Lower Leg bone of Vol Part 1

General Summary

Tonight the heroes Thundercloud of the Tobaxi, Klaw-Plach of the Crabfolk and Maul of the Mountain Dwarves set out after the Lower Leg bone of Vol.   They were aboard the Gnomish Sidewheeler "Trymoreahh L.U.C.K" a former ironclad warship whos cannon had been removed and turned into a "Fancy Room" with a buffet and gambling tables.   Captain Mid Chill has been chartered to transport the group from the 18th of June through the 18th of July by Gorden Blueaxe of Felsig's Perch as payment for seeing that his ore made it to The Foundry.   The swamp was so shallow that Sue the Tourtle Navigator had to remove her steel drums from the bottom of the hull so the Trymoreahh didnt get stuck. Thankfully the Sidewheeler Class ships only have a scant 1" of draft so they can get through almost any water flow.. Perhaps a series of decanters of endless water poured infront of the ship will be enough to move it.. some research is needed for this.   I digress.   I charted the course, planning to sail NW for three days til we hit the border of the Elf, Grey and Lizardmen disputed territory.   One the first day (June 24) we came across a large party of goblins 62 of them, they were lead by four orcs and another twice the size of the other four. As we steamed in to see if they needed anything, our Spokesman Thundercloud said the exact opposite of what he ment to say.. and pissed off the Orcs.The large ork chief held up a Claim Stone proving that he had purchased the land from the world council and it glowed with magic showing that he was the rightful owner of the Claim. Demanding we depart upon pain of death. Our captain hearing this ordered hard to port and we turned away. Klaw-Plach tried to mess with the mind of the nearest goblin, the goblin had 1 chance in 20 of withstanding the compulsion. He did. Glimglok withstood. Klaw-Plach was furious this goblin withstood.. so thrashed about in the mud where he was hiding.. betraying himself to the goblin Glimglok, who then commanded his squad of 30 archers to fire at the mud. Klaw-Plach was pierced by only 2 of thirty shots. Goblins are apparently worse shots then the infamous storm trooper. Thankfully Klaw-Plach made it aboard and the Orcs, Forest were able to heal his injuries, for he was near death.   (June 25 - June 26) Steam NW, seeing nothing but colossal herbivores of all types.. not one single carnivore.   June 27: We arrive at the disputed lands and encounter a patrol of four Stegodons armed with Balistia's upon their backs. Klaw-Plach greets them in Aquian. Has a conversation with them and translates for the others. Basically some of the Lizardmen have been summoned to the southern portion of the swamp to deal with the grey elf raiding parties. Klaw-Plach vows to honour the old pledge and speak with his King Triton of the Deep. a Sending is sent. a favor called in.   June 28: We find another pair of huge dinosaurs bearing upon their backs huge drums that appeared to be made of solid gold, even the mallets that a pair of shaman were constantly drumming. Maul made an offer of coin for a pair of glass pipes that were enchanted to never break for him, and some of the shaman's blend of smoke.   June 29: We arrive at the island at nightfall. Dropping the ramp we start to unload and set up camp.. preparing to spend the next few days here the Lumberjacks set up a watch and camp on shore.. the rowdy halfling cowboys remain drinking and gambling in the Fancy Room Its two days until the Day of Light!   June 30: Watching and observing with the Endginseer i keep track of their progress though scrying. They spend most of the day pushing through the woods about mid afternoon they come across a clear trail.. someone had cut the vines and smaller branches with what looked like a slashing weapon of some sort. They found a pair of tracks on the ground, but were not able to identify what creature made the tracks.. Medium sized about 200# wearing boots.Cautiously they follow the trail sticking to what shadows they can.   Coming to a clearing they see a Gnoll Fang Warrior of the Yeenoghu Tribe (known to be cannibal's) Maul simply walks up and greets it in common, the other two have hidden in either the woods or tall grasses and we loose sight of them.  The gnoll spins around Drawing his bow and knocking an arrow yells something in Gnoll.  Maul repeats "I come in peace" in common with a hand upraised empty as he steps closer also. The Gnoll takes a shot hitting Maul in the side. Battle ensues with maul charging, Klaw popping out of the woods and Thundercloud springing forth behind the Gnoll in the tall grass. They made short work of it.   They went into the cave across the clearing and discover a large chamber covered in beautiful shimmersilk cloth. They see what looks like a knight in full platemail with a longsword marching in patrol.they set up am ambush and charge him. Klaw from a distance trying magics.. but finding out the knight is a Helmed Horror, a construct programmed to do one thing and one thing only. In this case to protect the scantly clad dwarven female across the chamber from them chained up to a pillar.   It took a while of beating on the armor by Thundercloud.. his trouble was his claws only did half damage as the Horror had some damage reduction from non-magical attacks and immunity to alot of the magic Klaw tried. Meanwhile maul makes a beeline for the female to free her. Spends two rounds swinging the dwarven forged longsword at her golden chains before he sunders it.. about the same time that the other two manage to slaw the horror.. for some reason Klaw did not try to use his eldritch blast before and struck a nerve causing two times as much damage as it usually does. he then plucked the Helm off the Horror deactivating the magic that sustained it.   Thinking battle was over Thundercloud goes to poke the remains. Klaw goes up into one of the corners to Molt.. his people's way of claiming territory.  The female collapses against Maul only to Charm him into attacking Thundercloud. Maul runs up to Thundercloud and swings and cuts him near killing his already wounded friend. Thundercloud bobs and weaves and slips slowly away from Maul.. Klaw pokes his head out of the molt and spits some of his goo at Maul.. aiming for Maul's mouth.. a Perfect called shot (20) and maul has three rounds to get the goo off or he will pass out from lack of breathing. in the time it takes Maul to get himself free, he finally breaks free from the charm person in time to watch a couple arrows from Thundercloud and a Klaw just destorying the dwarven maiden. Who upon death is revealed to have been a Lamia.   The hero's are exausted and bairly pushed into the temple. Thankfully It is the Day of Light Tomorrow so strange magics are afoot. I am going to ask to the coppers to join them.. we will send a handfull of potions with each dragon, if they agree to bear them.

Rewards Granted

Bag of Holding or Devouring (they were too scared to open it up and see which it is so its still triple tied shut), Tiefling hide armor, Longbow, Obsidian Glaive, 20 Obsidian Arrows from the Gnoll.   A set of Ancient Full Platemail of Human Size of an unknown design, An Ancient Longsword, an Ancient Shield from the Helmed horror.   Unfortunately the Helm itself was destroyed in the battle.   The Lamia was wearing nothing but her fur, She had a satchel that contained a few items a decent assortment of coin, A Magical Dagger that when drawn glows golden only to those with dark vision (+1) a jar with 5 doses of Keoghton's Ointment, 1 vial of Love Potion #9, A runestone that will transform 20 ranged ammo into +1 magical ammo, and 3 of the Potions of Greater Healing   Each of the three gained 3700 XP for the night. Each recieved 450 Copper Stars, 400 Silver Gleams, 60 Golden Dar's and 2 Chalcedony Gemstones (worth 100g each)

Missions/Quests Completed

-Reached Location of The Lower Leg bone of Vol. -Killed Gnoll #2 of 100