587 CY, Wealsun the 6th: Into the Dungeon!

23 June 2015

The party got ambushed in the courtyard of the moathouse, and surprised for three segments. New bandits within the inner part of the keep lit oil on the steps, making that approach hazardous, and archers started doing what they do to the party, through the arrow slits. In the ensuing arrow-storm, Feodoric got arrows in the neck and in the heart. He didn't survive. Valiniriel and Anaïs went down. Kheldar ran up close to the inner wall, to be out of sight of the arrow slits. Billet Graham cast Sanctuary, so that the bandits would have to save vs. Spells before they could target him. Regrouped, the three survivors each picked up a body and ran for it. Though a few arrows came from the wall at their backs, they were not pursued.

The party spent two days recuperating in Hommlet, and burying Feodoric. Canon Terjon remarked that it was such a waste, having spent a Neutralize Poison spell on Feodoric just the day before.

587 CY, Wealsun the 9th: Revenge!

Looking for revenge, the party sneaked back to the moathouse before dawn. Kheldar and Anaïs sneak-attacked the bandit guards on the parapet, killing them easily. Kheldar's buddy Ricky/Pædro, the six-legged rat-mole, went inside to scout, and did an excellent job. He told them where and roughly how many bad guys, though he forgot to mention the dogs. The whole party assaulted in a kind of coordinated fashion, taking the rag-tag bandits in a pincers movement. No real injuries on the good-guys' side, and no survivors on the other side, except the bandit leader, whom Anaïs took to the snake room and tied up.

The party then looted the bodies. McGee rolled a 1, so Karox was able to break the Wizard Lock on the door to the Black Chamber. Their plan is to open the secret door and descend into the darkness.