Battlefield Bangkok

Iron Kingdoms : Milskrat Sings to Rocks

After 2 weeks away hunting Alexia and recovering the Witchfire the party were hours out from Corvis when they ran into a the first ships racing North. After watching a few go past the Party eventually hailed a ship and discovered that Corvis had been “invaded” by forces loyal to Vinter Raelthorne!
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This put the brakes on the idea of sailing in and dumping the Witchfire in Father Dumas’ lap. A quick bit of questioning also discovered that while people were being allowed in and out, all weapons were being confiscated from travellers. With a special focus on swords. Little else needed to be said and the party decided that taking the Witchfire into Corvis was unlikely to be a great idea.
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As they drifted down stream pondering on this they noted some very deep “singing” coming from the hills on the port bank. Not ones to miss the chance of a wild goose chase, the party docked the boat (smashed into the bank), tied it off (threw the bow line into some bushes) and dashed off into the hills to find out what was going on. After a short trek they found a group of people sitting on a hill top looking down the other side away from them. Uncharacterisucally, the party hailed them “vocally” rather than with steel and bullets, and were waved up to join the folks on the hill top
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Over the crest an amazing site greeted the party as they watched 30 off massive stone creatures singing and dancing in a rock strewn field below them. A shirt discussion with the folks on the hill top (Students from the University of Corvis) lead the party to understand that these dancing giants were Dolomites. Apparently harmless, brainless giants with a taste for dirt, clay and the occasional magic item… light bulbs went off so fast and bright that steam power was almost declared obsolete and it wasn’t long before Father Kovul (The Dwarf Priest) was trekking down the hill to offer up the Witchfire to the Dolomites.
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Closer and closer he got, backed up by brave Milskrat (WitlessTrollkin Fighter), until he decided he was close enough, dropped the sword and legged it back up the hill. Milskrat on the other hand decided that punting the sword nearer and nearer was necessary and so he proceeded to move to within 30 foot of the nearest beast punting the Witchfire ever closer, while the party prayed hard (to at least 4 different gods) for the beast to devour the bloody sword… no luck. The sword dropped 10′ from the beast, and was ignored. Lots of questions were asked of the students regarding exactly how powerful a magic item needed to be before a Dolomite would eat it. Milskrat wondered over to the sword, picked it up and noticed the singing had stopped, 30 large angry (can a rock look angry) beasts with huge claws and cavernous mouths had all turned to face the interruption to their mating dance, and Milskrat did the first dumb thing he could think of and burst into song. And a pretty good song it was too, the Dolomites were soon humming and swaying along to Milskrats Trollkin lullaby as he backed carefully away with the Witchfire.
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As he returned, Father Kovul grabbed the sword, cast Detect Magic and was disturbed to find that the sword did not radoat magic… ah well it seemed like a great idea at the time.
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To be continued…