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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RatPunk" data-source="post: 681664" data-attributes="member: 1246">Chapter 5 - The Farmhouse Of Death, Part 2--- From The Journal Of Knuptar---Oblivious to the struggle for the amulet, Pyro and Shuglin continued swinging away at the skeletons. I don’t know how Shuglin had managed to avoid being hit so far. He was a true testament of the dwarven spirit. Ostler took a deep breath and raised his holy symbol once more. At the top of his lungs, he yelled for Kord to grant him the strength to turn the undead abominations.This time, Kord was listening. The skeletons turned and moved away from Ostler as quickly as they could. Pyro and Shuglin let them go and turned their attention to the imp, which was still struggling over the amulet with Jeb. The little bugger was tough. Most of their blows just bounced off of it. I decided it was time for a new viewpoint, so I moved to the doorway.With only Vort and his imp remaining, Jackie decided that the hayloft was no longer where he wanted to be. Calling on all of his monk training, he leapt from the loft doorway, did a somersault in mid-air and landed lightly on the ground. Show off. He readied his crossbow again, keeping his eye on Vort. Rumblethorn and Brush came out of the barn as well. Everyone began to converge on Jeb and the imp.Now Corian decided to get involved. He stepped out of the doorway and fired off an Acid Arrow at Vort. It didn’t seem to phase Vort much, but he returned the favor. One quick Magic Missile to the chest and Corian was laying on the ground unconscious. I guess he hadn’t completely recovered from us trying to kill him a couple of days earlier.I decided it was time to take the fight to Vort. I ran out of the house and tried to tackle him. Of course, from that distance, he easily saw me coming and stepped aside. On the plus side, Ostler and the wolf arrived at about the same time. Vort responded by disappearing, leaving us flailing helplessly at the now empty air. The imp, meanwhile, finally managed to wrest the amulet from Jeb and took off, heading toward the woods. Fortunately for us, the imp wasn’t too bright. It didn’t gain much altitude and its flight path took it past those of us who had been fighting Vort. We all moved to grab a hold of it. Pyro managed to grab a leg and pulled the imp down so he could hold onto it with all his might. I grabbed on as well. Hopefully, the two of us could hold on while everyone else beat the snot out of it. Rumblethorn cast Entangle into the woods. Since the spell had a fairly wide radius, not to mention a huge area of effect, he figured it might still entangle Vort, who wasn't likely to be far away. At the least, it might block any straight approach he had to where we were trying to beat on his imp. Even holding it down, our attacks against the imp were rather ineffectual, thanks to its tough hide and other worldly nature. We spent several minutes struggling with, and beating on, the imp. Then Vort made his presence known again. He cast Daze at Pyro. This stunned the big lug for a few seconds. It was a good thing I still had a grip on the creature. Jeb spotted Vort at the edge of the woods, maybe 50 feet away. He realized at this point (or perhaps he already knew) that he was carrying a magic short sword which might be able to pierce the imp’s demon hide. Jeb dropped the sword on the ground next to Pyro and moved to bring Vort into crossbow range. Pyro picked up the sword. Shuglin turned his attention to Vort and fired off a Sleep spell. Vort shook it off. Then the imp broke free. It had struggled, slapped and clawed enough that I just couldn’t hold on any longer and it slipped out of my grasp. This time, it turned invisible and, we assumed, began to fly away. In desperation, we all started swinging at thin air. The gods were smiling on us. Someone managed to hit it. With a thud, it reappeared as it hit the ground unconscious.Suddenly, everything went completely black. Vort had cast Darkness, centered on the imp's body. That left Jeb, Rumblethorn and Shuglin, who were outside the area of effect, to face Vort. Those of us who had been around the imp dropped to the ground and began feeling around for the amulet. Rumblethorn ran over and cast Cure Light Wounds on Corian in the hope that he might have some spells to use against Vort. Meanwhile, Jeb took another shot at Vort but missed. Shuglin moved around the edge of the darkness until he could see Vort and let loose with his final Sleep spell. This time, Vort didn’t shake it off and down he went. Leaving no time for debate or discussion, Jeb ran over and slit Vort's throat. Once the Darkness cleared, we recovered the amulet. We also made sure that the imp was quite dead as well.Then the looting and pillaging began...We gathered up everything of value from the dead bodies and put it in a pile. Corian cast Detect Magic and we picked out the magic items, which amounted to a ring, a vial of some liquid, the amulet, and the rusty short sword from over the fireplace in the farmhouse. We packed everything away and went back to prepping the house for our night’s stay.In the morning, we resumed our journey to Fairhill.</blockquote>

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