The dark staircase descends deep into the bowels of Skull’s Crossing. After numerous switchbacks, the party arrives at another set of stone double doors and they begin preparing themselves for whatever dangers might be lurking beyond the wall. Trace detects an evil presence, so Fyn casts Protection from Evil to help boost the party’s defenses …
Standing in the steadily increasing rain, the party checks over the bodies of the ogres. It is clear that they were attempting to destroy part of the dam, but their engineering knowledge was evidently not very high. Fyn is able to discern that they would have been more suited to attempting to demolish the dam …
Fully recovered from their fight with the Black Magga, the party decides to head back north towards Skull’s Crossing. Along the way, they decide to check in with Jak and Shalelu at Fort Temros to see how things have gone over the past couple days. According to Jak, nothing has tried to get through the …
Nobody really wakes up in the morning and expects to be fighting a gargantuan interdimensional threat that day. Not unless you’re the Avengers, the kids from Stranger Things, or Barnaby Daryington. When the Black Magga roars onto the scene and latches onto the church steeple, the party has no choice but to try and help …
With the spectre defeated, Fobias suggests that it would be fitting for someone to say a few words about Theo, seeing that his brief burial was so abruptly interrupted by a crass Black Arrow who had been wronged by his own battalion. His sentiment is touching and raw, much like the same emotion that Theo …
The ogres are dead. Silence creeps back to the heroes’ ears, staccato’d only by the rhythmic patter of raindrops pouring from the heavens. Searching over the bodies yields some interesting information: the blood that covered the ogres who breached the gate was that of a human, and there was more than enough of it to …
Conversation begins immediately as the newly expanded party tries to outsmart, outwit, and outduel the remaining ogres still lingering within Fort Rannick’s walls. Using the tribal knowledge of ogres to support his ideas, Krask proposes that the party use Jaagrath Kreeg’s head to instill fear into the hearts of the ogres and hopefully drive them …
The dust hasn’t even settled and the party is already rushing over to the fallen. Jak runs over to Vale’s side, searching for any remaining signs of life coming from his Black Arrow comrade. Fobias is clinging to life, just barely, but isn’t healed until after Trace ensures that the largest ogre, Jaagrath Kreeg, is …
With only three ogres left standing, the party concentrates their firepower to overwhelm the remaining Kreegs, taking little extra damage in the process. The sounds of battle reverberate through the stone-lined corridors of Fort Rannick’s main floor, threatening to give away the party’s position. Several minutes pass and there isn’t any sign of advancing ogres. …
As soon as Lucrecia vanishes, it becomes apparent that Jakardros is still under the effects of her influence, and he raises his bow to shoot another arrow at his daughter. Jak easily pushes off Theo’s feeble attempt to grapple him, but Fobias charges in and subdues the de facto Black Arrow leader before the shot …
