[Sellswords] Battle Report: The call of the chaos beast

Today I played the seventh scenario of my Solo campaign of "Sellswords & Spellslingers". The basic scenario was ispired, with some minor changes, from the rulebook: The Summoning of an ancient Evil pg50.

An Orc Shaman is summoning a Chaos Beast: a Manticore. The PCs must try to prevent this.

Mudagog, the Orc Shaman, was angry. Some strangers had violated his domains and killed many of his minions. Their leader is a powerful Purple Sorcerer and should not be underestimated. He decided to
subdue, with a shamanic ritual, a Manticore. Then the chaos beast will hunt and kill his enemies.
He was at the height of the ritual when the shake of his minions distracted him. The Purple Sorcerer was coming!
Mudagog: "Gorka and Morka curse him! It's too soon! I need time to finish the ritual! Greenskin's brothers, stop them!"
Mudagog has few hopes about his greenskin minions, but maybe they could live enough to gain some time to complete the ritual.

Overview of the board with foes and PCs deployed

Border Princes map (red star indicate the place where the scenario is played, zoom the picture)

CABAL of GRACIALE 93xp (3 are unspenct)

 AMRON MALIOCCO GRACIALE "the Bringer of Hope"  29xp

Traits: Spellcaster (20xp), Fireball (5xp), Alchemy (Heal) lvl1.

Negative Traits: Greedy (-5xp)
Silver pieces: 130 Equipment: Potion of Heal 

Amron is the bastard son of the rich merchant and explorer Dante Graciale of Tobaro. He is an half elf. His father never said much about Amron's elf mother. He simply told him that his mother chose his name before abandoning him and that she was a witch. Being an half elf and the result of an illicit relationship, Amron could not be officially recognized by the Graciale family, however his father grew him as his son and he could enjoy a comfortable life. When he was an adult, he finds out to have the spellcaster gift and his father paid a magician to teach him. Dissatisfied with the limiting lessons of his teacher, he decided to begin a journey in the Border Princes, where he could test is magic skills and learn magic faster.

 DAETHSKAR "the Dark Knight" 35xp
Traits: Armor lvl2 (12xp), Fighter: Axe lvl3 (15xp), Shield lvl2 (8xp)
Negative Trait: Burly
Silver Pieces: 247

Daethskar is an animated armor, created by Amron during one of his magic experiments.

He is the loyal body guard of Amron. He follows and protects his master wherever he goes.

GROGMILDA "the Half Orc" 12xp
Traits: Fighter: 2-handed blade lvl2 (10xp), Strong
Negative Trait: Impulsive
Grogmilda was a petty warband leader defeated by the Cabal.
Amron was impressed by the strenght of the Half Orc and decided to recruit her in his company.

 

The TWINS 10xp
Traits: Armor lvl1 (6xp), Danger Sense (4xp)
Silver Pieces: 207 

The Twins is/are just a goblin mutant mercenary hired by Amron.

 Mudagog, the Orc Shaman, and his minions:

Amron and his cabal advance toward the ancient ruins.
An ambush of a goblin is quickly resolved by the Twins.
Amron: "Move fast, you fools! The ritual of that impious creature should be stopped!" 😣

Another goblin ambusher is finished by the Twins, while three goblins are burned by the fireball of Amron.

Grogmilda charge impetuously the orc shaman, but a magic force field reject her and Mudagog injure her with a magic shot.
Grogmilda: " Coward pig! Face me like a real orc! Do not hide yourself behind the magic!" 😤

Amron is charged by an horde of orcs and receive two wounds, however he kill an orc and two more are slained by daethskar after he yet killed three goblins who dared to charge him.
Amron: "Wretched beggars! How did they dare to raise their filthy blades on me?!" 😠

Grogmilda finally break the magic force field and charge Mudagog, seriously injuring him.
Grogmilda: "Finally! You are mine, now! You will perish on the blade of my axe!" 😈
Mudagog: "Stupid half-breed brat! You can't defeat the true power!" 😡

Unfortunatelly is too late, the Manticore is finally recalled while Grogmilda is defeated and the killed by a good hit from Mudagog. However Mudagog (and another goblin) himself is defeated by a fireball of Amron.
Mudagog: "Silly girlie! You almost killed me, but you are dead meat now, and your master is doomed too!" 😠 Then he flees to lick his wounds in his hideout.

The Manticore charge Daethskar. The titanic fight begins.

Amron try to cast a fireball, but the magic winds betray him and he could not cast fireballs anymore.
Amron: "Damn misfortune! I've lost my magical powers! Right now in the moment of the decisive battle! The gods know how to be mocking." 😔

Amron decides that Grogmilda is a precious ally, too useful to leave her dead, then order to the Twins to save the body, later he will resurrect her.
The Twins: "We don't understand why save dead meat (and don't eat it), but we obey."

Seen himself useless without his fireball spell, Amron decide to take the body of Grogmilda personally, while the Twins charge the Manticore.
Amron: "What a humiliation, having to bear this weight!" 😞

Amron continue to move away from the fight, a goblin try to shot him with his short bow, but he dodge it. The fight continue, the twins lost two wounds, while daethskar one. The Manticore has still two wounds.
Amron: "That arrow was too close!" 😓

Finally, with a powerful and lucky blow, Daethskar kill the Manticore

Amron painfully drag the body of Grogmilda out of the board.
Amron: "Well done Daethskar, as always you are my most trusted minion! Then we must rest and take care of our many injuries. I will pay many coins for the resurrection of this green big woman, I hope it will be a good investment for the future, at least." 😒

The PCs gain a reward of 8xp. Amron pay 500 silver pieces for the resurrection of Grogmilda.