The whole time that Drunn the Gorgon and Kiran are monologuing,
Katrina, still hiding in a tower takes careful aim with her bow and shoots
Drunn, shaking him. Kiran is in a rage over the death of last loyal subject and
friend Kodor. He grasps Kodor’s short
sword and orders the Ka Ram war birds to attack. The Valk that did not shoot down Kodor
unleash a volley of arrows upon the heroes.
Although she can barely walk, Hawk calls out Drunn for a coward and
moves forward to cut her way to him. Sul’khaz
summons his wolves and Shangor charges the Valk with his axe and the boy Jura
hides in the ruins as he was commanded to by Sylph. The final battle of the Citadel of the Winged
Gods has begun.
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| A wall of Valk |
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| The party prepares for battle |
Kiran and his birds take a toll on the Valk but the king has
been wounded and one of his birds has been dispatched. Katrina continues to fire away with Kumal the
Smiling and some of Valk returning fire at her.
Sylph casts an armor spell and moves in to position herself where her
distraction abilities can be most affective but she is struck down. Hawk is cutting her way to the Gorgon. She is making much better headway than
Shangor. Sul’khaz wades into the battle
with both swords.
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| Sylph is down! |
Finally, Hawk has her wish as she finally gets to fight
Drunn. In her weakened state, she is no
match for the cunning Gorgon and he strikes a mighty blow against her head,
sending her to the ground and ruining her left eye. Seeing this, Katrina shoots Drunn again, this
time wounding him. Shangor finally moves
in and drops Kumal the Smiling. He then
picks up Kumal’s iron battle axe and engages Drunn.
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| Hawk is stuck down by The Gorgon |
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| Shangor strikes down Kumal the Smiling |
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| The Gorgon Falls |
Somehow, some way, Hawk manages to regain consciousness and swings
wildly, striking the Gorgon in the leg.
He howls in rage and strikes her again but she manages to shake off the
damage this time. At this point, Shangor
splits Drunn’s head in two as he buries his new iron axe down to the Valk’s
breastbone. Just so Hawk won’t feel too
bad, he makes sure that Drunn’s body ends up impaled on Hawk’s long sword. With the death of their leader, the rest of the
Valk flee into the ruins. Katrina, blood
thirsty as ever, sends a few arrows after them. Seeing that Kumal is still breathing, Shangor
beheads him.
As Shangor and Sul’khaz see to Hawk and Sylph, who is still
alive, The King of Haak stands amid the bodies. He drops his bloody short sword
and kneels by his fallen general Kodor. He
closes his eyes and strokes the wings of his old friend and faithful servant. “I
have found the last of my kin only to see him killed. I am now alone, my very
existence is meaningless. Most of you were true friends to me, and I shall
leave the entire city to you. Do what you will with it.” Then, pointing his
finger upward, he says: “Can you see the birds?” A few Ka Nam are flying in
circle, as if waiting for something.“They are the spirits of my wife, my
brothers, and my friends. They have been waiting for me for too long. I shall
join them now. May the winds carry you far.”
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| Kiran prepares to leave this world |
Then, stretching out his arms as if they were the wings he
lost centuries ago, he jumps into the chasm. For a single moment Kiran seems to
be flying again, but then he plummets downward without a sound. This is the end
of Kiran, last king of Haak. Now, the
Haakora are no more and a once proud people have passed from this world.
Although most of the groups seems either ambivalent at best
over the passing of Kiran, (I am looking at you Sul’khaz [Chris] and Katrina [Brandi],
although I will admit that you guys are correct that your characters did not
get filthy rich like Kiran promised.) Hawk sheds a tear at his passing.
With the remaining time they party has, they loot what they
can from the city and make their way across the cloud bridge. Shangor claimed Kumal’s iron battle axe and
Hawk claimed Drunn the Gorgon’s very deadly and ancient bronze longsword. While searching the city they also manage to
find some items of worth, including some rune arrows, a winged helm for Hawk
and a Royal Ka Nam Egg.
Leaving the city of the Haakora behind them, the band of
adventurers return to the land of mortals to seek further adventurers…..
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