Session 57 - More Ogres

The adventurers avoid one group of ogres and find another on the way back to the castle.

This write up is based on Kay’s notes from our May 28, 2025 session. Since our group is scattered around the country, we use Discord for our voice communication and Roll20 for our virtual tabletop. Thanks to Kay for the proofreading and screenshots.

Continued from: Gates of Gloom

Location: Castle Calaelen.

Date: Friday, June 12, 3517

3 AM
Elron and Blaze climbed back up the stairway 50 ft to the hallway. Elron cast Beast Sense on his mouse and sent it into the ogres’ cave.

It wandered around the level. One thing it found was stairs up 50 ft. at the end of a short rough passage that ends at a door.  On the other side of the door are a bunch of giant rats.

It found a passageway disappearing in the darkness to the SE. Moving down the passageway, apparently was an entry room with openings, looked like holes dug 3 ft into the rock walls, and the floor was covered with bones. Ricky came back the way he came in, to the area that has a garbage smell. Ricky Mouse found a door, listened and heard voices. Another passage had stairs up and stopped at water. There were 5 exits from this room and a walkway over a tunnel.

Back at the stairs down into the ogres’ cave, Blaze stealthily watched for signs the ogres had detected us.

Elron’s mouse saw a paved area with an iron portcullis. The mouse went through the bars. Then there was a T-intersection. There’s a door on the left side 20 feet down the corridor which splits going west and south. Twenty feet down, going north, there was a door, and the passage goes to a dead end. The area looks like a labyrinth but was empty except for ogres, rats, and voices behind a door.

Ricky Mouse ran back to Elron. Reminder: ogres can see in dark, so Blaze’s light could be noticed. From her lookout on the stairs, Blaze had a feeling of evil coming up the passage in waves.
 

We discussed the situation and decided not to attack the 8 ogres tonight, and went back to the Gate of Gloom. The black skeleton bodies were still there. We decided to follow the stream up the tunnel to the NW to see where it goes. After walking 8 hrs and 20 miles, we came out at the cavern with the giant 40-ft-tall statue of the woman with fangs, skull necklace, and gown, holding a 10-ft-tall urn on her head.

June 13  

1 AM
Elron created some goodberries and he, Blaze, and Breena ate one instead of rations, and we refilled our water skins in the stream. Sinis was out of rations so Blaze gave him one of hers. We decided to go back to the castle after clearing out the urn.  Elron, throwing bones out, found a scroll, rusty scrap metal armor, weapons in bad condition, and a sealed scroll case in good shape. Elron noticed it’s been disturbed recently, after we were here.

We headed back to town.

2 AM

We started back to the castle from the dripping caverns. After walking for 2.5 hours, we saw something ahead of us in the tunnel, before we got to the Last One Inn. We heard footsteps up ahead and saw one ogre, but heard several more.

Breena cast mage armor on herself. Artie moved up and cast a fire bolt, but missed. Sinis moved up and cast acid splash, which also missed.

Apparently, there were five ogres. Ogre #3 said something to the lead ogre, moved closer to Elron and Breena, and raised his great club. Ogre #5 moved up. Elron, standing in front of Ogre #3, used his sling, hit once, missed his second shot, and hit on the third shot. Ogre #2 moved up. Parahelia cast Aura of vitality in an area effect. Ogre #4 moved up. in an area effect. Ogre #4 moved up.

Blaze cast flaming sphere and hit Ogre #3 with it. Breena cast magic missile on Ogre #3, killing it.

Ogre #1 moved forward to join Ogre #2. Artie stepped back to Blaze and Parahelia, and cast fire bolt, scorching it.

Sinis moved back and cast acid splash, hitting Ogres #1 and #5.

Ogres #1, #4 and #5 were in a line, so Blaze moved into position facing them and cast lightning bolt. All three ogres got hit, Ogre #1 died; Ogres #4 and #5 were hit. Ogre #5 attacked Blaze with his club, but missed with his swing. Elron used his sling, hit it twice, and killed it.

Ogre #2 stepped back out of the flaming sphere, threw his javelin at Elron, but missed him and the others. Parahelia hit Ogre #4 with a crossbow bolt. Ogre #4 moved forward and hit Blaze with his club. Breena cast magic missile at Ogre #4. Artie cast fire bolt at Ogre #4 and killed it. Sinis moved forward, aimed at Ogre #2 with acid splash. Ogre #2 was hit by Blaze’s witch bolt. Elron’s sling hit Ogre #2 and the ogre turned and ran away. Elron’s third shot hit it from behind and it fell, dead.

Parahelia healed Blaze of the damage she had taken from the ogre’s club.  

Elron looted the bodies and found 3 pp, 13 gp, 12 sp, 33 cp, an ivory pawn, 10 candles in a small pouch, a bag of rusty nails, and a turnip.

We left the dungeon and returned to the castle, arriving before dark where we all took a long rest.

Continued in Session 58: A New Friend