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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teneb" data-source="post: 1528025" data-attributes="member: 3572">Ogres and trolls and rust monsters, oh my!    From the Mathin estate, we decided to head cross-country with me scouting ahead in raven form.  I spotted a group of ogres (deformed of course) lying in wait and promptly ice stormed them.  As this was quickly becoming our warning signal, the rest of the group ran towards the fight, weapons drawn.  I rained lightning down on our foes as Sam broke the neck of one with a flying scissors kick.  The ogre’s companion skewered the monk in the thigh with a spear as a troll approached and raked him with its claws.    Seeing his friend in trouble, Gruck charged the ogre engaging Sam, cleaved its spear in two, and sliced it from stem to stern.  The dumbfounded ogre keeled over dead.  Sam somersaulted away from the troll while Tarrick popped out of concealment and buried an arrow square in the creature’s back.      A second troll had snuck behind our front line and loomed over Linder.  Mustering incredible courage, Linder stood toe-to-toe with the brute and buried his morningstar in its chest (followed by a blast of lightning courtesy of me).  The troll, being rather unhappy with this turn of events, gripped Linder’s shoulders and tore him in two (while biting his face off).  There was a moment of stunned silence on our part.    Gruck and Sam dropped their troll and advanced on the second, carnage on their minds.  Tarrick put an arrow in each eye of the “dead” troll to make sure he stayed that way.  He repeated the exercize a few moments later with the second troll after Oskar beat it to death.  Linder (-9 hp) was patched up and we continued to the mine.    Being more cautious, I scouted ahead by air as Tarrick did the same on the ground.  We spotted a three tiered plateau ahead, which by our calculations was the location of the mine.  Tarrick spotted five mutated half-ogres gathered around a campfire on the second tier on the backside of the hillock.  He headed back to the group while I kept an eye on the brutes.  My companions laid out a clever plan whereby the half-ogres would be led into an ambush of missile fire.  As they were getting into position, the ogres turned and moved stealthily towards them; our heroes had been noticed.    Giving a cry of warning (ie. flamestrike), everyone scrambled into position.  The lead half-ogres threw spears with little effect.  Then things got interesting.  Two small creatures the size of dogs appeared next to Gruck and Tarrick on the left side of our line.  Instead of attacking directly, the things lashed their antennae at the pair’s armor.  Realizing they faced rust monsters, both stalwarts gave cries of great terror and backpedaled quickly.  Not recognizing the new threat, I used my last flamestrike against the half-ogres again and Sam ended one of their lives.  About that time a carrion crawler appeared behind Linder.  Fearing the bard would fall for the second time that day, I used my affinity with the earth and summoned two small earth elementals to aid him.  It wasn’t necessary as Linder, driven by desperation, smote the crawler right quickly.    Tarrick began firing arrows at the rust monsters, not wishing to close with the creatures.  Sam was having a harder time with the remaining half-ogres, being pummeled a number of times with their oversized clubs.  I dropped to the ground next to him to offer some badly needed healing.  Running out of room to flee, Gruck finally sunk his double-axe into a rust monster, killing it.  The act dissolved the head of the weapon, leaving the furious half-orc with a single-headed-double-axe.  In frustration, he casually sunk the unbalanced weapon into the head of the remaining half-ogre.  The other rusty was a pincushion by that point, and no longer a threat.    With monsters appearing out of thin air, I was certain an enemy summoner must be nearby.  Hoping to nab the caster, I cast entangle on the hilltop.  The spell proved useless, and I circled high above, keen eyes searching.</blockquote>

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