Game Log 2020-06-11

The Tribe awoke, triumphantly after their victory at the Dam, ready to take the next step to free the Anakatholi from the Orcish threat.  As the Tribe dove into breakfast, Edhror and Hadriel were eating with the group, and the Tribe began asking some questions about Haster’s cave, the likely next target.

Edhror explaining that his scouting crews had seen some of the hellspawn leave and arrive at the cave, but no one had dared to enter the cave itself and they did not know what was inside the cave, nor what was going on inside, except that normal animals entered the cave at night, and bastardized nightmare creatures would leave the cave later for the Orc army.  Edhror and Hadriel further explained that the Anakatholi would normally have no problems with the Orcs they were facing here, but that the Orcs had two main advantages over normal Orcs that were making it hard for the goliaths.  The first was the power that she who binds the earth has brought to the Orcs, and the second is the hoards of horrible creations that Haster is bringing to bear on the Anakatholi.

The tribe continued questioning Edhror, with Vimak refusing to talk directly to Edhror, instead pushing his questions through Hadriel.  Asking if anyone had seen Abet travel into the cave, or anyone else.  Edhror assured the Tribe that no one has been seen to enter the cave except for Nightmares and some devilish beings, no one and nothing else has entered as far as his scouts have seen.  The devils have been seen to patrol in and out of the cave many times, with the animal crew leaving around sunset, returning around midnight with their nightly catch.

As the Tribe packed up to follow Edhror out to watch the cave, Arkenite asked the Anakatholi if they had any supplies we could use for our assault, and the Goliaths provided him with 5 Anakatholi healing bags that do 1d4+1 healing.  Vaulk further inquired if the Anakatholi might have some explosives we could use for the Cave assault, and Hadriel sadly replied that the goliaths did not have anything of the sort.

The Tribe began the hours long walk out to the Cave overlook, talking about their plans along the way.  Eversh had a great idea to disguise the Tribe inside a huge polar bear, with Me transforming into a huge polar bear herself, with Entropy trying to deceive the way in, offering a trade to Haster of these two huge polar bears.  Vimak launched an impassioned foot-based argument against the Polar bear approach, with the Tribe having a long discussion about how best to hide the talking feet beneath the polar bear.  In lieu of being able to have a cart for the Tribe to ride in, Evert illusioned some rugs and furs over the sides of the polar bear to hide everyone’s feet.

It was coming up on sunset now and the Tribe noticed a pair of dead silent Nightmare, black horses with fire hooves, red eyes and fiery manes launch out of the cave pulling a cart.  The cart had two devilish creatures on it, and the horses and cart quickly phased out and back into being, flying across the grass.  Quick as the blink of an eye, a second and third cart launched forward, and the nightly hunt was afoot.

The Tribe remained silent, hiding, and waited an hour before they began the deceptive assault upon the cave network.  After the hour wait, they slowly approached and entered the cave system.  The cave was eerily quiet, and the tribe continued down into the caves until, coming through a doorway, 2 nightmares and 4 or 5 of the devils were seen across a bridge.  Entropy quickly tried to jump in stating he was there, disguised as Abet to trade some animals to Haster, and one of the devils replied in Infernal that they could see through the illusion.

With that, the sessions ended!