Talindra Eveningfall |
After defeating the Teefs, we decided to continue on. We tried to pass through the door but we couldnt bash it and neville couldnt pick the lock. Just then I remembered that Neville just picked up a set of keys. He tried them and, guess what, they worked! We pressed on through the door and there were a bunch of skeletons. I turned them all, so i thought. Ander stepped forward into the room and there was still one left back in the corner. It didn't take much to put the last one down. We explored the two rooms to the east and west, with Val standing guard down the unexplored cooridor, and met no resistance. Upon our return to the main chamber Val was nowhere to be found. He simply disappeared, All of the doors were closed and nobody heard a door open or close. It is times like these where the Ranger would have been useful. We then went forward and explored a room that looked like an animal's den, but there was nothing in it and no sign of Val. Acorss the hall was a door that led down a corridor to another door. Neville opened that door and immediately swung his hook hammer andblood went splattering everywhere. It was horrificly gruesome. Ander then went headlong through the door. By the time Sylf and I got to the door everything instantly turned pitch black. Sylf turned and backed out. Suddenly something pushed past me so I thought to myself that it was Neville running so I followed. But I came out of the darkness and it was a tiefling. Ander came shortly thereafter and between him and Sylf along with myself, we smote it. But then, Neville now too was gone. But as we turned around he came running out of the darkness and warned us of a large force that was likely in the chamber through the doors just to the north of us. Which then mysteriously opened. There was a dire boar, a half orc, a female human and a pair of Troglogyte Zombies on the lower level. On the balcony there were 7 tiefling archers, 7 human archers, a human cleric with a teifling and Val was bound up next to them. The half orc, dire boar and undead came at us as someone in the room called out for us to come and face them like men. Now I am not brilliant but I am not that stupid. Instead we fell back to a more defensible position. Once in position the Male Cleric on the balcony cast a spell the caused a storm to form above us and started to wound us. At this point I panicked and screamed out "RUN!" at the top of my lungs and ran back out the door. The rest of the arty just fell back further out of the reach of the storm. Once I got out the the main chamber I saw 7 big nasty monsters. Not having any clue as to what they were I panicked yet again and ran back into the room warning the party not to go out there. Fortunatly i do not beleive the big monsters did not see nor hear me, I hope. With all of us back in combat, we withstood the attacks of the half orc and boar as the tieflings and humans came at us in waves, nearly falling in combat. Neville pulled out some healing potions (which he was assuming were healing potions) and we endured. The boar fell shortly before the half orc. And I turned the troglodyte zombies one at a time. We made short work of the humans and slew the Tieflings save one when the doors flung open. The Clerics threw out Val's lifeless body and taunted us saying "I see how much you really must care for your friend here!" The last Tiefling standing from the initial fray then was killed and we pressed forward. Neville and Ander Faced off against the Male and I faced the Female with ranged support from Sylf. The girls took care of their business by taking out the female but the men seemed to be having all sorts of trouble even making contact with the male. A few more of the supporting Tieflings perished leaving only the male Cleric and a few supporting Teefs......(this is where we leave off for now) More fracas to come.