8-18-10: The Land Before Time XXIIVXII

The Druid falls from the sky joining the party. Conversation begins what voice to use for the pervert. 1st Question, when was the last time you slept with a woman. He said a couple weeks ago with a whore. Carbuncle feels unclean for giving him the money. Lots of stuff of people trying to get the ring off the old man. Orander makes a plan to the rate of "forget something" and then look for plaque from one of the girls. Carbuncle does not approve. Brian is talking about Giant Pandas.

The group plans to leave. (Ben Spills Coffee). As we leave we spot the blink dog. Grunk pets it and we continue up a rope. So we get to the top of the rope. (Ben) stays behind. Oh no! It will take like an hour and a ˝ to get there great plane while Orander stalls by pretending not to be able to climb rope. The rest of us get the old man drunk.

Kire goes back to the old man's hut. He unties the twine and looks in the house. He searches through the house for the stolen plaque and finds it above the fireplace. He takes the plaque and goes back to the portal. Orander goes up and they send the plaque up next. Kire finally comes up and the old man gets awfully surly. We take the old man to the authorities. Carbuncle prays to Palor to find out if the old man was truly guilty only to find out he was. Aldar goes to inform all the victims that he rapist was caught. In doing so, he runs into the old man on the street. He escorts the old man back to the jail. It turns out the old man in jail is actually a shape shifter.

We return to the Inn to converse and grab asses (ask Grunk). Kire and Orander agree to get the spy glass from the basement.

Meanwhile, Baron Athlon (Althon), a local eccentric. He's looking for the "5"-Team. The rest of us return to the Inn. He asks us about a broken sword, which is Dwarven from an old fortress. "Durgeddin" forged it. Legendary Dwarven smith. He found it near a stone tooth. If we found any swords, he'd pay us 500gp above market value plus any other notable items we may find.

When next S-Team is short of money, we must return to the garbage land and get the spyglass. Orander almost gets hit by a trap while going through a chest. It has crappy clothes and tools. It had a false bottom. There was a sack of gold (500gp) and a small room under the chest. Also small banded mail, very nice long bow, a suit of medium half-plate, a shield, a pouch /w dust in it, 2 weapons, and a leather cap- very nice, but way out of style.

Several of hem are magic (bow, shield, pouch, weapons, cap). Ring of levitation, shield of bashing +1, pouch of dust - Pass w/o a trace, long sword +1 - mighty cleaving, morning star +1 frost(1d6), cap (+1 AC if lighted), Mighty composite longbow (STR+2) of Thundering, Much bartering over magic items.

We go to dinner (at Baron Althon's). He gives us direction and we travel… we get mute guides. They lead us to the Inn with the good brew, then we go into the mountains which is still smoking. The Stone Tooth. A narrow road runs up the mountain. We follow the trail the druid fails to tell what tracks are humanoid. He says beastly humanoid around corner of trail. We think Orcs. We discuss many things: Do we go around toward the smoke or Grunk wants to "join" them. After much debate, the group takes the trail towards the smoke leaving the Orcs to themselves. The trail is not really a trail, more like running through bushes. We find the vents of the forge. So the rumor is it was taken over by nasty Orcs. Orander tries to sneak to the chasm where the fire is. It's a wood fire. The Dwarf casts detect dumb ass. Orander glows brightly. As we look around, Lucian sees many red squirrels, wolf tracks, bug tracks. So finding nothing, we head back to the Orcs. Grunk walks up to the Orcs and says Hi. Then tries to join up with them. THEY ATTACK!!! Let there be battle!

Kire, Savior of Song, Champion of Humanity, Leaper of Great Distances, Singer of Majestic Majesties, Corrupter of Small Badgers, and Defender of Crazy Old Dwarf Bastards viciously slays the wretch of Orc with ONE hit. Carbuncle misses.

Grunk backstabs the other as he runs away brutally takes out the likes of him. Ben drinks more beer.

Lucian searches the dead bodies. And… our eccentric Jabba the Hutt employer probably cut out the tongues of our poor guides. But they leave with the horses none the less. Jorn and Melris leave.

We talk of how to proceed. Grunk volunteers to scout inside, through sneaking around. Grunk goes up the steps to some double doors. He passes the doors and goes to the other side. He sees 2 more Orc guards, then comes back. The group bursts into the room firing at the Orcs. Carbuncle connects while Orander puts the 2 Orcs to sleep. The Orcs are dispatched and 17gp, 24sp is found. Grunk scouts ahead and finds some captives. The captives are set free and there is much rejoicing. "Yay."

Grunk continues to scout ahead. He's good at it! We find a lot of foodstuffs. Grunk digs through hay and is attacked by flying things that suck the life out of you (like big mosquitoes). We beat all but one, who ate Orander's con and flew away. Grunk also gets chewed on.