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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tariff" data-source="post: 1520877" data-attributes="member: 18635">Crucible of Chauntea Session 2Session 2: Wherein Graham and Bill find tracks leading up a secret pathway in the wood.  Loriel tells us that we should use the main track as we can utilize the horses, being not very proficient riders we decide to use the secret path!.  Suddenly we are approached by a young human Paladin called Sir Bic, it seems he too has come to seek out the raiders who stole the crucible, he offers his services to us and we gladly accept him into the fold.  Bill leads us and soon we hear Orc voices, they are not aware of us so Bree & Graham sneak ahead in the woods so we can attack from both sides.  Graham starts the action by casting Ensnare on the Orcs, stating, “Stop the forest has ensnared you, surrender the crucible or the forest will eat you all!!”  Graham unfortunately only manages to Ensnare Bree!!  The leader Orc attacks Graham who has run behind a tree, he misses initially but fells Graham with his second attack.  Sir Bic gets first blood and kills a orc with a single blow.  Bree, fighting defensivly against 3 orcs eventually goes down (he stabilizes on –6 hp !!!).  Sir Bic wades into the lead Orc and scores a mighty critical hit, but the orc still stands and repays him by twatting Bic unconscious (Bic uses his hero point to not die!). Bill is entangled in the forest and has a hard time moving,  Tim who is slowly moving to heal Graham (cos hes entangled!), manages to heal Sir Bic on the way.  Out of the bushes a halfling rogue appears and starts attacking the orcs (is this Lannet who we had heard about earlier?).  Graham manages to stabalize (hero point).  Loriel manages to slay the lead orc and we are eventually victorious.  The halfling rogue disappears back into the woods without saying a word..  We scalp the orcs and loot them (find a key) and return to Fairhill with the recovered Crucible.  Shandril says Bill can keep “Vakiria” a while longer, we sell loot and buy Sir Bic a chain shirt.  We return to the forest and find the ruined keep, we use the key we found and open a door in the southwest tower. (after Graham detects for magic but finds none) There is a pool in the center of the floor in the bottom of the tower, Bill believes this to be dubious so we avoid it.  There are rickety wooden stairs leading up, Tim goes up first, the stairs are indeed unsafe, Tim manages to jump to safety as part of them collapse.  Up on the battlements Tim spies A LOT of orcs in the courtyard of the keep, there are also several buildings and a tower that has a ballista atop it manned by a orc.  Bill attempts to climb the rickety stairs to get upto Tims vantage point but falls as another section of the stairs collapse.  We formulate a plan… The Monk Bree with a handful of firebombs goes to the otherside of the keep and causes a distraction; Bill (who eventually gets up the stairs) will assist with ranged fire from the battlements.  Tim, Graham, Sir Bic, Loriel & Hathol sneak into the courtyard and head for closest building that we think contains orcs, the idea being to kill whatever is in the building then hold off the rest in doorway of the defended room.  We head for the building under the cover of Bree’s distraction and are indeed confronted by a room full of orcs, there is a hard orc in here called Tavik that wields a weapon that really hurts Sir Bic and knocks him unconscious.  Hathol as he tries to make his way across the courtyard to the building we are in is hit by the ballista and splatted against the keeps walls.  Tavik the lead orc bashes Loriel down.  Tim uses his two healing potions on Loriel and Bic so they return to the fray.  Loriel gets a critical hit on Tavik downing him, but him and his strange weapon disappear before our very eyes!.. With the room cleared we notice it is a old temple to St Cuthbert, there is a black candle burning here..we can almost feel its evil..so we snuff it out… we also see a lot of orcs and something else (is that a ogre!) running towards the temple.  Hurt bad and with no healing available we shut and barricade the door and wait for the inevitable.  Four Orcs attempt to get to Bill on the battlemements, three of them dying from falling off the stairs (and into the green slime pool below).  Bill screams with delight seeing his hated enemy, a ogre, below in the courtyard attempting to bash into the temple where his friends are holed up, he launches a volley of arrowfire.  Bree also uses his firebombs from the battlements, raining burning oil down on the orcs (and Ogre) trying to smash into the room.  The door eventually gives way and Grosh the Ogre kills Loriel who is first in line behind the door, the ogre is finally felled by one of Bills arrows.  Seeing this, the five-remaining orcs and their remaining leader (Nagrod) flee the keep into the woods.  We breathe a sigh of relief and pray for Loriel and Hathol</blockquote>

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