Available from: this website, in our Homemade Adventures.
Format: On rails, Dungeon Crawl
Theme: Love
Author: William
One-Shot Mini-Mission
Date in Real Life: Sunday 5 June, 2022
In Game Day: Late-Spring
Adventure Master: William, leading his 1st adventure
Player Characters:
Philip the Overlord’s Guard (17th mission), riding his horse, Johny.
Starflower the Lion Warrior (with Regulus the Lion) (15th mission)
Edward the Knight of the Way (15th mission)
Hector the Light Raider, on his 5th mission.
New Character introduced: Gumbald (NPC)
The RaidTeam was called out to free a Keledan missionary. Spies reported that a local dragon had left their castle on a journey, so the time was ripe for the team to move in and do a jail break.
The team rested in the afternoon and set off in the evening. They stepped out of the Hollow Tree at the base of a mountain, with the castle on top. As they approached the path that would take them up the mountain, they met a squirrel. The squirrel gave them some healing pills. They then encountered an explorer. Hector shared the Great Rescue with him, and he accepted. Hector led him back to the Hollow Tree and sent him to explore the Liberated Land.
The team journeyed up the mountain path, with rock walls on either side. They encountered a small flock of Gall Buzzards. Hector and Edward became enchanted. The team killed the Gall Buzzards, rescued their enchanted members, and continued on up the mountain side. They came across a patch of mud. Philip suspected muks and tried to call out to them. Hector didn’t sense any evil, and realized it was ordinary mud. The team went through and journeyed on.
The team approached the castle and saw the drawbridge was down, and there were orcs guarding the gate. Philip has some invisibility potion left over from Shimo Island, so he dismounted, drank some potion, and stole across the drawbridge. Regulus then roared and charged at the orcs. With the orcs distracted, Philip dispatched both of them and pushed their bodies into the ravine. The team approached the gate. They found some buttons on the wall. Edward pushed random buttons, then pushed them all, which opened the gate. The team crept inside to the main castle door. Hector used the door opening WordRune, and the team was in.
Inside the castle, they explored from room to room. They found a bedroom with two troll-sized beds in it. They found some human equipment and weapons under one of the beds. Philip grabbed it and took it with him. Edward slashed the bedsheets of one of the beds.
The team continued exploring and encountered a patrol of orcs. They fought bravely, and Philip was hurt badly, receiving a critical hit of 20PV. Hector gave him several healing pills and Philip was restored to full health.
They continued exploring the castle, and found the dungeon. There were two prisoners. One was the Keledan Missionary, the other had been a prisoner for five years. They shared the Great Rescue with him, and he accepted. His name was Gumbald, and he wanted to join the LightRaiders. The gear that Philip was carrying belonged to him. The team broke the prisoners out of the prison. The team overheard trolls talking, so they hid, and went down a side passage. They explored a little bit more, and met more orcs. They fought these, and found a smelly room with a trap door. Hector reasoned the trap door might lead to dangerous orc caves, and thought it would be a bad idea to go down there, if they didn’t have to. The team decided to check if the front door was still open. They crept back, and found an orc exercise room, with four orcs inside. They closed the door quickly. Edward opened the door to let one into the hallway, then closed the door while Regulus and Philip killed the orc. They did this three more times until they had all been dealt with.
They successfully made it back to the front door, which was still open. They ran outside, just as they heard the orcs raising the alarm. Starflower and Hector fell behind, and the orcs were overtaking Hector. Philip dropped back, pulled Hector up onto his horse, and jumped off to fight orcs. Hector rode to Starflower, and pulled her up onto the horse with him. On horseback they managed to get away. As they crossed the muddy patch, the orcs gave up the chase.
On the way back down the mountain, they encountered more Gall Buzzards. Hector rode up next to one as Starflower whacked it with her quarter staff. Philip and Edward took care of the others. They gave the horse back to Philip at this point.
The team made it down the mountain without further incident, although they were wary of giants. Thankfully, no giants came. They made it back to the Hollow Tree.
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