and Vorest says that there are earth-ish sigils.

Vandederp and Vondal try to open the stone door (avoiding the circle). It is stuck, so they go to the iron door, and wake up a stone. It now looks like a stone guy. After fighting it a bit, it wakes up the other rocks. We manage to beat them and Vondal ran across the circle to see if anything happened. Nothing does.

Vondal breaks down the stone door and charges in, yelling "Orcs!" We beat them up.

We explore more. We find a giant purple mushroom in a room that looks like a kitchen.

More exploring. We find some blue and white spiders. They seem to pop in and out of existence.

As we are leaving, Vondal walked into a gelatinous blob. We pause for the night (after getting rid of the blob).

 

30th of Tarsakh, 1376, Year of the Bent Blade

We go to Captain Darren's office. Gilbert hasn't shown up for work. Captain Darren asks us to join him on a walk to Gilbert's house. We arrive at his house, and asks us to guard the back. I go up to watch from the roof. Vondederp and Vondal are asked to open the door. Captain Darren goes in and upstairs, and finds Gilbert stabbed in the chest, with a curved dagger. Gilbert has no tattoo. 

 We head back to Captain Darren's office. He asks us for help on the 5th of Mirtul, as well as help with the orcs, right away.

 We get Lilac, and head out.

 In the evening, we are greeted by a bunch of orcs. We destroy them, but they did hurt us. We stop for the night.

 

22th of Tarsakh, 1376, Year of the Bent Blade

We arrive near the cluster of houses. It is nearly night, so we back away from town as to not disrupt anyone.

During the night, we are attacked by Orc-like creatures. 

 

30th of Ches, 1376, Year of the Bent Blade

We head up into the mountain, and we see the tower! We go around a clearing to get close, and decide to head to the top of the tower to kill the guard. So I go, with those wondrous slippers, and Vorest changes into a giant spider to join me. Together, we kill the guard, and realize my rope isn't long enough to reach Vondal and Vandederp. So Vorest weaves a web rope for them to climb. Pretty handy!

Once the guys are up, we peek downstairs to see what waits there. Vondal and Vandederp decide to jump down and set everyone on fire. It worked spectacularly! Afterwards, we head further down, where Vondal became the target of the remaining orcs. I tried to fight down the stairs, but couldn't beat the guy fast enough. Vorest and Vandederp were left to shoot at the orcs beating on poor Vondal.

We managed to defeat them, and decided that the tower was an excellent place to rest that night.

 

 

29th of Ches, 1376, Year of the Bent Blade

We start heading into the mountains. So beautiful!

This night we were attacked by orcs, 6 of them. I am thankful for the warnings that we might run into them, that Stefan gave us.