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Can't go wrong seeking to appeal to old-school gamer nostalgia. Played this one back in the day (middle school... man, can't believe that was almost 40 years ago!), and wrote a story hour thread in 2002 that was set there. Definitely had that exotic feel to it no matter what setting you placed...

As it happens, I happened to recently come into possession of a certain D&D supplement... * * * Chapter 196 They had no difficulty following the trail left by the trolls. The pats of mud were frequent and in places formed a solid slick on the uneven floor of the tunnel. The sounds of the...

Chapter 195 “I don’t think we’re going to be able to get much closer than this,” Xeeta said. The four of them were crouched atop a ledge that overlooked a broad cavern below. The ledge had a bit of a raised rim, offering them decent cover, but they still kept as low as they could. The...

Thanks, HubHacken. * * * Chapter 194 “All right, your turn,” Xeeta said. Bredan looked into the bucket and gagged, “Gods, that’s foul.” “Hey! This was your idea. If you can’t handle it, I’ll smear it on you myself.” Bredan shook his head and then reached into the bucket. It looked as...

Chapter 193 They continued the briefing in another meeting room one level up from the Darkfall Gate. Ambassador Konstantin rejoined them, along with Akhenon Loremaster, Dergan Steelhammer, and a handful of senior dwarven officers clad in suits of heavy armor. “It would take months to hack...

Chapter 192 “What are we looking for?” Bredan asked. “Not looking, listening,” Darik said. The four of them—Bredan, Quellan, and Xeeta, along with the dwarf warrior—stood in silence atop the battlements of the Darkfall Gate. The dwarves had removed the bodies of their own fallen and the...

Chapter 191 The altered Tender turned to face Kosk. The dwarf did not know whether it was undead or something else, but he had already gotten a pretty good idea that it was extremely dangerous. And from the fading echoes of Glori’s thunderwave, he would have given good odds that there was at...

Chapter 190 Majerion came over to where Kosk was sitting on a low bench along one of the side walls of the house. The dwarf had pruned back the vines that had drifted down from the broken ceiling, clearing a space to sit while he waited for Loriellan to finish preparing the evening meal. “I...

Chapter 189 They reached the Tender outpost about an hour shy of sunset. At first, Glori did not even realize that they had arrived. It wasn’t until the Rangers stopped that she took a second look at their surroundings and saw that they’d reached their destination. The outpost was situated...

Chapter 188 It was a different group that met with them this time, though several of the faces were familiar. They were in a small meeting room instead of the more spacious Council chambers, dominated by a long conference table and a hearth that was currently black and cold. There were two...

Chapter 187 Bredan lay slumped against the solidity of the Darkfall Gate, utterly exhausted. His arms and legs felt as though they had been banded with iron weights. His wounds burned, but they were not too serious; a dwarf medic had examined him briefly earlier but had passed him up for...

Chapter 186 For a moment the companions just stared at this unexpected development in surprise. The remnants of the husk clung together just enough to give the trolls some pause, but the first one to shrug clear quickly focused on the four individuals standing there watching it. It snarled...

Chapter 185 Bredan woke in the middle of the night to a feeling of dread. At first, he did not remember where he was. It was dark and quiet. But then he remembered. Their quarters in Underhold were not especially spacious or well-apportioned, but they each had their own room and vents in...

Chapter 184 Glori was quick to check on Kosk, but the dwarf was not hurt as badly as it had looked at first glance. Turning to the front of the column, she saw that the fighting had come to an end there as well. A second owlbear, even larger than the first, had attacked just moments after...

Chapter 183 For a moment, overwhelmed by the sudden and incongruous appearance of the creature, Glori hesitated. That moment quite nearly cost her, but even as the owlbear reared up to strike Kosk slammed into it from the side. The end of his staff cracked into the right side of its face just...

Chapter 182 They got an early start the next day, at Shreskra’s urging. By the time that the faint rays of scattered sunlight that penetrated down through the canopy reached the forest floor they had already covered several miles. The forest was much the same as it had been the day before...

Chapter 181 Night in the Reserve was almost pure black. The forest was not quite still, as the breeze rustled the canopy high above and the soft sounds of nocturnal creatures provided a steady background noise. But in the camp, everything was quiet. The fire had burned low, the glowing...

Chapter 180 The next morning they got an early start into the Reserve. The outer precincts seemed much like any other forest, Glori thought. The sense of foreboding that she’d felt the previous evening had faded somewhat, although a hint of it lingered, a vague impression that something was...

I'm back! * * * Chapter 179 Under different circumstances, Glori thought that she might have enjoyed the journey from Tal Nadesh to the border of the Reserve. On seeing the conveyance provided by the elves, her first thought had been, Nice carriage… but where are the horses? The elves had...

Chapter 178 The morning sky was overcast and a cool breeze blew as Glori, Kosk, and Embrae made their way along a lightly wooded path on the western outskirts of Tal Nadesh. They were far enough from the core of the elvish city that they could have pretended that they were alone, save for the...