The Forty-Fifth Session

After pinning the shadowhunter, Shag and Halrek continued to intimidate her into telling them where the cave Lorilla was being held in was, with Halrek slicing down her face and cutting through one of her eyes. When she finally told them, Halrek beheaded her, giving her a quick death. Shag then scryed on Lorilla, finding she was in a trance-like state, bound and gagged, being guarded by four shadowhunters.

They then went and found a guard from the patrol groups, and asked him if he knew of the location she gave, which he did. He then found a lower ranking patrol guard, a half-orc named Treg, to lead them into the forest to the spot. On the way there, Yief teased him to provoke him to join them in battle, which he seemed a bit unsure of, but tried to put on a strong face, saying he would do his bloodline proud.

Eventually finding the area the shadowhunter described, Shag sensed illusion magic on a nearby natural rock formation. Aoth dispelled it, revealing the mouth of a cave. Going in, Shag used his swirling colors to entrance 2 of the hunters inside, allowing Yief to charge in. A fight broke out, in which Treg actually did quite well, consistently hitting his marks, ultimately flanking one of the hunters with Yief. Halrek was able to successfully kill one before grabbing Lorilla and blinking out, while Shag killed two with Eldritch Blasts. Yief told Treg to hit his axe to the floor, as he knocked the final hunter into the air, then hammered him back down onto Treg's axe, killing him.

Aoth checked on Lorilla, discovering she was drugged, and Shag teleported them all back to Myth Novra. There, Aoth and two other clerics were able to use Greater Restoration to bring Lorilla back to consciousness. She said she remembered her vision fading while she was drinking wine in her room and looking at a battlemap, before seeing a rising shadow, and her vision going dark. She thanked everyone for saving her, and went to sleep. Melarra thanked them for bringing her friend back safe, but then told them that she'd gotten word of an amassing of forces on the Lyrian side of the Moonsea. She would be sending soldiers out at first light to the northern borders, and they expected a large scale strike within 3 days. The forces they were sending were the last of the resistance, and she feared it would be the final stand of the Free Lands. While scared, she was also proud of how long they held back the guerilla strikes, and said if she fell, it would be side by side with her soldiers. She then left the Sentinels to prepare for the coming fight.