Session 2: Tomb of the Necrodancer

Qiora and Valrakas's attacks hit. Valrakas rams into the ankheg and drags it across the rocks. The bug gets smashed and smeared across the wall, leaving a trail of acid and carapace shards in its wake. He still as a grip on the mandibles, but there's not much of the ankheg left after Valrakas's attack. (It's dead)

Rhograx's arrow pierces the ankheg's abdomen, causes the monster to stumble onto the ground.

Seeing the only the one bug left Kyros will send and arrow it's way

Kyros's arrow shoots through the air in a low arc, and strikes the ankheg right in the back of it's head. The monster slumps down the the ground, and doesn't get up again.

Combat is over. Each member of the party gets 420 XP for routing the enemy, as well as for the small fight with the half-orcs. As an added bonus, you'll all remember what an ankheg nest looks like.

After the battle, the half-orcs gather their weapons and clean themselves off. There doesn't seem to be any animosity between them and the party anymore. Sometimes a good fight is needed to clear the air.

Nalu is finishes taking care of Peat, and waits in the center of the passage across from the half-orcs.

While you gather your gear and tend to any wounds, you can overhear their conversation.

"We're lucky this fight didn't go sour."

"Y-you jumped to conclusions, it could've killed us all!"

"I already apologized! Besides, we all survived in the end~"

"I just want some ale, or wine, or a few shots of a strange potion..."

Can Kyros give valrakas advantage by standing with his bow drawn so that the half orcs can see him.

The half-orcs do have their weapons sheathed, and look ready to continue their travels once any misunderstandings are cleared up. The average one looks pretty beat up, but the other two aren't damaged too much.

The half-orcs respond immediately, very threatened by Valrakas's horns and Kyros's bow. The handsome one holds up his hands in submission, but you can tell they'd still fight if you pushed to far.

"You got us, big guy. We're not musicians, we're recon for the raiders at Ginko's Court. We check things out, then Ginko makes the plans."

...

In a side conversation, Nalu answers Rhograx.

"Only about an hour left to get out of this pass. On the other side I was planning on camping near the cliff's edge, it's easy to hide there. This area becomes...active at night, so we shouldn't stay."

The average one nods.

"If you're headed for the forest you're going to run into a large area of quicksand, supposedly there's a a river under the ground there."

The one with scars jumps in.

"Yes, but it's easy enough to cross. There's large spires of rock, and there's makeshift bridges that connect them all.

Nalu nods in agreement, and average one continues.

"We spotted a group of idiots setting up camp on the rocks, I guess they want to live up there and charge travelers a toll to cross. Other than that we didn't find anything other than old caravan tracks."