Orhan 5 Day 3 TE 6061

Kyrik gives us some Bothans to escort to the capital. He warns us that they are suicidal and to keep them away from mushrooms at all costs. We head along the border on our way to the capital.

Nimble and Whisper see nothing as they scout ahead... Suddenly, from the bushes, six soldiers decloak. Nimble starts talking to them. Nimble and Whisper start trying to bribe the soldiers with copper since they are but poor nigh-unto penniless dirt farmers. Sadly, they show a bit too much money, so they get strip searched. Nimble manages to his stuff from them, but they still lose a bunch of stuff.

Having bribed the guards, they lead the rest of the party around the patrol.

Orhan 5 Day 4 TE 6061

More scouting. Nothing happens.

Orhan 5 Day 5 TE 6061

We encounter a village. Tunaep, Sumaya, and Nimble head in to investigate. Whisper is assigned to watch the Bothans. It's a hard job, but someone needs to do it.

In the town, everything is strangely deserted. A tumbleweed drifts by. Nimble proclaims they have medicinal herbs and suddenly the whole towns populace pours out. Yup, their all plague ridden and want the medicinal herbs. Poor luck that.

Seeing the plague, the party breaks and flees. Well, most of them flee, but Tunaep heads deeper into town looking for a bar. Nimble leaps from building to building, while Sumaya mounts a summoned steed and heads out of town. Sumaya escapes thanks to her horse. Nimble escapes. Tunaep sneaks back around and heads into the bar. Nimble and Sumaya get back.

Whipser heads in towards town, leaving his bothan charges behind. He surveils a while to get some idea of what the plague looks like. Meanwhile, a bothan escapes. Everyone panics and starts searching for the missing bothan.

Turns out the missing bothan is in town in a house of ill repute. Or course he is. Whisper finally manages to get him out of there. Oh woe.

Sumaya and Oathar cast a circle of disease purification in the center of town.

Tragically, it turns out the bothans are master spies. A bunch of soldier were here a couple of weeks ago and then headed off to the regional capital. They also mentioned that there's going to be a major festival in the capital in a couple of weeks.

Orhan 5 Day 11 TE 6061

We come to a town. This one is a bit more lively. No plague zombies or the like. This time Nimble watches the bothans, and we send Whisper, Sumaya, and Tunaep into the town.

Whisper, Sumaya, and Tunaep march into the temple of Klysus. No one is sure why. First Whisper gives the priest his Oathar magic item. Then to prevent combat, he offers himself as a sacrifice to Klysus. They strip him bare (except for his hidden dagger), and throw him in prison. Great. Sumaya and Tunaep leave having delivered the sacrifice.

Sumaya and Tunaep send an eagle to warn Oathar and then head in to try and take out some guards. Tunaep shoots one with an arrow. Sumaya tries to calm the other one. Sadly, he resists. He blows his alarm whistle and they break and run! Tunaep stuns a guy for a round with another arrow, and then they run some more.

They split up. Sumaya tries to summon a horse. Sadly, she is attacked and loses her spell, so is captured. Tunaep sneaks away, but the spot him so he starts sprinting. They pelt him with arrows as he flees. He take some damage, but gets away.

Tunaep gets back to camp and tells of the woeful betrayal of Whisper and the capture of Whisper and Sumaya.

Tunaep fails to mention that Whisper only started offering his magic items and finally himself because Sumaya was losing it, and that she also was making the priest itch (that, and because his attempts to bribe the priests failed miserably (-198 roll)). Also, Sumaya calling the priest "evil" to his face really kind of threw Whisper for a loop, so when he tried to spin Sumaya's "Don't give magic stuff to the evil priest" as "Doesn't the sun look pretty in the east?" and failed, (-13 roll), it was either fight every priest in the temple or offer himself up and tell the other two to go back and get the rest of the group.

Sigh.

We head to the temple with everyone remaining. They've tripled the guard. Nimble tries to climb up to the roof, but can't make it so Oathar teleports him up.

He finds a chimney leading down to a firepit. He swaps places with Oathar and Oathar heads in the chimney.

Oathar causes a distraction that sounds like world war three and attacts many of the guards.

With that as their signal, Whisper escapes his cell, and Tunaep and Nimble invade the temple prison to rescue Whisper and Sumaya.

The bothans and Nimble do some looting and we all regroup in the remains of the great hall.

Oathar offers up the temple in sacrifice to Neela and Unstones several supporting walls. He then teleports the whole party, their loot, and the bothans out of town.