SkeletalBookeeper

“This is the worst idea you’ve had yet Brunty.” “Worse than the springs that launched our comrades into splatters on the castle walls?” “Absolutely. That was sound science, just poor aim.” “Worse than the cannons blasting dozens of our kind towards the walls, only to overshoot them?” “Yup. Too much gunpowder, too skinny of orcs. Should’ve tested on you!” “Har-har. No cannon could fit me now!” “No, but that’s why you’re my war-balloon, we’re going OVER! Then we drop down, kill the damnable magician, and take the portal.” “You mean *that* damnable magician?” Brunty asked, having nowhere else to look but the impregnable castle, and not as far below as she would have liked, the mage- who had the gall to wave at the inflated orc and her companion. “Shit, she spotted us!” A glowing bolt of energy speared into Brunty’s side, hot as a poker and drawing a pained hiss, which became a yowl as she felt *something* ignite inside her enormous frame. “Well, this is a new way to go