Endur's Return to TOEE part 2

[Endur]

Kerwyn turns Toriah invisible. Then Kerwyn goes to turn himself invisible, but Kerwyn does not fade from view after pronouncing the command word. Kerwyn tries the wand a few more times, but it does not seem to have any magic left.

 

[Seonaid]

Toriah flicks Kerwyn's ear and then heads to the stairs. "This is a bad idea," he says quietly. "I'm not so good at findin' traps an' I can' get rid of 'em even if I do find 'em."

 

[Endur]

Toriah heads up the stairs. He does not see any traps, other than the obvious orcish archers and the vats of boiling oil and other liquids at the top of the stairs.

 

[Dalamar]

"Bummer," Kerwyn says as the wand decides to run out of juice. He tucks it in his belt pouch nonetheless, thinking it might just prove useful sometime.
"Just get their soup to not come pouring on us, I think the armors can handle the archers," he says, nodding at the more martially oriented members of their small entourage.

 

[Thanee]

Lenya

“Yes, if you can do something about that soupy stuff, that would be very helpful!”

 

[Endur]

Only Toriah can see how many archers there are. Toriah sees a crowd of 8 to 15 orcs at the top of the stairs. At least half a dozen are armed with bows and shooting arrows down the stairwell.

Most of the orcs are in a room off of the stairwell and out of sight of anyone on the stairs. Likewise, most of the vats of boiling oil are actually in the room, but close enough to the stairs to dump their contents down the stairs.

The stairwell curves a little bit, so people on the bottom can't quite see the top. The stairwell looks to be about sixty feet in length.

 

[Paxus Asclepius]

"It may be that our course of action is to avoid the orcs, with Toriah scouting ahead to warn us of ambushes. They prefer to attack from prepared positions; if we avoid the ground they want to fight on, they may not pursue us."

 

[Pyrex]

"Aye, an there may be a way to come up behind them."

 

[Endur]

The party can go east up the stairs into the Orcish fortified position.

The party can go west towards ?

The party can go south towards ?

The party can go north back towards the large fungus room (which has a corridor leading north towards the Orcish war machine, a corridor leading southwest towards ?, and a corridor leading west into another room).

 

[Seonaid]

Toriah shrugs, then laughs at himself because the others can't see him.