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Chapter 21 - The End of the Beginning (Part 1) Dulvarna looked at the double doors in front of her and saw that a board had been nailed across both doors. Scrawled on the door in poorly drawn Thorass runes was the word Closed. They had camped in the upper ruins since the battle with the...

Chapter 20 - Partings and Meetings (Part 5) In the eastern chamber, Erlmoor roared and covered the three hobgoblins nearest him in a spray of burning acid. He lashed out at the shaman while praying to Lathander then and with a glowing blade, he cut deep into the hobgoblin’s shoulder. A arrow...

Chapter 20 - Partings and Meetings (Part 4) “Litiraan,” said Lavren as he stepped into the eastern chamber. “Telkya. When last we saw you, you were to return to Cormanthor.” The elf lord and his companion had aided the adventurers in the Hullack Forest and guided them to the Ashen Tower. It was...

Chapter 20 - Partings and Meetings (Part 3) The chieftain stabbed out with his spear and Dulvarna dodged left to evade the thrust. She raised her blade but as she did so, the hobgoblin to the left of the chieftain gasped and fell to its knees. Enlishia’s boot struck its chest and pitched it...

Chapter 20 - Partings and Meetings (Part 2) Dulvarna looked down grimly at the two stone cairns they had raised over their companions and then called out to the others. “It is time we returned to the dungeons,” she said. Her three companions put down their half eaten breakfasts and gathered...

Chapter 20 - Partings and Meetings (Part 1) “Sister Linora will not raise a drow and a tiefling,” said Enlishia once the spider had been slain. “Chauntea would not permit it.” “You’re right,” said Lavren. “So we have to take them elsewhere. Like as not we would find a cleric in Arabel who would...

Chapter 19 - Clearing the Path (Part 4) At the entrance, Dulvarna weaved her blade back and forth before her and then struck low at the leg of the hobgoblin before her, driving her blade through the warrior’s knee. It staggered and stumbled back towards the well. She smashed the hilt of Aecris...

Chapter 19 - Clearing the Path (Part 3) “Now they are beaten,” said Erlmoor. “And we can turn our attention elsewhere.” He grunted as he tightened a strap on the armour Enlishia had taken from the torturer and was now putting on. It bore an enchantment and was too valuable to leave behind...

Chapter 19 - Clearing the Path (Part 2) “We have struck at the heart of the enemy now,” said Thira as they reached the top of the steps down into the dungeons beneath the ruined keep. “We must descend to the deeper levels again and keep them on the run.” It was a dull, drizzly day but the rain...

Chapter 19 - Clearing the Path (Part 1) Dulvarna opened her eyes and looked up into the serious eyes of Sister Linora. Dark memories of wandering souls and an endless grey plain faded quickly into the deeper recesses of her mind and she turned her head slowly to regard her companions, all five...

Chapter 18 - The Deeper Tunnels Each knelt in turn at the altars of Selune and paid respects in their own way before the companions moved on. They passed through the crypt undisturbed this time and emerged into the tunnels where they had faught the zombies with only one way forward. Dulvarna...

Chapter 17 - Hunters in the Dark (Part 3) “Will they return?” asked Thira once the last of the skeletons had fallen. “We should seek the trigger for the foul magic that dwells here.” She led the way to the eastern end of the chamber where silvery-white light from above suffused a wider section...

Chapter 17 - Hunters in the Dark (Part 2) The southern passage emerged into a long chamber with ten stone sarcophagi, five on each wall lining what seemed to be a crypt. The sarcophagi seemed to be granite and contained relief images of human warriors in plate armour. To the east, the crypt...

Chapter 17 - Hunters in the Dark (Part 1) “We know now that there is a deeper level and that whatever is being planned by Kalarel is near to its end,” said Erlmoor. “We must therefore try ways we have not tried before. I say we go south from here.” They stood at the bottom of the stairs beside...

Chapter 16 - Getting Back (Part 4) “Why has no one come for me?” Enlishia asked her companion once again although she already knew the answer. “You served no one,” explained the horned creature next to her. “And so no one comes for you.” Enlishia’s shoulders slumped and she surveyed again the...

Chapter 16 - Getting Back (Part 3) Lavren closed his eyes for a moment and with a dizzying rush he passed through the mausoleum against which he had stood and reappeared on the other side. He plunged his sword into the skeleton before him and watched it shattered before his eyes. Surveying the...

Chapter 16 - Getting Back (Part 2) Dusk was fast approaching as the small band drew near to Winterhaven and climbed the side trail off the East Way to the village gates. As they drew near, they knew that something was wrong for the gates were already closed and several figures stood with...

Chapter 16 - Getting Back (Part 1) “These were all that we found,” said Lavren, unwrapping a blanket and revealing the unguents and herbs that they had recovered from a small chest at the back of the dragon’s lair. They had also found a gem, some gold and the fine enchanted longsword that the...

Chapter 15 - The True Threat (Part 4) Lavren quickly laid claim to the robed kobold’s wand but within the pouch on his belt, Dulvarna found a parchment and a small silver key. “The parchment says there is a door to the north,” said Dulvarna once she had examined it. “The writing is crude but...

Yep. Loved the first two chapters as I posted on your thread. Will catch up with the rest and post again.