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Message: <blockquote data-quote="John Dallman" data-source="post: 9089954" data-attributes="member: 6999616">Monday's Avalon session.We'd been asked to head north to an area we know well, because there's a really severe winter happening (10' of settled snow), we have good travel and weather-protection magic, there have been attacks by the likes of dire wolves and bugbears, and the Breston Army are a bit busy with all the other things going on.We'd reached the centre of the area we're looking after when in the middle of the night we were called out to the northernmost village in the area (and in the realm) which is mostly populated by dwarves and mines precious metals. Our fastest sub-group got there 2.5 hours later via an item of Wind Walk, while the rest of us followed by flying carpet, taking 6 hours.The fight was over when the fast group (Wizard, ranger and ranger/cleric) got there. Two of the sturdy buildings, a temple and a forge, plus the mine entrance, were blocked by huge masses of ice. Those were cleared relatively quickly via Dispel Magics and Control Temperature 10' radius, revealing the whole population of the village, some injured but none dead.They had been attacked by 25 ogres, who charged the gate, which was mysteriously unlocked and un-barred. The mystery was explained when an ogre mage was sighted when she did an offensive spell, after which she went invisible again. The ogres had a large supply of snowballs which acted much like Web spells made of ice and incapacitated the defenders who were hit by them. They captured enough of the non-combatants to force a surrender, then blocked them into the places where we found them. They then evidently broke into the treasuries where the metals (and some gems that get found) were stored and made off with the aforesaid 3,000,000 gp (rounded) worth of loot.  The fast group made sure that nobody was in danger of dying and then went after the ogres, using Commune with Nature to get a direction, and spotting them from Wind Walk. The ogres surrendered instantly when the ambush went off, explaining that the ogre magi had required them to make the attack or be frozen to death, but they'd refused to kill anyone because of the reputation of the Breston Army. They had no idea where the ogre magi had gone with the loot, but they didn't have any of it. The characters on the scene let all of them except the leader go, without their weapons, charmed the leader and marched him back, arriving a few minutes before the carpet party. I'll explain the Breston Army tomorrow.</blockquote>

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