Session Six

Attending: Bramble, Veran, Ysmir (DMPC)

Brad's Session #1

A small dryad comes running through the trees as the party walks back toward Greenest, and three orcs are following her with torches. It sounds like she has escaped from the east camp. Bramble leapt over one of the orc's tower shields and attacks the archers. Veran throws a flask of oil at the archers and turns away, and Bramble lights it with a Sweeping Cinder Strike. Veran tends to the dryad's injuries and they return her to her tree. She gives Veran her floating gem, which is an Ioun Stone. They return to Greenest and when they are healed they are approached by a fey woman who offers her gloves of healing if we sort out why the wild creatures are going crazy. Veran obtains a Scroll of Summon Animated Armour and summons an armour that is promptly named 'Bob'.
They travel east towards the camp, and Veran prestidigitates to appear as one of the orc guards, but can't speak Orcish. They start to battle two orcs on the ground and two in the tree, and Veran calls for Bob to come to his aid, avoiding the pit trap. Bramble keeps getting knocked out of the tree
Find fort with iron bands. Orc guards nearby, and they throw a rock to distract them when they snuff out their torches. They sneak around to the locked sallyport and a large green troll emerges. Ducking away, Veran throws a flask of oil and twins Scorching Ray. Bob arrives and the troll falls on him. Then they deal with the orc patrol and proceed into the fort.
The party levels up.
The door opens onto the kitchen, and right in the doorway is a statue of an elf trying to reach the doorknob. Veran notes there is a forge, stables, and a large figure smithing. When Bramble opens the door he is startled by the elf statue and draws the attention of the smith, whom he draws back into the kitchen with Bob. Bob drags Orog Smith to the ground while Bramble hides. When the halfling joins the battle he tries to leap over the bench and slips in salsa. Bob goes down and Kneel is resurrected from his armour as Veran blasts him to hell. They take his hammer. In the yard they find wargs in the stable and block the barracks door with iron blocks. In another hut is a shaman of Gruush that wants us to kill his boss Joor, and Twee + Gorm the underlings. He hands over two wands and promises his shaman's staff after their success. They go into the cave and are ambushed by two bugbears holding back wargs and two orc archers. Kneel is damaged. Bramble breaks a warg's spine and Veran drops an archer onto a bugbear. Warg bites tamer and the bugbears attack each other. They try to question the armless orc and put him out of his misery. Pick up a fancy mace called Whomper, 'The Ogre's Arm', and find platinum pieces, opals and mirrors. As they go through the upstairs door, Bramble is gassed and two large Orog turn. One is in red plate and seems to be a rage-based fighter called Grom, and the other is an archer in red chainmail called Twee. There is a cage full of captives and an elven woman standing near it.

Veran - twin scorching ray at Grom + Twee
Br - sprints at Twee + jumps up at him on parapets
Grom - smashes into Bob x2
Twee - barbed arrow > Br's thigh
V - fireball, killed Bob + damages Grom
Br - great damage to Twee's bow arm
Grom - slices V's leg a bit when smacked with a crude greataxe
Twee - barbed arrow to Br's other thigh
Br - shatters Twee's leg, head, tears out + eats brain as light goes out of eyes
Grom - hits mirror clone
V - fireballs Grom
Br - leaps through air + smashes his skull

The elven woman shapechanges into beauteous ogre with a morningstar and reveals herself as Joor. She opens the wall of the cage and they hear hissing. Bramble thinks it's a basilisk and his assumption is confirmed as one of the elves is turned to stone.
Br - runs across the wall, punches off lock, tries to free prisoners. Two more statues.
Joor - hits last mirror clone away and hits Veran with her morningstar, acid resisted
V - wand (2nd use) and chugs a potion
Br - wand to disintegrate statues and let the rest of the people out
J - smacks Br out of the way with acidic dmg and blocks the cage door again.
V - makes Joor smell the scent of skunk
J - yells 'You filthy creatures!' and runs away as V decapitates basilisk by releasing the wall lever.
He goes to stabilise an injured elven child. Br looks Twee and passes his composite bow and his blood mail to the main floor.
Grom's weapon was a stone greataxe called Greataxe of the Mountain, which is flanged plate.
Groob meets up with them again and gives over the shaman staff, but gets angry because they didn't actually kill Joor. V makes the shaman angry and gets slowed.
V - casts very slow scorching rays
G - prays to Gruush + summons bloody bat things that give necrotic damage.
B - rolls 8 on death saving throw
V - stablises Bramble + fireballs shaman, knocking him off tower w/ concussive force. Makes Br drink potion. As they go back down the tower they find a filled in mineshaft that Joor has escaped through. Veran wears the shaman's Cloak of Arachnia and Bramble takes the Staff of Air. Back to Greenest.