The Mighty Munch Bunch started last session finishing up a fight with some orcs surrounded by a wall of fire and one outside the wall. Nuka made quick work of him with her thorn whip, and then Dara dropped the wall of fire surrounding the other two. Dakota took one out with a trampling charge, and Nuka dropped the hilt of her dagger right between the eyes of the enormous orc chieftain, dropping him out cold.
When he came to, the Bunch put him to the question to try to find out more about the Apostate. What they found was loyalty and dedication from the chieftain for the rest of his short life. The group took a short rest to recuperate some and also leave little time for the Apostate to prepare for their arrival, and then they traveled north until they found a set of cliffs and waterfalls and a small camp nestled in there.
They saw a number of orcs patrolling and a pale, skinny goliath in dark robes walking around the camp. Nuka wild formed into a falcon and flew in close to get an idea about what was going on. She saw the goliath was clearly in charge, likely being the Apostate himself. What they were planning, she could not tell as they were speaking goliath and orc to each other. She returned to the group and told them what she saw.
Paavu then took the circuitous spyglass and put it to his eye and took a look. He exclaimed “Garok!” and put down the spyglass and sprinted to meet his brother. His brother, long thought dead, greeted him coldly as if expecting him. As he talked with Paavu about the destruction of their village, he was unhooking the two skulls hanging from his belt. He tossed them on the ground, telling Paavu to ask their parents himself as he cast Speak with Dead and had them confirm who they were.
An emotional Paavu used the first three questions to discuss their deaths, but saved the final question to ask if he should avenge their deaths. Padak, Paavu’s father, told him he would be honored, and Thuni told him to make them suffer. Paavu’s will emboldened, he proclaimed to Garok the Apostate that he will destroy him. Garok, looking directly at the circle around Paavu’s eye but being too polite to mention it, told him it would have to wait. He reach out to the orcs at each of his sides and touched them, causing them to begin to glow with a darkness as their bodies wilted before everyone’s eyes.
Garok reached out and opened a portal to a dark realm, and out stepped a massive knight, suited in full armor with an enormous sword that seemed to absorb light around it, giving it a deeper darkness no one had ever seen, who then raised and pointed that sword at Paavu. Garok then reached out his other arm, opening another portal that glowed a deep green, and before he stepped through, he looked out far into the cliff and winked. On that cliff, Nuka’s eyes flickered and rolled back into her head and she collapsed. Garok stated, “Until next time brother” and stepped through the portal as it closed behind him. Nuka, shaken a bit, awoke, and Paavu looked death straight in the eye.
