1.5. Orc Stew

Ghost. Terrified by Ulrich.

After the drunken revelry, everyone was awoken by an earthquake. Dingus and Feloriel had disappeared in the night. The family was used to the quakes by this time, and fed them and sent them on their way. Mother gifted them with a large bag of dried herbs and several healing potions.

They continued on up the mountain. Dr Sleaze climbed up to above the tree cover and saw that the top of the mountain was smoking and steaming, and the gang was pretty sure they were climbing an active volcano.

They walked into a circle of rocks on the ground, and a spectral figure appeared, angered by their disrespect. Ulrich smashed it in the head with his glowing axe and screamed in its face, causing it to flee instantly.

Beneath the tree cover, the air was filling with steam, and they soon came upon some boiling pools of water. Several cooked orcs were floating in the water, others were fishing for their friends’ corpses, and the gang definitely murdered everyone, then evaded the tentacles that came out of the pools grabbing for the fresh blood.