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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goonalan" data-source="post: 9851671" data-attributes="member: 16069">There Might Be GiantsPCsDCI Bawg Race: Unknown Class: Rogue Level: 11 Background: City Watch InvestigatorPhreakalus Nevrospastos Race: Human Class: Artificer Level: 11 Background: CourtierThrunorus "Thugg" Garn Race: Half-Orc Class: Barbarian Zealot of Bradlust & Fighter Level: 8 & 3 Background: Mercenary VeteranYen Stonefist Race: Stout Halfling Class: Monk Level: 11 Background: HermitNPCsPiniccarus, Phreakalus' animated puppet 'son'. Just weird.Session 009: Food Fight!Mission Time: 03:14 to 03:22.Here we go again...[ATTACH=full]428811[/ATTACH]The PCs sneak up into the pantry, there's a plan.DCI Bawg, using his Hat of Disguise, now appears (again) to be an orc slave, and very specifically kitchen/wait staff. Here goes...Oh, but the orc army.On a PCs turn, when the combat starts, they can as a Free Action on their turn call forth (or attempt to) a member of the orc slave army. It's a DC 11 Persuasion check to do so, DC 13 for an orc with a crossbow (there are only seven of these in the army), or DC 15 to call forth an Orog (only two of these guys).The orc called forth is named by the PC that called it forth, and also controlled by them in-game, the orc starts on the map next to or in line with the PC that is furthest away from the front-line.Keep in mind orcs get a bonus action charge at enemy, so- they get around.But, we're not fighting yet, so relax.Oh, but Thugg gets advantage on Persuasion check because he's a half-orc ex-mercenary general (hard to believe), he's also the boss of the army.Back to the plan.[ATTACH=full]428812[/ATTACH]Bawg goes for a wander in the giant's kitchen, their are a pair of hill giant servants (ogre tokens) and lots of orcs, all scurrying around- busy, and there's lots of noise and shouting. Therefore Bawg just grabs something up and scurries off to scope out the kitchen.He makes his checks.And around the other side of the kitchen there's a stack of great big stinky cheeses being loaded on a giant-sized shield, and a hill giant servant screaming for an orc slave to join the other three orcs that are trying to move the cheese course into Nosnra's great hall.DCI Bawg gives a hand.[ATTACH=full]428813[/ATTACH]Bawg in the great hall. That's a lot of giants.Bawg can see (keep in mind he's got some sort of telepathic coms going on with his buddies atm)- Chief Nosnra & his hill giant harridan wife, a massive cave bear eating scraps beneath the top table, a twenty foot tall (unidentified- bad roll) oddly-dressed (in comparison) giant with vampire-like fangs (scary), a stone giant, two armoured and tough looking hill giants, six regular hill giants (there are more), and eight well-dressed (and armoured/armed) ogres, and a bunch more hill giant servants.There is plenty for everyone.Oh, and a majority of the giants are in their best bib & tucker, and their garments adorned with all sorts of jewelry.[ATTACH=full]428814[/ATTACH]Twenty plus feet tall, wtf?Note, at this point the great hall hushes- Nosnra orders silence, it's his favourite part of the evening.Then, while Bawg and his co-workers struggle to settle the giant cheese platter on the top table (in silence remember), it begins."One big Ducky-Ducky!" One of the armoured hill giants declares.They are playing bingo.Bawg has seen enough, time for extraction.However, the DM has also got a plan.[ATTACH=full]428815[/ATTACH]An orc slave heads into the pantry to get... well, doesn't matter- because the pantry is otherwise occupied, keep in mind not depicted in the image above are the thirty or so orcs that are ready to be called into battle. The orc slave exits the pantry screaming.And then...[ATTACH=full]428816[/ATTACH]Phreakalus heads after the orc slave and... shoots her dead. Which causes a little consternation in the kitchen.The PCs have gone early.DCI Bawg has only just exited the great hall.And here we are maybe an hour or so later...[ATTACH=full]428817[/ATTACH]That's DCI Bawg in the corridor, still rushing back to his comrades, meantime the rest of the PCs are in a fight, although the orc slaves have figured it out- after Thugg rushed into action declaring that the reb-ooo-loo-shun is go!And this is the last picture from the session, and keep in mind we played for over three hours...[ATTACH=full]428818[/ATTACH]The hill giant servants (ogre tokens) are fighting back, as are the ogre servants (half-ogre medium tokens), while the orc kitchen slaves are cheering, throwing things at the aforementioned or else just keeping out of the way.But we have barely started, strap in for lots more of this. The encounter lasted over ten hours (real time) I seem to remember.But that's the end of the session.Book of the Dead.Hill Giant Servant x 2.Ogre Servant x 2.Orc Slave x 2.Until next time.</blockquote>

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