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.

Orc Fight (still) (Session 16) - Faniele 21, 888 F.S.

Still Fighting Orcs in the Allindel Forest

The fight continues with the orcs. Sophia continues to watch the fray from on far then decides to enter the fight. The battle doesn't go the best for the party: Estenel, Guillamette, Sophia, Gaufridus, and Henri are unconscious. Ecran's arm and hand are chopped burger. Estenel's limbs aren't much better. While waiting for party members to wake up, Jollin kills all but three of the orcs.

We heal up over the course of two hours. Estenel mind-searches one of the orcs, who has very little for useful information other than the temple is a one-hour hike from where we are and that there are approximately 80 orcs at the temple.

Jollin heads off to scout the temple. Meanwhile, several orcs from the temple arrive at the battle site, survey the dead, and then begin to fan out, searching for survivors. After a few minutes, one of the orcs spots us and blows a horn. Sophia and Guilamette take the mule and begin to head to Throggi. Estenel and Ecran hide in the foliage. Yukon grabs Henri, casts flight, and sets Henri down in a tree. He lures the orcs toward him and begins lobbing fireballs down at the orcs. Several orcs run by Estenel's and Ecran's hiding spot.

Jollin observes some sort of ritual being performed by the orcs at the temple. He draws a bead on what appears to be their leader, trying to stick an arrow in his eye. His shot goes wide; Jollin beats feet out of the area and outruns the orcs.

The orcs head back to the temple. Estenel and Ecran begin hobbling toward Throggi. Yukon creates a flying mount and hauls himself and Henri toward Throggi as well. Jollin is still catching his breath. Yukon gets back to Throggi, dumps Henri at the inn. Estenel is able to contact Yukon (after trying for three days) and directs Yukon to his location. Yukon flies to him and begins to haul Estenel and Ecran back to Throggi. Estenel pings Jollin; he's half way back to Throggi. In the end, the entire party makes it back to Throggi and drink themselves into oblivion.

Estenel restores the various crippled limbs of the party. Meanwhile, we strike up a conversation with a local in the inn. He warns us that the Allindel Forest is filled with orcs. He is unaware of anything within the forest; he stays out of it... because it's full of orcs. Sophia seeks an audience with the mayor of Throggi to discuss the situation with the nearby orcs. We wait in Throggi for a month, waiting for people with crippled limbs to heal. We plan to head back to the temple and scout it out.