4. Into the Fey Fray

It was at this point that we noted why the Enforcer had been in the area - he was interrogating a Druid, a member of the Order of the Elm Circle, normally based in the Invisible City of Gyges (The City of the Ring), but who had been put on secondment into Pavis to help develop a Circle of Power in the Eastern part of Sylvanik Forest. The Druid was of course a female, and a descendant of a Dryad - but in this case an Elven Dryadic form. She had green hair, with her hair matching the season, Drussia, was happy to help us after we freed her from her captors. They had dragged her down here as a form of torture after finding her near their Sylvanik Forest base. After healing all that she could Drussia proved herself highly effective with a bow and soon impressed everyone - as a Druid of Artemis - her archery had a particularly vengeful accuracy to it. We bested two more sets of Orcs and then settled between patrols to rest.
 
Once rested we approached a junction, to find Orcs arguing among themselves, these were not just carrying Pavian Longswords but also crates of the same - with our group soon securing over 20 of these finely forged and clearly marked Pavian Blades- the Orcs had somehow found PLUNDER.
 
Plunder was the code name for the Pavis Legion Under - the entire command of the legion was based below the Town of Pavis, acting as a secret army base ready to be manned at a moments notice and double the towns combat forces. Pavis was secretly a command centre for the Eastern Atlantean forces - placed at a chokepoint between the Dwarven Escarpment, the Centre Reach, and the only land route from the Slaver Lands.
 
Moving through double-doors we found more weapon crates, and signs of the secret entrance into Plunder having been opened.
 
We continued on, concerned about what we would find, and again throughout the fight - Terwin only scratched his opponent once. Reaching the level of Plunder, we stood before a fully operational Dwarven Fortress. We swiftly fought for control of a Greek Fire dispursing Ballista - capable of firing Greek fire throughout the pillars of the fortress, and approached the main gates of the fortress, only to find a Stone Atlantid Golem moving towards us and requesting orders from a ‘new commander’. Marconian was being recognised as a high ranking official of the Atlantis Armed Forces! He placed the entire Fortress on Alert and reconnected the Portal that gave us access to the surface.
 
The City was overjoyed, not only had we stopped taking over of their Command Centre, but had stopped the looting of the armory. Only now did we find that the Orcs had in fact taken over 600 swords of Atlantean Steel and Suits of Legion Armor. It was time to secure them before they were used by the Orcs to invade en masse against Atlantis whilst armed with the same high quality war gear.