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<blockquote data-quote="PHDungeon" data-source="post: 5312751" data-attributes="member: 86320"><p>The journal's fallen a little behind over the course of the summer, but I now have a number of player journals ready to be posted, so I'll be posting many over the next week or so as I try to get caught up.</p><p></p><p>Bella's Journal: Session 25 – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly</p><p></p><p>After our initial assault on the Troll Haunt, we made our way deeper into their caverns. We found the trolls’ forge; it was a crude affair manned with pitiful looking grimlock slaves. Their slave master was a formidable looking troll with a dangerous looking, four legged, drake that breathed fire (redspawn fire belcher). His charges looked like they were going to attack us at first but they wisely held back. It wasn’t long before the troll was dead and his pet learned the true meaning of dangerous. In the end it was cowering in a corner when we put it out of its misery.</p><p></p><p>After the battle the slaves were more than willing to tell us in what direction to go to reach the Troll King in exchange for their lives. They were pathetic creatures and I could not see any threat from them that we couldn’t deal with. In a rare show of mercy, I decided that they did not need to die.</p><p></p><p>I took the lead. Having realized the limitations of my dark light ritual, I listened as hard as I could as I crept forward. I sent Cullen ahead to give me warning should anything come close to entering my light. The hall opened up to a large chamber and Cullen and I heard one troll up ahead, but I managed not to alert it to our presence. Deeper within we could hear many others, so I pulled back to confer with my comrades.</p><p></p><p>After hearing my report Bjorn wanted to get a look himself. Unfortunately he was lacking my finesse and he stumbled forward along with Turak. The only way he could have been louder is by singing a drinking song as he went, which would not have been unusual. The troll I had detected earlier spotted them and the inevitable battle began.</p><p></p><p>For once we didn’t advance into the room rashly but focused on the threat before us. Bjorn used a sun rod in the middle of melee to light up the cavern. Even though I had heard a large group, only a single troll appeared to re-enforce his ally. We wisely remained where we were and focused on the first troll and it fell quickly to our combined assault.</p><p></p><p>A second troll walked into the light, and I could see our warlord looking at it, twitching to charge the thing, but I cried out and stop her attack. I looked to our minotaur friend and nodded my head toward our new enemy. Where I would be cautious, the cow looked eager. He knew an ambush was ahead but he also knew that he could take it. With a roar of challenge he charged and was bombarded by the projectiles from the waiting horde. </p><p></p><p>A small cliff rose up before us, and the room we were in appeared to be a long tunnel that curved in on itself. Up on the cliff trolls howled and hurled rocks down at us. Turak and Vesna were able to pull the ranged attackers from their safe perch fairly early negating their advantage. Bjorn advanced into the melee while I remained back and fired into the group. One by one they fell, and Deryl burned their bodies with fire magic to make sure they would not regenerate. It was not long before we were surrounded by their charred, dead bodies.</p><p></p><p>We quickly made our way up the switch back dirt ramp. Re-enforcements were coming and they were not trying to be stealthy about it. Grimly we hid among the caves rocks waiting for them to come. The battles we had faced today had been taxing. We were weary and the day’s challenges looked to be far from over.</p><p></p><p>A small party of trolls entered the chamber from a narrow corridor. We struck hard and fast and fortunately for us were able to keep them pinned. We could see the Troll King screaming impotently from behind their ranks. We were able to keep the front line bottle necked in the tunnel and dissect it at our leisure. Turak held his ground in the mouth of tunnel they were coming out of, ensuring that they could not spread out around us. </p><p></p><p>Finally the Troll King stepped over the corpses of his minions to engage us. His one red eye evaluating each of us. His he raised his giant axe and brought it down upon Turak again and again. His end however was inevitable. There were five of us and only one of him. He was determined to go down fighting and cut into us with terrible savagery, but as I said- his end was inevitable. Finally, with a final brutal blow from his maul, Turak ended the king’s foul life.</p><p></p><p>Or so we thought.</p><p></p><p>In his dying breath he mocked us and his body disappeared. Frustratingly, it wasn’t over and we would have to travel deeper in the warren in order to end this menace.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PHDungeon, post: 5312751, member: 86320"] The journal's fallen a little behind over the course of the summer, but I now have a number of player journals ready to be posted, so I'll be posting many over the next week or so as I try to get caught up. Bella's Journal: Session 25 – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly After our initial assault on the Troll Haunt, we made our way deeper into their caverns. We found the trolls’ forge; it was a crude affair manned with pitiful looking grimlock slaves. Their slave master was a formidable looking troll with a dangerous looking, four legged, drake that breathed fire (redspawn fire belcher). His charges looked like they were going to attack us at first but they wisely held back. It wasn’t long before the troll was dead and his pet learned the true meaning of dangerous. In the end it was cowering in a corner when we put it out of its misery. After the battle the slaves were more than willing to tell us in what direction to go to reach the Troll King in exchange for their lives. They were pathetic creatures and I could not see any threat from them that we couldn’t deal with. In a rare show of mercy, I decided that they did not need to die. I took the lead. Having realized the limitations of my dark light ritual, I listened as hard as I could as I crept forward. I sent Cullen ahead to give me warning should anything come close to entering my light. The hall opened up to a large chamber and Cullen and I heard one troll up ahead, but I managed not to alert it to our presence. Deeper within we could hear many others, so I pulled back to confer with my comrades. After hearing my report Bjorn wanted to get a look himself. Unfortunately he was lacking my finesse and he stumbled forward along with Turak. The only way he could have been louder is by singing a drinking song as he went, which would not have been unusual. The troll I had detected earlier spotted them and the inevitable battle began. For once we didn’t advance into the room rashly but focused on the threat before us. Bjorn used a sun rod in the middle of melee to light up the cavern. Even though I had heard a large group, only a single troll appeared to re-enforce his ally. We wisely remained where we were and focused on the first troll and it fell quickly to our combined assault. A second troll walked into the light, and I could see our warlord looking at it, twitching to charge the thing, but I cried out and stop her attack. I looked to our minotaur friend and nodded my head toward our new enemy. Where I would be cautious, the cow looked eager. He knew an ambush was ahead but he also knew that he could take it. With a roar of challenge he charged and was bombarded by the projectiles from the waiting horde. A small cliff rose up before us, and the room we were in appeared to be a long tunnel that curved in on itself. Up on the cliff trolls howled and hurled rocks down at us. Turak and Vesna were able to pull the ranged attackers from their safe perch fairly early negating their advantage. Bjorn advanced into the melee while I remained back and fired into the group. One by one they fell, and Deryl burned their bodies with fire magic to make sure they would not regenerate. It was not long before we were surrounded by their charred, dead bodies. We quickly made our way up the switch back dirt ramp. Re-enforcements were coming and they were not trying to be stealthy about it. Grimly we hid among the caves rocks waiting for them to come. The battles we had faced today had been taxing. We were weary and the day’s challenges looked to be far from over. A small party of trolls entered the chamber from a narrow corridor. We struck hard and fast and fortunately for us were able to keep them pinned. We could see the Troll King screaming impotently from behind their ranks. We were able to keep the front line bottle necked in the tunnel and dissect it at our leisure. Turak held his ground in the mouth of tunnel they were coming out of, ensuring that they could not spread out around us. Finally the Troll King stepped over the corpses of his minions to engage us. His one red eye evaluating each of us. His he raised his giant axe and brought it down upon Turak again and again. His end however was inevitable. There were five of us and only one of him. He was determined to go down fighting and cut into us with terrible savagery, but as I said- his end was inevitable. Finally, with a final brutal blow from his maul, Turak ended the king’s foul life. Or so we thought. In his dying breath he mocked us and his body disappeared. Frustratingly, it wasn’t over and we would have to travel deeper in the warren in order to end this menace. [/QUOTE]
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