shifty louts

Shifty Louts Session 43 - The Massacre at Mimea Hills and Onwards to Fort Taztos

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Summary

1st of Nolus

The first of Nolus sees cloudy skies, but the weather holds out. The wagon traveled up and down the Mimea Hills, almost losing its wagon as it strained down a particular steep hill. The wood frame groans under the weight and strain.

As the day progresses, the caravan comes across a flooded valley, some 80 yards wide. Mostyn believes this to be an ambush. The group debates about what to do. Mostyn says that circumnavigating around the hills is possible, but it will add another day.

The Shifty Louts ask their Dwarven compatriots if they’ve encountered something similar in their travels. The Garibath Dwarves are consulted, Eliver says that the caravan they traveled with last summer numbered in the hundreds.

Often, the caravan master would send out scouts or the caravan would push forward, and a “they can’t get all of us " mentality prevailed.

Suluc, Res, Vast, Kennard, and Orlandus volunteer as scouts, heading toward the right hill, as it's larger to get a better vantage point. The shaman Hindlick blows upon their brows, a “blessing of Kekamar” to the brave souls. The Dwarves, Gwyn, Tugdual, Mostyn, and Hindlick stay behind with the caravan.

The group ascends the large, wooden hill and quickly realizes that traversing this terrain with the wagon would be slow going. Amidst the brush and foliage, three Mimeyi barbarians are seen in the brush ahead and call out.

BARB IMAGE

The group finds they’ve been surrounded by a war party of fifteen, led by three leaders who wear old Ramala legionnaire armor likely taken off dead bodies.

The Mimeyi Goyzda seek to extort the small caravan for goods or money as they lead the group back toward the hill’s valley.

Some tense moments continue to escalate. Orlandus is offering his bottle of Helea Brandy. They say they have better potions that would “tire out your whore god.”

The Goyzda further taunts the Tulwyn Barbarians about helping the “weak outsiders.” It's then that Kennard and a Goyzda tussle, as the Tulwyn barbarians finally show their martial prowess, as Orlandus runs away and slips in the mud trying to climb up a tree, getting an arrow through his fancy hat for the trouble.

Chaos ensues as Vast caves one’s head in and cuts down another. The Tulywn chase down their enemies mercilessly. Hindlick’s warhammer breaks the spines of Kekamar’s foes.

Kennard cleaves his fair share down as two of the light footmen, Gwyn and Tugdual, are cut down by the Goyzda’s swords. The Dwarves' crossbow bolts assist as well, finding purchase in the chests of their adversaries.

After the battle, Gwyn and Tugdual are buried by Suluc and Res, who utter prayers to Peoni to protect their hearth, wives, and children, Agrik for the bravery they showed, and to Helea for guiding them to a decadent afterlife!  The Dwarves utter prayers to Siem, a strange god the group has never heard of before, while Vast passes out from his bloodlust

The bodies of the Goyzda are pillaged and pilfered for goods: 15 swords, spears, and bows. 106 arrows, and 103 loose farthings. Sadly, Orlandus finds his bottle of Helea’s Brandy broken.

The group continues past the flooded river valley, camping and dining on raw false onion and their small beer, filthy from the massacre of the Mimea Hills.

2nd of Nolus

Upon the morrow, the group, still filthy from the massacre, breaks down and camps and pushes forward through the Mimea Hills. From amongst the canopy line, they can see the Fort’s smoke plumes in the distance, a league or so away.

Eventually, in the late afternoon, a patrol of twenty cavalry bearing the Legion Standard of the Ramala Legion arrives and hails them.

Furtive glances are given by the legionnaires, the barbarians, and the Dwarves; however, the Patrol Commander recognizes the Thespian Orlandus.

RAMALA LEGION

The patrol commander, Rolandus Harburn, a frog-like, rotund, slimy, and obsequious man. A distant cousin of some Thardic senator, a failed second son who got this post due to connections and graft, Rolandus knows of Orlandus from the President’s Men trope

Orlandus regails him of in an attempt to the “most beautiful woman in all of Coranan”, the fair lady Maeghel Khonary, he needed to leave the Red Domes of the City and become seasoned!

The group is escorted back to Fort Taztos by the twenty cavalry, and Orlandus asks to perform a “play” for the legionnaires as a token of thanks.

Rolandus says he will speak to the Garrison Commander Stopez, as the group is welcome to rest upon the caravan commons outside the fort’s walls for a fee. Travelers are allowed to camp on the Fort caravan common at 1f per person per night, while wagons and horses cost 1d a night.

FORT TAZTOS

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