Feint Whispers: The Burning Plague

[KaintheSeeker]

Whitney sputters and blushes as she follows, completely flabberghasted by the off color comment.`

 

[tjasamcarl]

The Beginning of the End...

The party begins the descent into the tunnel, proceeding 60ft before entering a new cavern.

A single, jagged pillar of rock lined with glowing blue-green moss emerges from the depths of the pool within the center of this cavern. Water courses down its side from a front near its tip, cascading into the pool below. The pool feeds a wide stream that flows rapidly along the length of the room and then under the rock wall at the southern end of the cave. Several glyphs are carved deep into the stone face of the pillar, their outlines just visible benearth the light of the moss. An eerie sense of discomfort pervades this place.

The cavern is 70ft wide and 120ft long, the central pillar has a 10 foot radius and stretches 20 feet into the air.

Standing 10ft from you are the three zombies who fleed the earlier chamber, two kobolds and one human. One of the kobolds bears a bolt, protruding from its back, a legacy of Bhartus' battle skill.

On the side of the pillar opposite the party, you note a figure, apparently an orc, using the structure as cover, approximatly 65ft from the you.



Initiative: Ardoss, The 'Demon', Jericho, Whitney, Bhartus, Zombies

 

[Krug]

Down with the demon!

"So this is the 'demon'? An orc?" Bhartus says. "What are you? Why are you spreading the plague?" He shouts, in rage.

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Whitney pulls a bolt out of the quiver and drops it in her crossbow. Getting ready to take a shot

OOC: Waitign to take my shot on my turn, barring converstation

 

[Talindra]

Ardoss rushes the zombies with a warcry, wielding the bastard sword almost like a club, as he attempts to smash them down through brute force, if necessary.

 

[tjasamcarl]

A failed venture

Ardoss' bastard sword fails to connect with the short wall of undead flesh...

The orc roars, "You will not curse me in this, half-breed." He begins to chant, holding a small piece of iron which begins to glow a vibrant red. Ardoss suddenly freezes in place, unable to move a muscle...

 

[Krug]

Bhartus sees that Ardoss is held. This orc knows sorcery! Unusual for his race.

Bhartus casts Doom on the 'demon-orc'.

 

[KaintheSeeker]

Whitney's head whips back and forth between the half orc spell caster and Ardoss' immobile body, caught in the crux of a dilemea. Frantically she measures off the distances between both and thinks rapidly.


OOC: If sir Orc is still under cover she's going to try and protect Ardoss by shooting anything that looks like a threat to him.

 

[Tokiwong]

"Blast you mage, pepper that orc with magic.... it is much too far to cover the distance!!!!!"

Jericho scowls... and holds his ground with the party draws his shortbow and lets loose an arrow at the orc...

 

[jasamcarl]

A miss...

Jericho's arrow goes wide of the orc. Bhartus's call for Moradin's assistance does not see to have had a noticable affect on the 'demon'.

The zombies begin to lay into Ardoss, but all but one fail to breach his armor. Whitney fires off a bolt at the undead kobold with the bolt in its back, but misses.

Bhartus: you note that the glyphs in the pillar are in fact symbols of Grummsh


Ardoss takes 1