Chapter 17 - Delve Deux into the Orcless Orc Stronghold

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Chapter 17 - Delve Deux into the Orcless Orc Stronghold

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At first light Yenny, Hyde, Angus, Dandelion, Galan, and Kablamicus rise. They head back towards the orc stronghold, steam rising from their nose and mouth as their breath condenses in the cold morning air. Figgis has not yet joined them.

Tamerlaine, please let me know if he's in...

There are no cheers of bravado from the guards outside the stronghold now...just some somber nods of encouragement. And again, they stand before the door.

Date: 29 Culling, Year 44
Time: 6:00
Conditions: 38F, clear, calm
Known Spells in Effect: none
Light bearers: rising sun

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"Reckon there ain't any use in standing out here," says Angus. "Y'all want to go back where we were, or try one of the other doors in the stalacthing room?"

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”Seems like the way we went wouldn’t have orcs, and might have more of whatever those things were. Maybe we should try a different door.”

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Kablambicus

Has an idea. "you know, the copper pile may mean little to us for the weight, but assume we escorted those steet urchins down so they could collect it and be on their way? Might be enough they could eat well a couple nights and lend us some good favor... not to mention some eyes and ears about town..."

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I still say that be a trap, Hyde snaps, Ain't no one gonna leave coin piled about, no, not even coppa. Ain't gonna let them kids get hurt down there. If we wanna poke at it with a long stick, we be seein' what kinda trap it be.



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OK, so the plan is to go back to the stalactite room (no decision yet on which door to take next). Will Galan and Figgis still scout ahead? And Yenny follow with her light bracelet?

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Let's use the torch-tossing and table-hiding plan again. Guess it would have made sense to get more torches, huh?

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I missed the table-hiding discussion. Are carrying a table to walk under?

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Hyde still has 8 torches.

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With steely determination, our heroes return to the evil that lurks below Strod. There is some discussion of donating the copper to the street urchins, but Hyde warns that it's a trap.

Figgis and Galan scout slightly ahead, making the first turn. Yenny's light shines behind.

The pile of copper is still there, but this time with no covering! Instead, a cone of fibrous, living material protrudes from the pile. It is brightly colored with reds and yellows, and the realization that it is a mushroom dawns just as it emits an ear-piercing shriek. The shrill scream echoes throughout the hall! Then, elsewhere, answering shrieks are barely audible, coming from elsewhere in the underground stronghold.

Map unchanged - shrieking mushroom coming from the map where copper pile is marked:

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Date: 29 Culling, Year 44
Time: 6:10
Conditions: 38F, clear, calm
Known Spells in Effect: none
Light bearers: Yenny's bracelet.

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"Oh, fer the love of—" starts Angus, so enraged that he can't even come up with a good stream of curses. He hacks at the mushrooms with his sword, trying to quiet them.

Leddilir (THAC0 17): [1d20] = 18 [1d8+2] = 3+2 = 5/[1d12+2] = 3+2 = 5 (SM/L), Crit: [1d100] = 30

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"I could silence it, but the others have already taken up the alarm. Not sure if silencing this one would -- will you shut it, I'm trying to talk here! -- cause the orcs or whomever to go elsewhere in search of intruders.". Yenny attempts to bash the shrieking mushroom with her flail--assuming there is adequate room.

Initiative [1d6] = 1, flail [1d20] = 2, damage [1d6+1] = 4+1 = 5, crit [1d100] = 17

She reacts quickly but wildly. It's difficult to flail while holding a conversation...

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Kablamicus

Raises his eyebrows curiously as the fungus screams. He eyes it carefully, studying it as the others strike out, searching his fast and impressive memory for any recollection of such a thing in his studies.

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Content with the attacks already besieging the fungus, Hyde focuses his dark eyes, and his bow, on the exit, toward the vicinity where the second siren sounded. No one is sneaking up on his good pals!

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The party quickly shreds the shrieking fungus. Similar muffled shrieks soon die out from the depths of the stronghold. This was very likely an alarm, and the residents know they have visitors. But that can't be helped now.

The damaged table still sits outside the stalactite room where the party left it three days ago. They hear nothing from the spike room within.

Kablamicus studies the shredded fungus carefully and confidently concludes it's a man that's been changed into a mushroom. The stem of the mushroom acts as a bellow that forces air through small apertures in the mushroom's cap. Most intruiging.

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Date: 29 Culling, Year 44
Time: 6:11
Conditions: 38F, clear, calm
Known Spells in Effect: none
Light bearers: Yenny's bracelet.

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Dandelion feels positively embarrassed by her inability to slice mushrooms. Maybe that was Chet's way of telling her to use his magical trident instead. She secures hers to her back, and starts playing with the new toy. In discussions with the others, she remembers the commands.
She holds it out and says, "Longfork"
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We be disadvantaged now, Hyde states the obvious, his eyes still drilling into the darkness beyond the next portal, Eitha they be comin' for us or waitin' for us, yeahh.

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