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Javeed, Martika, Kara, and Ikethru manage to make it through to the far side of the cacti. They emerge on a thin strip of open land beside a 15-foot-wide ravine.

At the edge of the ravine, tied to a scrub bush, is the frantically bleating little goat, Rombard. His eyes roll madly as he strains at his tether, prancing and weaving about.

Javeed, did you bring your lantern with you, hand it off to someone, or leave it on the ground? Just wondering how you would carry it while swinging your falchion.

The party disentagles themselves in the middle of the cactus thicket.

Javeed decides to remove his armour and proceed forward more slowly, hacking at the cacti. Oh, how unlucky! While he was watching where he was swinging his falchion, he failed to notice the round stone under his foot, and stumbles into the quills. 1 hp more damage.

Kara tries to avoid the rest of the party and pick her way through the thicket. Oh, how unlucky!! One of the straps from Javeed's discarded armour wrapped itself around her ankle, sending her into the outspread arms of a nearby cactus. 1 hp more damage.

Eschewing subtlety, Martika makes a mad dash through the remainder of the thicket, sending gobbets of cactus flying around her. 3 hp more damage.

Ikethru also moves forward more cautiously, with her scimitar out. Oh, how unlucky!!! A few of the chunks of cactus flying back from Martika's sword-swinging dash hit Ikethru right in the face! 1 hp more damage.

Khalit stays where he is and peers ineffectually into the darkness, while Dashki remains outside the thicket, sighs, and shakes his head.

Oh, great the DM who's killed more of my PCs than everyone else put together! ;-P

You called?

I decided to start reading one chunk of the adventure at a time, so I can play if Mal comes back.

I will probably actually have a post up within the next 24 hours, probably much less.

Just to let you all know, I am a more traditional DM than Mal, with all of you rolling your own initiative, and battle-maps if I can get them together.