Our dwarf companion lives from the previous encounter, and we press on with the excellent idea of rescuing all the dwarf slaves in the mine. We reach what looks like the main rock face, where a couple of dozen chained dwarves toil, watched over by Bugbears. We find ourselves facing more Bugbears than there are […]
Collapsing a mine to halt production of an army's weapons is a fine plan, but having to make sure all of the dwarven slaves get out first is health and safety gone mad. There is a glimmer of hope that things can be made easier, though, when our dwarf ally and guide drops from a […]
We have a ship! We also have a crew. This leads to squabbling over who should be captain, which takes most of the day. Eventually, seeing the crew standing around in stunned disbelief, I simply shout out something that sounds captainy. 'Ready for sail!' 'Hey, who made you captain?' 'No one, but maybe you'd like […]
The pirate ship bringing the iron ore, and maybe mithril, comes in to the cove. We see the pirates on the ship, as well as their captain, who 'has a mean-looking parrot'. 'So do I', says Pasha, about his re-summoned minion for the occasion. 'Well, he's small and cute.' 'In a fight with this one, […]
We get a surprise round on some bugbears we've sneaked up on. One gets stabbed in the back, the other two are engulfed by quite a damaging fireball. All in all, it's an effective surprise. 'You don't see any more bugbears, but we're going to stay in initiative.' 'Why's that?' 'No reason.' Our spider-sense tingles, […]
'The ship transports iron ore.' '...what?' 'Iron ore.' 'Or what?' 'What?' 'Mithril?' 'No, iron ore.' 'Iron or... mithril? 'Just iron ore.' '...what?'
The ore from the Iron Island looks like it is brought to the mainland through an abandoned castle overlooking the coast. On the assumption that the operation will be guarded, we try to sneak around to scout the location, rather than stomping in blindly. The walls of the castle are not entirely intact, which allows […]
Our adventuring guides us towards the Iron Island, where our new dwarven ally, Herbie, escaped and where lots of other slaves remain, working to extract minerals from the quarries there. The main problem is how to cross the water between us and the island. We find out from Herbie that a ship regularly transports the […]
On our way to the valley of the Invisible Stalkers, maybe not its official name, we are ambushed, by monks hiding in trees! 'They'll do their fancy slow-falling down to us in a second', says Thrak, somehow experienced with the monk style of fighting. Salvador casts Scorching Ray, and gets hits with both rays. The […]
During the previous battle, we saw some villagers being dragged away by Invisible Stalkers. We saw them because we had a See Invisibilty spell active, obviously. Now we think that perhaps we should do something about the Stalkers, to prevent more villagers from falling prey to them. Rather than rush in, it's probably best to […]