Orhan 5 Day 15 TE 6061

We set out in the morning on Stampy's swamp boat with the big magic fan on the back.

He's got supplies for a week. Stampy asks if we want to go through the middle of the swamp or the edges.

We decided for the center of the swamp.

The magic fan is pretty loud, so there's no listening perception checks. We zoom along the water in the loud fast swamp boat.

We travel all day and then it gets pretty dark and dank and swampy just in time for us to pull onto a mound for the night.

Alynna and Jonquil are on first watch whre they feel like they are being watched.

Yup, it seems everyone is being watched. Every shift. Hmm, they're watching. Tess get some of Stampy's special Orhan-shine for her watch.

Orhan 5 Day 16 TE 6061

We press on. Deeper into the swamp. Yup, that's pretty deep. Alynna notices something between trees, and we investigate to find a four foot tall merloc statue with a plaque. We ride up and read the plaque. The plaque says "Murkey, a truer friend one has never known. (This statue erected by Ambrose)" Magellan reads it and gets a memory of a merloc wearing a top hat and a little cane dancing and he remembers laughing.

So Magellan put some flowers at the base of the statue, and a whole bunch of Merlocs come out of the swamp and surround us happily. A glowing merloc shows up.

The big merloc look sat Magellan and asks if he returned? "Murky friend!" Tess and Alynna convince Magellan to say we're here to kill the lugraki and the merloc's receive us as friends.

The merlocs take us deep into the center of the swamp to the merloc village, mostly composed of huts on stilts. We go before the chief murloc. He's got a big alligator skull on his head. "You come kill lugraki. Murloc's happy." He points towards the lugraki. they think the lugraki leader is at this place out at the edge of the swamp. Yup, there are four armed lugraki all over the place. The lugraki are two days away.

We have a lugraki killing party!

Orhan 5 Day 17 TE 6061

We trudge through the swamp en route to lugraki central with merloc guides. Magellan gets pretty sick from the swamp. Alynna's box has two cure disease potions. We cure Magellan while Gyris brews up some poisons, and Tess brews up some medicine for later.

We camp for the night. After a bit of time the merloc manage to find us a wrecked ship to sleep in. Tess prays to Eissa, and Eissa says stay away from the boat unless you want to deal with undead all night long.

We sleep in trees.

Orhan 5 Day 18 TE 6061

We trudge through the swamp even less enthusiasticlly than yesterday.

We approach the lugraki camp. Jonquil disguises herself as a lugraki. Alynna barely refrains from killing her. then Jonquil and Gyris stalk in towards the lugraki. They get to an outpost, and come upon three lugraki sitting around a campfire. They are both disguised as lugraki so it gets kind of confusing while they watch. They ask about the chosen one. They play blamch. During the blamching, Gyris decides to just kill one.

Jonquil sings the "Stand still so Gyris can whack you in the knee" song to keep one lugraki still while the other die, and then waits while Gyris beats on his victim trying to put him down. They have red enamel badges with tridents on them. They also have 8 bronze, 22 copper, 36 tin pieces, and 18 iron pieces. Swords and a preserved rabbit's foot.

Tess transforms into a giant demon thing and starts interrogating the poor lugraki. She seems to command his loyalty and then starts questioning him. There are 50 lugraki, a bunch of merloc slaves, the chosen one (a powerful priest magic lugraki) and four four-armed body guards there to lead them to unspecified glory. First they are going to get more merloc slaves. The camp is just over there, etc. He doesn't know much about patrols or the like. The chosen one showed up sometime last year. Their tribe was destined for greatness. (They could tell since he killed the chief and took over so quickly.) They are the Saiden (trident) tribe. The merlocs feed them and hunt crocodiles and stuff.

When the interrogation is finished Tess sacrifices the lugraki to Eissa. Somewhere, Imre shivers.

Armed with this information, Gyris heads in to investigate the leaders area.

We infiltrate the camp. Gyris, Tess, and Alynna head to the headquarters hut, and Jonquil and Magellan head to the merloci slave huts to rescue them.

Inside the leader's hut are two more four armed bodyguards and the leader who is writing at a desk. We strike! Alynna smites hers a fair bit and kills it, Tess insults the leader but doesn't do a whole lot, Gyris mind locks his with an evil spell, and the leader runs out the door to get his other bodyguards.

Meanwhile the merloci freedom squad manages to talk a key out of a guard and send the guard away to check on the combat...

Next week, the combat continues...