Team Alfa Third Session

Notes

The night's rest was interrupted by a loud explosion set off by an electrical blast that left a flame and foul smelling smoke behind. A voice in the darkness implored us to put down our weapons. It turns out to be a naked woodsperson named Bashir or "Batshit" to his friends. He's covered in tattoos, quite filthy, and smells of excrement. He's an acquaintance and dragon chess partner of PD's and is willing to put the word out to the dervish community to help find the goblins we are after. He also hands over a large "problem solver" which he thinks might help us get PD back if we get into a pinch.

The next morning we head out on the tracks of the orcs led by Cinder's dog Tim. The first day of tracking finds us not gaining any ground on the small party of orcs. The party decides to push on into the night and gets two more hours of progress before Thola's exhaustion has reached the point where she can no longer move at her full speed an the party stops to rest.

The next day the party strikes out at an increased pace, but at the higher speed Tim and Cinder miss spotting a trap that hoists them up into the air in a net. A clattering of bells and noises accompanies the springing of the trap.

The party moves to either help or be on the lookout. Cinder cuts himself and Tim out of the net, but Tim is knocked out by the fall. Quynh who was up in the tree to cut them down looks up and sees something and scampers off drawing weapon and taking cover. Wolf seeing that tosses a shield of faith on Quynh and moves forward also drawing weapons. The rest of the party moves up similarly and Thola coming in last gets eyes on an ogre dervish and blasts it with eldritch energy. The ogre moves up and skewers Thola with a critical javelin throw.

Wolf jumps in to prevent the ogre from closing on Thola and Quynh loses a crossbow attack. Wolf gets a cut in with his axe, but the ogre just grins. Gorra jumps out and says, "Hey! Hey! Do you know PD? Likes to play dragonchess? Or his friend covered in shit?" Cinder moves up and misses a lance attack. Thola tosses another eldrich blast, landing some damage on the orc, and uses a bonus action to heal herself with healing light.

The ogre steps in and tries to hit Wolf, but Cinder's shield gets in the way.

Quynh puts down her crossbow. Wolf hesitates to see what the ogre will do. Gorra continues her discussion with the ogre, "The orcs took Pete. You wanna help Pete?"

Cinder having none of this talking with ogres cries out, "He's an ogre!" and attacks with a longsword dealing a cut to the ogre.

The Ogre shouts back, "YOU LIE! YOU SAY YOU TALK AND THEN HIT!"

At the swing from the ogre, Thola looses another eldritch blast scorching the ogre.

And then:

The party weapon's back up attacks with redoubled effort. Quynh hits with a very disapproving sneak attack. Cinder hits with his longsword.

Gorra takes another hit from the ogre despite Cinder's attempt to block for her and she falls down. Quynh's next bolt puts down the ogre right through its eye. Wolf vengefully slits its throat.

The party heals themselves up and gets a lesson on ogres from Cinder. Thola takes a moment to cast a ritual and acquires a new companion, an owl. With a short investigation the party find a buried sack with some salted meat, gold, and two small vials of liquid in it.

Wolf tries to give his share to Thola, but instead they roll on it and Wolf wins again.

After a much needed rest, Thola uses detect magic to help determine the potions are potions of healing. Cinder and Quynh each take one.

Experience & Loot

Experience

25xp for meeting "Batshit Bashir" 115xp for defeating an ogre

Loot

• "problem solver" - a 15 pound bag with pitch and a fuse on one and and a steel plate on the other.
• 21gp
• large strips of unknown salted meat
• two small vials of bubbling pink pink liquid