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Chapter 12 - A Measure of Revenge (Part 2) Telkya moved to stand beside her husband, uttering a prayer as she came. Golden light lanced forth from her amulet and struck the dragonborn in his left side driving him back another step away from Dulvarna and Thorn. Dulvarna surged forward after the...

Chapter 12 - A Measure of Revenge (Part 1) After hearing from Thorn that the southern ways out of the chamber were blocked by water pipes, the companions decided the take the northern stairway out of the chamber. They rested for a moment on the steps and tended to their wounds before continuing...

Chapter 11 - Through Dark Waters (Part 4) Finally fully recovered from the fumes, Enlishia raised her bow and loosed one arrow and then a second toward the greenscale that had wounded Dulvarna. Both arrows drove into the creature’s right side and sent it staggering back from the warrior woman...

Chapter 11 - Through Dark Waters (Part 3) At the same time, the greenscale next to Dulvarna thrust its spear forward, driving its point into her thigh below the water. She fell back and it stabbed at her again but this time, she lashed her sword across and knocked the thrust aside. The...

Chapter 11 - Through Dark Waters (Part 2) The companions decided to go north again from the pit chamber so as to keep moving away from the arboreans and their servants. A long passage led north from the room toward double doors at its far end but before it reached the doors, a passage branched...

Chapter 11 - Through Dark Waters (Part 1) The companions eventually stopped and rested in the chamber with the tilting floor, each one throwing themselves down on the floor and letting grief consume them. At first, once Telkya realised that Litiraan had not followed them, she wanted to go back...

DM Note - The Well of Loss This encounter is very tough in my opinion and the PCs here were lucky to get out having lost only one of their number. Admittedly I had added an extra arborean to account for 6 PCs facing it but even without this it would have been hard to get through. I played the...

Chapter 10 - The Well of Loss (Part 4) Dulvarna saw her companions gathered near the northern doors and realised that this was their only hope. She raised her blade above her head and brought it down heavily onto the shoulder of the arborean before dancing around to her left toward the doors...

Chapter 10 - The Well of Loss (Part 3) As the plant creature enveloped him, Erlmoor roared again, spraying acid onto the creature’s fronds. He lashed out with his blade as the creature recoiled and tried to free himself but still, several vines held him fast. Others snaked out to securely hold...

Chapter 10 - The Well of Loss (Part 2) Telkya scrambled back up the slope desperately but as she did, two tendrils lashed out to seize her, one around her leg and the other around her throat. Sharp thorns drove into her flesh and blood poured from her wounds. She gasped and gagged as blood...

Chapter 10 - The Well of Loss (Part 1) Once they had tended to their wounds, the companions found a passage leading south out of the maze chamber close to where the final battle with the arboreans had taken place. The corridor led a short way south and then ended at double doors. Dulvarna and...

Chapter 9 - Beasts and Mazes (Part 7) The arboreans came forward again and a scythe drove into Erlmoor’s side, forcing him back and away from his enemies. The dragonborn roared and spun around, his blade singing out but slashing through nothing but air. The sword-wielder rushed at Dulvarna but...

Chapter 9 - Beasts and Mazes (Part 6) Telkya was also hoping for aid as she raised her sword again and uttered a prayer to Corellon. She stabbed out with her blade and drove it into the side of the arborean before her. As the sword struck home, a surge of healing energy passed along it and into...

Chapter 9 - Beasts and Mazes (Part 5) Telkya loosed a bolt of golden divine energy from her amulet toward the hag but the creature stepped to its left and the bolt flew past to strike the wall beyond. Enlishia moved forward and raised her bow, loosing two arrows quickly. One drove into the...

Chapter 9 - Beasts and Mazes (Part 4) The companions rested in the eastern end of the chamber for a few hours while Telkya tended their wounds and then examined their way forward. Doors led out of the room to the north and south at the eastern end of the room and after some debate, they opted...

Chapter 9 - Beasts and Mazes (Part 3) Enlishia threw her sword up onto the floor above the pit, slung her bow over her shoulder and ran at the pit wall, hurling herself up it and hooking her arms over the top. The creature, which she recognised as some corrupted form of otyugh, lashed out a...

Chapter 9 - Beasts and Mazes (Part 2) his anger while beside him, Telkya retched and lashed out at the rat before her. To Erlmoor’s right, Dulvarna lashed her sword across and gutted two rats with a single blow, the bodies flying away from her and smearing the floor with blood. Telkya leapt...

Chapter 9 - Beasts and Mazes (Part 1) Lavren reached for the new wand at his belt as the companions entered the room to the south of the corridor that held the mirrors. Telkya had found it and a potion that she had decided was a healing draught under the mattress of one the beds in the chamber...

Chapter 8 - Ambush of the Outcasts (Part 5) The dark one at the southern door lashed its blade across the top of Litiraan’s chest and forced the elf back a step but he ignored the injury and came back at his enemy. As he did, he glanced to his right and saw another bolt of flame sear from one...

Chapter 8 - Ambush of the Outcasts (Part 4) Erlmoor felt his shoulder wound burning as he rushed at his enemy again and angrily shouted forth a prayer to give his blade and his body strength. His sword glowed brightly as it swung out high and though the cambion raised his own blade, the...