The party packed up their things (after yet another Hero's Feast) and headed north as clouds, hoping to pick up the trail of some more orcs. After several hours of flight, they came upon the trail of yet another platoon. Realizing that they hadn't gathered much intelligence about *where* the orcs were heading up north, the party decided on another parley attempt. They grounded and started following the orcs until they got within about a half mile. Eventually the orcs noticed, and sent two warriors back to check out the party.
Seeing only a rag-tag group consisting of a mute orc, a half-dwarf, a half-orc, and a talkative goblin, they opted for their standard bullying conversational tactics. Siala was invisible and detecting thoughts on the orc spokesperson while Enli spoke for the party. The orcs asked what the party was doing, and Enli said they were following them, that they were lost. The orc laughed and said to stop following them. Enli said they were out of food and water, could the orcs help them. The orcs said it wasn't their problem. When Enli accepted defeat so easily, they pushed their advantage, and declared that they'd take Enli as a slave. With the entire party in agreement, Enli said sure he'd go with them. Siala detected that the orcs might want to simply eat the goblin, since they hadn't had fresh food in a while. The orcs gestured, and a sand elemental picked up Enli and carried him back to the main body of orcs.
The leader of the orcs seemed somewhat impatient at the turn of events, and attempted to cast a spell on Enli. Enli shrugged it off, wriggled free of the elemental's grip (using Freedom of Movement), and then realized what shit he was in. Enli bolted for it, but was hit from behind by a Flesh to Stone spell. As the rest of the party watched in horror mixed with glee, the leader commanded the sand elemental to bury Enli's statue.
The party decided they had to attack after this affront. After some preparation and random running around, the entire group was teleported by Rockaneeshoo into the middle of the orcs. Rockaneeshoo summoned an earth elemental to "find Enli". Spells were cast, and weapons were swung. Urgmob and Rockaneeshoo nearly took out the enemy spellcaster with a combination of arrows and magic missiles, but before they could finish him off, he teleported away. Afraid that the spellcaster's rod was the only way to get Enli back, Rockaneeshoo made a Wish. He wished he was behind the spellcaster that just teleported away. [-5000 xp]
Meanwhile, the rest of the party mopped up the orcs. One was taken prisoner in the Bands of Bilarro. One of the enemy clerics put up a good fight, summoning a Blade Barrier and Wind Wall to protect himself from Siala's onslaught of sneak attacks. In the end he succumbed to Rhin's death magic.
Rockaneeshoo found himself behind the spellcaster, and immediately killed him with a quickened set of Magic Missiles. The orc's blood sprayed all over the other orc he was speaking to, and before his body could hit the floor, Rockaneeshoo had bent down to pick up the rod of Sand Elemental Control. Unfortunately, the armored troll in the room was alert to the disruption, and attacked immediately. Rockaneeshoo was clawed three times, rent nearly in twain, and then grappled and impaled upon the armor spikes of the troll. Just as the troll was about to bite his head off, Rockaneeshoo uttered the words to the Teleport spell, and escaped back to Inky.
The earth elemental came up to Rockaneeshoo and said, "found him". Rockaneeshoo them made his way into the middle of the battle site and used the rod of control to summon the sand elemental. He commanded it to bring him the statue of Enli. 30 seconds later, Enli was deposited upon the sand in front of the party. Rhin broke the enchantment, and Enli shot forward, still running. Once he realized that the battle was over, he rejoined the group to loot and interrogate.
xp awards - to be continued...
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