Week 15

Recap:
Beastman Lord with Obsidian Shackles: Humanoid Monsters are Gold

Heroes:
Trenloe the Strong
One Fist
Mad Carthos
Grey Kerr


Tamalir:
We left our erstwhile villains in Tamalir where they are trying in vain to break the siege of my First Lieutenant Sir Alric. He trounced them completely last time, but they came back and chased off his little sister back to my keep.

Vynelvale finally falls to the might of Merrick Farrow and he moves out to Riverwatch. Eliza moves to Vynelvale, Kratz continues to lay waste to Dawnsmoor and Alric is on the verge (again!) of overcoming Tamalir’s defenses.

The Party Visits Tamalir and they pick up an Enchanted Breastplate, some potions, upgrade the market and head outside the city walls to encounter Alric in the Secure Clearing

Trenloe and Ker set up together and Mad and One Fist are also paired up. The heroes strategically move into the trees and set orders. Alric slowly moves into position and calls upon a Beastman War Party to assist him in short order. He sends a Hellhound and a Razorwing in to test the heroes’ mettle but they don’t accomplish much at all. The heroes appear to be content to allow Alric and his minions to come to them. Alric finds this amusing and continues to strengthen his tactical position. He has the master beastmen move up where he can take better advantage of their Command abilities and biding his time and calls up to more beastmen to guard one of the escape routes. The heroes continue to move cautiously, remaining in the trees after attacking and have manage to take out all original monsters although they do managed to take a sizable chunk of his own hide in the process.

Alric moves in and attacks One Fist in a Rage knocking him senseless and removing him from the battle and heads back into the cover of the trees. Alric is now supported by 2 master beastmen and 6 regulars.

Using threat wisely, all but one of the beastmen go after Trenloe hiding in the trees. Trenloe has 4 life left. Alric moves in and can’t believe his eyes that Trenloe just shrugs of the attack. Pissed, Alric sends in last master beastman using up all of his remaining resources to attack Mr. Armor, but is once again thwarted by the beastman’s clumsiness.

The heroes are drooling as they will be attacking Alric numerous times and they know that they HAVE to take him down NOW or it is all over for them. Alric is looking pretty sorry right now and thinks he may have made an error in judgment by moving himself into such a vulnerable position…. The heroes may have dealt a resounding blow to the me!




Mad Carthos does 15 damage to Alric over two attacks, Grey Ker misses his first shot and then does some damage. Trenloe’s guard brings Alric with 8 life. The beastmen take out Trenloe, then Mad Carthos, and finally Grey Ker, who’s divine retribution triggers taking out out both masters and 3 normal beastmen. Alric has once again succeeded in maintaining his iron grip on Tamalir and I chuckle gleefully on my throne.

Total Party Kill! OL: 13 H: 0

Nice. Sounds like a very close fight, but still a win for the bad guys.

My next session will also have the party fighting it out with Alric outside Tamalir (with my other lieutenants dead and the clock running out on gold level, drowning the sun isn't an option, but razing Tamalir sounds like a better option than the final duel).

I'm kind of expecting to lose my fight- I'll be up against Nanok with 10 armor and Mordrog who comes close thanks to Parry. But, since the last fight when Alric ran screaming in terror, I've upgraded my humanoids to gold, and I've bought some monster treachery. Diamond sorcerers and priests as reinforcements should tilt the odds in my favor.