Orhan 4 Day 17 TE 6065

Finally, we find Lugraki headquarters and after some arguing, send Alynna in for the slayage! Most lugraki flee like mad, although some get killed. We do recover their battle plans, which marks a path down south into Krylite territory.

We take the map, and head off from there.

We loot a bit and end up with a couple of gold and a few blamsche hammers.

We start heading west. Suddenly, everyone's minion sense starts going bad. We all have a bad feeling about this. We head further west and then north. People start hearing lugraki voices. Lugraki are chanting death and other things as we sneak up the corridor.

Suddenly a bunch of lugraki seem to teleport in. Oathar casts Resist Damage on Alynna. It's a crack lugraki suicide squad here to sacrifice themselves in a blaze of glory. Before anyone can say or do anything (in 21 of snap) Alynna kills all five of them with a flurry of blows. When the bodies hit the ground they suddenly swell up and explode in a shower of hot gore.

We survive this, and charge ahead to disrupt the ritual powering this mess, but then more orcs teleport in. Alynna tries to just disable these. Then we start a running chase while Alynna kites them and Oathar fireballs them. Kyrik and Haeraan pull Blaster pistols and start blasting away from range.

We burst in on their ritual and find a four armed lugraki wth black with and an aura of darkness around it. Look, a lugraki angel. Oh dear. He's casting lugraki through a hole to Alynna.

We start messing around for a bit, but then Imre has had enough and Mass Black Channels all the pre-ritualized orcs. All but 1 die. This leaves a few post-ritual orcs, some shamen, and the black angel of orcish death.

It turns out the four armed lugraki thing is an archangel of the god of lugraki. He has a gauntlet in one hand and a war mattock in teh other.

We fight! Alynna takes a few more UNholy crits.

Oathar manages to close the portal.

Then the demon starts taunting Alynna, and she finds her anger makes her powerful. She ticks up a corruption point.

As the rounds pass, Alynna's anger makes her more powerful.

Then the demon starts casting command spells at Kyrik and Haeraan.

Oathar takes Hawthorne out of his pocket, and says, "Well, it looks like you were right the first time. You might want to hop down; this isn't going to be pretty." Hawthorne hops off and salutes Oathar.

Oathar turns to the demon and says, "I'm afraid I can't allow you to continue corrupting my friends." "AND WHAT SHALL YOU DO ABOUT IT PUNY HUMAN..."

Oathar stabs him with a tiny little dagger, doing three fate points. The demon is seemingly not impresed, but suddenly shouts out in pain and is sucked in. Oathar falls over dead, for it seems he used the dagger of self-sacrifice.

Everyone stands around wondering what's going on. The lugraki freak out and run away. Kyrik can't remember the name of Oathar's memorial town...

Haeraan switches to genocide mode. The party starts climbing the lugraki gradient looking for vengeance.

Everywhere they look however, the corridors are empty. In the next main chamber, weapons are thrown down on the ground, and some supplies are lying about. Finally they find a small cavern with a few lugraki in it. One of the five feints as soon as the party arrives. They yell, "Run!!!" behind them and try to guard the entrance to the lugraki escape tunnel.

The party rolls right through them in fell vengeance. Haeraan long doors past them entirely, and finds himself in the lugraki nursery, where they ... fall to bickering. There doesn't seem to be a consensus on what to do with lugraki children. But it seems the lugraki nation in this area is broken.

They decide to teleport the orc children to Kelfour's Landing to enter the workforce.

Kyrik takes Oathar's body to the Temple of Neela in Selkai.