14th session: New brothers...

7th moon, 18th day, year 4553

After three days of celebrating the defeat of House Tuin, High Priest Venar of House T'orgh summons all nobles to the immense temple of Asmodeus in the T'orgh Palace. There he praises the Lord of Light for giving them this victory, and introduces 4 new members of House Torgh, adopted sons of House Tuin, as custom dictactes. The four new sons are Cardazz, a high priest, Roxaz, a priest, Tawri, a young priest/wizard (BC) and Bilos, a necromancer of indeterminable age.

 

As the others leave, Nalfein and Tagar stay behind and are instructed to take care of Tawri and Bilos, who are to replace the two brothers they recently lost.

 

With that done, the new T'orgh "strike-team" are instructed to head north, to Castle Verax, an old abandoned castle near the Darkswamp. They are to clear it of any monsters and bandits, then return to Menzo.

 

7th moon, 20th day, year 4553

After traveling for the better part of the day, the T'orghs are awaken during sleep, when a swarm of stirges attack them. A Web spell from Tawri and a Stinking Cloud from Bilos later, the stirges are all but dead and the brothers can return to sleep.

 

7th moon, 23rd day, year 4553

During the night, Nalfein suddenly hears a loud crash nearby. With everybody soon awake, the brothers go investigate, and find a 300 feet long golden dragon, sound asleep in the forest. Nalfein identifies the dragon as Mararexvutar, the greatest gold dragon alive on Era. He usually lives further south, flying around over the Great Plains of Nala, but apparently, he is not there at the moment. The brothers prudently decide to leave Mararexvutar alone and move their camp some miles away.

 

The next morning, Nalfein summons a bird and sends message to Father.

 

7th moon, 24th day, year 4553

During Nalfeins watch, the brothers are surrounded by 8 ogres, led by an ogre named Gorax. Not the least intimidated by the fact that they are dark elves, the ogres demand that the brothers surrender and hand over their weapons. A short but bloody fight later, the ogres are dead, and the T'orgs a little gold richer.

 

7th moon, 28th day, year 4553

The brothers arrive at Castle Verax, a large castle-fort, with 4 towers, a tall wall, a big port and a central building. Tawri goes scouting, and tells of one human and one ogre roasting a wild boar outside one of the towers.

 

The T'orghs wait for nightfall, then sneak up to the castle and Tawri drags the others over the edge so that they can levitate down on their enemies. Battle starts, and while Bilos' Stinking Cloud takes out several foes for a while, the remaining ones are joined by a mage and some more mercenaries. The battle goes back and forth, and just as Bilos and his trusted side-kick "Jeffrey" goes down to a hasted mercenary, the other mage is killed by Nalfein. The two more ogres join the fight, but now the brothers are somewhat in control and Tagar and Nalfein quickly dispense of them.

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