4/21 session recap and awards

After stripping the bodies of the dead orcs, the party was confronted by the sand elemental. It pulled itself from the ground towards Rockaneeshoo, who flew into the air quickly to escape it's stony grasp. It grumbled in terran, "I would speak to him who freed me." Rockaneeshoo landed and the elemental offered it's thanks. Enli attempted to turn the creature, but it made it's save, and Rockaneeshoo simply declined any further favors from the elemental and sent it home.

Enli and Urgmob disguised themselves as orcs and went with Davinov to infiltrate the city and gain information about the Habergeon of Conquering Might. They paid 5 gold pieces each to get into the city, and Enli's fake name (Scrog Stonefist) was laughed at by the toll collector. Once inside, they sought a drinking establishment. They paid 2 copper each for a leather mug of beer with a relatively high urine content. Enli then started up a conversation with some orcs in the bar, which ended up with him unintentionally insulting someone's clan. After being punched in the nose, Enli and crew left to the jeering of the crowd.

They discovered that if you were clanless in the town, the only place for you was as a grunt in the army. They went to the barracks and signed up. They had to pay 100 gold for their standard issue armor and shield (and would have had to pay more for a weapon, if they hadn't had theirs) and were told that the cost would be taken automatically from their wages of 5 silver a week. In return they'd be given a place to sleep and something to eat each day. Not to mention they'd get to fight for the glory of Lumat, the god of War. They had to pay 5 copper for a scribe to write down their names, and Enli was laughed at again. In the barracks they overheard that the devils from the past war were the reason this city was so prosperous.

Eventually they were assigned to a platoon of newbies, and sent on a daytime (anathema to orcs) patrol into the desert. After being informed of this, the rest of the party arranged to intercept them and send summoned creatures after the patrol. Two djinnis were summoned, and they killed two orcs before being dispatched. A roc was summoned to pick up a single orc and drop him back with the rest of the party. Two orcs died during the hot march in the sun, but Urgmob picked up their rations and water on the way.

Rhin paralyzed the captured orc, and Inky had a feast of one of his eyeballs. They healed it up, just to stop the bleeding, and then interrogated him. They found out most of what the infiltrators had already discovered, and so Rockaneeshoo summoned his mansion again, and let the orc have a good time with the servants.

When the three infiltrators returned to town, they were put together with other survivors to form a real platoon, complete with two spellcasters. They found out that the orc leaders lived in one section of town, and Urgmob scouted that section briefly while invisible. they also heard rumors that some of the high-powered platoons had left the city to head north, and that whatever was up there must have been an attractive prospect and/or sanctioned by the city leadership.

When the infiltrators went on their next patrol, Hrir was standing in their way out in the desert, and a combat ensued. Hrir took some spell damage early on, and then the party destroyed the newbie orc platoon quickly.

For two adventures of good roleplaying and a little bit of combat, each player gets 1,500 xp.