Arc Sol - Human Cleric of Pelor, the god of the sun (349 points)
Aurum Red-Brand - Human Wizard (354 points)
Mor'ath Enanqua - Elven Swashbuckler/Thief (329 points)
Zaxod - Half-Orc Knight (364 points)
Day 75 (Cont.):
Weather: Not a Cloud in the Sky
Date: Coreli 6th, 2526
With the battle over, Arc healed up the rest of the party, and Awakened Zaxod, who immediately fell unconscious again while trying to chase after the still-retreating orcs. Mor'ath and Aurum searched the chief's hut, but only found a few coins. Arc tried to heal one of the wounded ogres, but the ogre didn't let him come close, clearly not trusting his foul wizardry. Another, particularly fat ogre, walked out of one of the animal hide huts carrying a crying orc baby, which it began to eat.
Thanks to Public Speaking, Arc managed to convince the ogres to not eat the babies, and they took their fill of the dead orcs instead. He healed the bitten baby with the last of his FP, and then handed it off to a fleeing orc child before resting. After a couple of minutes, a heavily-wounded orc berserker nearby woke up and started coughing up blood, and Arc went to help it, only for Mor'ath to try to finish it off.
Arc heroically jumped in front of Mor'ath's attack with a sacrificial dodge, and Mor'ath backed off. 10 minutes later, Zaxod woke up again (now at positive FP) and the argument over killing the orcs intensified. Arc refused to back down, however, and Zaxod stormed off into the forest to rest and then head back to town on his own.
Thursday 29 December 2016
Monday 19 December 2016
GURPS Free Cities Session 31: Battle At The Stone Axe Camp
Aurum Red-Brand - Human Wizard (354 points)
Mor'ath Enanqua - Elven Swashbuckler/Thief (329 points)
Zaxod - Half-Orc Knight (339 points)
Player Absent:
Arc Sol - Human Cleric of Pelor, the god of the sun (349 points)
Day 74 (Cont.):
Weather: Sunny, No Wind
Date: Coreli 5th, 2526
After finishing off the last of the Stone Axe orcs, the party discussed what to do for several minutes, until Mor'ath got bored and started looting. In addition to a pittance in coins, he also found Gili the dwarf, unconscious and bleeding out under a pile of bodies. Arc stabilised her with Stop Bleeding, and they put her body onto the levitating disc.
Mor'ath went to find the horse that had ridden into town, Arc took Gili to the church to be healed, Zaxod held the western gate until reinforcements arrived, and Aurum went to the enchanter's shop to sell the lightning wand he had picked up in the mines near Carda several months ago. In the town square, Mor'ath found the horse, but was unable to convince it to move. As he struggled with default Animal Handling, Harthex arrived with a group of guards and asked him to gather the rest of the group to meet him in the square, and sent more guards out to reinforce the gates before heading north.
Once the team was assembled, Harthex informed them that they were going to have to "deal with" the orcs as soon as possible, and that the militia would now be raised indefinitely, halting construction of the town. He threw a bag of coins containing their weekly pay to Arc, and returned to commanding guards. The party returned to the mansion's dining room and discussed their options.
Mor'ath Enanqua - Elven Swashbuckler/Thief (329 points)
Zaxod - Half-Orc Knight (339 points)
Player Absent:
Arc Sol - Human Cleric of Pelor, the god of the sun (349 points)
Day 74 (Cont.):
Weather: Sunny, No Wind
Date: Coreli 5th, 2526
After finishing off the last of the Stone Axe orcs, the party discussed what to do for several minutes, until Mor'ath got bored and started looting. In addition to a pittance in coins, he also found Gili the dwarf, unconscious and bleeding out under a pile of bodies. Arc stabilised her with Stop Bleeding, and they put her body onto the levitating disc.
Mor'ath went to find the horse that had ridden into town, Arc took Gili to the church to be healed, Zaxod held the western gate until reinforcements arrived, and Aurum went to the enchanter's shop to sell the lightning wand he had picked up in the mines near Carda several months ago. In the town square, Mor'ath found the horse, but was unable to convince it to move. As he struggled with default Animal Handling, Harthex arrived with a group of guards and asked him to gather the rest of the group to meet him in the square, and sent more guards out to reinforce the gates before heading north.
Once the team was assembled, Harthex informed them that they were going to have to "deal with" the orcs as soon as possible, and that the militia would now be raised indefinitely, halting construction of the town. He threw a bag of coins containing their weekly pay to Arc, and returned to commanding guards. The party returned to the mansion's dining room and discussed their options.
Sunday 11 December 2016
GURPS Free Cities Session 30: Battle With The Stone Axe Orcs
Aurum Red-Brand - Human Wizard (329 points)
Mor'ath Enanqua - Elven Swashbuckler/Thief (329 points)
Zaxod - Half-Orc Knight (339 points)
Player Absent:
Arc Sol - Human Cleric of Pelor, the god of the sun (349 points)
Day 74 (Cont.):
Weather: Sunny, No Wind
Date: Coreli 5th, 2526
The orcs were arranged with the glaive-wielding cavalry and a shaman on the left flank, polearm-wielding footmen on the right, and archers protected by shieldbearers in the middle. While the party debated what to do, the shaman cast several spells, and then the biggest orc, riding the biggest horse, blew a horn and the cavalry and flanking footmen began to charge while the archers nocked arrows.
The human guardsmen knelt down behind the 3' earthen wall to hide from the archers while waiting for orcs to come through the "gate", while the mounted orcs approached and strafed the wall, attacking Zaxod as they moved from left to right, breaking one of his axes in the process. Aurum started casting Great Haste on Mor'ath, but took an arrow from the archers and lost concentration.
Arc cast Shield 4 on Zaxod, and then Major Healing after the big orc slashed the half-orc with his glaive. Mor'ath moved to the right to deal with the footmen, two of whom tripped as they tried to jump over the wall, and parried and killed the third with his orichalcum saber before Aurum cast Panic, scaring one of the prone ones away.
Mor'ath Enanqua - Elven Swashbuckler/Thief (329 points)
Zaxod - Half-Orc Knight (339 points)
Player Absent:
Arc Sol - Human Cleric of Pelor, the god of the sun (349 points)
Day 74 (Cont.):
Weather: Sunny, No Wind
Date: Coreli 5th, 2526
The orcs were arranged with the glaive-wielding cavalry and a shaman on the left flank, polearm-wielding footmen on the right, and archers protected by shieldbearers in the middle. While the party debated what to do, the shaman cast several spells, and then the biggest orc, riding the biggest horse, blew a horn and the cavalry and flanking footmen began to charge while the archers nocked arrows.
The human guardsmen knelt down behind the 3' earthen wall to hide from the archers while waiting for orcs to come through the "gate", while the mounted orcs approached and strafed the wall, attacking Zaxod as they moved from left to right, breaking one of his axes in the process. Aurum started casting Great Haste on Mor'ath, but took an arrow from the archers and lost concentration.
Arc cast Shield 4 on Zaxod, and then Major Healing after the big orc slashed the half-orc with his glaive. Mor'ath moved to the right to deal with the footmen, two of whom tripped as they tried to jump over the wall, and parried and killed the third with his orichalcum saber before Aurum cast Panic, scaring one of the prone ones away.
Friday 9 December 2016
GURPS Free Cities Session 29: Adventures in Bookkeeping
Arc Sol - Human Cleric of Pelor, the god of the sun (349 points)
Aurum Red-Brand - Human Wizard (329 points)
Zaxod - Half-Orc Knight (339 points)
Player Absent:
Mor'ath Enanqua - Elven Swashbuckler/Thief (329 points)
Day 73:
Weather: Slightly Cloudy, Light Winds
Date: Coreli 4th, 2526
The party paid Hue the Many-Coloured to send a Message to the Grand Library in Zerakim for more information on the "heyena", and slightly later decided to send another regarding Zaxod's sudden lack of hair. While he was there, Zaxod got his new magical axe examined, and was informed that it could cast Continual Light if the dwarvish word "Lakhdan" ("light") was spoken.
Arc figured that they may as well go add some more stone to the wall keeping the ogres in, so he, Aurum, and Mor'ath headed west out of town after Zaxod repaired Aurum's staff. Zaxod decided to stay in town to repair his gear and continue work on his meteoric morningstar.
An hour or so of walking later, Mor'ath spotted a group of orcs in front of the cave of the Blood Drinker ogres, and Arc, the only present party member who knows spoken Giant, listened in. Apparently the orcs were supposed to be fetching the ogres, but were confused because they cave was supposed to be right here, by the crude drawing of the head drinking blood, but inside was just more stone. After a while of arguing, they decided to head back to camp to trick some other orc into telling "Togdaz" about it.
Aurum Red-Brand - Human Wizard (329 points)
Zaxod - Half-Orc Knight (339 points)
Player Absent:
Mor'ath Enanqua - Elven Swashbuckler/Thief (329 points)
Day 73:
Weather: Slightly Cloudy, Light Winds
Date: Coreli 4th, 2526
The party paid Hue the Many-Coloured to send a Message to the Grand Library in Zerakim for more information on the "heyena", and slightly later decided to send another regarding Zaxod's sudden lack of hair. While he was there, Zaxod got his new magical axe examined, and was informed that it could cast Continual Light if the dwarvish word "Lakhdan" ("light") was spoken.
Arc figured that they may as well go add some more stone to the wall keeping the ogres in, so he, Aurum, and Mor'ath headed west out of town after Zaxod repaired Aurum's staff. Zaxod decided to stay in town to repair his gear and continue work on his meteoric morningstar.
An hour or so of walking later, Mor'ath spotted a group of orcs in front of the cave of the Blood Drinker ogres, and Arc, the only present party member who knows spoken Giant, listened in. Apparently the orcs were supposed to be fetching the ogres, but were confused because they cave was supposed to be right here, by the crude drawing of the head drinking blood, but inside was just more stone. After a while of arguing, they decided to head back to camp to trick some other orc into telling "Togdaz" about it.
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