Encounter at Blackwell Keep - The Prisoners

15 June 2006

Players/Characters

Aust (Russell) 2nd/2nd level male Elven Spellthief/Rogue
Elzara (Will) 4th level female Elven Monk

Game Events

Elzara and Aust were rudely awakened from their slumbers by a splash of dirty water in the face to find themselves some way in to the Mistmarshes as captives of a band of Lizardfolk.

As the light was fading the lizards soon made camp on a section of the marsh that was more mud than water, securely fastening their prisoners to a large tree, where they were interrogated roughly in broken common by the leader of the lizardfolk.

Once it was understood that Aust was a spellcaster both his hands and jaw were broken by well placed strikes of a club and the two unfortunates were left to rest as best they could under the circumstances.

After another day and a half of travel they arrived at the lizardfolk's home where they were presented to the Lizardman king, a huge brute whose scales showed an unusual black mottling pattern around his mouth and neck.

Both Elzara and Aust were herded to a large enclosed section of the marsh where they were to be pitted in gladatorial combat against some of the marsh's inhabitants. The Lizard shaman healed Aust's wounds first, and they were dropped into the water, much to the delight of the surrounding tribesmen.

Also with them were two soldiers captured from the keep earlier.

The first test was against two crocodiles who managed to drag Aust underwater but were killed quite swiftly by Elzara and one of the soldiers who managed to get into a flanking position to assist her.

Aust's wounds were tended by the Shaman once more, then the second test began.

This time their opponents were four jumping spiders - Aust was unable to do anything to them as Elzara hammered the first spider. The two soldiers fared much worse and were killed and hauled up into the branches above to be stored for food.

Aust, succumbing to the spider's poison, slipped under the water's surface even as Elzara used her stunning fist strikes in quick succession to kill the remaining spiders. Despite her best efforts she was too late to save her companion from final death.

Elzara, the only survivor of the watery ampitheatre, was rebound and led off into the depths of the Lizardfolk lair where she could only lie and hope for rescue.

The first night inside the lair, Elzara was startled to see a 3' spider squeeze through the gaps in the walls behind her, and gently lay a dead wrapped creature at her feet. The spider then retreated to the ceiling where it watched her with what appeared to be adoring eyes.

It would appear that Elzara has found an admirer!!

XP Summary

• 2 Crocodiles - 1,200 XP
• 4 Huge Monstrous Spiders- 2,400 XP

Total XP - 3,600 or 1,800 XP each

Current Totals

• Elzara - 10,341 - level up!
• Eolias - 10,737
• Tanith - 9,491
• Alexis - 10,931
• Tovar - 9,441
• Aust - deceased

Encounter at Blackwall Keep - Part One

10 June 2006

Players/Characters

Aust (Russell) 2nd/2nd level male Elven Spellthief/Rogue
Elzara (Will) 4th level female Elven Monk
Tovar Hammerguild (Ian) 4th level Male Dwarven Paladin
Tanith (Ewar) 3rd/1st level male Human Sorcerer/Warmage
Alexis Serria (Andrew) 3rd /1st level female Human Cleric/Fighter
Eolias (Richard) 3rd/1st level male Elven Ranger/Sorcerer

Game Events

Setting off on horses (and a pony) provided by Allustan, the party headed East along a well-marked track towards the distant keep. Allustan indicated that the plan was to stop for the night at an abandoned farmhouse known as Shank's Rest that was used as a way-station, then set off early and arrive at the Keep by early evening.

The first day passed uneventfully apart from Eolias and Alexis trying to bully a small group of halflings pushing covered wheelbarrows towards Diamond Lake. If Alexis had had her way the halflings would currently be in a shallow, unmarked grave!!

Eolias and Elzara went out to hunt for supper, and a pleasant time was had by all as tales of high adventure and fantastic treasures were swapped around the campfire.

The mood changed suddenly the next afternoon, as the sharp eyes of Eolias and Elzara noticed a plume of smoke rising above the trees in the direction they were heading.

Cautiously approaching the Keep, the party saw several groups of Lizardfolk who were obviously besieging the building. Allustan charged them with assisting the soldiers in the Keep before using his emergency scroll of teleport to travel back to Diamond Lake to arrange for re-enforcements

Splitting into two groups - the heavies - Alexis, Tanith and Tovar, and the sneakies - Eolias, Elzara and Aust - the party made their plans.

The Sneakies were to circle the keep and attack from cover whilst the Heavies remained in reserve, ready to gallop in to save the day should they be needed.

Just before dusk the Lizardfolk attacked, a dozen attacking the hastily barricaded doorway and another dozen attacking the low balcony that ran around the keep. The balcony-attackers were targeted by the Sneakies and two of the attackers fell to their missile fire.

Having betrayed their position the Sneakies found themselves under attack as half the attackers turned their attention to them, but worse than that happened when Elzara and Aust found themselves completely entangled by the very grass and bushes that they were hiding in.

Unable to defend themselves they were subject to coup-de-grace hits that knocked them out - Eolias, on the other hand, was smashed to the ground by multiple club hits and left for dead as the other two were borne away from the battle and into the swamp.

Seeing that their companions were in dire trouble, the three heavies whipped their mounts forwards to charge to the rescue.

Unfortunately none of them were unable to ride particularly well, and so all three ended up on their backs in the dirt, their mounts racing wildly for freedom away from the battle.

Having to approach the battle on foot meant their friends were far gone, and even Eolias was beyond help as he slowly bled to death in the long grass where he had fallen.

Tanith was the first to reach the group attacking the doorway and let loose a terrible blast of fiery breath, which, although it did singe a few lizards, had the unfortunate effect of also cutting down the three human defenders of the gateway, allowing the lizards free entrance to the keep.

By the time his two companions had reached him the lizards had managed to rebuild the barricade and were now securely ensconced within the very walls of the keep itself.

Alexis went to Eolias' body and was amazed to find that the bleeding had somehow staunched itself, and the hardy Elf was still alive. Several cure spells later he was back on his feet and eager to spill reptilian blood!

After a hard fight the few remaining Lizards inside the keep were killed, and the remaining 4 soldiers who had survived were heartily thanking their rescuers.

They told the group that the Lizardfolk had attacked the evening before and taken them totally by surprise - when they broke down the door they had been able to attack and kill several soldiers, and had even taken a couple of prisoners (including their Battle Mage) whom they had seen led off into the Mistmarsh.

Due to their lack of numbers they are unable to go to help their friends themselves, so they suggest that the party should go to help all the captives.

The lizard bodies were searched, but the only thing of note found was a magical club

Magical Items Found

• Club

XP Summary

• 13 Lizardfolk - 3,900 XP
• Lizardman Leader- 1,200 XP

Total XP - 5,100 or 1,275 XP each (Elzara and Aust - 0 XP)

(Only 1,148 XP for Eolias due to multiclassing penalties)

Current Totals (please note these are different to those given out on Sat)

• Elzara - 8,541
• Eolias - 10,737 - level up!
• Tanith - 9,491
• Alexis - 10,931 - level up!
• Tovar - 9,441
• Aust - 8,166

The Three Faces of Evil - Part Five

10 June 2006

Players/Characters

Aust (Russell) 2nd/2nd level male Elven Spellthief/Rogue
Elzara (Will) 4th level female Elven Monk
Tovar Hammerguild (Ian) 4th level Male Dwarven Paladin
Tanith (Ewar) 3rd/1st level male Human Sorcerer/Warmage
Alexis Serria (Andrew) 3rd /1st level female Human Cleric/Fighter
Eolias (Richard) 3rd/1st level male Elven Ranger/Sorcerer

Game Events

Barely pausing to draw breath the party charged into the next room, surprising six more Grimlocks who didn't stand a chance against the massed firepower that the group can now muster.

Swelled with their success they switched their attention to the final passageway that spiraled down and down until they came out in a small cavern that had a 10' high shelf blocking the way forwards, over which they could make out a faint reddish glow, such as from a small fire or perhaps a lantern.

Elzara and Eolias swarmed up the cliff face, only to be met by three mask-wearing Grimlocks armed with longspears who were protecting their holy man who was perched ontop of another 10' high shelf behind them. They poked their spears at Elzara (being the first to reach the top). Wounded quite badly, Elzara fell back, slow-falling back down and Eolias also fell, using his ring of Feather Falling to float down gently.

Unable to get a line-of-sight to the enemy, Eolias tossed a vial of Alchemist's fire over the edge, followed by a Sound Burst spell from Alexis, but as the party tried to assault the cliff en mass a retaliatory sound-burst spell exploded in their midst, followed by a Spiritual Weapon attacking Eolias.

Alexis managed to scale the cliff and moved to engage the mask-wearing Grimocks, being hit with Javelins and longspears on the way. Elzara, Tanith and Aust also reached the edge, but were then attacked by the Grimlock Spellcaster who had made himself invisible and charged into them, dropping both Elzara and Aust. As he became visible the party noticed with horror that he had sewn large preseved eyes into his empty eyesockets to give him a fixed strange staring expression

Tovar, meanwhile, was struggling to climb the cliff, even when assisted by Eolias. Dwarves are very dangerous over short distances - as long as that distance isn't up. Even a charge from the wand of enlarge didn't help much.

Alexis managed to fell the last of the mask wearers and entered combat with the leader but fell as Eolias once more reached the platform and was engaged by the madman. Being a ranged specialist Eolias was faring badly until Tovar saw his chance and got in a solid hit on the Grimlock when he strayed too close to the edge of the cliff.

With their companions dying all around, Eolias and Tovar managed to finish off the Grimlock and administered aid to the fallen, rescuing more than one from the brink of death.

The bodies were looted and the battered group decided to spend the next 18 hours resting until Alexis could regain her spells and heal them all back to a semblance of health.

A Rope of Climbing and a suit of +1 Banded mail were found on the Leader's body along with a couple of scrolls that were written in a very disjointed cryptic style. Tanith used a Comprehend Languages spell to get the gist of what they were saying - lots of ranting about the Age of Worms and Great Kyuss - , and also deciphered the Braille on the potions - 2 x Remove Fear, 3 x Cure Light Wounds.

Whilst the rest of the party slept, Eolias was on watch when he heard a bellowing cry echo down the passages and heard the unmistakeable sound of wood being splintered, albeit quite far away. He also heard the sounds of one or more large things movong about, also a long way distant, but nothing came to disturb them throughout their rest.

The next morning the almost fully healed party returned to the large cavern containing the pool and elevator they found the elevator in pieces. Tovar moved towards the pool just as a 10' six-armed figure stepped out and attacked.

Eolias and Aust stood back and shot, Tanith let fly with Magic Missiles while Tovar, Alexis and Elzara were engaged by the beast.

Eolias' first shots didn't do much damae so Alexis cast Magic Weapon on his bow to try and negate any damage resistance which appeared to do the trick as a Spiritual Weapon appeared and attacked Eolias. As Tanith's spells seemed to be healing the monster he also tried to use ranged weapons but to no avail due to damage resistance.

Eventually the sheer force of numbers wore it down and it collapsed to the floor, dead.

Tovar, who had noticed the surface of the black pool pulsate after the creasture had climbed out of it, was horrified to see another, identical creature rise up and attack the party.

Already weakened by the previous battle the group fared less well, especially as this creature seemed to posses a rage-like ability which was very effective in dropping both Tovar and Alexis, joining Elzara who was already lying down on the job!

As the echoes died away it was left to Eolias and Aust to bring round their colleagues as Tanith too had succombed to the might of the creature before it fell.

After ascending the remains of the elevator's ropework the party found that Dourstone Mine had been abandoned. There was evidence that at least one of the six-armed beasts had ascended to this level, but no trace of it could now be found. Eolias examined the tracks carefully and announced that the beast(s) had indeed returned to the cavern where they were eventually slain.

The group returned to Diamond Lake, battered but not beaten, with lots of nice new shiny things to play with.

Allustan agreed to identify the magical items for free in return for information upon what they ahd been facing over the past few days.

These items were Full Plate +1, Pearl of Power - Level 1, +1 Ring of Protection, +1 Bracers of Armour, Lesser Rod of Extend, +1 Large Steel Shield of Blinding, Cloak of Charisma +2, +1 Studded Leather, +1 Mithril Shirt, 2 potions of Remove Fear, 3 potions of Cure Light Wounds, and a Heward's Handy Haversack.

Upon pooling their resources the party decided to invest in a Wand of Cure Medium Wounds and four potions of Mage Armour for Elzara.

The group, spending more and more time with their new-found friend Allustan, rested in and around Diamond Lake for a further week whilst Allustan's investigations were continuing.

Towards the end of the week Allustan came to the group with a proposition - he wanted to pay an old friend a visit in connection with the rumours of worms and undead in the hills, and asks the party to accompany him - both as friends and bodyguards.

His friend's name is Marzena and she is a battle-mage for the Free City, currently posted at Blackwall Keep on the edge of the Mistmarshes, about 2 days ride away.

Magical Items Found

• Rope of Climbing
• Banded Mail +1

XP Summary

• 6 Grimlocks - 1,800 XP
• 3 Mask-wearing Grimlocks - 900 XP
• Grimlock Shaman - 1,600 XP
• 2 Ebon Aspects - 4,800 XP

Total XP - 9,100 or 1,516 XP each

(Only 1,364 XP for Eolias due to multiclassing penalties)

The Three Faces of Evil - Part Four

3 June 2006

Players/Characters

Aust (Russell) 2nd/2nd level male Elven Spellthief/Rogue
Elzara (Will) 4th level female Elven Monk
Tovar Hammerguild (Ian) 4th level Male Dwarven Paladin
Tanith (Ewar) 3rd/1st level male Human Sorcerer/Warmage
Alexis Serria (Andrew) 3rd /1st level female Human Cleric/Fighter
Eolias (Richard) 3rd/1st level male Elven Ranger/Sorcerer

Game Events

Having despatched the summoned ape the party swifly moved down the corridor in search of the Mage and found themselves in a smallish room containing a couple of bunk beds.

As they searched the room, they were surprised by the Mage standing at the end of a small corridor who lightining-bolted Tovar and then sent a rolling 5' high ball of flame into him. This had the dual effect of dropping the Dwarf to the ground, and effectively blocked the way through to the mage.

At the same time as this was happening at the front of the group, the incorporeal mage who had been repulsed earlier made his presence felt again and attacked Tanith, Aust and Elzara.

This time luck was with them as they made short work of it, and then moved to observe the strangely unmoving ball of fire.

Elzara was determined to get past, and attempted an acrobatic leap over the sphere. Unfortunately she had not considered the height of the ceiling above the ball, and bounced off it to land squarely on top of the flames.

As Alexis was kept busy reiving and curing both Monk and Paladin, the rest of the group waited for the fire to die down, but after a few minutes the group decided to try and find a way around instead.

Heading down a previously unexplored corridor they came upon a storeroom filled with boxes and barrels, and as some of the barrels contained water both Eolias and Elzara decided to manhandle a couple of them back to the sphere to try and extinguish it, but by the time they had returned the firey sphere had disappeared.

Opening the door previously blocked by the fire they came across a well equipped laboratory, filled with all kinds of alchemical equipment and apparatus including a large wax-sealed cauldron in the centre of the room. Also waiting in the room was their ellusive adversory.

Leading the charge, Alexis managed to get a hit on the Mage with her mace, but unfortunately this was not enough to distract him as he summoned another huge centipede between them both and the rest of the party.

As the party tried to take out the huge creature the Mage managed to hit Alexis with a Magic Missile which knocked her over before he fled to the main hall where he was to make his last stand.

The centipede was quickly killed with the assistance of a couple of charges from Eolias' Wand of Enlarge onto both Tovar and Elzara, and Alexis was brought around by Elzara before she could slip away forever.

The party converged on the mage in the main hall who had to resort to defending himself with a dagger, having exhausted all of his spells earlier, and so was easily done in. On his body the group discovered a pair of Bracers and a Rod, and they also found a Shield, Cloak and pair of spellbooks in the laboratory room, along with a couple of documents.

The group returned to the room with bunk beds to rest and recover spells, and also to investigate the two documents. From these they learned of the uneasy peace between the three cults, and also that they were also searching for the worm-infested undead that had been mentioned by Filge the Necromancer and their friend, the Sage Allustan, from Diamond Lake.

There was reference to an 'Ebon Aspect' stirring in the pool, but that it was not ready to emerge as yet without some traumatic event taking place, and also a mention of something held by the Lizardfolk of the Mistmarsh that could possibly be of use to the cults of the Ebon Triad.

The next morning, fully rested and almost healed of the effects of both centipedes and the Allip, the party returned to the elevator room and opened the unmarked door with a large stone key found in the Hextor temple.

The passageway beyond was totally different from the other two areas - this looked like a naturally formed passage, complete with plenty of stalagtites and stalagmites.

Entering a small chamber, the ever-alert Eolias noticed a humanoid creature hiding behind a rock formation, and with a series of hand signals he alerted most of the front rank as to it's location, and they attacked.

Another two humanoids revealed themselves and fought back briefly - two died and one ran away.

Alexis identified the bodies as Grimlocks - strange eyeless subterranean creatures who worshipped Erythnul, and the party moved on to the next cavern.

Here Eolias noticed a couple of large cat-like creature, but when he attached they peeled the flesh back from their faces and screamed in such a horrific way that he dropped his bow and ran away. The rest of the party were a little shaken by the screams (more from the Ranger than the creatures) but were able to despatch both cats and both Grimlocks accompanying them without too much fuss, despite one of them being in some kind of rage or frenzy. Elzara broke from combat to try and find the panicked Ranger. Searching the body of the dead barbarian revealed 3 potions.

The group discovered a 20' wide shaft leading down about 60' into the darkness, with a series of spikes set into the wall as hand and footholds and Eolias, obviously trying to compensate for his previous reaction to the screaming cats, stepped off the edge first and floated down with his ring of feather fall as Elzara used the spikes to rapidly climb down to join him.

As Elzara was nearly half-way down a couple of Grimlocks appeared on a ledge opposite and flung a couple of tanglefoot bags at her, one of which caught her squarely, sticking her to the wall, a perfect target for their arrows.

Eolias tried to shoot from the bottom of the shaft, Alexis from the top, and Aust tried to climb down and help to free Elzara, but was himself hit and caught by another Tanglefoot bag.

Elzara managed to get free of the bag's effects and lauched herself across the gap to engage the archers in melee, and Tovar started down to assist Aust. Elzara, with an impressive display of martial arts, deflected several arrows and easily took out both archers, finding two potions when she searched the cooling bodies.

Another tunnel, more of a crack in the rock really, was found just under the archer's ledge, and Elzara dropped a rope to help everyone get up there. Alexis went first followed by Eolias while Elzara was helping Tovar and the others to climb.

After a few feet Alexis was attacked by a female Grimlock who fought with two rusting knives. As the tunnel was so cramped Alexis found it difficult to use her mace effectively, but even so the Grimlock eventually fell, but not before doing a considerable amout of damage to the party's main healer.

At the end of the tunnel the party found a 20' long rope bridge that spanned another shaft - Eolias went first but when he was attacked with javelins by 3 Grimlocks on the other side he jumped off and floated to the ground, 20' below.

Elzara raced across the bridge to engage the Grimlocks in melee followed (more slowly) by Tovar. As Tovar was part way across he noticed that Eolias had been attacked by a pair of Chokers who had emerged from the pile of rubble at the bottom of the shaft, and so, having faith in his Dwarven constitution, flung himself off the bridge to assist his beleaguered comrade, in true Paladin fashion.

All these creatures posed no problems for the group who moved onwards up a steep natural slope into a larger cavern where two Grimlocks were on guard at the entrance to one of the three other exits.

These too were swiftly taken down, but when the party moved down this tunnel they were dismayed to find a full enraged barbarian Grimlock swinging a greataxe waiting for them. The barbarian dealt out large amounts of damage before being subdued and killed - on sarching the body a shirt of mithril chain was found.

Magical Items Found

• Bracers
• Rod
• Shield
• Cloak
• Studded Leather
• 5 potions labelled in 'braille'-type writing (2 of one kind and 3 of another)
• Mithril Shirt
• Backpack

XP Summary

• Incorporeal Mage - 1,200 XP
• Vecna Leader - 2,400 XP
• 9 Grimlocks - 2,700 XP
• Grimlock Kennel Master - 600 XP
• 2 Krenshaws - 600 XP
• 2 Grimlock Archers - 1,800 XP
• Grimlock Barbarian - 1,200 XP
• 2 Chokers - 1,200 XP
• Grimlock Chieftan - 1,200 XP

Total XP - 12,900 or 2,150 XP each

The Three Faces of Evil - Part Three

27 May 2006

Players/Characters

Aust (Russell) 2nd/1st level male Elven Spellthief/Rogue
Elzara (Will) 3rd level female Elven Monk
Tovar Hammerguild (Ian) 3rd level Male Dwarven Paladin
Tanith (Ewar) 2nd/1st level male Human Sorcerer/Warmage
Alexis Serria (Andrew) 3rd level female Human Cleric
Eolias (Richard) 2nd/1st level male Elven Ranger/Sorcerer

Game Events

Moving through the doorway marked with the symbol of a human hand holding an eye, which Alexis identified as the symbol of the cult of Vecna, the party found themselves in a worked stone maze where they were ambushed several times by strange bird-men and a couple of dire weasels. The bird-men were frighteningly good at flanking and sneak attacks, causing serious wounds to several members of the party, and were adept at using alchemist's fire as well as vicious club attacks. When the party did manage to take these bird-men down they were dismayed to find nothing but a few coins and empty potion bottles on them.

The ambushes continued for a while, the group being hampered by the bird-creatures ability to open and close secret doors at will whilst the party had to search for the trigger point. Slowly the group managed to whittle away at their foes until Eolias decided that he would charge around the maze at top speed to try and catch the last of the creatures by surprise.

Whilst he was off doing this the group managed to find (more by luck than judgement) a secret door that led out of the maze and into an large L-shaped ante chamber with strange bulges studding the walls where they were ambushed by another group of bird-men.

This time it appeared that the leaders of these creatures were also involved, as spells and magic items were used against the party for the first time, including a simple grease spell that caused great problems amongst the less dexterous of the group.

As soon as the first spell had been cast, all the bulges along the walls opened to reveal hundreds of eyes watching every move that the party take.

Tovar found himself grappled and held fast by an animated leather whip thrown by the spellcaster which effectively kept him out of the combat, but eventually these minor bosses were swiftly despatched and Elzara chased around the corner to confront the sole bird-man survivor who had been sent running by a Cause Fear spell from Alexis.

Eolias arrived just as the fighting finished (he never did manage to find any more bird-men in the maze) and hurried around the corner to assist Elzara. Tanith paused briefly to snatch the necklace of missiles from the neck of the leader and followed with Alexis.

Aust held back to free Tovar from the whip, which turned back into a feather facsimile of a whip (non magical by now) and to loot the bodies, finding Elixirs of Vision, Hiding and Sneaking on the leader of the bird-men and a wand of magic missiles and two Quall's Feather Tokens (Bird) on the spellcaster.

Elzara caught up to the bird-man at the entrance to another chamber, but as she attacked him she herself was attacked from within the chamber by two mages and through the very wall itself by another incorporeal mage, who drained Wisdom rather than causing damage and constantly babbled to itself, causing several party members to become hypnotised for a short time.

As the others raced up to help, Elzara managed to dodge a scorching ray spell, but a number of the party were slowed by a web spell across the entrance which they had to set alight (causing some damage to those trapped) to get through. Alexis tried unsuccessfully to turn the incorporeal mage and Elzara, Aust and Tovar had a hard time trying to hit the elusive being.

The walls of this new room were made of a strange green rock with writhing purple veins through it, and the pillars down the centre were made of some black tar-like substance that appeared to have humanoid hands pushing from the inside as if trying to escape.

As soon as they were in immediate danger, the two mages drank potions that turned them into vapor and started to drift away. Seeing this, Tanith plucked a bead from the necklace of fireballs and threw it towards them, instantly slaying them in a blast of fire.

Three more mages appeared at the end of the room, one wearing a strange mask that covered his face, and summoned a gigantic 20' tall centipede into the centre of the room, effectively blocking the way through for Eolias, Alexis and Tanith who had already started forwards.

Alexis attempted to dispel the summoning using the Scroll found in the Hextor temple, but failed. The mages took the opportunity to drink several potions and cast defensive spells during the combat .

Eolias was bitten by the centipede and became poisioned, losing several points of Dex, and during the combat Tanith used the last bead from the necklace of missiles, which did absolutely no damage to the creature at all due to it's innate resistance.

The party's efforts to fight the centipede were hampered by the use of spells from the three mages from their safe vantage point behind the centipede, the most notable being a lighting bolt and another web spell that Eolias set alight to free his companions even though he knew that the damage caused would surely knock him unconcious.

After being revived by Tanith, Eolias used the wand of enlarge on Alexis who used her scroll of Bull's Strength on herself but was still unable to do much damage to the beastie until Aust, Elzara and Tovar, who had managed to drive off the spirit mage, rushed to join in the combat to help strike the final blows.

The lesser two of the mages swiftly fell and the party turned on the mage with the leather mask only to have their way blocked by another summoned monster, this time a giant ape, which covered it's summoner's retreat for a couple of rounds until it too was defeated.


Magical Items Found

• Elixir of Vision
• Elixir of Hiding
• Elixir of Sneaking
• Necklace of Missiles (Used up)
• Wand of Magic Missiles (37 charges left)
• Quall's Feather Token (bird) x2

XP Summary

• 14 Bird-men - 4,200 XP
• Bird-man Spellcaster - 600 XP
• Bird-man Leader - 1,350 XP
• 2 Dire Weasels - 1,200 XP
• 4 Wizards - 2,400 XP

Total XP - 9,750 or 1,625XP each