2020/01/05: Rescue of the Nivelian Miners
General Summary
Mordain's War Journal, 3rd Entry:
We have returned and our efforts to rescue the Nilevian miners were well rewarded! Apparently, firm and well contemplated planning is not needed for these Heroes. Indeed, Asha and Okur’s ingenuity in a rushed moment of conversation were enough to play against our brutal opponent’s weakness—total starvation. And so fell two savage one-eyed Giants! The slobbering beasts had holed up in an old cave system, using the miners as a food source up until the time their unthankful food screwed up some courage and slipped away to axillary caves. However, the dracos managed to trap themselves there...but at least they were no longer on the menu!It was then, after a previous scuffle or two, that we encountered the giants and made use of their stupendous stupidity: as I scribed earlier, Asha and Okur had a moment of clarity (Sobarr guides our endeavours!) and tossed the brutes some of our rations and, in their hunger, the giants did not deign to think: Wherefore did this food come into being? Mindless sods! Upon casting their eye on the rations, they tore at each other to gain the needed foodstuffs, the bigger and angrier of the two winning out. Asha then lured the loser down a hallway, at the end of which the rest of us lay in wait. The monster did not withstand long under our attacks and was soon dropped by Theodrogo, methinks.
Our attention then turned to the remaining giant—larger, uglier, and nastier than his fellow Nilevian muncher, he was! His brain, thankfully, proved to be just as little and he was still pawing at our mysteriously delivered rations. Even so, the slobbering brute withstood much: Okur rained down upon him with his arrows and magicks; Theodrogo gashed him with his smiteful sword; Asha was without torpor nor mercy, dancing and dashing this way and that all ‘round the one-eyed bastard; and Goldbroad girded us with songs of valor and conquest. It was left to me to bestow upon my fellows Sobarr’s blessings of battlefield prowess—to keep the tide in our favor—and as the battle reached its zenith, the giant oaf was finally brought to heel. And may Sobarr keep my bile down, the draco-men (?) were saved!…’tis true that these lands beyond the Great Mountains are so topsy-turvy that down has become up and up is down! I fear if I don’t carry my heavy forge hammer upon me, I will float off to the Heavens!
Goldbroad's Tavern Song:
Asha, Theo, Okor, Mordain, and Goldbroad stroll into a cave,
No candle was lit, traps made the hits, but we jumped on over and were brave!
Down the stairs and into the lair, mosaics of family and eyes,
An open door, not for Okor, but Asha slipped by in disguise!
A one-eyed beast, no two! Nothing to eat but sticks,
and me and you and you and you and you!
But we had a plan, for once in our lives,
a trail o’ rations to lure those hungry eyes!
A battle ensued the gods on our side,
not a giant was spared it’s victory for all five!
Piles of treasure blood bones on the floor,
Nilevians nestled and found by the badger, Okor!
Back in the village we are safe once more!"
No candle was lit, traps made the hits, but we jumped on over and were brave!
Down the stairs and into the lair, mosaics of family and eyes,
An open door, not for Okor, but Asha slipped by in disguise!
A one-eyed beast, no two! Nothing to eat but sticks,
and me and you and you and you and you!
But we had a plan, for once in our lives,
a trail o’ rations to lure those hungry eyes!
A battle ensued the gods on our side,
not a giant was spared it’s victory for all five!
Piles of treasure blood bones on the floor,
Nilevians nestled and found by the badger, Okor!
Back in the village we are safe once more!"
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27 Mar 2023
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