- Saw smoke from the north, cacophony in camp, seems forest is on fire, some humans fleeing, a half Orc female came in with them
- Gorkhill had heard that the giant had set fire to the latest village it had destroyed
- We went to investigate, Muzga told everyone to hold back bizarrely, to "let them burn"
- Weirdly one hut left standing in burnt village. Footprints headed east again.
- We decided to follow the footprints east with our new half Orc "friend". Saw some stakes in the ground going round in a circle in the distance. A village. Saw the giant in the distance walking around in there. But it's not smashing anything. It looked living, not undead.
- Giant started smashing stuff. Our new friend (introduced as Gudrun) snuck towards it to investigate. Discovered it attacking some villagers, it's an ogre
- Jon managed to use Command to hold him in place and we decided to just attack him after some attempts at controlling it with suggestion. Managed to kill it to our surprise!
- Lopped the head off with Jon's Spiritual Weapon and took it back to the Red Plume. Showed the head to everyone. Jon made a grand speech to everyone but Muzga wouldn't allow anyone to leave. Jon continued to speak with Muzga, suggested an alliance with the humans rather than keeping them as slaves. Filled her head with ideas of eventual greater power if she did. Seemed to work, Muzga wanted to talk more later in the day. He spoke with the human leader and tried to get them all on side.
- Went to see Muzga, saw two groups of orcs, one group around Gurkhill and another around Muzga. Jon continued negotiations. Gudrun said he would lead us and see if we can see through this plan. Jon managed to persuade her not to kill all the old and infirm and babies! Though she would send them out into the wilderness without help. Lawful Grey to the rescue!
- Gorkhill was looking daggers at us, only Gudrun dared leave Muzga's side during the drinking. Gorkhill revealed that she could have a champion fight for her against Muzga. Gudrun could possibly do it, and Gorkhill had some alchemy that she could use to enhance either Gudrun's strength or defense, using the ogre head
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