Monthly Archives September 2025

The next week passes in a seemingly endless loop of exploration, doors (with and without traps), signs of past battles, strange noises, random bodies and the odd moments of excitement as Digin gets to cleave things. What Digin cannot cleave, the group manages to kill with fireballs, though there are encounters with magic resistant things that annoy the wizard.

Along the way, the group discovers three of the four staves they’ve been sent to retrieve and have encountered strange shape-shifting demonwolves – or goblinwolves – or demongoblins. They’ve found evidence of traps triggered and have triggered some on their own. They’ve dispatched a number of shadows and have looted the remnants of the odd workshop, laboratory or bedroom. Pickings are slim...

Motoring along, the group explores empty rooms and rooms with lingering signs of violence. THey zig and zag in seemingly random directions and there are multiple queries about the sanity of the builders. The process is uneventful, with doors being opened and rooms inspected for clues and/or loot. For a while, the most exciting thing to happen is Fingers locating a trap before it is triggered.

As the meander along, one door opens into an occupied bedroom with a training area attached. The occupant is a stocky elven woman and she seems to dislike uninvited guests. DIgin hews at her and barely leaves a dent. Fingers stabs her in the ankle and does no visible damage, but still manages to inject a dose of deadly toxin...