Ogeny's Impressions (Once more unto the breach)
Wow, did we argue for a while on what to do. We finally settled on heading out east to join up with the Varna forces. On the way we kept an eye out for tracks of that engineer that was heading to some ruins for the other half of the artifact that the Rakshasa's had.
Amazingly, we did actually find some promising tracks and followed them.....into an ambush :(
We were pinned and blinded out in the open and had some big guys on one side throwing shit at us and archers and casters on the other side. It was a pretty brutal fight but we eventually took them out. Turns out that they were soldiers set there to protect the artifact hunting party. We actually took one of the men alive, Leftenant Jenkins. They ended up pumping him for information and were about to kill him until I spoke up with the voice of reason again. Sheesh.
After quite some time of arguing, we stripped him and set him off into the forest. We headed off in the direction of the ruins the Kobold was heading towards.
When we made camp it was decided that we would create our own ambush. So we set to work digging a ten foot by ten foot pit in a good spot on the trail. We took up our positions and slept there. Unfortunately, halfway through the night, we were ambushed again!
This time it was a bunch of friggin' ninjas. What the hell did I get myself into with these guys?!
At first it was touch and go with the fight in the dark, I even got dominated at one point :( But after that wore off we were beginning to really weaken them. And what would you know, the cowards actually fled. Full on smoke bomb and gone kind of shit. They didn't even leave any of their bodies behind.
After all of that, we eventually made it to morning. And it was around then that we noticed that the citadel was flying quite quickly towards us. We decided to abandon our attempted ambush and head for the ruins. I made sure to flag our pit trap for any unlucky travelers before we left on the Bard's summoned steeds. We took a short cut across a lake to buy us some extra time and tethered our horses a good ways away from the ruins.
Friggin' Hill Giants! Two of them were standing guard at the entrance with, like, 20 or so soldiers. We all got our disguises on and ran up, leaving the talking to our glorious leader, the Bard. It was sooo hard to not snicker while he convinced them that we had slain the adventurer's and were needed back at Point Roy, post haste. They actually fell for it! Sadly, that did split our forces, leaving myself, the Cleric, and the Halfling to hang out with Barry. Oh yeah, did I mention that Barry, was a friggin' BEHOLDER!?!
Talk about nerve wracking to be standing around with two Hill Giants, a Beholder, a Cleric, and a Halfling :(
Anyways, after some time, we see people riding back. It looks like our guys but then the Halfling is pulling a dagger while they're still a good twenty or thirty yards off. I quickly jump at him screaming "Knife!!!!" to try to bluff the Beholder into thinking I was saving his life but sadly he retreated into the ruins with the Hill Giants :( Once the rest of the group pulled up, we did a quick conference and cracked open one of the doors.
After a quick, pitched battle, poor Barry and the Hill Giants, Kevin and Timtom, were dead. We captured and subdued the Kobold engineer and recovered the second half of the Artifacte. The Bard tossed the unconscious Kobold into his Bag of Holding and we rode like mad for cover because the flying Citadal was nearly upon us.
We rode through the forest, back across the lake to lose our tracks, and then continued on to the rendezvous with the Varna people that the Halfling was working for. I can't wait to see what happens next....
Amazingly, we did actually find some promising tracks and followed them.....into an ambush :(
We were pinned and blinded out in the open and had some big guys on one side throwing shit at us and archers and casters on the other side. It was a pretty brutal fight but we eventually took them out. Turns out that they were soldiers set there to protect the artifact hunting party. We actually took one of the men alive, Leftenant Jenkins. They ended up pumping him for information and were about to kill him until I spoke up with the voice of reason again. Sheesh.
After quite some time of arguing, we stripped him and set him off into the forest. We headed off in the direction of the ruins the Kobold was heading towards.
When we made camp it was decided that we would create our own ambush. So we set to work digging a ten foot by ten foot pit in a good spot on the trail. We took up our positions and slept there. Unfortunately, halfway through the night, we were ambushed again!
This time it was a bunch of friggin' ninjas. What the hell did I get myself into with these guys?!
At first it was touch and go with the fight in the dark, I even got dominated at one point :( But after that wore off we were beginning to really weaken them. And what would you know, the cowards actually fled. Full on smoke bomb and gone kind of shit. They didn't even leave any of their bodies behind.
After all of that, we eventually made it to morning. And it was around then that we noticed that the citadel was flying quite quickly towards us. We decided to abandon our attempted ambush and head for the ruins. I made sure to flag our pit trap for any unlucky travelers before we left on the Bard's summoned steeds. We took a short cut across a lake to buy us some extra time and tethered our horses a good ways away from the ruins.
Friggin' Hill Giants! Two of them were standing guard at the entrance with, like, 20 or so soldiers. We all got our disguises on and ran up, leaving the talking to our glorious leader, the Bard. It was sooo hard to not snicker while he convinced them that we had slain the adventurer's and were needed back at Point Roy, post haste. They actually fell for it! Sadly, that did split our forces, leaving myself, the Cleric, and the Halfling to hang out with Barry. Oh yeah, did I mention that Barry, was a friggin' BEHOLDER!?!
Talk about nerve wracking to be standing around with two Hill Giants, a Beholder, a Cleric, and a Halfling :(
Anyways, after some time, we see people riding back. It looks like our guys but then the Halfling is pulling a dagger while they're still a good twenty or thirty yards off. I quickly jump at him screaming "Knife!!!!" to try to bluff the Beholder into thinking I was saving his life but sadly he retreated into the ruins with the Hill Giants :( Once the rest of the group pulled up, we did a quick conference and cracked open one of the doors.
After a quick, pitched battle, poor Barry and the Hill Giants, Kevin and Timtom, were dead. We captured and subdued the Kobold engineer and recovered the second half of the Artifacte. The Bard tossed the unconscious Kobold into his Bag of Holding and we rode like mad for cover because the flying Citadal was nearly upon us.
We rode through the forest, back across the lake to lose our tracks, and then continued on to the rendezvous with the Varna people that the Halfling was working for. I can't wait to see what happens next....
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