Endur's Return to TOEE part 2

OOC: The Orc was speaking in orcish, so unless Kerwyn now understands orcish, Kerwyn didn't understand what the orc said.

The female orcs seem to get a bit frenzied at Kerwyn speaking in Draconian.
 

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Lylamwyn thanks Belaver for healing him while he gets up, and then answers to Lenya: "Sure, practice away, but you might want to try to practice your skills with some less hungry beings. Or at least beings with normalish appetite."
 

OoC: Oh, right. Assumed that since you wrote it out he was speaking in something that Kerwyn understood. Going to make some alterations in a moment.

IC: Seeing the females' reaction, Kerwyn dearly hopes that the only arcanely talented orcs aren't female. He continues in draconic hoping for the best, though he doesn't stray too far from the stairs just yet.
"What's the matter with you lot? Never seen a shaman before?" he says in a somewhat irritated tone.
 

The Monastery of Heironeous outside of Verbobonc

Most citizens in the lands around Verbobonc prefer St. Cuthbert, Pelor, Trithereon, or Rao. The monsastery of Heironeous is relatively small, especially compared to the many large temples to Heironeous in the Gran March and the Great Kindgom.

The most frequent visitors to the monastery are adventurers traveling through. Many Knights of the Watch pay their respects to the head of monastery when they follow the trade routes from the Sheldomar Valley to Greyhawk, the City of Hawks.

One such group of adventurers invited Torn to travel with them on a quest to recover a kidnapped ambassador. The ambassador had been sent to the Kron Hills, to mediate on tax matters between the Gnomes and the town council of Verbobonc.

Besides Torn, the party of adventurers consisted of:

Jurrikath Musseloto: Male Human Swordsman, Mage, Rogue, and gregarious teller of tales.

Kerry, Radiant Vigil: Male Human Knight of the Watch (worshipper of Heironeous)

Tymerian: Female Human Wizard and owner of a Flying Carpet.

Vister: Female Elven (Olven) Knight of the High Forest (Knight of the Hart).


Vister tracked the ambassador’s party until they found the spot where it was ambushed by a horde of orcs. Vister then followed the tracks of the orcs until it led to Mount Stalagos.

Tymerian flew over the Mountain and reported that there was a dark tower in the center of the crater. The party decided to use Tymerian’s flying carpet to fly to the center of the crater and defeat the owner of the black tower.

Unfortunately, the plan led to disaster.

When the flying carpet descended upon the dark tower, terrible lightning bolts flashed up at the party from the sides of the crater. Huge flying creatures raced towards the flying carpet. Finally, Tyermian lost control of the carpet before she could place the carpet down next to the Tower.

Instead of a gentle landing, the party was scattered when the carpet upturned and crashed upon the hard volcanic ground. The flying creatures left the party alone and returned to their nests in the volcanic cliffs above.

Terrible undead creatures attacked the party members. Kerry, Radiant Vigil of the Knights of the Watch refused to flee. He fought the undead until they destroyed him. The rest of the party fled from the undead in every direction.

Torn and the others (except for poor Kerry) were captured by living servants of the evil cult.

Torn was separated from the others. She was tortured both night and day and remembers little of her torment. She does remember is that they wanted her to turn aside from her worship of Heironeous. They wanted her to worship the Gods of evil and dedicate herself to evil deeds.

Torn resisted their conversion attempts.

A bald, short, and over-weight evil cultist with a dark goatee became her chief tormenter (the other cultists call him ‘high priest’). He wore ochre robes with a long silver sash. He worn a symbol around his neck of three black triangles inside another triangle. The High Priest promised Torn that she would convert. Her mind was ravaged by an tentacled alien creature. She lost all of her memorized spells. Every secret she knew was revealed to her captors. Torn’s tormentors taunted her with the facts that they knew her worse nightmares.

The cultist with the goatee handed Torn over to another cultist, a woman named Choranth with long blonde hair, woven with feathers and small animal bones. She wore ochre colored robes with a silver sash and a black cape.

Choranth laughs as she taunts Torn, “You will beg to be allowed to worship our demonic masters. You will curse Heironeous with your every breath. But before that, you will be used and abused by the orcs you escaped when you were younger. Your every nightmare will come true in this place.”

Torn’s hands were shackled behind her back. She is roughly escorted by Choranth, a brutish orc, four gnolls, and four cave bear skeletons.

Instead of finding orcs to abuse Torn, they discover a group of humans and dwarves burning a troll over a bonfire.

Choranth recognizes Toriah. She says,”Rebellious scum. You were to report for duty days ago. Fall to your knees and proclaim your fealty to the Dark Gods.”
 

Lenya

“How about you drop to your knees instead. But I would rather not have you proclaim failty or say anything else for that matter.”

Lenya opens up the 'discussions' with an eldritch blast towards the orc.
 

Round 1 Initiative
24: Kerwyn talks to Orcs
22: Toriah smirks, draws his rapier, moves forward, and stabs Choranth, but his blade is turned aside by the armor she wears beneath her robes (7+ vs. ac 21, misses)
21: Lylamwyn says, "Kill her" to one of the bears.
15: 1 commanded Skeletal Dire Bear attacks Choranth (17+15=32 hit, 1+ = miss, 17+10=27 hit, dmg 31)
15: 3 Skeletal Dire Bears rip Toriah to pieces (18+15 hits, 18+15 hits, 8+10 hits, 2+15 misses, 17+15 hits; dmg 64; 1 full attack, the other two bears had to move to be able to attack Toriah; Toriah's character sheet hasn't been updated on ac, I'm assuming his ac is 18: 10+4 (studded leather +1) + 2 (dex) + 2 (+1 buckler))
13: Torn (beaten and damaged) looks around for the chance to escape or battle her captors
12: Lenya fires an Eldritch Blast at Graud (14+ hits, dmg 22)
11: Graud (-22) the Orc howls and charges, attacking Raner with his great axe(14+13=27, hit, dmg 14)
10: Choranth (-31) calls out "Destroy the Dwarves" while she is being mauled and ineffectively tries to take refuge behind her unholy symbol (command attempt 2+, fails)
9: 4 Gnolls charge, 2 charge Raner (19+5=24 hit dmg 5, 17+ miss), the other two charge Craven (15+5=20 miss, 3+ miss)
7: Raner (-19) attacks Graud twice (full power attack 6+13=19-7=12 hit, 15+8-7=16 hits, dmg 42), cutting Graud in half and also dropping a gnoll on the backswing (cleave, 14+7-7=14 hits, dmg 21)
6: Belaver slings a stone at Choranth (1+ miss); Neshi barks
3: Craven swings his warhammer at a gnoll, dropping the gnoll (9+ hits, dmg 9; 14+ hits, dmg 4)
 
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Somewhat relieved that he has a chance to relieve his stress by fighting, Lylamwyn gets a supposedly fine idea. He casts Command Undead at one of the bear skeletons (one closest to the cultist), points at the cultist-woman and says "Kill her.", in a calm voice. He looks like he would be performing just some kind of interesting field exam and waiting eagerly to see the results.

He remembers to move behind the more physically able party members to see what happens though.

OOC: Well, that's another new spell I get to test...
 
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Torn

Torn stares detachedly at the adventurers. Surely they're not real. Yet when combat ensues, she realizes she must act. She tenses her muscles are readies an action to move to pick up a weapon if one is dropped.

OOC: How's her HPs?
 


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