In which our heroes ...
Orhan 4 Day 68 TE 6061
We cover our exit from the garrison and head off to the garrison to the
west.
Everyone is disguised as a soldier except Oathar who wears a big black
cloak.
We pass some peasants. We refill our water at their well while interrogating
them.
Orhan 4 Day 69 TE 6061
We come upon a group of priests taking sacrifices to the west.
We send in Nimble, Whisper and Oathar. They ride up with their uniforms
and start talking to the soldiers.
Tunaep, Sumaiya stay with the horses.
Nimble blows his duping roll and the priests decide to sacrifice him.
He talks his way mostly out of it, but then they want to know why we brought
a Dyar. Gosh, even evil elves are illegal here. After a brief argument,
they decide the only way to settle this is to consult the gods...
So Oathar and the evil priests start the ritual of sacrifice.
Right before the ritual is over, the high priest decides to ambush Oathar,
who rushes his portion of the spell to Leave himself and the sacrificial
victim back to Tunaep.
The High Priest is killed, but stumbles up to the altar and manages to
die there.
Mass chaos erupts and we fight, fight, fight. Oathar mostly protects
the sacrificial victims from desperate priest while the rest of the party
takes out priests and soldiers.
At the end of the fight, the altar with the high priest starts glowing,
so we try to deal with it.
Meanwhile, Oathar notices Blinky is looking on with interest... They
try to decide what to do about the glowing altars. After a bunch of misfire,
Oathar lightning bolts it. It explodes. He falls down. Sumaiya comes over
to heal him. Meanwhile, in a tent, Nimble gets smote by the explosion
too. He manages to grab a pouch before the tent goes up. Sumaiya lays
hands on Nimble to heal him too.
Whisper meanwhile is off "subduing" the prisoners. Sadly, none
of the prisoners survive.
Sumaiya investigates the pouch Nimble found and discovers some weird
herbs and a scroll. The scroll says, "Most secret and urgent: Conduct
at least 1 dozen sacrifices and proceed to the ritual circle when Orhan
is new! There the great summoning will occur!" Inside is a little
red enamel arrow with a string tied to the middle of it.
We get the sacrifices to tell us what they heard. it seems the evil priests
are planning to summon A'Tal'A'Kan and bring him here to rampage.
We decide to go at least scout the great ritual out.
Orhan 4 Day 70 TE 6061
We travel southwest and come to a small hamlet. There are a number of
soldiers at the hamlet. They tell us that the Mutara sector is restricted.
We demand to be let pass. They say we should spend the night and head
out in the morning.
Nimble sneaks around and hears a lot of rumors about all the priests
gathering and sacrificing everyone in sight.
Orhan 5 Day 1 TE 6061
We press on. The countryside is completely deserted. On towards late
afternoon we spot our first people.
A giant octogon is etched into the bare stone. Blood fills the channels
in the stone and candles and priests, and sacrificial victims. There are
8 priests. with about 3 more backup. They have a dozen guards, and a pen
with 200 prisoners for sacrificing.
Whisper and Nimble get teleported into the prisoner pen and start trying
to get some allies. For reasons no one understands, the slaves suddenly
realize Whisper is the Messiah! They pick him up and prepare to exalt
him. Oh dear. It seems he's now drawing attention from all priests and
soldier.
The fight begin....
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