Return of the Slavelords, Part 2 - "Bright City, Dark Hearts"

[johnsemlak]

Philo -- Human Paladin

Philo also continues to comfort the childrFear not, my children. You will soon be with your relatives who will look after you and keep you safe. (To the Girl) You young girl, you must be very strong now, for you must look after your three brothers. The loss of your loved ones will be hard on all of you, but your lives continue, and you must journey to a safe place and continue your lives; your parents will want this so.

 

[Karl Green]

Greyhawk Mark, morning

The girl looks up at Philo and nods her head. Wiping tears from her eyes she stands up and starts collecting the young boys and their merger belongings .

Geenaa seems quite for a while, but then drawing the party off by themselves she finally says "We need to bring these children to their aunt if possible and yet we cannot break off the pursuit of the dark sorcerer ogre either… Dyvers is a three week round trip at the very least… maybe longer if we have to search for her. I… this bit of a girl reminds me of myself too much and I will not see her abandoned. Therefore I think I should take her and the boys north and the rest of yea should find the trail again…"

Defrel, who also has been very quite for a long time (and yet has shared a few glances between himself and Geenaa that many of you have noticed) speaks up then "I'll go with you. I know the city fairly well, having spent some time there…"

 

[Someone]

"Good" says Norbac. "It´s not late, but I say we rest here and continue our ways tomorrow."

(If we do that, I can cast another three cure moderate and two cure light wounds spells)

 

[Scotley]

Verrick Human Rogue/Wizard

"We should check the bodies of the raiders for any clues as to their origin or why they choose to raid here. They might have some valuables we can give back to the kids as well." Verrick proceeds to help the kids pack up any clothes or other belongings they might need as well as some food if there is anything the raiders didn't despoil.

 

[Karl Green]

Greyhawk Mark, morning and afternoon

Collecting all the bodies and moving them to the barn, the party finds that they are carrying 19 gold crowns and 53 silver. The leaders sword glows lightly with a sickly green inner light, and carryings a couple of differenet scrolls that seem to be crude maps of this area and the Bright Tower. There are some crude runes in Orish, that seems to show different homesteads, etc. They also have some half-moon markings that seem to talk about a meeting and or gathering of different Orc raiding parties in two or three weeks time...

 

[Scotley]

Verrick Human Rogue/Wizard

"I suggest we give the coins to the kids." He frowns over the papers. "I can try and copy these maps if Geena and Defrel will be so good as to take the originals to the Bright Tower on their way to Dyvers. I suspect these homesteads are in danger and our small band can't see to them all." Finally, he picks up the sword and thinks to himself, nasty looking thing. "If we are going to rest here then I can try and divine this weapon's power."

OOC: How far is the nearest homestead on the map from where we are now?

 

[Karl Green]

[occ] nearest homestead is about a 2 hours ride (4 hours walk) from here. There are four or five within about 3 hours ride, mostly north of here [/occ]

 

[Scotley]

Verrick Human Rogue/Wizard

"It is early in the day, perhaps we should visit a few of these other homesteads and see to the safety of the people there. I'm am unsure about these raiders, what say the rest of you--Are they related to our current quest?"

 

[Someone]

"And what if they not?" says Norbac. "You going to let them die?"

[Norbac speaks Orcish. Can he understand the runes?]

 

[Karl Green]

[occ] It seems to be other groups of raiders (maybe six or seven in all) that are to gather for some reason in 2-3 weeks (no real date given... more like something to watch out for but it does not say what). It looks like they are to gather somewhere along the Gnarely Forest maybe 15 miles north of where you were at when you saw the fire...[/occ]