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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Emiricol" data-source="post: 1156280" data-attributes="member: 469">END OF ADVENTURE UPDATE  (Campaign Journal at <a href="http://www.the13kingdoms.org" target="_blank">www.the13kingdoms.org</a> will be updated shortly)  The party was informed of a nearby orc encampment in caverns within a stone spire, and the Druid Lalyn's animal spies led him to believe the orcs had prisoners.  The party scouted out the place,  then crept in at dawn, slaying the lone sentry quietly and easily.  Beyond the scout lay the first cavern,  empty.  At the back, a rough door from lashed branches.  Delwin, the party's semi-rogue, failed to note the brass tin set atop the door on the far side, and on opening, it fell to the stone floor creating a heck of a racket, waking up the four orcs on the far side.  The party did not hesitate, however, and slew them all before they could even grab their weapons, save one which they bound.  After several minutes of looking about they found the poorly concealed doorway out - really just a narrow crack that led to a rough stone tunnel.  The tunnel led some 40' back to another crack.  Stepping through the crack - which took some patience - Rolf was immediately fired upon by nearly half a dozen orcs with bows, who were hidden on the far sideof the chamber behind rough-hewn wooden barricades.  Obviously the leader group, such as it was.  It was enough to wound Rolf.  The rest of the party slowly made their way through the crack as well, Argus taking an arrow directly to the chest that nearly proved fatal.  However, within half a minute the party was through the crack into the chamber, and advanced across the caltroped open ground between the orcs and the crack.  Kirran Blessed the party, Fleck put many of the orcs to Sleep,  and the rest of the party slew the orcs without much further trouble.  Beyond the orcs lay their supply chamber, which included a poorly built wooden prison that contained three elves.  An elf man and woman yet lived; their companion, wounded some two weeks before, had died two days earlier.  The party rescued the surviving elves, looted the orcs, and burned the bodies.  Mission accomplished, much loot gained, elves rescued - a god day!  And they only came close to losing two of their number doing it.  ===================  Back at camp, Lalyn arranged a celebration.</blockquote>

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