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Last updated on May 14, 2010
Session 6
 Session 6:played on March 26th 2004 @ Tom'sGameLocation: near the red 1 on the map. GameDate: day 8 Retrieval After a few more moments to review last session's plan, Tom would put up a distraction on the south side of the Orc-base, Bruno, Jonathan, and Stefan would sneak up to the north east corner of the base and as soon as Tom succeeds in drawing attention to him, use the gaps in the wall to quickly retrieve the teams equipment, after which Seth and the dwarves charge from the east too and battle the Orcs. All preparations went well, everyone made it into position quite easily. Tom then sets things in motion by... well, the idea was to shoot the Orcs using a crossbow. His first arrow flies past everyone without being noticed, so he tries again... And fumbles! The string on his bow breaks and we obviously have no spare parts. The distraction is dynamically modified and Tom starts insulting the Orcs on guard duty. The idea works and they shout back, throw some javelins, and one guard dissappears from the tower. The sneak team by the north east corner hears the shouting and they move in. Stefan first, Bruno second and brave Jonathan third. Apparently, there are 3 orcs on their way to open the main gate and go attack Tom, and the building where the team believes the stolen equipment will be found is barred from the outside. Stefan unbars the door and gets in, taking the bar with him. Bruno follows and Jonathan decides to go for the building on the other side of the inner court. The hound [we had allready seen him the day before, he lay tied up to a pole near the well in the center of the orc base] reacts by barking, drawing the attention of the orcs that were on their way to open the front door. Jonathan changes plan and runs back to the building where Stefan and Bruno are. In the meantime, Seth and the dwarves have started their charge on the base as well. Jonathan makes it to safety and blocks the door from the inside for 1 round -- until Seth's arrival causes the orcs to lose interest in what is going on in the prisoner-building (the team has no luck, the building is a prison and they will have to look for their equipment somewhere else in the base). Jonathan gets out again and joins the fight against the orcs. Meanwhile, Stefan searches quickly for the equipment, but without luck. Bruno considers whether he should jump through the window to reach to ledge by the wall or try to destroy the wooden door to that ledge. Considering he has a woodcutters axe with him, he goes for the destroy-option, and with success: in just one round he makes it through the door, and makes for the next building one reaches when following the ledge. Still injured on his ankle, he however doesn't want to take the risk to fall off the wall when jumping over the 2 meter gap in it. Climbing down and up again will only take a bit more time, and Stefan can jump over him, so the two of them don't lose any time. In the mean time, Tom was circeling around on the west side from the base, trying to get out of sight from the orcs to subsequently also enter the Orc-base. The fight in the base with Seth, Jonathan and the dwarves against the orcs goes on, but as Seth has no place to join the fight, he goes looking for the equipment in the building by the hound. Upon arriving there, the hound uses his breath weapon but, luckyly for Seth, misses. On the inside, Seth starts by blocking the door from the inside, while Stefan and Bruno arrive on the second floor of the same building. Outside, Tom approaches the west wall of the base, as Jonathan takes down the first orc. It doesn't take long before the casualties (1 fallen dwarf against half of the orcs) drop morale on the (by then only three) remaining orcs, who decide to flee to the south east tower in the base. The second building (where there are 3 team members by now) unfortunately did not contain the missing equipment either, so after a short discussion downstairs in which Seth convinced Stefan it was not smart to go out to the ice hound, all three of them continue on the ledge to the first tower. Just before they arrive there, Tom uses a jump spell to reach the same spot. Murphy's law still exists as the team have to search through all towers and only find their equipment in the final tower. The three orcs had fled to the roof of that tower, effectively blocking all attackers trying to come up. Eventually, Seth succeeds anyway and as another orc falls, the remaining to surrender. Both Tom (a real hero with bows, the second bow fumble in one session!) and Seth (in melee) manage to fumble during this fight, but no harm comes from those events. This allows the team to experiment with their interrogation techniques. In the interrogation of the two orcs and talking to the prisoners they found in the first building they entered, following information is revealed: -The enemies are commanded by a spellcaster named Gondor. He has an army of two trolls (who command the ice hound), and around 25 orcs. 8 Of the orcs have died in todays fight, 10 orcs and 1 troll are on patrol, the other missing enemies are most likely in the cave where the other half of the prisoners are currently digging. -Digging happens around the clock, in two shifts per day/night cycle. -The questioned orcs don't know (or want to reveal) where the silver is, they say they last saw it with the trolls. The orcs don't like the trolls either, the ice hound attacks the orcs just as well. -The prisoners come from a village called Marikest. They don't know what they are digging for and they were captured by a patrol of a troll and a number of orcs. Note: The in-game time now is almost noon. -written by Stefan
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