The Second D&D Tarak Campaign - Epilogue

Welcome to the ongoing saga of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign I ran a little while back. It started off using The Sunken Citadel module from the Tales From The Yawning Portal source book, but was then fitted into my Homebrew setting and moved on from there.

In the last post, our heroes had an epic finale battle against the orc warlord Jabzug and his bodyguards. It was truly a Final Boss fight, a fight to the finish where only one side would emerge alive.

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Seeing their leader and his bodyguards cut off and slain, the orc army lost heart. Leaderless and trapped, their morale broke and they tried to flee.

But they were strung out along the base of a steep ravine. Tarakian forces had rolled rocks down to create blockages to front and rear, and their column had been cut into two parts when our heroes had created two more rockfalls and assaulted the warlord.

Small groups of orcs tried to scale the sides of the ravine, or climb the barricades, in increasingly desperate attempts to escape the trap they found themselves in. But the local farmers, armed and vengeful, backed by the dwarven mercenary Axe-Hole regiment gave them no mercy, hacking them down as they tried to break through.

Very few orcs escaped from the ravine, and fewer still made it back to the Ingrim Mountains to bring tidings of the catastrophic defeat.

Our heroes had little part in this last stage of the battle. The fight against Jabzug had worn them out. Although none had died, they were all badly wounded and in need of healing. Every last spell had been used, every magic item drained of it's power for the day.

Luckily, Felosial and her Oakhurst Watch came up and were able to provide protection. The battle around them didn't have a clearly defined ending, it just kind of petered out as Tarakian troops cut down diminishing knots of resistance and went from body to body spearing isolated orcs who though they could hide by playing dead to get away later. No orcish prisoners were taken.

Once the battle had finally died down, the victorious Tarakians gathered their dead, treated their wounded as best they could, looted the orc bodies, and then headed back to Oakhurst.

The return to Oakhurst was an occasion of great joy. There were still a few orcs hiding in the mountains, but they were a spent force and could be hunted down at leisure. In the meantime, the town, the army, and our heroes all had a well-deserved party, celebrating for several days and drinking the town dry.

That was the end of the campaign. From my point of view as a DM, it was nice to round it off with a memorable finale fight. The players all seemed to enjoy the final battle, finding it challenging and exciting at the same time.

I was quite pleased to hang up my DM's hat and switch into player mode for a while.

But it wasn't the last adventure I was to run. I just have to decide which story to tell next !

Previous posts in this series;
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-introduction
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-lets-meet-our-characters-
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-arrival-at-oakhurst
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-to-the-sunless-citadel
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-into-the-citadel
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-kobolds-are-people-too-
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-a-deal-with-kobolds
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-no-creatures-land
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-a-beast-a-fountain-and-more-rats
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-first-encounter-with-the-cunning-goblins
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-pits-and-dragons
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-the-goblin-chiefs-potted-plant
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-down-the-hole
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-the-fungus-garden-and-a-laboratory
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-the-bugbear-gardener
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-into-the-twilight-grove
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-showdown-at-the-gulthias-tree
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-an-unexpected-offer
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-orcs--orcs-
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-overthrowing-the-mayor
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-cooling-off-cantrips-and-council
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-taking-the-fight-to-the-orcs
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-first-sight-of-the-orc-stronghold
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-storming-the-wall-of-sorrow
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-kicking-in-the-orcs-back-door
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-finishing-off-the-orc-stronghold
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-tough-choices
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-plans-and-realities
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-breakthrough-
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-getting-to-the-trapped-kobolds
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-free-kobolds-
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-back-to-oakhurst-again-
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-the-plan
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-ambush-
https://peakd.com/hive-189497/@alonicus/the-second-dandd-tarak-campaign-bloodbath-in-varpeak-valley