Book 2, Chapter 3, Verse 10 - So Now Everyone Can Fly

Mona & the Disaster Boys launch an aerial assault on the arctic village in search of Bodil. Will they find her within?

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We join our heroes as they are within a days travel of the mountain in the aftermath of a great fight. Sabux asks Gorfang about how to best travel in the mountains and finds out about Kioskberg?Quaksberg? where Orcs have tried to build cities. He says that Bodil fled there often. They decide to head in that direction seeing as they've told Fogsmoore they would meet him around there in 3 weeks. They set off in a snaking motion to not draw the attention of another Frozen Flame. They spot a thick girthy column of black smoke in the distance South East and head towards it.

Drawing closer to the mountains the ground begins to change and cresting a hill they spot a small town with Lionshead Insignia of Vez Soldiers milling around and it looks like it was recently on fire. They pause to have a chat and check it out. The gate has been blasted open and they look like they're fortifying to defend it. They start making a plan to take the city. They consider their situation having a whole load of Orcs that aren't in a great way with them. Ani is confronted by the fact that Subsist doesn't do a whole lot when there isn't anything to eat around. "Why would I take that feat?" (JULZ: only you can answer that question James. haha. It also does specify from the elements and DM has control over the DC so I guess it was too high for you to even attempt).

Mona asks a weal or woe to see "If attacking these soldiers would be beneficial to finding Bodil and the baby?" and gets WEAL. So they are committed. They're analysing the gate and how it hasn't really been built back up yet. Mona pitches that they climb the back fence which we establish is 15ft and Sabux just scratches Ani and Mona's back in response. Ani feels the pain from Sabux fingers and hears the skin on his back melting as these firey wings emerge and start flapping. He freaks out and calls out to Mona who is running her fingers on her black cosy furry looking wings. Razormaw has big dark grey bat wings grow and Mona hands him a crossbow and some bolts. Ani is hugging Sabux who has dug his feet in the ground and grows 21 inch yeti sized claws as he cast Air Walk. That is some serious spells that Sabux just threw around especially as it's the same day as the Frozen Flame fight. So this could get interesting.

Ani starts off swooping around to the back and flies with stealth "like a silent night bird" through the buildings, listening to the sounds of soldiers nearby and getting into position. Sabi walks in the air and casts shield by bringing up a iceberg to hover in front of him, causing some commotion as people spot him. Mona flies in about 35ft above the ground, scythe in hand landing in the midst of the chaos wearing the Daughter of Hate mask screaming out a battle cry. She scares the crap out of this young scruffy blond fella who screams about how the devil has arrived and begs for the one true god to save him. Razormaw perches up high for a good vantage point to attack with his crossbow and checks with Ani, who air fistbumps him to say ok.

Ani sneaks around to see a 3 storey wooden building which looks pretty fancy, there are soldiers at both entrances guarding and it's clear this building is important. He gestures at Razormaw to get him to understand the plan of attack here. It's back to the soldiers 4 of them fire at Sabi in fear and a bunch of them turn to start hacking at Mona who landed in the middle of them. Sabi asks about the formation and we find out about Mona's donut hole as she asks us to fill her holes (Julz: ......... nope. I'm not gonna say it.) Sabi shakes the ground closer to the gate as the sound of saws fills the air, spinning saws rise up and grow 120ft long, 2inch think and 20ft high. It's a wall of blades that catches some of the soldiers in the spinning. "They get torn to shreds, well they start to scream but their screams are quickly gurgles of blood as their insides erupt with blades." Mona gets covered in gore as this happens, she laughs and swings at the people around her being careful not to step backwards. Razormaw shoots at the front door that Ani has gestured at and hits a guard but doesn't drop him.

Ani rolls a 1 and Joey eats a tasty HP and then does it again and Joey eats someone else's tasty HP before he finally nails the flight to fly up to 2nd level and open the higher window to make it inside an office. Meanwhile the soldiers are attacking Mona and make contact. The guards at the front door don't spot Razormaw. Sabi moves up still air walking and rips open his chest and thousands of firey moths come pouring out and form a sphere to drop right in front of Mona on the soldiers. The scream for a millisecond before they drown on their own melted flesh. Mona walks to the courthouse like the scary lady she is. Razormaw fires again finishing off the soldier he hit and then fires again at another doing a Oh No 1 amount of damage.

Ani listens hard and can hear some hushed tones and some shuffling above him. He walks to the door after a glance at the desk and opens it to get a look and heads to the right to head upstairs. He thinks he's nailing being the stealthiest ever (but it doesn't seem good based on the rolls). Soliders start shooting the approaching Mona but bolts twang off her. Sabi is air walking towards the others. Mona is approaching to kill, she swings at one of the blond dudes killing him dead. Razormaw fires from on high and gets one hit out of 3.

Ani checks for traps and doesn't find any traps but does find an arcane alarm on this door. It freaks him out enough to head away and back downstairs and surprises the guard that is waiting down there. Two guards outside swing at Mona but only hit once and there's two more who move into flanking to swing and hit a few times. The guard inside tries to hit Ani. Fighting is going on everywhere!!! Sabi coughs up a cannonball of flame that drops from on high. 2 crit fails who drop dead and Mona takes a hit but when the smoke clears everyone around Mona is dead. Sabi can see faces in the window peeking out watching them and heads over to investigate. Seeing people begging to get out. Razormaw comes down and Mona kicks open the front door to see a staircase across the room wheree she can hear fighting going on. She runs over to see Ani and a guard battling.

Ani gets a hit in as he sees Mona at the bottom at the stairs. He lunges at the guard to try and topple him down the stairs but it fails twice because he's too big to push. He swings back at Ani but he's too low and he's swinging over his head. Sabi tells the faces to stand back and cast sound burst and November Rain bursts out to shatter the window in the attic. He peers in to see dozens of humans and orcs crammed in there and they say they've been here for days and want to get out. Mona tromps up the stairs and crit hits this guard with a strike to the kidneys, scooping out the organs to hit on the floor and he falls dead in a pile. Ani and Mona hear the smash and run upstairs to examine the door. They find out that the alarm would only go off in the town so they're less worried and Mona kicks the door down. They now see Sabux floating and the trapped people. Ani goes to make sure they're ok and Mona tells Razormaw to get the rest of the people and takes them down to the courtyard. Mona scans the crowd looking for a likely person but decides to ask a grey haired fella if they've seen a pregnant orc. They find out that there was one that killed many of the soldiers with her small band before they fled the town when the townsfolk got captured.

Right then there is a giant explosion as this towering huge figure burst out through one of the buildings nearby and we're left hanging on that dramatic note. Who is this and will our heroes survive another attack so soon?