Tol-Rag

Session VI 3/28/365-Springfest 1/365

After a tense vigil through the night, the party decides to meet their fate head on. On departing Caldwell's Castle, the group sees a roadblock setup in preparation, making a hasty exit impractical. Tol-rag's band includes two orc barbarians, an orc fighter, a 1/2 ogre, and an orcish magi in hiding. The Blighter (anti-ranger) himself is clad in a magical black chain shirt and a red hormed helm bearing the mark of a blooded skull (a skull with a blade piercing up through it, spattered in blood). He wields a sylvan scimitar a powerful elven sword, most likely pilfered from the body of one of his victims.

The orc band threaten the party and insisted on taking their belongings. They seem to have known the party would be there for some reason, which the group cannot at present fathom.

The ensuing battle is a tight contest, Dagny dealing death to the half-ogre and the two orc barbarians, Lume and Xavier handling the fighter, Doc magically keeping the orc mage in check, and Cadman helping where he can. At a timely moment, the leader astride a horrifying Volsteed, a meat-eating horned and bony-plated cousin of a horse, joins the melee on horseback, Dagny giving the orc leader as good as she got and Cadman meeting him mount to mount. After the orc deals tremendous injury to the paladin, he unleashes a mighty holy smite; Tol-rag is felled in the saddle, his deadly volsteed bearing him off the field.

In the course of the melee, Doc end up in a death duel with the flying orcish magi, eventually running out of spells and vanquishing his foe in earnest swordplay.

Only the near-dead Tol-rag escapes, his sword fallen to the field and taken up by Dagny, the barbarian. A captured orc rants with almost religious fervor on questioning, that Tol-rag is son to Nea-rag, the one who will bring all armies together under his banner and kill the races of the east.

Four days of travel and the party returns to Kelron just in time to take part in the Spring Festival. They enjoy a relaxing good time, share in the just rewards of a task well done. After reporting of affairs to Caldwell's right hand man Eliat, the wizard is mildly surprised of their trials and tribulations, and shakes his head sadly that the roads are so dangerous these days.

Festival proves the best time to sell the party's acquired treasure, as deals abound. Wisely, the set forth to always save their goods up to sell during festival.

Also, Ignak the goblin having shown promise as an ally in the road fight with the orcs, and a savant with magic. The party enrolls him in a magius academy called "Warthogs," providing him with all he needs to excel. Xavier agrees to teach classes there as part of the arrangement.

Session VII
Bookkeeping, training.

Xavier Cle2 Rog1 4,362
Doc Sor3 4,362
Dagny Bar2 Dru1 4,362
Lume Rog1 Sam1 F1 4,362
Cadman Pal3 4,362