The six kings

We were well on our travels to the Six Kings when we came across a bunch of humanoids in the road intimidating a goblin. Now normal common sense in the world says "big deal" but we were on a mission to help goblins....I know, weird.

Anyway closer inspection revealed that humanoids were in fact the followers of Orcus. bad guys we would quite happily beat up all day after what we saw in the Shadowfell. So predictably we dived in and slew the lot of them. Ok well actually I should say that Ofa and Vistar did most of the work supplemented by Jiak and his pyromaniac traits!

So duty done, we rescued the goblin, who turned out to be one of the Wordbearers we were supposed to be helping....he was less than grateful but hey its a goblin I don't expect much from them! He carried on his way and we turned back onto the road to the Six Kings... we didn't get much farther along the road when we were confronted by a huge Minotaur and some gnolls. We had caught them finishing the remains of a grizzly feast of human flesh..... Being half human that got my blood up! Jiak ran off to the side ready to cover the unholy beasts in fire and acid. I readied my spells to blast them in holy light.
The Minotaur charged forward and then no more than 20 seconds later was dead at the feet of Ofa! She had managed to cut it to pieces in one or two hits! It spooked the other beasts and they fought with less courage, eventually we drove them off and slew the stragglers. I had time to cast a quick prayer on the remains of the eaten humans...its sad things like this that make me glad I have the chance to enact revenge on unholy creatures.

We took camp for the night, then the next morning we set out, in the distance I could see the carvings in the mountainside that must be the Six Kings... fate it seems was going to continue testing us. After a few hours of travel Ofa and myself saw broken branches in the scrubland ahead, then a shadow. Next thing we know more Orcus followers jump out of the trees trying to ambush us. Luckily as we spotted the shadow we were prepared. That instant of surprise needed for a good ambush was gone. Nice to know that yours truly has some use other than a healer... though it would be nice if Enora did her job occasionally and scouted these things out!

I have started worrying about Jiak though...he seems to want to burn everything as an answer. In most cases it can be helpful but in forest?!?!? Luckily we managed to keep a lid on it this time.
Like the previous Orcus followers these were dispatched but we did struggle a bit, in fact I managed to exhaust myself trying to keep everybody up this time around. Bahamut is truly testing my faith, if we keep facing battles like this I may run out of energy to heal people.

After the fight we decided to call it a day and use the camp of the Orcus followers. They didn't need it anymore. I took first watch, then got some sleep.....