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A Fog of Ash and Death

Upon returning to The Last Wall, Diomicles was informed of a growing uprising of Orcs that resided within a small fort built around the open mouth of a volcano. There were also whispers of magic that troubled the great Captain, especially after their last disastrous bout against such forces, but made the decision to infiltrate and decommission these forces before they could stand to positively affect the forces of evil.

Though his numbers were lessened, Diomicles summoned his survivors and the faces of new men, hungry for the taste of victory. Among the forces that joined were Narsus, Desmond, Soran, Ulzshrae and Dollock.

Before leaving into battle, Diomicles was informed by Pollumby who had returned to The Last Wall with her father, that she had brutally slain Lyle, Aldain and another individual before getting rescued and brought back to the fortress. She backed up these notions with physical evidence of each of these slain men and Diomicles heeded her words, but he also took them with caution.

Diomicles also brought back from the lootings of the last battle many items, with the Legendary Tip of Spring being among them. Upon his return to The Last Wall, he relinquished this finding to trusted magi that knew how to properly handle such things.

Three Alchemical Dragons full of soldiers were sent into battle, with Diomicles leading his personal, trusted party in one. Their landing in the middle of battle was rough, but they made it with their lives. After the forces of many orc foe had been slain, the reappearance of the now-zombified bodies of The Prime, Okrim Lefort, and Kelbjorn proved to even the odds in battle against the Heroes of The Last Wall.

Around the mouth of the volcano stood dozens of channeling magi that, through foresight granted from Auntie Carla to Captain Diomicles, would prove to be the greatest threat of the battle as they would call upon more forces to combat the party who was already struggling to keep the ground they'd only recently gained.

Before the party was able to make their way to the top of the tower that led to the volcano's mouth, they were forced to fight off an ambush of Orcs as one of the other Alchemical Dragons carrying men for the war effort was shot down, exploding in mid-air. Ultimately, the party made it through the ambush, and the soldiers that were aboard the destroyed Alchemical Dragon had survived the explosion albeit with some injuries.

The party ventured to the top of the volcano, finding opposition from a magical foe that took to dangling Pollumby over the fiery open mouth of the volcano as leverage in his upcoming demands. He ordered Diomicles to take his men and retreat and, in exchange would refuse to drop Pollumby into certain death, but as Diomicles complied and the magical foe floated Pollumby to safety, the foe attacked Pollumby in an assault attempt to steal one of her packs. The result of their actions against one another eventually saw the magical foe meet his demise in the depths of volcanic magma, causing the summoning of a beast from within.

Diomicles, whose climb down the volcano was being aided by Dollock, sprang to Pollumby's aid with Herculean speed and might upon witnessing the magical foe's deception, preventing his soldier from falling in to the fires of the volcano as well, as Dollock made his way back to the top of the volcano to face off against the beast that was beginning to rise.

Dollock remained atop the volcano's mouth as the remainder of the party returned to the ground where the soldiers from the shot down Alchemical Dragon were holding off an all out Orc Assault. The Orc donned full armor and deadly War Hammers as they fought off the brave warriors, and by the time the party had arrived to combat the fray, Brandon Huckleberry had met his demise.

Much battling ensued, resulting in the eventual deaths of Soran and Jorg, but the Orc numbers were beginning to steadily decrease. Upon seeing his brother Soran's death from afar, Dollock, who still stood at the mouth of the volcano, watching as the beast from within emerged, finally locked eyes with the creature and, with a heart full of rage, sprung at the beast head first and collided skulls in a mighty headbutt that killed the beast instantly and left Dollock presumably killed as well. A sacrifice in the name of his great family.

After the beast was quelled, Diomicles was granted additional foresight from Auntie Carla that saw him witness the ship of Finn Morgan arrive to rescue the party, only for the hatch to open revealing waves of Orcs that would not only kill the party, but that Gumby, who had joined the assault with the Heroes of The Last Wall, would join the orcs as an ally when they flew away.

After this vision took place, the zombified versions of old heroes fell one by one. Okrim had imitated Solak's form of a dragon and was slain by a mighty blow to the head by Gumby's own War Hammer and a force magic assist by Solak. The Prime was later killed magically by what was presumed to be a victorious effort by Solak as well, and Kelbjorn was slain by Narsus.

When the time was right, Diomicles shared the troubling vision he'd received from Auntie Carla about Gumby's treachery, but soon found that a different Alchemical Dragon was arriving to rescue them. Prepared for a fight, the Heroes of the Last Wall found that there were nothing but allies aboard this Dragon that informed them that Finn Morgan's Dragon had been shot down behind enemy lines. Troubled, beaten up and slightly confused, the party boarded and were taken back to The Last Wall.

Upon returning, Diomicles discovered that the Mighty Tip of Spring had been stolen in their absence... by Aldain.