...and so the Story went. This is the report of the 25th game of my solo Five leagues In The Borderlands campaign, and marks the final episode of A Tale Of Two Tortles. But fear not! The survivors of this game will return in an all-new campaign in the near future!
The story started, as it often does, in town. The Crossing, in particular, which passes as the regional center of Armskirk, the Ruined City. There was a Gambling Craze sweeping the area, but Our Heroes are very boring and strait-laced and did not participate. Instead, they helped the Town Guard and Weppi did some Training. This gave her enough experience for another Advancement roll, and she now has an Agility of 3. Not bad for a big, clunky tortle! We had to research the location of the Gnawling Horde's hideout, wagered 5 Adventure points with a roll of 2, indicating that we found it! It's in the Wilderness, though, so we will need to Travel to get there. We also used the remaining adventure points to Gather Money, spending the last 6 to gain 5 gold. Once upon our trip to the Hideout, we encountered Unfriendly Locals, who were Conspirators with those Gnawlings. We succeeded in a Wits roll, though, and gave away no information. And with that, we were there. There were 11 of them, 9 Ascended (again, randomly rolled) led by a Lieutenant and a Captain. Let the battle commence!
After the approach to the hideout, in which Weppi, Tundaline, and Myrrh all snuck forward before being spotted and the alarm being raised, I rolled quite well for Initiative on the first turn. Weppi and Tundaline advanced further, Myrrh shot and killed a Gnawling, and Rukacta moved up next to Myrrh. And then the Gnawlings were upon us! Remember, Weppi now has a War Spear, allowing her the Counter-attack ability. This resulted in two dead Gnawlings. The Lieutenant, Captain, and two more Ascended were closing fast on Weppi and Tundaline. On the other side, more ratmen were running towards Myrrh and Rukacta... one struck down Myrrh. Quicktoes lunged forward to avenge his fallen friend and was promptly taken down for his trouble. Plog The Elder moved to back up Weppi and Tundaline. One of the Gnawlings realized he'd lost three companions already and made a run for it. As far as first turns go, it could have been better; we may have eliminated a third of their numbers, but we had lost a third of ours as well.
Turn Two saw Weppi and Rukacta moving forward against their respective opponents; Weppi killed the Captain, while Rukacta found the Harness Of Vengeance he wears to be very useful in finishing off wounded ratmen. As the Gnawlings retaliated, Tundaline was able to turn the tables on two of them and kill them as they attacked, while Rukacta again had luck from his Harness to kill the last Ascended attacking him. One of them managed to cast a Bolt Of Energy at Weppi, who made a successful Devotion test to shrug it off. Plog the Elder summoned the Scary Clown Construct which then attacked the Lieutenant without effect. Tundaline for her own part then attacked the Lieutenant felling him on the first blow. The final Ascended became enraged and moved towards Weppi, ready to attack!
On Turn Three, Weppi activated first and killed the last Ascended Gnawling. We had won. The threat of the Gnawlings had been broken in Armskirk, the Ruined City. We had previously eliminated the Duskling Warbands and The Ruin Within. The city was safe, and could re-build in peace now. Our job here was done.
Quicktoes was seriously injured, but will be back on his feet by the time our Next Adventure begins. Myrrh was dead. He will be mourned and missed. We were able to loot a suit of Fine Light Armor, and we found some evidence of a plot, now thwarted with the elimination of the Gnawling Hordes threat.
This game should have been harder. I rolled a LOT of 6's to hit and to wound against the bad guys, which mitigated their overall toughness a lot. Weppi's War Spear worked better than expected, so I am going to get one for Tundaline as well for the next campaign. Next campaign? Why, yes! Stay tuned for "Tortles In The Dust," wherein Our Heroes travel to The Land Of Ancient Dust. To be continued...
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