The fires eventually burned out. People started second guessing our decisions. People started spreading rumors of Orcs within the city while the problems were occuring. We volunteered to the mayor to help with the Orc problem. He had mentioned that they had problems in the past with Orcs on the border but never within the city. A woman came up to us and asked if we had seen her child while we were talking. We said no.
We then had a messenger call us to the Mayor's office. Tawanaq was there and said that she had
done another reading to try and determine why these things have been happening. She had
accidentally grabbed two cards which she had not done in years. Since there is no such thing as an
accident...
...the two cards (who may be behind this):
+The Fool (not well shaped as an indiv)...odd since if someone is planning fires, drought, etc, doesn't
make much sense
+The Devil...someone who works from the inside to destroy.
Two cards later, asked "Where": got the seven of Cups- talks about false solutions. Finding fixes to problems that aren't really there.
"what" card: Ace of Cups Reversed- Could mean love is a tremendous factor against something or the lack of love drives the Fool/Devil.
"When" will we be dealing with this: Knight of Cups - definitely some sort of messenger.
"why" : Three of Swords - Pain an suffering (3 hearts with swords through them)
"how": Nine of Swords - fear and apprehension
She inspected her deck after the reading. Someone has corrupted her deck and taken the chariot from it. Water element...also talks about the discipline required to control ones emotions.
Deck is normally kept within her quarters. Doors are usually closed but just about anyone could get at them if they wanted it.
While in the middle of the meeting a guard came in and said that he thought the orcs were in/near the accupuncturist's shop.
While walking to the shop we tell each other what we can do.
Jasper, Tang Zhen, and DeLyra climb up the house and go in the second floor.
Once they are all in, we bust down the door. After three hits with the great axe, dwarf exploded door. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
As N-Guuk entered the building, he saw ~6 orcs remove the barricade that was blocking the other half of the party. At that moment, Tang Zhen was trying to break down the door so the door flew open and knocked one of the orcs.
Pheldran cast color spray and got 4 of them with it.
N-Guuk went into a rage the instant he actually saw an orc
N-Guuk does 14 points of damage to the first orc (was already colorsprayed)
DeLyra does a sleep spell on two of the orcs
+One fell asleep, the other doesn't look affected
Jasper attempted to stab the orc (short sword), failed miserably
One of the orcs attempted to hit Jasper. He was grazed for 1HP.
Dunbarton decided to stay out of it since he doesn't want to get hit by Dwarf or hit the Dwarf himself.
Pheldran looked for a candle in order to add some light into the combat.
N-Guuk Killed another with his axe
DeLyra used colorspray on the final standing orc.
+orc started to fall
+N-Guuk was also hit by the colorspray (unconscious 6 rounds)...axe fell into a unconscious orc (killed it)
final tally of orcs:
(1)asleep
(2)colorsprayed (unconscious)
DeLyra tied up the asleep one. Dunbarton killed the other two with his knife.
Pheldran removed N-Guuk's axe away (just in case).
Pheldran went to interrogate the orc. The orc made nasty comments Re: lineage. Pheldran asked where they came from, cleaned the spit off his face, kicked it in the face. The orc generally refused info. Talked about running from the dragons and hiding here because it's dark.
DeLyra casts "charm person" to try and get more out of the orc. Orc failed its save. Was out hunting. Were about to collect food. Headed North when the Dragons came and hid in the town.
DeLyra, Jasper, and Pheldran escort the orc to the edge of town in order to follow it to the rest of the orcs.
N-Guuk woke up. He and Tang Zhen got into a dispute over the fate of the final living orc. N-Guuk tried to intimidate Tang Zhen in order to "convince" him that the only valid end to this is the death of the orcs. We ended up following the other group to the South. They let the orc go (N-Guuk saw this).
As we started to follow the orc, we heard people crying from the town that there were two orcs headed out of town in the other direction (North). N-Guuk, Dunbarton, Teng Zhen continued to follow the one orc South.
Pheldran, Jasper, Lystrom and DeLyra headed North (supposedly to kill the other two).
To the South:
Approximately, 1/3 of the distance we had traveled earlier, the orc cut off to the West into the forest and entered a cave.
N-Guuk slowly entered the cave, inspecting it as he went, looking for weak points to possibly cave it in. The others stay behind while N-Guuk investigated. There was one big room with a tunnel off to the side. In the tunnel, there wre two rooms off to the right.
N-Guuk attacked, missed.
Orc attacked, missed
N-Guuk attacked, squiched. Tapestry on the wall is all "Jackson Pollocky"
N-Guuk searched orc, then cave:
(Neil takes over with the log as the battery goes poof. He writes...)
North: Orcs break off west. We find a cave. There's
(Jay thinks, at next session, maybe he was dictating)
What happened before the end of session was that the north party encountered a cave in which the orcs were not present, but a flesh golem was. They explored the cavern, found some trinkets, an empty chest, the flesh golem breaking rocks to make cave bigger, and Jasper palmed some papers from the desk in the dark.
As the party regroups, Jasper pulls out the missing Chariot card from the north cave.