Session Report #1: THE UNHANDING OF OLAGOXIA

 

AUGUST 11 1425 ANNO DOMINI

 

ALACK! Beat thy breasts and tear thine hair, for the COMPANY OF HEROES has suffered TERRIBLE LOSSES!

Our adventure began well enough, as the former mercenaries GUILLAUME LE GRAND and ANGUS THE ANALYTIC were hired to protect the party's back rank.

Anguish for ANGUS!

Further, the Heroes learned more of the ROUGH MEN who they had previously faced, being the ALMSMEN, a company of VOLAND'S VENATORS who had been separated from the main force during a clash with the HOBGOBLYN FIFTH OCCUPATIONAL ARMY in the STONECROWS and had turned to banditry. Operating along the ELFROAD between OLDE TOWYN and MUR under the command of ZORREL and SONYA GNAST, former pirates said to have escaped the DOOM THAT CAME TO KORALGESH.

Scouting the ILLUSIVE WOOD and determining it to disguise a rude encampment—currently unoccupied—the troupe descended into HELL'S ANTECHAMBER in hopes of exploring further to the southwest.

Unfortunately, the expedition had but barely begun when MAGIC and GARGANTUA were unleashed upon a TRIO OF TERRIBLE TOADS that were passing by—and which quickly fled from the party's superior might!

Alas, in pursuit of said Toads our overeager gallants attracted the attention of a band more terrible still as a quartet of CANNIBAL CHAOS KILLERS emerged from the GATEWAY TO ADVENTURE, flanking the party's irregular rear guard.

And so it was that DOOM came onto our Heroes like a scythe cutting down wheat!

 

DAMN THEE, BLACKHEARTS!

First was faithful TRAYVON, whose many years experience served him little as his head was split as a ripe melon. Soon after was GUILLAUME, plucked still fresh from the vine.

Finally, and perhaps most awfully, OLAGOXIA would be swiftly DISARMED by a well-placed scythe, her right hand severed cleanly off to land bloodily onto the floor of the DEATHTRAP DUNGEON!

The BERSERKERS were fast dispatched thereafter, the rage of Olagoxia's hounds spurring them on to BLOODY VENGEANCE!

But the day had already been lost, and those brave SCIONS OF LAW fled back to OLDE TOWYN, two BRAVE MEN lost and their witch-aspirant facing weeks of bedrest before being able to return to the adventuring life (as OLAGOXIA THE ONE-HANDED). 

                  

         POUR ONE OUT FOR GUILLAUME

REST EASY, OLD HAND

HAVE MERCY ON THEIR SOULS, LORD OF LIGHT, for today Trayvon and Guillaume come home to thee!