Session+of+October+5


 * Game Date:** October 5, 2008
 * Campaign Dates:** 16-18 Olarune 998 YK
 * Main Activity:** Wrapping up the events at Sterngate.
 * Players Expected:** Rich, Tony, Rob, and Jeremy

**Night, Olarune 16-17**
A large force of Bugbears marches near the defensive zone surrounding Sterngate, just out of catapult range, and spend several hours hootin' and hollerin', waving torches and banging weapons into shields. Then they fall back before down.

**Olarune 17**

 * The Captain of Sterngate responds to the intelligence that the Jhorash'tor Orc mercenaries were at the old outpost building with the intent of holding it for some sort of incursion by dispatching one of the three commandeered airships with a strong detachment of troops, commanded by Captain ir'Kemble and reinforced by Aiwyn, Ullracht, and several King's Citadel agents.
 * The Orc Druid captured at the outpost, Orpik, demands to see a House Deneith representative. He claimed that his band had a legitimate Blademarks-issued mercenary charter, and that he and the other Orc captive had to be repatriated to their homeland. The Deneith rep chooses not to decide that matter until the current crisis has passed, and the two orcs are led away to holding cells. The Druid was fitted into a metal breastplate which was then hot-riveted to keep him from removing it -- effectively cutting him off from all spells, supernatural powers and spell-like abilities.
 * Ariel returned the two wands she rescued from the fallen Citadel agent to the senior Citadel rep at Sterngate.
 * House Orien decides to try and send a caravan through to Darguun, flying safe-passage flags issued by the Lhesh Haruuc and lesser warlords whose lands the caravan would pass through between Sterngate and The Gathering Stone (a major trade nexus in Darguun run by House Orien). Colden Torbald d'Orien uses his discretionary budget to hire a 10-member squad of elite Deneith Blademarks, along with Crest, Ariel, Golandar and Nediar d'Lyrandar. The caravan's purpose: To detemine whether the Bugbears would honor the safe-passage flags, and to present a strong response to any ambush, showing that Orien caravans were not to be trifled with.

**Olarune 18**
The caravan, five wagons loaded with salt from New Cyre and dried foods, gets barely halfway to Matshuc Zaal (the Goblin fort marking the Darguun border in the Marguul Pass) before it's ambushed by...the Manifest Legion. At least five high-level Summoners drop wave after wave of summoned creatures on the caravan: 3 Hell Hounds, 4 Dretches, 2 Magmin, 2 Small Fire Elementals, 3 Hyenas, 2 Ghouls, 2 Wolf Skeletons, a Burning Skeleton, 2 Flame Snakes and 2 Fiendish Snakes. But not a Bugbear in sight. The attack is repulsed, but two Deneith mercenaries, an Orien drover and guard and four horses are slain, and a wagon destroyed. The rest of the force retreats back to Sterngate.