Unexpectedly nice of Korg to spare the baby.
I couldn't bring myself to kill a baby. Even though it's a game, it's not something I want to do. I'm not...you know who.
Taking care to avoid being seen, Korg and Isila went north, eventually coming across camp called Pokeboulders, which was the meeting site of some demon worshippers from nearby civilizations. One of them begged the doomguard to join him on his mission - Edogg Birdspy the two-human. Korg knew of his race - it was quite strange that one would stop worshipping the Elder Ones and prefer to join the demons instead. Regardless, he didn't complain - more meatshields could always come in handy.
Travelling across the Swamp of Webs, Korg's group came across a large nest full of black eggs. A giant bird monster must have made it's home here.
Upon taking one of the eggs, a loud roar was heard from behind the fog-covered woods. The cockatrice quickly made it's presence known, charging at Isila and breathing a cloud of dark grey gas.
The beast's weight beared down on the Eredar, snapping his bones. A bite managed to completely sever Isila's right leg, leaving him crawling on the ground. A strong blow from Korg's axe managed to knock the cockatrice out, however.
At that point, it was a simple matter to simply split it's head open.
Korg tanned the cockatrice's skin, and made some clothes out of it. It was time to leave.
Further north, a group of sand troll bandits ambushed the Doomguard's group. Isila bled out from his guts being spilled, whereas Edogg's neck was snapped by a powerful blow to the head. The bandits died from their wounds, but as Korg was left without meatshields, it left him with little options besides to bring their heads to their comrades and force them into servitude.
Having eventually tracked down the encampment, Tonethin, Korg showed the heads of the sand trolls to their leader, and was offered two of their warriors in exchange - Stongun Flashlaw the spearwoman, and Zuzlafas Phrasemesh the wrestler.
A large structure was seen in the distance - Korg decided to see what was inside it, perhaps it contained some loot.
Strange creatures were present in the vault. Despite their appearance, they fell easily, due to being made of ash.
Another type of humanoid was present - this one wielded a halberd, made out of a strange, blistered-looking metal - a horrid stench emanated from it. Once again, it's composition made it an easy opponent.
The last type of creature seen by Korg was a massive, transparent-looking reptile. Out of all the worlds seen by the Doomguard on the Legion's many conquests, this one had by far the strangest creatures.
The gargantuan beast quickly showed it's massive strength, when a single hit from it's horns half-decapitated Zuzlafas, his head only attached by some bits of flesh - one of the Warring Messengers accompanied the giant behemoth, and with a single slash he completely severed the sand troll's head.
Korg and Stongun retreated, knowing this was a battle they couldn't presently win. Atleast the doomguard got a halberd out of the ordeal.
Passing through another naga hamlet, Korg was stopped by another demon-worshipper, a hammerwoman by the name of Alala Twistsickness. Quite convenient after having just lost another servant.
After several days of travel, Korg and his minions eventually arrived at the territory of the Crowded Gate. They would have to find a decent spot in order to build an outpost. Perhaps some of the bandit camps had resources they could use, or atleast more servants - even if they didn't, taking out potential rivals was a goal in itself.
A badly wounded draenei was found in one of the camps - he appeared to have been intruding on this camp's site, and paid the price for it.
Korg walked up to him and hacked away, spilling the Broken's guts. Eventually he simply bled to death from the injuries.
Some corrupted humans were present at the encampment, including a badly injured hellspawn and a regular crossbowman.
The hellspawn managed to strike at Korg's wing with a pickaxe, dealing quite a lot of damage to it - he didn't manage to do more, as the doomguard swifly beheaded him. The crossbowman was disembowled by Korg from behind, having been seemingly oblivious to his comrade dying - another slash resulted in his head coming off.
As the three were leaving, they noticed a male draenei's partially skeletal, mangled corpse impaled on a spear. This individual seemed to have been quite powerful in life, given the pile of equipment laying around the spear. Korg was quite disappointed he was slain by the corrupted human wretches - he would have surely proved to be a worthy opponent.
Several mindless, undead monsters were attracted to the scent of decaying bodies - although they attacked Korg and his minions, they were swiftly disposed of. These wights were a strange type of undead. They had an ape-like posture, supporting themselves with their hands, but despite this, some of them still seemed to possess the intelligence from their former life - apparently, certain types of wraith's would mutate individuals they find worthy into these forms - some eccentric necromancers would also experiment on living people they kidnaped, eventually turning them into wights, which would explain the rusted bolt implants nearly all of them had.
After a few more days of travel, Korg decided to set up the camp site near a river - plenty of trees were nearby, so it was quite a convenient spot.
As the doomguard was chopping up the trees for lumber, Stongun absentmindedly stood under one of them, and was gruesomely crushed by a falling log.
At the sight of this, Korg stared in disbelief. He would have to find someone to replace the sand troll, as he required more hands to work on the camp. For now, it was time to rest up.
OOC: So yeah, that happened. I've never seen someone get crushed by a falling log in adventure mode. Wee bit inconvenient, but I'll try to recruit some more slaves from the nearby camps. Or maybe we'll go to that tower down south on the map so I won't have to worry about sleeping, eating, drinking or not having companions - we'll see.
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