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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kayne" data-source="post: 1009643" data-attributes="member: 13153">Miles' Journal - Part ThirteenHammer 22nd - We rested up till noon, and then went exploring around the seond level, finding a cavern that was being used as a prison and defeating the guard ogres. Inside we found the remnants of the Rudenheim clan, some thirty very dirty and undernourished dwarves, clad in chains and rags (thankfully their beards covered their modesty). It would seem they have been kept as slave labour, and their number whittled down over the decade they have been prisoners by the ogres dining on them also! Halbrinn used two of the groups remaining teleport rings to go to Dagger Falls and purchase a vast stock of food, and then return with it, and we distributed this amongst the survivors. Angry at how these proud people have been treated, we redoubled our efforts to clear the clanhold. Halbrinn shifted shape into a bat and flew off around the caverns, locating the last pocket of ogres and we vengefully attacked them, wiping them out and their remaining giant also. We then headed to fight a hydra which he had spotted on his travels. The beast proved nigh on indestrucitble!, healing any wound it suffered instantly, regardless of the source of the damage. spells, my blade, Khondar's axe and Stedd's fists all proved useless against the seven-headed, fire breathing monstrosity, and it swiftly felled me. Khondar managed to get me away from it, and saved my life. We retreated for a while and found another way into its cavern, evading the beast. While the others scouted out a nearby cave that they later informed me was being used as an arsenal and tool store, I tried studying the beast, seeking a weak spot through which I could thrust a blade. Alas, I found none such, and it kept spotting me, a definate problem in trying to hide from a creature that has seven sets of eyes! While I danced around it, Halbrinn used his fright spell to scare the great beast to death, dropping it instantly. I have never felt so useless in my entire life.Hammer 23rd - We spent the day with the dwarves, resting up, as we have discovered a set of stairs leading yet further down, possibly to wherever those raiders from Lord Morn's mansion are lairing, and we felt it best to recover from the wounds that the hydra inflicted before facing whatever peril awaits us below.Hammer 24th - We made an early start, and headed down the stairs to the third level, and entered straight into a battle with the raiders as they were waiting for us. We dealt with the four of them easily enough, but two managed to get away, one returning shortly after to try and surprise attack Halbrinn, but he botched his attempt and I had been lying in wait for him and cut him down savagely before he could try again. While I headed off down a side tunnel to ensure that we wouldn't be flanked, the others followed the second raider into a pitched battle with a large group of the bandits. I returned in time to see both Yvgeny and Khondar downed with a sword poised over them. I leapt into the fray, and helped Stedd out, giving the would be murderer of my fallen comapnions a new threat to worry about. The two of us quickly finished off the last couple opponents and saved the cleric and dwarf from an untimely death.As we were then evaluating what of their stuff we wanted (I recovered Slayer and my greatsword from their bodies, having lost both when I fell down the chasm a few days back), a fireball went off, killing Khondar in his wounded state, though the rest of us escaped any serious injury. Stedd set off after the wizard who had cast it, though one of Adamo's weird creatures got him (supposedly a snake, I'll admit this one did look vaguely snakelike for a change). As he wasn't going to need them anymore, I helped myself to Khondar's boots of speed (as we decided against raising him back to life again), while everyone else chased down a couple more of the bandits trying to flee the caves, taking them captive. I also found and captured their cook, so we had a few prisoners to question (Stedd broyght back an alchemist and a soldier, though both are wounded).Tying them up, we set off down a side tunnel and ran headlong into a hungry Roper that nearly wiped us out. Only a lot of luck, some canny negoatiating and many spells from Admo got us out of the situation. As for me, I was grabbed and rendered unconscious in mere seconds, caught totally offguard like a novice. Respen would not be impressed.I was woken later, when we had retreated, after feeding the creature with the bodies of the dead bandits, in exchange for letting those of us it had grabbed go. The dwarves wanted our prisoners, after years of slavery they wanted revenge. As we are on dwarven soil, their law applies and I had no problem with this, though others amongst the group certainly did. In the end we kept the cook, they got the alchemist (the soldier had died from his wounds while we fought the Roper). They took the alchemist and from the screams, tortured him to death. Admoa then casualy murdered the cook, shoving him in a room and casting his tentacle spell into there, closing the door and leaving the man to be ripped apart. He claims that he didn't know that the tentacles would kill him... despite having seen them attack the ogres only a few days back. Still, the man deserved death, and death is what he got.Hammer 25th to 26th - We spent a couple days resting up, after the beating we took from that Roper, to ready ourselves for another foray into the clanholds depths. The dwarves held a solemn funeral and internemtn in the holds vaults for their fallen would-be king, and I can't help but get the feeling that we are not as welcome here anymore as we were, now that we no longer have one of their clan amongst our number. Still we have a task to do, and we shall see it done before we take our leave.</blockquote>

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