Monday, December 13, 2021

The orc bridge of sorrow

The group travels into the forest. That night during Clyde's watch, he hears a rustling in the brush and wakes Jin to say we might have a problem. Jin investigates and finds two orc scouts and an orc warrior coming dangerously close to the encampment. Clyde wakes Sura as well and they make quick work of the orcs. Jin sneaks out to see where the scouts came from. To his horror, he finds an encampment of an orc army 500 strong. He also witnesses that the orc leader seems to "shimmer" just like the high cleric did in Evonmar (most likely another demon). 

They devise a plan to use a powerful illusion spell to hide the group & carts, and rig the bridge to blow up using Spork's new invention (gun powder/ explosives). The goal is to lure the army over the bridge and blow it. 

They succeed. 

Elga, the witch gives Jin a strange box. She says she created it after a vision she had. The wonderous object sucks the essence of the demon out of the orc leader. Apparently Jin will be doing this more often in the future (que the ghostbusters theme song...)