The Ogres New Home Report

General Summary

Sukasi 37 - afternoon   Clayton realises that he's out of manna and tells the group that he needs to rest for about 14 hours. However, the group decides to continue on, regardless, because it's only 4 in the afternoon and no-one is tired.   They go back out into the large hallway and continue to the end. There are two large pillars about two meters high upon which each has what looks like a stone demon. The creatures look a them and their heads follow the movement of the players, who notice this. They approach the pillars and they all feel a tingling over their bodies. Both creatures look directly at Felix only. Felix backs off... Barclay approaches them and asks, "Will you do the favour of letting just me pass?" One jumps down and lands between Barclay and the passage through.   Barclay attempts to seduce the one creature. It tries to grab Barclay several times, but Barclay dances out of the way, teasing him. It is very obviously male at this point and rising to Barclay's bait. Eventually it pounces and they get busy.   The other creature grabs Felix's lute and flies up onto the pillar with it. Felix gets mad as he hears the strings breaking while it's trying to break the lute. He casts a Primal Scream spell at the creature, which only seems to madden it. It tries to break the lute again, but is unsuccessful, so it flies away with the lute towards the exit. Felix gets more angry and chases it, quickly followed by Saiya.   They get to the exit and the door is closed. The grotesque opens the door and sees them coming and starts to fly away, but quickly turns back for the lute. Felix is faster and grabs the lute from it. They start to fight, Felix using the lute as a weapon. They exchange several blows, then it flies back inside...   Clayton picks the lock to the door and the wall and door collapse into the large room beyond. He then realises that he should go help Felix and turns to run after them. As he gets down the hall he sees the creature flying towards him, so he swings his pickaxe at it, hitting it in the chest. The pick gets stuck and the creature screams and flies with Clayton holding tight. The others come after just in time to see Clayton lose his grip and fall. The three of them run after is. It has landed back on the pillar and is healing.   They all try to knock it off the pillar, and Clayton is successful with his pickaxe. The surround it and keep knocking it down until Clayton lands a solid blow, embedding his pick in its face. Saiya then grabs the handle of the pickaxe and Clayton hammers it in with the back of his hatchet. It "dies" and is now a damaged statue on the floor. At this moment Barclay is done and walks past them, the other creature flies over them and lands on its pillar.   They try to go past and it flies down and stops them. Barclay turns around and says, "Fuck me!" in frustration. The creature smiles...   While Barclay is busy avoiding more danger and keeping the creature occupied the others head into the final room.   The other three continue on and try to avoid a trap on the stairs. However, Felix is just not agile enough to jump over the trap while on stairs and sets it off. All three of them slide down into a pit trap. One of the short spikes at the bottom of the trap hits Saiya in the leg, but her armour prevents it from hurting her. Clayton can smell the poison on the spikes. They light Clayton's lantern and see that they are in a 10' x 10' room with a 10' high ceiling. There are two skeletons on the floor. They examine the skeleton and there are 83 coins of some Gnaric currency. There is also a broken wand which they grab to examine later. Finally, they find a small silver dagger. There are also a couple of rusty weapons, which they leave there.   After about 30 minutes Barclay goes into the room and sees a slide covered in rocks, but none of the others. Barclay slides down to the rocks and then hears a faint "Barclay?" Felix has called out to him. "Where are you?" "Underneath you!" And Barclay spends the next 30 minutes clearing out the rocks and uses the crowbar to open up the doors. Everyone escapes. Now they are in the large room. There is a pile of large stones and rubble in the centre. The far wall is a relief carving of a battle scene that includes humans, Ælfs, Gnar, and what appear to be demons. They search the room and Barclay finds a large gold nugget. Clayton finds a large (ogre sized) skeleton underneath the rocks. They spend the 30 minutes to move the rocks and uncover the skeleton. It is wearing a metal belt - brass inlaid with silver and has a sheathed long knife at its side that is still preserved. Felix takes the belt, knife and all, and wears it like a sash.   The spend the next three hours searching the walls for hidden doors, and Clayton finds one back near the beginning. The door is trapped with a puzzle, and Felix solves it almost without effort. When they enter they see a large circular structure that looks like a giant fire pit. Past it they see a sarcophagus and another, smaller circular structure, the latter broken and falling down. AS they move past it, a blueish fire alights int eh first structure and a voice reverberates, "Who goes there?" They all answer with their names. "What is your purpose here?"   Felix takes this as a philosophical question and goes on for a bit about that.. The fire is silent. Then they answer with the truth about finding a home for the ogres. The fire responds, "New protection for here. Then you may stay!" They say that it's not them, but the ogres. "Then they may stay!" And they find themselves back at the entrance.   As they are leaving they see that the broken structures are self repairing.   They head outside. The bear is gone and Liliké of Forthill and Emil have moved back across the bridge and set up camp. Everyone rests for the night.   Sukasi 38   Come morning Clayton magically repairs Felix's lute. They gather everything up. As they are packing up they notice that the entrance, including the bridge across the river, looks newly constructed now.   They get back to road and there is a group of humans camped there. They rise up and draw their weapons. Felix says, "Hello!" They are suspicious, so he says, "Would you like me to play you a tune?" They do. He does. And they are welcomed as travelling minstrels. They have a snack with these people, who appear to be mercenaries, and then continue onward.   Travelling to the ogres a flock of birds fly closely over. Everyone tries to shoot one, and Saiya succeeds. Felix decides to take a bite out of one raw to scare the rest away. He catches salmonella. Barclay says that héo should have eaten it, as being a Mayjho it wouldn't bother hyre.   The ogres are still there, and have a gnar corpse roasting over an open fire. It is gutted and the head it on a spike on the wall. Everyone goes inside and sees this. No-one seems surprised. Barclay is offered some, but politely declines. Felix says, "Meat so good you have to gnar on the bones."   Barclay responds, "I'll kill you in your sleep." Everyone laughs.   They head back to the caves, now called Ogre Keep. Everything about their new home is explained to the ogres on the way. The ogres are happy about their new home. Felix gets really sick, so Clayton uses magic to heal him. The ogres get the grand tour and are immune to any of the traps as they agree to protect the place.   Everyone is happy. The group spends the night and heads back to Town of Woodfare in the morning.   Next session starts in the morning of Sukasi 39, 6594

Rewards Granted

• 83 coins of some Gnaric currency,
• a small silver dagger,
• a large gold nugget,
• a metal belt - brass inlaid with silver, and
• has a sheathed long knife.