(012) Beneath the Gatehouse

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heartless wrote:
Padrig asks ,"Pelenwin and Ulric can you help to assist in attending to the wounds of Mads, Dieter and Olaf, who so bravely fought off these dead ogres?"

"Is anyone else hurt?" asks Padrig.

OOC: Mads (2 of 9 hit points) Dieter (1 of 12 hit points) and Olaf (4 of 10 hit points). Can we heal Olaf more for his other wounds?

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verhaden wrote:
Mads the Fair

Mads will follow after Gustave, after healing (if at all--no rush). "Four beds for three Ogres. Keep your wits about you."

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danhem wrote:
With no immediate threat forthcoming, Ulric moves to Dieter's side.

"I think they're dead now," he says looking at the hacked and decapitated corpses. "You should sit so we can bind your wounds." Ulric looks over Dieters gore-splattered face, torso, and arms. "Now which blood is yours?"

As Ulric tends to Dieter's wounds he looks toward the stairs leading down.

"Someone should recover Anwyn's body before it too becomes a trophy of some foul beast like Caine's."

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eris wrote:

The trumped fighting-Men return to the ante chamber, wherein Dieter proceeds to decapitate the corpses of the foul pair of slain Ogres.

It is a grisly task by any measure, but by means of a broadsword it even more so. With no axe to lop off the ghastly, over-sized heads in a single, clean blow, Dieter hacks and saws furiously with his notched and bloody sword until the horrible butchery is done.

Olaf stands well clear of all this and curtails his searches of the bodies to a minimum, lest he be splattered by gore. But despite this, his sharp eyes easily spring to the heavy coin purses that the monsters wore at their thick belts.

These he procures and examines, finding them to each be filled with a hefty weight of silver and copper coins. One also contains a grubby handkerchief that wraps two severed Man-like fingers, and the other a whole but rather unclean rabbit's head.

The Ogres also wore rusted ringmail shirts over soiled gambesons, and carried great wooden clubs and shields -- these now split and pierced by their fatal wounds.

Olaf tosses the fingers and rabbit's head, but keeps the coins in the pouches saying to the group, "A bit of coin here, but not too much."

"Not worth the death of so many friends." he adds bitterly.

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waysoftheearth wrote:
Gustave, one hand holding his collar over his face against the fumes and the other grasping his gleaming blade, moves cautiously into the large, gloomy chamber. Mads follows a few steps behind with a cautionary word, his cold iron axe at the ready.

The chamber is scarcely illuminated by the spattering cook-fire beneath the great black cauldron, but even by this poor illumination it is evident that beyond the grisly dormice there are shadowy piles of supplies, and two dark passages that depart this place from its farthest corners.

The whole of the place has been fouled by Ogre occupation. Reeking heaps of guts and bones of former victims are piled with dung and other detritus around the perimeter of the space, but of more interest are a number of heavy chains attacked to the walls by great rings of thick iron. Empty manacles dangle from most of these, but in the far shadows Mads spies a hunched, still figure covered in a rough robe.

Meanwhile Gustave's attention is drawn to the shadowy bulk of numerous crates, barrels and chests beyond the crude Ogre pallets. Mayhap these supplies constitute the monsters' hoard?

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waysoftheearth wrote:

OOC: Mads (2 of 9 hit points) Dieter (1 of 12 hit points) and Olaf (4 of 10 hit points). Can we heal Olaf more for his other wounds?

Mads, Dieter and Olaf we all wounded in the proceeding encounter.

Resting will recover 1d6 hit-points (but not more than were lost in the previous encounter).

Padrig's divine healing will always be effective, regardless of when injuries were suffered.

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waysoftheearth wrote:
Those other than Gustave and Mads gather themselves, and the bodies of the Michele and Anwyn, in the ante. It is a grim and bloody scene indeed... hardly a restful place.

Ulric and Padrig are of a mind to rest the wounded for a time, but in honesty even they do not feel at ease to take rest here amid the rancid butchery in a partially unexplored passageway.

Surely a watch would have to be posted at either end of the passage and another some way down the stair? Or perhaps a more defensible position could be found inside the adjacent chamber?

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tombowings wrote:
"To those who have fallen in my rescue, may you be blessed by the eternal gods. I never knew you, but the gods know much more than your names. What deeds you didn't in life will find their consequences in death. Etch this symbol into your flesh as a way of speedy return to the Eternal Garden," begins Pelenwin, carving ancient symbology into the dead with the point of Mad's hand axe. "Like a generation of leaves, we all must fall in winter. Only then can out children blossom and take our place. It is they that build upon our greatness, like how I will build upon yours. You have given my life and for that you received death. That is the great circles. For no matter the life of a man, it ends in death. All must die and like all must sin. This is just another part of your journey. Leave behind your flesh and sore into the blissful bower. There may you suffer none, and leave us here to rot."

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heartless wrote:
"Your words Pelenwin ring true. Lets retrieve the bodies of our fallen brethern Anwyn , Flewellen and Michele to a safer place so the ogres don't get them", speaks Padrig. "It hurts me to loose Caine as we did to the ogre, we must find him and lay this body to rest as fitting a warrior".

"We need to regroup to a more more defensible position. I do not want to be caught in a trap again. Remember they know we are here. Lets move into the adjacent chamber and post guards at the entrances", says Padrig.

Padrig will retrieve his bow and torch left in the passageway corner once the fire dies down.

OOC: Can rest still heal Olaf for the hit points lost in battle not healed by magic? I have 2 healing spells left and will use them when needed most.

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waysoftheearth wrote:

Lets retrieve the bodies of our fallen brethern Anwyn and Michele

And let us not forget Flewellen, whose body presently lays in grim silence downstairs...