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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Chef BBQ" data-source="post: 682538" data-attributes="member: 1844">How Gorog Got His Rage Back, pt 1In the morning well fed and rested, our merry band of adventurers heads to the cave of the barbarian, Gorog.  They approach cautiously.  This might be a trap or he might be under a spell.  No to the first, yes to the second.  They are met by what Borin thought was a pitiful sight: a Barbarian giant stood in the middle of his cave.  Was he dressed in animal skins with club in hand?  Was he growling or scratching himself?  Was he drinking ale and spilling it down his beard?  No!  He was wearing a little lacy apron and holding a feather duster.  “Morning” He growled.  “You just can’t imagine how hard it is to keep a cave neat and clean.”  Then he sat down on the ground in a heap, put his head in his hands and looked very glum.The group introduces themselves and through questioning learns that Gorog is most unhappy.  Several weeks ago he was out and about in these lands, looking for rats to smash when he spotted a hag named Borkata in the distance.  She’s a strange creature, thought to be a witch, who keeps to herself in the high hills.  She was waving her arms at him so he thought she was in trouble.  He headed over to her, but then she ran away.  A strange feeling came over him.  He didn’t want to smash those poor little rats anymore.  He didn’t want to smash anything anymore.  He headed back to his cave and cried.  At first he tried to fight the feeling.  Maybe if he hit something, this new feeling would go away.  He tried, but felt so badly afterwards that he hadn’t hit anything again since.  He tried to accept his new way of life.  He’d even picked flowers to put in his cave, but he just felt worse than ever.The party promises to try to help Gorog if he will tell them all he knows about the hag and will take them to her cave.  Gorog, the friendly barbarian, agrees and leads the party to the opening of a small cave in a dark and shadowing clearing. Morgaine sends Taylor, her cat, ahead to scout.  Taylor reports that there is a big metal thing in the ceiling of the cave, and the place smells like Borin’s socks.  She can hear snoring inside.An invisible Borin decides to go check things out.  Lucre and Kel approach as well with Kel’s armor clanking all the way covering up Borin’s approach.  Lucre sees a lever on the outside of the cave that seems to operate a portcullis.  Suddenly it drops over the mouth of the cave.  The party hears a moan of pain and sees a small pool of blood.  The portcullis dropped right onto the invisible Borin!   Lucre moves forward and pulls the lever, which sets off a trap that sends a guillotine-like blade swinging down hitting him.  It also raises the portcullis.  So far, the party isn’t off to a great start.  With all this noise, the snoring has stopped.  Marja takes the opportunity to haste herself and Lucre just before an Ogre comes barreling out of the cave.  The beast is struck by a Melf’s acid arrow and then in a double attack Lucre slices the ogre’s belly and sticks his blade up its nose.  Yuck!  Out of the cave comes ogre number two accompanied by a troll.  Kel quickly dispatches the ogre with a spiritual long sword.  With the combined attacks from an ice knife, a flaming sphere, a fire elemental named Floyd and several raging attacks, the troll falls. The party rushes into the cave.</blockquote>

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