Save or Die: Outcasts: Episode 29

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==Synopsis==
The party are on the run together in the forest next to the Devouring Marsh after they killed the Half-Orc captain in Jaedyn.
Ren goes off alone to scout out ahead but is captured by Voraci Scouts. The rest of the party are ambushed and slain.
==Recap==
===On the Run===
March 7, 1524 It is after dawn and the party are regrouped together in a ditch. After their actions in Jaedyn and killing the half-orc captain there, they are being hunted down. Jaedyn has sent messengers to all the nearby villages and towns. It feels like the whole of the Hornstead Kingdom is on alert for them.
The party decide to head to Autumn's Tower and lay low there. Ren leads the party into the forest and marsh, away from the road. During the day he notices tracks and signs. The party back away from that direction and decide to take a different path.
The party make slower progress and encounter trivial encounters over the next three days. During that time Grau heals up the party, and the eat only to sustain themselves. For shelter at night Grau casts 
===Renatus Ambushed===
March 11, 1524 In the morning the party are a short distance from Keygate, and try to make plans to cross the Devouring Marsh. Ren goes to scout around.
When Ren is alone he is spotted by a house-mounted orc scout. Nearby are other scouts. Ren tries to fast-talk the orcs but they charge at him with his spear. Ren avoids the attack and the Orc calls out to the others. Ren slides down an embankment. The nearby scout gives chase and throws a javelin at Ren, hitting him. Another scout tries to throw their javelin but accidently empties their quiver. The first scout gets off his horse and tackles Ren.
Ren defends himself with the shadow dagger as another orc dismounts. The third scout stays on horseback. Ren gets one orc down to 1 hp and they retreat. The other scouts stays with Ren. Ren stabs the other dismounted orc hard and they retreat. The last orc dismounts and attacks Ren, and knocks Ren unconscious.
===The party gets Ambushed===
March 14, 1524 The party wait for Ren, unaware he was captured. Eventually Auguste hears the sound of hunting dogs. The party can't flee into the Devouring Marsh as Stacy can't swim. The party stand and ready for combat.
Six guards, a knight, along with the tracker and the hunting dogs close in on the party. Arachis casts on himself. Grau casts on himself.
The dogs close in and attack Stacy, Auguste, and Grau. Arachis casts on the dogs. Grau's spell is interrupted by attacks. The party attack the non scared dogs. The knight attacks Arachis. The guards move in as the dogs move out. Grau tries to grapple the knight, but he avoids it. The guards close in and attack.
Arachis is knocked down. Grau transforms into a gnome. Stacy kills one of the guards before she is knocked out. Auguste pretends to surrender, but the knight sees though it, so the knight orders the guards to keep attacking. Auguste tries breaking his bag of holding to explode everyone but he misunderstands how that works and just destroys the bag with no other effect.
Grau casts on Arachis which stabilises him. Auguste grapples the knight. The guards attack Grau. The knight kicks Auguste off a nearby cliff, but he tumbles and doesn't take damage. The knight orders Grau to be taken prisoner. The guards knock Grau unconscious.
The guards think the fight is over, with Arachis and Auguste appearing unconscious. Arachis casts , but it only stops all but one guards. The knight kills Arachis.
The knight orders Grau killed.
The knight chases after Auguste and kills him.
===Breaking Ren===
Renatus awakes in a room with a Cleric of Astair who has healed him. Ren is tied up and there is a orc in the room as well.
The half-orc named Drof begins to interrogate Ren.
The questioning begins with asking who got him to steal the Miracle Mule in Episode 14. Ren evades the question and says he will only talk if his friends are dead. Otherwise he will protect them. Drof believes Ren, and will see what happened to his party.
Ren is left behind with the depressed Astair cleric. The cleric knows he is a collaborator and is drinking. Ren tries standing up, and the cleric calls out for the guards. The guards come in and force Ren down.
That night Drof returns, he says his friends are dead. Ren is in disbelief. Drof shows all the corpses to Ren. Ren lies there and cries. All of Ren's hopes and dreams have died.
Ren is a broken man.
==Experience==
None given.
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