THE CAMPAIGN: Chapter 1-"The Dragons in the Desert"

Cile notices Lao's emergence.


Then he looks over at the little Kobold.


Cile taps the tip of both boots on the ground, one by one, and tiny spikes cover the surface of the boots as they are covered by a metallic sheen.



Cile proceeds to stomp on every gem he finds.

Lao grasps Cile's hand, stopping him in his spiky tracks.

Ehaism rises from the blinding flash of the broken gem.

Cile decides to smash some gems and breaks there, unlite ones before being stopped by Lao.

Things stand as such.

Ehaism is startled. Suddenly the gem is no longer in his hand, and he feels as if the whole room has reeled around him. There are two strangers in the room, behaving strangely. The floor is littered with tiny purple shards of smashed gems. Vire seems to be furious. Ehaism decides to help.



he bellows loudly.

Ehaism steps into the personal space of the wizard who has just spoken.

Cile sees that he and his companion are cornered and outnumbered.
He hopes that he remembered to teach Lao his manner of eye-messaging as he winks furiously in his direction.

Lao's blank stare back reveals that no such lesson was ever taught.

Cile faces the Lizardman standing before him and draws a smirk on his own face.



With that, he reaches into his Handy Haversack and brings out a Token of some sort.

He drops it somewhere between the Kobold and the Lizardman.

Lao looks around confused, but not entirely surprised by his companions odd behavior.



He moves to the mouth of the corridor leading deeper inside the cavern, with his back turned away from the party. He readies himself to run, looking over those who set Cile and himself free, and especially at the boisterous lizardfolk. He tries to decide whether or not they are actually a threat... or just big talkers.

Ehaism glances at the feather. He decides that the Cile, Master of The Trees is crazy but harmless.

He decides to question the other fellow instead. The one who isn't quite running away.



He says, less aggressively than before.

Fearing these new creatures before him, Cile pulls out his new feather token. The tree it summons should distract the Lizards long enough for him to escape.
Upon summoning the tree, it becomes instantly noticeable that the tree is too big for the room when a rain of rocks scatter about the room.
The 2 last unlit gems shatter, and 2 lit ones shatter. From the blinding white light appear 2 ogres. They, and the party, get assaulted by falling rocks.
(Everyone, except Liev, the Ox and Lao, takes 7 dmg)
The graal on top of Vire's head falls off. As well as the headband.
The Ogres stare at the party with anger in their eyes.


Initiative:
Ribbon
Lao Tsung
Vire
Olidammaran
Ehaism Donotreskai
OGRES

Vire hisses at Cile.


Vire eyes the ogres. They look like they're probably too stupid to understand Common, but it's worth a try.

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He eyes the Ogres approvingly.

A rock has just hit Ehaism on the head (ouch! -7)

As if things were not already confusing enough, the small room is now also occupied by two large ogres, and and absolutely terrifying rigid brown tentacle-monster of some sort. The tentacle monster burst suddenly from the ground directly in front of Ehaism's face, and it is so tall it reaches all the way to the stony roof above, from which it launched its frightening stone-hurling scatter attack. Clearly this hideous faceless denizen of the earth is the biggest threat yet.

Having lived his entire life in the city, in the desert, and in a different desert, Ehaism has never seen a tree before, and doesn't know what one is.

Halting the song of battle, Vire's attempt at a Diplomatic solution to the Ogre problem seems to yield results as they lower their weapon. They seem a bit confused at Cile's proclamation, and it's hard to tell what they believe. They still hold a spiteful gaze at the party.

Ogre 1:


Ogre 2:


Though not jumping at the chance to smash in each and every head they see, the ogres still seem on edge.

Vire weighs the risk of freeing another ogre.



Vire turns to Cile.

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