D&D Session 36 (2/23/22): Wherein We Go Full Orc

Text by Paul O'Connor, Dungeon Master  

Hard to believe we are into the second year of our D&D Trope Tour and have yet to battle orcs!

Perhaps the orcs were given pause by the newly muscled-up march order of our heroes -- seven mounted Blue Mountain Brothers in chain with swords and shield, plus Cummings and his little wagon train. A small army.

The orcs would have done well to avoid this one. They charged right toward the campsite in the dead of night. There was a desultory attempt to lay an ambush, but Droom (a Blue Mountain Brother, and kin of the late Thrombosis, clear from the way he couldn't stop throwing up) wrecked that for everyone.

Blah and the orc chief exchanged insults, which is basically the pregame show.

 And then it was on! And then it was off! Didn't take much to dispatch the orcs, frankly, though there were some good moments -- Sommpher turning into a killing machine, Arthur wrestling with wolves, Khostov blasting his pipes and levitating away from danger trailing fog clouds of confusion, and Blah beating the chief in single(ish) combat while convincing his wolf to desert.

But in the morning, the party woke up surrounded by seemingly the entire Tiger tribe of the Reghed Barbarians, so maybe the orcs were just the warmup act ...?