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<blockquote data-quote="Crothian" data-source="post: 2339857" data-attributes="member: 232"><p>Amber Company part 5</p><p></p><p> We spent a few weeks in town drinking and telling stories. I got plenty of carved Moradin symbols ready for the cross country trek. It was going to be a simple cross country trek to deliver the artifact a a sign of the dwarven clans being united. It was something that should have been done centuries ago. It was plain to see the dwarves in this area were not up to the standards of the earth dwarves, my people. </p><p></p><p> The trek through the wilderness was not a fun journey. We had to have Durabo lead us because he was the only one competent enough to follow the cryptic map. Allow me to repeat that, we had to have the freaking elf lead us. He can’t even tie his boats properly and I’ve heard him mumble through the words to his gods because he’s forgotten the words. I was thinking of placing moss on the south side of a tree to see how long it would take him to realize that a mistake was made. However, I’m fearful he would never actually notice and we’d find ourselves in a desert to the deep south. Hmm, we might have ran into the humans if I’d one that, damn…didn’t realize there was a good side to that trick. Anyway the elf led.</p><p></p><p> We walked for days across mountains and through forests. It wasn’t that cold but there were plenty of signs of the orcs being out and about. We followed a good sized group of them for a ways. We came up on the camp after day break and just annihilated them. A few good positions in the trees and plenty of crossbow bolts and arrows sealed the deal for us. Not a single injury to Amber Company. It was a well laid ambush and perfectly executed plan. The orcs were transporting weapons. We destroyed what we could and buried the rest. After seeing the orc armies a few weeks later what we did wasn’t enough, but we are doing something to stay of these marauders. </p><p></p><p> After the orcs we left the forest and were followed by a raven. The bird was not acting like a real bird so we did what was appropriate in the situation: we shot it. However, it proved very difficult to hit and survived a very solid arrow hit. We had our confirmation that it was indeed not a raven. Durabo then choose to approach the raven and I swear I was expecting the thing to devour him. It did transform into a reptile dragon like creature. It spoke to us and fed us a bunch of lies that we readily believed. It claimed to be captured by some goblins and we needed to free it. Like the fools we are we agreed. </p><p></p><p> The goblin den was through a small swamp were a really big snake tried to devour us. Snake doesn’t taste that good we found out. The goblins were ready for us and we fought a long battle of them retreating behind rock formations and ambushing us with javelins and other ranged weapons. We did eventually defeat them all. But I wanted to kill the raven creature at this point,. We went on and found some crypts filled with zombies. Durabo turned them and they ran into a large room. I chased after as did the others. Inside was a big skeletal dragon and it let a roar the sent every else running. Broioden didn’t make it out though. The dragon pounced on him and my friend went down hard. Durabo, Ulfgar, and Corados ran away. I was left fighting a half dozen zombies and the skeletal dragon as my friend bleed to death on the cold rock floor. His life left him that day, it was all I could do to survive myself. I went into a defensive fighting mode and was able to eventually kill all the zombies and hurt the dragon a little. MY great dwarven war axe was useless against the dragon; I had to use a small hammer to slowly hurt him. I fought him, and then retreated where he was too big to go. Ulfgar and Durabo eventually came back; Corados we never saw again. Durabo healed me some and I went back in to fight the dragon. Then I retreated, got healed, and fought it some more. That was the strategy until we killed it. We searched for the dragon creature raven beast but it was a coward and hid and eventually escaped. I want to catch up with him too and avenge Brioden’s death. We buried him and continued our way. We ran into a troll that Ulfgar was able to kill while Durabo healed me as I was its punching bag. Then we came across some patrols of the Citadel we were going to and we soon found our way to our destination.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Crothian, post: 2339857, member: 232"] Amber Company part 5 We spent a few weeks in town drinking and telling stories. I got plenty of carved Moradin symbols ready for the cross country trek. It was going to be a simple cross country trek to deliver the artifact a a sign of the dwarven clans being united. It was something that should have been done centuries ago. It was plain to see the dwarves in this area were not up to the standards of the earth dwarves, my people. The trek through the wilderness was not a fun journey. We had to have Durabo lead us because he was the only one competent enough to follow the cryptic map. Allow me to repeat that, we had to have the freaking elf lead us. He can’t even tie his boats properly and I’ve heard him mumble through the words to his gods because he’s forgotten the words. I was thinking of placing moss on the south side of a tree to see how long it would take him to realize that a mistake was made. However, I’m fearful he would never actually notice and we’d find ourselves in a desert to the deep south. Hmm, we might have ran into the humans if I’d one that, damn…didn’t realize there was a good side to that trick. Anyway the elf led. We walked for days across mountains and through forests. It wasn’t that cold but there were plenty of signs of the orcs being out and about. We followed a good sized group of them for a ways. We came up on the camp after day break and just annihilated them. A few good positions in the trees and plenty of crossbow bolts and arrows sealed the deal for us. Not a single injury to Amber Company. It was a well laid ambush and perfectly executed plan. The orcs were transporting weapons. We destroyed what we could and buried the rest. After seeing the orc armies a few weeks later what we did wasn’t enough, but we are doing something to stay of these marauders. After the orcs we left the forest and were followed by a raven. The bird was not acting like a real bird so we did what was appropriate in the situation: we shot it. However, it proved very difficult to hit and survived a very solid arrow hit. We had our confirmation that it was indeed not a raven. Durabo then choose to approach the raven and I swear I was expecting the thing to devour him. It did transform into a reptile dragon like creature. It spoke to us and fed us a bunch of lies that we readily believed. It claimed to be captured by some goblins and we needed to free it. Like the fools we are we agreed. The goblin den was through a small swamp were a really big snake tried to devour us. Snake doesn’t taste that good we found out. The goblins were ready for us and we fought a long battle of them retreating behind rock formations and ambushing us with javelins and other ranged weapons. We did eventually defeat them all. But I wanted to kill the raven creature at this point,. We went on and found some crypts filled with zombies. Durabo turned them and they ran into a large room. I chased after as did the others. Inside was a big skeletal dragon and it let a roar the sent every else running. Broioden didn’t make it out though. The dragon pounced on him and my friend went down hard. Durabo, Ulfgar, and Corados ran away. I was left fighting a half dozen zombies and the skeletal dragon as my friend bleed to death on the cold rock floor. His life left him that day, it was all I could do to survive myself. I went into a defensive fighting mode and was able to eventually kill all the zombies and hurt the dragon a little. MY great dwarven war axe was useless against the dragon; I had to use a small hammer to slowly hurt him. I fought him, and then retreated where he was too big to go. Ulfgar and Durabo eventually came back; Corados we never saw again. Durabo healed me some and I went back in to fight the dragon. Then I retreated, got healed, and fought it some more. That was the strategy until we killed it. We searched for the dragon creature raven beast but it was a coward and hid and eventually escaped. I want to catch up with him too and avenge Brioden’s death. We buried him and continued our way. We ran into a troll that Ulfgar was able to kill while Durabo healed me as I was its punching bag. Then we came across some patrols of the Citadel we were going to and we soon found our way to our destination. [/QUOTE]
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