The Long, Lonely Road

[etherial]

The Journal of Jik'escala, T'Skrang Swordswoman Extraordinaire

1 Strassa, 1425 T.H.
The Throalic Military has put together reports of missing travelers on the road North out of the kingdom. Despite having dealt with Sgt. Corey in the past, I have agreed to make the surface safe for all Namegivers, and so I agreed. August and I met with Fredi and an Elven Beastmaster Named Jael. Jael had some sort of mutant wolf in his employ but he ensured us that Zoomy's Metallic attunement was not the result of manipulation by the Horrors.

3 Strassa
We've spent several days looking like babes in the woods. I, with my sword stowed and my trusty tail blade buried deep in my gear, and the Troajin looking more like beasts of burden than trained war mounts.

A troupe of barely cogent Ogres attacked us and were quickly dispatched. They bore no evidence of being the culprits or any other signs of civilization, but were the first clue we've encountered, so we had Zoomy follow their trail back to their lair.

3 Strassa (continued)
Outside the Ogre's lair, we debated how to proceed when three ran out with a war rhinoceros. Jael was able to scare the rhino into retreating back into its lair and two Ogres followed it, the last fell to our blades.

Chasing them within, we found piles of carefully arranged and ravenously gnawed bones. As we advanced on the remaining Ogres, some giant thing like a T'Skrang version of an ogre came out and knocked August out in a single blow. I was mostly weakened by the day's exertions, so I put myself in a defensive posture and occupied the two Ogres while Jael and his pets attacked the T'Skroger. Fredi, of course, bounced back and forth on Su, and eventually our foes fell or fled.

Beyond the piles of bones, we found 15 casks full of blood, in varying states of decay. We had no Wizard with us, but surely this place is corrupted and a horror is at large.


PCs:
August Rey, male Cavalrydwarf
Fredi Dram, female Dwarf Cavalyrwoman
Jaen'val'Jael 'Jael' Savre, male Elf Beastmaster
Jik'escala, female T'Skrang Swordmaster

NPCs:
Sergeant Brandel Corey, Dwarf Supremacist
Hedbut, a goat
Nightstalker, a Troajin
Su, a Troajin
Zoomy, a mutant