Desnus 31st 17 - Trouble of mine!

A message arrives at the castle that some creatures had invaded the mines to north and scared off all the workers. 

Details of the creatures where given within the message and from the description both Natalia and Otto were able to ascertain that what was being described were rust monsters.

Just at the mention of “Rust Monsters” you could suddenly see the beads of sweat appear on the brows of Miro, Vaneer, Hugo and Boss as they begin to worry about losing any of their metal made equipment.

The group gather their resources and head north towards the mines, half willing and half wishing they had stayed behind.

The journey only takes a few hours by horse and as they arrive at the mines the group find a number of pickaxes scattered around on the floor all of which were missing the metal picks.

From the entrance to one of the mines the group can hear in the dark distance a mass of clicking noises hinting at a number of rust monsters known as a “Corrosion of Rusts”.

It is almost like the creatures could smell the metal armour and weapons of the group as they waste no time to attack the group shortly after they had entered the mine.

Otto casts a black tentacle spell which manages to grapple the two lead rust monsters,

Another rust monster approaches and manages to end up being grappled in the tentacles,

Two more rust monsters approach, one of which is larger and redder in colour than the other 5 and both make a beeline for Vaneer,

The smaller rust monster manages to hit one of Vaneer’s rings but fails to cause it to corrode,

The larger rust monster (Rust Lord) also hits Vaneer but instead of corrode any metal items of the cleric it actually corrodes the iron in his blood! ,

Vaneer tries to retaliate but misses hitting his target,

Miro moves to flank the Rust lord but misses his attack,

Natalia starts to cast a spell,

Bob charges in to the Rust lord and manages to injure the creature,

The smaller of the rust monster attacks Vaneer again but misses this time round,

The Rust lord attacks both Vaneer and Bob where again it corrodes the iron their blood,

The fight ensues through technical difficulties taking the note taker away from the fight but the group eventually take care of the rust monsters just in enough time as their cleric wasn’t looking to well after taking a beating and a draining from the rust lord.

The group take some time to allow Vaneer to sort himself out a little so that they could then head back to Wyvernshore that evening.