Orhan 5 Day 16 TE 6061

Haeraan drafts a letter:

To Lord Admiral Oathar Mealora, etc. etc.

From: Lord Marshal of our Forces Operating in Nuyam Kom, Haeraan Anderal, etc. etc.

Date: <above>

Location: The Front

You will be happy to know that our journey from Selkai to Ashenok was a pleasant one with only two encounters with the rapacious pirates of the bay, one of which cost them a galley. Trainees coming along nicely. Am now engaged in reconissance operations in the south of NK with the objectinve of divining enemy intentions. Hope your fun is going as smoothly...

Regards,

Haeraan

PS Corporal Thorn almost eaten by sharks, but this eventuallity prevented at last minute.

We're all healed up and ready to go. The lieutenant says he'll hold the fort now that we've recaptured it for him. Haeraan briefs the seargent, who promises to take care of things as long as the Lankani don't show up in real force.

Thorn and Abby scout ahead as we head out. The corporal comes across a marching column of Lankani troops. Suddenly there's a knife at his throat. He's kept silent until suddenly a general ambush of the column begins. Haeraan recognizes the ambush style. Clearly a Rianne follower set it up.

We join in the ambush. The column is getting pretty well decimated. Haeraan eventually realizes that Corporal Thorn has been taken off into the bushes. At this point, someone emerges from the bushes points out something to Haeraan. It turns out to be Haeraan's paladin, Tarren. The ambush is a success! Together Haeraan and Terren rescue Corporal Thorn from the other recruited Pokanti ambushers. Unfortunately, this means that they all speak Mauvaugn, and none of us do. Pesky.

The Lankani are apparently getting a bit laxer, so these sorts of ambushes work well.

Terran says, "Now that you're here, perhaps we've got enough force to actually do something."

He knows of a priest controlled channeling node where the Lankani army is sending information back to Lankinok. Perhaps our small group can deal with that.

We plan a small infiltration mission into the town. Abby and Thorn will steal the stuff. In an emergency, we kill everyone in sight. What could go wrong?

We sneak up to the town hall. Actually, we mingle our way right to the town hall. Abby kills the guards and we head in. Haeraan: "You guys go upstairs and kill everyone, I'll hold the town off."

The slaying commences. We chope guys just as they are waking up. After a bunch of kills, they start showing up with their armor instead of without it. We keep killing them. Finally, their captain arrives, but the sarge "curses" him in some inscrutible way, and he's pretty much useless after that until the sarge takes him out. Go sarge!

With the leadership down, the invasion goes off pretty darned well. Sadly, the priests have fled, but most of the intelligence is still there. We secure the stuff just before the town burns down, and about 300 Lankani get captured.

We find out:

A lot of troops have been pulled back and things are being shipped to and from a particular crossroads about 30-40 miles away. We decide to sack it. Also, there are notes that security in the capital has been beefed up seriously, which is why people are getting pulled back.

Haeraan has a dream about the dead captain's stuff, and it's pretty bad. We decide it's likely to be an evil wand. He dunks it in holy water. It explodes. Haeraan gets singed. We get another level!