Back to the Temple (Session 17) - Pasiphiel 26, 888 F.S.

Throggi
The party rests up for a month for battle wounds to heal. Duke Futanmoth pings Sophia, telling her that the party needs to get back to the Duke's land because there is a group of people there that are persistent in asking to meet with the party. The duke doesn't know who they are, what they're wearing, or why they want to speak with us. I think the duke needs to pay more attention to dealings in his duchy. Sophia asks the duke to send a ship to pick us up. He balks at the idea. Sophia tells the duke that we are in the middle of dealing with an issue here near Throggi, and after we're done with that, we'll head to the duke's land.


Allindel Forest
The party heads back into the jungle, making our way to the temple. Three days into our travel, we come across a party of six orcs. We drop down, waiting to see if the orcs pass by. They hear the party (which isn't being all that sneaky). Yukon creates a pecari and has it run off, hoping to pull the orcs off of us. Great idea. But it doesn't work. The orcs get dangerously close to Gaufridus, so we jump up (having the drop on them), and engage. The party prevails. Yukon and Estenel heal up the party.

We continue on to the temple. Two days later, we arrive back at the orc outpost where we fought the orcs a month prior. Jollin and Yukon skirt the outpost and head up to the temple. Yukon creates a parrot and sends it into the temple to scout within the temple, hoping to find the disk. A few minutes later, the parrot comes back with a disc in its beak... it's a dinner plate.

Jollin heads back to the rest of the part, Estenel gives him the ability to speak and understand Orcish. Jollin heads back to where Yukon is hunkered down. He then casts an illusion disguise of an orc on Jollin. Jollin heads to the temple and begins walking around the temple, looking for an entrance to the interior of the temple. Jollin bs's his way into the main entrance into the temple interior.


Jollin Inside the Sidhe Temple
Jollin enters a main chamber with several orcs and an altar. He espies the orc leader that he almost skewered with an arrow a month ago, who is talking about the damned party of humans who have been harrassing the orcs. Jollin activates the seal-seeker ring and gets a beacon on the seal. He gets the feeling that the seal is down and toward the front of the temple. Jollin walks back out and meets up with Yukon. They rest for a bit, then Yukon casts Hawk Flight and Ethereal Body on Jollin, who then flies through the earth, down into a subterranean chamber, and sees the orc leader chanting in front of a table that is holding one of the discs. Jollin flies back out (still ethereal).


Jollin and Yukon Inside the Sidhe Temple
Estenel walks up to where Yukon and Jollin are hidden and lends strength to Yukon so that he can cast hawk flight and ethereal body on himself and Jollin. Yukon puts a seeker on Jollin so that he can follow him through the earth. They fly through the earth and back into the chamber where the head orc is still chanting. Jollin starts talking trash in an attempt to distract him away from the disc. While the orc is distracted, Yukon drops the ethereal body, grabs the disc, and teleports out of the temple... except that he misses his target. Jollin flies back to Estenel. They look at each other, wondering where Yukon is.


Back to Throggi
Estenel pings Yukon. He's lost. Jollin realizes that he's still wearing the disc-seeker ring and relays through Estenel that he is 10 miles east of the temple. Alarm horns are heard blowing from the temple. The party (sans Yukon) starts hoofing it to Throggi. Yukon tries another teleport, and makes it to Throggi. While the party makes its way back to Throggi, Yukon arranges for a ship to take us north. He finds a captain going to Ergant. We buy passage on the ship and plan to present the Sidhe disc to Eng once we arrive in Ergant.

The Sidhe Ritual Site (Session 15) - Faniele 21, 888 F.S.

Chasing Orcs in the Allindel Forest

Estenel and Yukon rest up at the combat site, preparing to heal party members. Sophia and Jollen head off after the fleeing orcs. Sophia follows their tracks for an hour. Estenel heals Tiamat; Henri is healed and awakened.

Sophia and Jollen catch up with the orcs (as evidenced by an arrow narrowly missing them... that, and the gutteral grunts coming from the bush). A fight begins. Jollen takes a dirt nap. Sophia continues the fight, putting down two of them. The two remaining orcs are archers and are holed up in a tree. Sophia is stumped. She decides to climb the tree and go after the orc. Believe it or not, it works out. Sophia takes care of the one orc that was up the tree shooting at her. The location of the last remaining orc is unknown. We'll just assume he scarpered off.


To the Temple (we think)
Sophia arrives back at our camp, towing an unconscious Jollen. Estenel mind-searches the unconscious orc at the camp and learns that an ancient temple is located two hours to the east, which is where his orc tribe lives, and has lived for several years. This is the direction to which the orcs were originally fleeing. We track back to the location where Sophia and Jollen retired the last few orcs. The one remaining orc is still up a tree, and there are eight new orcs standing at the base of the tree. While 70 yards out from the orcs, Estenel sings the Sonata du Hush-Hush. Yukon then moves quietly. We sneak up on the orcs' position. Estenel and Ecran step on the same branch. At 30 yards out, ranged combat begins. Ranks close, and toe-to-toe fighting begins. Henri get bludgeoned into next week.

More next week.