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Chapter 15 - The True Threat (Part 3) A sling stone struck Thira’s shoulder blade from behind and she twisted on the spot to seek out this new foe. The other slinger now stood on the corner of the central structure and was facing Thira and Lavren. From the far ledge, the robed kobold was...

Chapter 15 - The True Threat (Part 2) The hall where the drakes lay dead led on until it opened into a wide chamber with a 20-foot tall ceiling. Ahead was a 10-foot tall wall that left passages open to both right and left but that was all that the companions could note for suddenly, the sound...

Chapter 15 - The True Threat (Part 1) “We must rest,” said Thira once the companions had tended to the worst of their wounds and were gathered in the hallway beside the fallen drakes. “Kel has suffered most of all of us and will not survive another battle.” “Though I am stronger than Thira...

Chapter 14 - Kobold Hall (Part 4) Kel prayed for healing as she watched the drake before her and then, as it darted forward, she changed her prayer and swung at the creature. She ducked left and struck its flank, forcing it away from her towards Dulvarna and marking it with a glowing symbol of...

Chapter 14 - Kobold Hall (Part 3) A pouch of gold had been left on the altar which the companions shared between them before binding the worst of their hurts and moving on. More stairs descended from the south east corner of the altar chamber and these emerged into a chamber that looked like it...

Great start. Love the way you have tied Ninaran and Kalarel together. Moving the story to the North rather than going with the Dungeon idea of the Thunder Peaks is also interesting. I'm intrigued and awaiting the next post.

Chapter 14 - Kobold Hall (Part 2) After finding the northern side chamber empty, Dulvarna led the companions along the eastern passage to its end where it turned right and descended stairs deeper into darkness. The stairs emerged into a chamber containing four stone coffins, all of which showed...

Chapter 14 - Kobold Hall (Part 1) Thira called light to her staff as Dulvarna led them down the steps into the darkness of the place that Milos named Kobold Hall. He hand wanted to accompany them into the underground chambers but Dulvarna had convinced him that someone was needed to keep watch...

Chapter 13 - Chauntea's Blessing (Part 5) Thira looked around the bustling city streets beyond the arch as she passed through the Eastgate, hooded once more as she had learned to always be around those who were deemed to be civilised folk. She looked over at Kel who was similarly hooded and...

Chapter 13 - Chauntea's Blessing (Part 4) “There was a scroll tube,” said Lavren suddenly, looking across at Thira with a desire, no doubt inflamed by the wine he had drunk, that he had not felt since meeting her. She looked at him and raised her eyebrows, the curious curved horns that betrayed...

Chapter 13 - Chauntea's Blessing (Part 3) “Can you aid her?” Dulvarna asked as she laid Enlishia’s body before the altar of Sister Linora’s small temple. The others for the most part looked askance at the warrior woman but Kel looked over at Dulvarna thoughtfully. She wondered if anyone would...

Chapter 13 - Chauntea's Blessing (Part 2) Ninaran watched as the five companions passed solemnly through the gates of Winterhaven and wondered whether Kalarel would forgive her for not having put their plan in motion to bar their safe return. Her servants were proving particularly troublesome...

Chapter 13 - Chauntea's Blessing (Part 1) Erlmoor surveyed the battlefield as Thira made her way slowly back down the stairs and knelt beside Kel. He knew that it would make sense for him to heal the drow first so that she may help him in tending to the others but he could not bring himself to...

Chapter 12 - Revelations and Reckonings (Part 5) Lavren closed his hand over the neck of the vial and made to lift it out of the mulch but as he did so, another coughing fit overtook him and he fell back as dizziness assailed him. He tried to pull on the vial but his arms had lost all their...

Chapter 12 - Revelations and Reckonings (Part 4) Lavren moved further along the edge of the pool and loosed more crackling black energy towards the slime creature while eying the treasures visible on the island. He could get there without getting wet by using his innate magic to teleport there...

Chapter 12 - Revelations and Reckonings (Part 3) “If you have already travelled to the east then we should go that way again,” said Thira as she surveyed the pit trap at the centre of the entrance chamber by the light of her staff. “Part of the way is explored and known to us.” “And defeated,”...

Chapter 12 - Revelations and Reckonings (Part 2) Kalarel stalked around the table where the goblin and the elf woman sat nervously. He marked each step with a thump of the skull capped rod he carried on the stone floor and knew that each blow emphasized his anger. The elf noted each thud with a...

Chapter 12 - Revelations and Reckonings (Part 1) “Come in,” said the wizard with an impatient wave as the cold winter wind made the candles inside the ground floor room flicker wildly. On the desk underneath the far window a parchment lifted and the wizard glanced towards it nervously...

Chapter 11 - Restless Guardians (Part 4) The south western passage led to another circular crypt, this one decorated with frescoes that showed nobles hunting the forest long ago. Only one way led on from this chamber, a dark passage leading north west that Dulvarna led them into cautiously with...

Chapter 11 - Restless Guardians (Part 3) Lavren felt real fear well up within him as the zombie drove him back into the western tunnel. He loosed more crackling black energy from his wand and felt momentary relief as the bolt struck the shambling undead creature but the zombie was unfazed and...