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ADVENTURERS


Learning that the keep guildmaster was offering a reward for information on and possible rescue of a missing merchant caravan, Utlaf and Timur roped in two new adventurers to sally forth from the keep. This crew decided to economise and forwent a guide in favour of Rock’s self-proclaimed exploration prowess and a crude map from the bailiff.

And find the way she did, but the route took them past a hole in a mound surrounded by a body of water. With Rock perched upon his shoulders, Valeru waded in to have a look. As they approached they were met by several pairs of eyes and some increasingly loud hissing.

Valeri backtracked and Rock let off a warning shot from her crossbow. This didn’t go down well a several lizard-like bipeds plunged in after them. With Timur magically blinding the foremost one, the party fled into the Darkwood.


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Determined not to let these creatures get the better of them, and having made a bet with the corporal at the gate of the keep that they would make their way towards adventure and back, the party laid a trap and bait to claim at least one scalp as evidence of their endeavours.

It was a pyrrhic victory. Four bipedal lizards emerged into the killing zone and were taken down, but with some of the adventurers firing from the trees Utlaf was overwhelmed on the ground by sheer numbers. A moment of madness saw Timur charge in with his dagger – he too was cut down before he could climb up to safety.

Bloody and chastened, Valeri and Rock returned to the keep to claim their winnings, wondering whether the 7 gold coins had been worth two allies…