26/10/2021 - Brutal brute bashing and intense interrogations

## The fight continues…

The battle continues… we fight many many battalions of Echsian-looking soldiers, generals and brutes, plus Cirrah (boo), helped by the sudden and inexplicable appearance of Rocky and some friends from Khaldaria.

As Cirrah retreats due to Rocky’s fear spell, Galdor takes aim with his air-rune enhanced bow, and from over 150 ft away ends her life with a critical hit to the back. He then takes out two archers with a single arrow Legolas style with another critical hit arrow!

Cirrah’s body guard general then orders his infantry to retreat, but the brutes to continue the attack.

Narrow bones uses a wall of fire to burn many soldiers and brutes.

Belgear communes with her patron and persuades them to give her powers back (at least for now, given the severity of the situation). She continues to scout the other side of the Tribunal, seeing a large company of lizardfolk fighting another group of Echsian soldiers, similar to those we are fighting.

Ves and Elyan pick off several soldiers, whilst Lysandre kills several brutes with another fireball.

Narko then charges in and takes out three of the (already heavily fire damaged) brutes in quick succession. Galdor then takes out another brute with his sick archery skillz. Bayul then mercilessly takes out another.

Elyan then handily uses his sneaky magics to make one of the Echsian knights kill one of their own soldiers, whilst Lysandre, Galdor and Ves pick of more soldiers. Narko then runs back to the group and knocks one of the soldiers unconscious, before telling another to run. Narrow bones fires a lightening bolt into the sky and yells at the remaining soldiers to leave.

The remaining solders retreat, as various group members try to knock them unconscious (apart from Belgear, who arriving from the other side didn’t get the memo, and annihilated several with eldritch magic). Ves then kills a knight by burning her alive in her armour, and Elyan makes ingenious use of a levitate spell to crush another’s spine.

Lysandre then does an insane chaos bolt to do much damage, which allows Narko to knock three more unconscious with little effort.

With the battle on our side finished, we soon hear a victory cry from the other side of the Tribunal – it appears the lizardfolk of the Tribunal won the battle on the other side as well.

## Intense interrogations

Narko goes to give Rocky a bear-hug, which is reciprocated. Rocky says that “the big guy” (narrow bones) had said we were in trouble, so they teleported in.

Bayul explains to Rocky what is going on.

Narrow Bones then approaches Ves, kneels down in front of her, and explained that he had been keeping tabs on her and Narko, so Rocky would know we were ok.

We then drag all the unconscious soldiers into a group, remove their armour/weapons and lock them into a room within the tribunal. Bayul also goes to fetch Cirrah’s body.

The fire remains an issue, so Elyan turns into a Mammoth and uses his trunk and a nearby pond to put out the fires.

We decide to interrogate the prisoners to see what the heck is going on, whilst Bayul goes to look over Cirrah’s body. Found that Cirrah had a hidden pin with the sunburst and jawless skull of Cyric.

Narko wakes a prisoner up, lifts him buy the neck into the wall, and tells him that if he doesn’t answer his friends questions, he’ll be sorry.

Narko and Elyan then question him… he says there were 300 – 400 of them. He didn’t know why they attacked here, he just follows orders. They weren’t expecting us to be here. Weren’t expecting this much resistance. Cirrah seemed to be leading them, again, he just followed orders. Narko’s harsh words reduce the soldier to tears. Bayul comes back and asks if Elyan is crying again. Elyan triple casts the wand of smiles on Bayul in retribution but he resists. So Elyan uses suggestion to force Bayul to smile.

Narko asks how much of the total army was here. He doesn’t answer as he is crying too much. Lysandre and Elyan try to use dominate person / suggestion, but he resists.

Elyan casts it again and this time he fails, and is suggested to answer all of our questions honestly.

Is this all of your army? A few hundred on the mountain, were meant to take it quickly and then the attack on the fortress starts.

How big is the rest of the army? About 4\* more soldiers back at their base.

Was the other part of the army waiting for them to return? Yes, once they’d taken the Tribunal. They were to meet the rest of the army, have a rest day, and then attack Tupelo’s people.

Who is the overarching commander of the army? One of the Lords of the Council – Lord Defender he thinks.

Where could we find this Lord Commander? In Mischanchian usually, but maybe they’re with the Army now.

Have you ever seen the purple sunburst + skull symbol? No, he doesn’t think so.

What do you think of the brutes? They’re effective, do the fighting of 10 men.

But do you know where they come from? Not really. But some of his friends who were showing discontent, they were dragged away, the cat-woman (Cirrah) appeared, they heard screams, and then his friends disappeared.

## Resting and waiting

We discuss what to do next. Decide to wait a few hours for the commune to finish. Then see what happens. In the meantime, Elyan messages Tupelo. Says that Cirrah was a traitor, came to the mountain, and is now dead. Get’s a reply saying that this saddens him, but he had his suspicions. His scouts have reported nothing yet, see you again someday.

Then we discuss whether to message Christo, or to wait for the commune to finish before deciding what to do next. Decide to short rest and wait. We heal up, and do some body looting. Most of us get a small amount of GP and some minor healing potions. We also introduce Rocky to Lysandre, Belgear and Galdor. Rocky thinks Galdor is super creepy and that Belgaer is a stone cold killer. He also loves Lysander’s hat. Narko starts sketching something. Eddin and Narko chat about what’s happened to Khaldaria in the last few months. They have built new roads, and taken over the pirate fortress. The pirates haven’t returned and the dragon is still stuck. Also ask Narrow bones about his teleport abilities, he agrees to wait and see if he is needed.

We return to the communing chamber. The door is open, suggesting the commune is finished. They have left, but we find them in the Grand master’s office.

They finished asking what we asked, though the fight was unexpected, and they need a few minutes to recover before they can tell us what they discovered…