<span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Fourway - Conclusion of the Raid</span></span><br/><br/>The villagers easily finished off the ogre that was frozen due to the Mayor’s hold monster spell.  It never occurred to them that they could have questioned the monster since it was rendered harmless due to the spell.<br/><br/>Deborah and Nuri’s decision to stop pursuit proved to be wise when they could see that Ardin’s kidnapper was joined by three other ogres from the raid.  One had a pair of villagers, one had a goat and a bag of onions, and the third had armfuls of foodstuffs and supplies from Deborah’s family’s store.   The new wares in the ogre’s arms were easily recognizable to Deborah as her mother had just recently forced her to inventory the entire store.  One item in particular, a dress was unmistakable.  But why in the world would an ogre want a dress?<br/><br/>Halfdan had an easy target, the ogre with the glowing head was still covering its face and writhing in pain from the magical stones hurled at it.  Bursting through the wreckage of the cart, in a furious divine induced instinct to protect the young priestess, Halfdan swung his axe as if he were chopping down the biggest tree in the forest.  He nearly cleaved the ogre in two.<br/><br/>The ogre at Meave’s mother’s cart, after getting a mouthful of strawberry sweets, found an even sweeter prize in the form of Maeve’s mother.  He began to stomp to the cowering woman when Kestrel snuck up behind it.  Meave’s mother looked at Kestrel and the ogre picked up on her eye movement.  Knowing something was up, the ogre turned around just in time to make Kestrel’s strike miss.  Surprised, the ogre spit juicy strawberry bits and ogre-saliva onto his attacker.<br/><br/>Mayor Hansbrough finished his spell, blackness almost like a shadow flew from his fingertips and directly into the ogre’s eyes.  The monster stood before Kestrel, blinking and rubbing it’s eyes as if it couldn’t see.  Knowing it was in trouble, the ogre dashed for where he thought the treeline was.  Flailing his arms and running in a random direction.  (all attacks on this last remaining ogre are at -4 difficulty)<br/><br/>The raid had subsided, the entire event lasted only a few moments.  The ogres grabbed what they could and retreated.  Not expecting to find any resistance, they were caught by surprise and as a result 4 of the 9 raiding ogres lay dead in the town square of Fourway and the last one blinded and well on his way to his own demise.<br/><br/>Sensing her emotions, the small gray fox recently bonded to Maeve began to worry.  It was not a good feeling to be so troubled and not know why, the fox assumed the strong emotions were for the ones the monsters took with them.  The critter watched the ogres flee into the woods, it stealthily followed the ogres thinking it would please its new master.  On the other side of the bond, Maeve could sense her familiar’s concern and knew that it was tracking the ogres.  The intensity of the bond weakened as the distance grew, but the feeling was still there.<br/><br/><br/>