Yukkbutt examines the head that flew over the conclave wall and struck the girl who was spying on him. He hears sounds of struggle from beyond the gatehouse just to the north, and decides to seek out his companions. He grabs Nexa, Borracho and Barnowl at Pilaf's Tavern, but not before terrifying everyone that he had decapitated the Grand Mask. Pilaf fetches Vancal the Wage and Cynjak, the latter of whom sounds a war horn. Meanwhile, a severely wounded Spent Man mercenary lumbers out from the gatehouse and claims the Grand Mask and his staff have been ambushed and murdered. Once SlakeThirst, Kaarl and Un'Krug are rounded up they decide to siege the place and see what's going on.
In squirrel form, Kaarl discovers that giants have indeed assaulted the conclave somehow, a variety including ogres, the strange giants they had fought earlier that day, and an obese giant with loads of drooping flesh. Barnowl, Vancal and a mercenary scale the wall, while the rest of the PCs do a direct attack on the gatehouse, using melee weapons and spells to blow open the timbers, and then met by a pair of ogres. The battle gets intense as an ogre begins to follow Kaarl around the rooftops and down onto the ground, after the druid has called forth pterodactyls who assist the one remaining soldier within...Taias Bloodbath. The PCs eventually manage to take down the flabby giant and several ogres, but not without a number of them getting knocked out at several points...
And then, an ogre mage appears from nothingness and breathes a cone of cold upon half the party outside the gates! They manage to make the creature go back into hiding, but now, pressed on two fronts, the fatal battle continues...
PCs: Barnowl, Borracho, Cynjak, Kaarl, Nexa, SlakeThirst, Un'krug, Yukkbutt
XP Rewarded: 1100
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