*Raining Half Blood II...*
Ivric, Verget the 7th, 838 ID
Furious at the loss of their friend Mudgol, the PCs press on hopelessly against the turning tide of the battle...while being peppered by the newfound air superiority of the Score. Baro begins to target the Red Wizard Melek-Tha exclusively while being harried by his imp familiar and various other trolls and sundry who realize the threat he presents with his evocation. Ox and Gruulsh contend with the remaining bugbear and goblin troops not caught up in the reverse gravity, while Gremek the priest begins to cast hindrances upon them, for instance blinding Ox. Realizing that they will need further support or repositioning, Lord Ballyhoo deftly dimension doors the bugbear and half-orc to relatively safety on the rooftop where Badger had fallen, and they begin to revive the archer, needing his help against the flying opposition...despite a color spray being splashed upon them by the invisible illusionist Parodee, they heal Badger and quickly dispense with a troll that climbed the rubble to stop them!
Meanwhile Baro is in a full court press, being harried and damaged by a Blooded Lash troll but still managing to take down the Red Wizard at last! Gremek, realizing the danger, uses several dispel magics to release Warlord Ultroon and a handful of other fighters from the reverse gravity. The bugbear chieftain raises in challenge, storming off into the ruined Horrn to deal with the surviving PCs...Gruulsh, Ox and Ballyhoo transport to face off with him so he can't get to Baro, who has his own problems, and there is a last confrontation where the Warlord manages to deal the blind Ox a fatal blow...sending yet ANOTHER half-orc to his early grave (well, some would argue Mudgol's was a 'late grave'). Gremek throws some last minute hexes and curses upon the PCs, including a nasty one at the bugbear Gruulsh, before he is and the Warlord are taken down by a hail of magic, arrows, and sling stones. But not before the cleric promised that Klasp will replace the lost Score and the Empire will never be safe for their 'fatal negligence' (presumably their giving up on the slaves of Sothos Karr which formed the organization).
The troll captain Blukk is then defeated by Baro's magic before the rest of the reverse gravity fails, and most of the other humanoids in the field perish after falling (a few goblins and trolls have escaped southward to the Hud Horrn), and then the long process of mourning and wealth accumulation begins anew...Baro uses a few teleports the following morning to bring the survivors back to Floivin Keep. Some...well, not many are dismayed at the loss of Mudgol, but few seemed to even have known of Ox, the brother of Badger, from distant Nobbish. Our heroes begin to appraise their takings from the Score before planning the next operation...
PCs: Badger, Ballyhoo, Baro, Gruulsh, Ox, Wendel (attended but not introduced yet)
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