Pharast 15th – Prank us once shame on you, Prank us twice and blame it on the Racoon

Kyrander wakes again early in the morning to find that Miro had failed to wake him for the change of night watch. Kyrander heads over to Miro only to find that the rogue was once again deep in slumber, as the ranger kicks the rogue awake he notices that something or someone had been through the camp and placed numerous “Hunting Season” signs around the place.

As Miro wakes up he is shocked to see that suddenly rushing through the bush towards him was a racoon with a small knife attached to its arm, in a panic Miro rushes to his feet drawing his sword and took a swipe at the racoon only to miss the creature.

The racoon then runs through and out of the camp with Miro chasing after it screaming like a madman and waking up the rest of the group who as wake up seeing Miro chasing the racoon and disturbing some rabbits with war paint on their face in another nearby bush.

Confused about the events that just happened the group they attempt to settle back for the rest of night and try to get some more sleep whilst Kyrander stood watch whilst the rest of the night passes without any further events.

As the group gather their camp together in the morning, Otto goes to take a swig of water from his waterskin and then spits out his water. The confused sorcerer tipped his waterskin upside down only to find that his water had been replaced with slug’s, Miro laughing at the sorcerer went to drink from his own waterskin to only suffer the same outcome, the rest of the group examine their waterskins and find the same in each of theirs.

Water obviously is now an issue and the group was pretty sure there was a river to the east where they could wash out their mouths and refill their water supply. So the group headed east and shortly afterwards found the river, as Vaneer started to walk down to the bank of the river he slipped and slided straight into the water. On closer examination Miro notices that the bank down to the river had been coated in some sort of grease as if something was expecting the group to head to this location.

Eventually the group managed to get to the water they were after by throwing the waterskins down to Vaneer to washout and refill and then they continued to head east till the grease ran out to allow the cleric to climb up the bank. As they continued to explore the area they come across a body of what appeared to be a dead trapper under a log, looking over the incident scene some oddities becomes apparent. The trapper’s shoe laces have been tied together, the ropes to the log trapped that had killed the hunter showed evidence of being cut by something sharp.

Natalia had spent the most of the day thinking about the recent events and whilst watching the “boys” burying the dead trapper she had an epiphany about the events. Natalia calls the group together after they finish rummaging through the trappers possessions and collecting his traps, she explains that all the incidents they have experienced at night could be down to some fey creature or creatures playing pranks on the group for some unknown reason.

Otto asked how the group could find the fey and ask them to stop playing tricks, Nataila wasn’t sure but suggested that if they were to leave a gift for the fey they might look better on them and leave them alone going forward. Vaneer liking Natalia’s idea got to work scavenging the area for berries and other tasty goods and leave it near the log trap in hopes the trickery will stop.

The group then continue to head east and after an hour they wonder into a clearing amongst the trees and in the middle of the clearing appeared to be a small platter of berries and the sound of laughter could be heard off in the distance.

Natalia believed that the fey could be giving the group a gift back at which point Miro and Otto point out a couple of small creatures one with the upper body of a women and lower body of a grasshopper sitting up in the trees above the group.

Otto tries to talk to the creatures but no one in the group knew the language of the fey which luckily for them didn’t matter as they knew the common tongue, the fey creatures admitted to the pranks over the past couple of nights and apologised for their antics as they thought the group were with the other meanies and were out to harm them.

 Vaneer enquired to whom they meant about meanies and the creatures explained that to the south east on the edge of the forest was a camp of humans who are always mean to them and those they come across, Kyrander suggested that maybe this was the bandit camp that they had been asked to clear?

Taking the opportunity of having knowledge of the local area the cleric asked the fey creatures about the surrounding areas, they informed the group that to the far west of the forest was a group of giant frogs that will attempt to eat anything that comes close to them.

Otto asked about Tuskgutter and if they knew where it could be found in which they responded that both the big pig and big worm are to the south somewhere, Vaneer then asked if they knew of any lost human temples in the area not expecting to get any useful response but the fey creatures nodded and said to the south west there is an old temple overgrown with brambles.

After much more conversation they group say farewell to the fey creatures and decide to head south east towards the camp of humans. As the group approach the forest edge a camp could be seen near a small creek, with the sun starting to set both Kyrander and Miro decide to try and scout as close as they can to the camp. Remarkably they both manage to get quite close without getting spotted by the few guards on duty.

Upon their return the group discuss their options and whilst Vaneer and Otto wanted to strike now both Kyrander and Miro suggested that an early sunrise attack would be better when the majority of the guards should still be asleep giving them more of an advantage compared to the bandit numbers.

With battle plans made ready for the morrow the group set up camp for the night just inside the forest edge hoping for no more pranks and use the collected bear traps on the perimeter of their camp.

Pharast 13th – The Tash, The Breasts and The Stoned Pecker

During the night Kyrander wakes up noticing that Miro hadn’t woken him to swap watches, worried the ranger rushes to his feet and races to Miro only to find that the rogue fast asleep but the stranger thing that the ranger couldn’t help but snigger at was that something or someone had used some berry juice to draw a moustache on the rogues face.

In the morning Vaneer also finds that someone had used the same berry juice to drawn breasts on his breast plate.

After both Vaneer and Miro had cleaned themselves up the group headed west again, where they came upon a number of strange looking rock formations where some could almost be mistakenly took for carving of animals.

The group continue to head west and come across an old and overgrown burial mound, they investigate the mound and decide that considering the items the body had been buried with meant this person was of some importance and possibly belonged to one of the northern barbarian clans. 

The majority of the group decided to remove any items of value from the burial site although Vaneer voiced his concern about performing such act, Vaneer insisted that at least the group could do in return for the items looted was to help rebuild the mound to allow the body to rest in further peace.

As the group are rebuilding the mound everyone apart from Vaneer heard a rustle from the bushes nearby and so was ready for when a hideous avian creature appeared with a body of an emaciated rooster, wings like a bat and a long scaly tail.

In the moment before Otto uses his wand of magic missile to start the fray, Natalia realises that the creature they are facing is known as a cockatrice and that the group need to avoid being pecked by the creature or risk being turned to stone.

The group follows Natalia’s advice and tries their best to keep the attacks at the cockatrice at a range but the cockatrice charged at Kyrander and pecked hard at the ranger but luckily the ranger wasn’t turned into stone.

The fight was short and finished with Natalia throwing her dagger at the creature and lodging it into the creature’s chest killing it without any stoning incidents.

The group then decide to the south east and as they walk up a hill a couple of the members spot in the distance what appears to be a lone unicorn running south. At that point the group decide to set up camp for the evening.

Pharast 10th – But its so shiny!!

Unsurprisingly the night passed uneventfully for the group at Oleg’s.

After stuffing themselves with Svetlana’s breakfast the group decided to head west and see what waits for them.

After a couple of hours of exploring the area the only find of some interest was the remains of an old ruined road leading west and so decided to follow the road west.

The road leads them back to the edge of the forest and as the group travel they spot a reptilian creature sitting on a large branch of a tree, the only thing of interest of this reptilian creature got Miro’s breeches in a knot as a large gem was visible between the creatures eyes.

Natalia got the impression from the creature that it was afraid of the group and suggested that they leave the creature alone whilst Miro struggled with his greed and tried to persuade the group to kill the creature. The debate continued for a while and eventually Miro sighed and reluctantly agreed to leave the creature alone whimpering as the group continued to explore the area.

Shortly afterwards as the group explored the area there were two sudden clicking noises, Miro heard it early enough to jump out of the way of the bear trap that he’d stepped on, luckily for Vaneer his armour provided enough protection to prevent the traps teeth from causing any damage.

They searched the area and found another 14 bear traps just randomly scattered through out for anyone to walk into, the group clear up the traps and decide to set up camp for the night.

Pharast 8th – Radish Rockets!

The night passed uneventfully for the group.

After a short breakfast the group head North West taking them into the forest, as they wondered through the trees they soon found themselves in a clearing full of strange looking radishes. Natalia looks at the radish and confirms that they are the indeed the Moon Radishes that they had been asked to look for by Oleg’s wife.

As the group set themselves to picking the radishes for Svetlana they notice a small group of sootscale kobolds laying on the clearing floor sleeping off a full belly of radishes, seeing as the group now had a friendship agreement with the kobold they decided to let the sleeping kobolds sleep and continue to pick the radishes they needed.

As the group headed away into the forest a commotion could be heard from the clearing behind, the group ran back to the clearing to see the once sleeping kobolds were now awake and running around the clearing with what could only be described as the radishes in their baskets shooting into the sky and exploding as fireworks.

Shortly the commotion with the kobolds died down and the group again attempted to leave the clearing and make their way back to Oleg’s trading post.

As the group returns to Oleg’s they couldn’t help but notice that there were a number of tents pitched outside the trading posts boundaries, Otto remembered that Oleg was expecting guards from the city to aid him with the bandits before the group had originally turned up and dealt with the issue.

As they entered the trading post the group were met with a small number of guards, the guards questioned the group politely as to their purpose here at Olegs. As Otto explains what the group has been up to, Svetlana came running over to the guards and berated them for getting in the heroes way as she explains that it was this group that dealt with the bandit issue.

The captain of the guards impressed at the group’s efforts asks the group if they would be willing to track down a wanted fugitive that they have been after for a while now and is hiding somewhere within the greenbelt to which they jokingly agree to.

Later that evening a well travelled man sat down at the groups table opposite Vaneer and began to introduce himself as Jhod Kavken a priest of Erastil and would like to ask Vaneer to aid in an quest that their god had given him to reclaim a lost temple of Erastil that is located somewhere within the greenbelt and protected by a strange bear like guardian. Vaneer obviously could not refuse the request especially as both him and Otto were followers of Erarstil and so promised that they would look into finding the temple.

The group then bunked up for the night ready for the adventures that tomorrow would bring.

Pharast 5th – Smoke me a Cleric, I’ll be back for more!

After leaving the ancient tree with Mikmek the group travel south west for a couple of hours till dusk when they decide to set up camp for the evening.

The night passed uneventfully for the group.

The group travel further after breakfast and eventually Mikmek takes them to an outcropping of large boulders that emerges from the weathered face of a nearby hillock. A narrow opening in the rock can be seen which leads into darkness below. Just outside of the entrance another Kobold could be seen waving at the group as they approach the entrance with their Kobold guide.

The new kobold introduces himself as Nakpik and seemed really excited to see the big’uns arrive with Mikmek. The group introduces themselves to the Kobold and asks him if he could escort them to the chief of the tribe, Nakpik eagerly agrees and runs off into the cave calling for the big’uns to follow.

Nakpik leads the group through the maze of tunnels and they eventually find themselves within a large cavern where a number of Kobold where talking including one with a fancy headdress. Nakpik announces in Draconic to his chief that the big’uns where here and wanted to see the chief.

Chief Sootscale’s attention suddenly turned to the group of adventurers standing in his great cave and asks what the group wanted with his tribe. Both Otto and Vaneer begin conversing with the kobold chief asking questions about the idol and Tartuk, the chief gives them the story of his tribe and how they fell to believe the shaman and his treats. Vaneer explained to the chief that they have obtained the idol but yet there is no magic that comes from the idol and that it is just stone, the chief thought for a minute and then asked to be handed the cursed idol. The group unsure what to do about handing over their only bargaining chip at the chiefs request, Vaneer took the decision into his own hands and handed the chief the idol at which point after a second of examining it he threw it to the ground shattering it to pieces.

The chief thanked the group for their assistance and asked if they would accompany him to confront the cheating shaman. The group accepted the chief’s request and followed him through the maze of passages. After a short walk the group finds themselves within a large cave with banners draped from the walls though no one could be seen.

“Show yourself shaman!” Hissed Chief Sootscale, “We knows your lies now!” he continued….Otto and Miro felt uneasy as if they were being watched and the slight ruffling sound of feathers could be heard a little.

“Hahahahahahahaha…..So you think you know the truth! Interesting! Tell me who are these intruders you have brought to me, more sacrifices maybe?” said a disembodied voice from nowhere.

Vaneer tries to converse with the voice whilst the others try to figure out where the shaman is hiding but the conversation doesn’t last for long as Otto lets off a random shot into the cave and manages to hit something.

The shaman not appreciating the Sorcerer hitting his pet Raven lets off a scorching ray at Vaneer which causes the cleric to fall to the ground injured and unconscious.

Otto races over to Vaneer and pours a potion down his throat.

Using his scorching ray, the shaman was now visible for both Kyrander to shoot at, where his attack injure the purple kobold.

Chief Sootscale, Bob and Miro charge into the fight but only Miro is able to land a blow on the shaman.

The shaman casts glitter dust allowing the chief, Bob and Miro an opening to attack the shaman again instead of moving away from the spell as both Bob and Miro become blinded by the spell.

Natalia summons a number of eagles to assist in dealing with the evil shamans raven whilst the group can focus on the shaman himself.

Kyrander took his time to steady his aim before lodging an arrow through the shaman’s throat killing him.

The eagles make short work of the Raven.

As the group stop to recover from the melee and wait for Vaneer to sort out his wounds and the wounds of the others, they saw the body of the fallen shaman started to dissolve into the ground.

Pleased with the outcome Chief Sootscale offers the group a pick of rewards, one of the rewards looked to be a wedding ring that Oleg had asked them to find so they picked the ring.

Vaneer and Otto talked further with the Chief and signed a friendship agreement with the Sootscale tribe and then said their farewells before heading north east.

To the north east the group find a river running through the plains, as they explore the area they come across a very large and long snake skin that seemed to only have been shed a day or two ago.

As they further explore the area the group find the remains of a structure nearby which upon closer examination was a burnt down wooded next to the river, stretching across the river next to the building is a rope with the odd plank attached to it giving the impression that this must have once been some sort of ferry crossing. 

Next to the rope hung an old bell with a sign “Nettles Crossing”, just out of curiosity the group rings the bell and nothing happens till Natalia spots some movement in a bush just a few feet down stream.

A mangled body is soon seen to be pulling itself out of the river and then it walks slowly on the surface of the water towards the group, they all prepare for combat at the approaching undead figure.

Just as the creature gets into range of the group it gargles at them “YOU ARE NOT MY TORMENTORS!!” it then stops approaching the group, “THROW THE STAG LORDS BODY IN THIS RIVER SO I MAY SEE HIS BODY” and with that the creature begins to sink back into the river, Kyrander shouts to the creature asking where the stag lord could be found and he responds “TO THE SOUTH WEST YOU WILL FIND YOUR PRIZE”.

The group look at each other and talk about what had just happened and agree that they will deal with the stag lord before deciding what to do with his body.

The group head back to the North West in search of the cave with gold and rest for the night.

Pharast 4th - Part 2 - A Stab in the Tickleback

Having tended to any wounds the group had suffered, they head to move down the passageway from which the attacking mites had emerged from. The passageway begins to spiral downwards deeper into the earth and as Kyrander takes the lead the group are spotted by two mites.  One of the mites rushes off, away from the group, whilst the other mite races towards the ranger.

Kyrander shouts back to the group, informing them of the escaping mite, as he draws his blade and rushes to meet the charging mite only to miss the horizontally challenged critter. Seeing an opening the mite seizes the chance to attack Kyrander but misses.  Dagger vs sword, the two combatants spend rounds parrying each other’s blows until finally Kyrander lands a fatal blow on the mite killing the critter in one decisive blow.

The rest of the group arrive to assist the ranger just as the mite's dead body hits the ground.  Vaneer decides to take the lead for the rest of the passageway and eventually leads the group into another chamber. This chamber is cluttered with broken items and bits of furniture, along with approximately 20 intact hammocks.

The group attempt to quietly enter the chamber when Kyrander spots what could be a mite hiding under a blanket; the group creep up on the hiding mite and bundled her up inside the blanket before 

Otto knocks her unconscious.  Before deciding what to they wanted to do with their gift wrapped mite a low dull noise could be heard from the exiting passageway of the chamber.

Cautiously the group put down their bundled blanket [forgetting about the mite inside - the one living witness to the upcoming 'mite day massacre'] and make their way down the passageway which ended in a naturally lit chamber.  Miro and Kyrander sneak into the chamber in attempt to peer around the various corners; the chamber initially appeared empty, apart from a large overturned table halfway across the chamber where at least three mites could be seen hiding behind it for defence, alongside one lonely mite sitting in a corner of the chamber banging his hand on what appears to be an upside-down plant pot, making quite a commotion.

Wasting no time, Kyrander  draws his bow and shoots at one of the mites behind the table lodging an arrow into its eye. Miro also notches an arrow but his shot misses the remaining two mites behind the table, who briefly appear over the table with a weird looking contraption that was intended to fire caltrops at interlopers.  Unfortunately for the mites, the contraption jams and then backfires on to its users injuring one of the mites.  Otto throws an acid splash spell at the mites but the spell overshoots, missing the intended targets.

Kyrander attempts to shoot at the table mites again but his arrow fails to find its target.  The mites having un-jammed their caltrop catapult and attempt to shoot at the ranger but fail to hit him.  Meanwhile the mite that had been banging the upside down plant pot (as a crude drum and warning system) and runs down another passageway out of the chamber.

Bob and Vaneer charge at the mites behind the table and the combination of a mace to the face and the badgers teeth in its throat causes one of the mites to die.  Miro attempts to shoot the remaining mite but again misses his target. Otto re-attempts to cast his acid spell and successfully manages to damage the last mite.  Kyrander tries to finish the job with his bow but is only successful at hitting the table.

All of a sudden from the high-ceiling above the fight, a large blur drops to the ground and a cold voice hisses “What’s you doing here humans’?” The source of the chilling voice was from a mite riding on the back of the black blur which appeared to be a giant tick.  At that same moment another three mites run out of the tunnel, charging towards the group.

As the mass combat begins Vaneer and Otto take the opportunity of the chaos as both drop a attack on the charging mites, Vaneer manages to kill one straight out whilst Otto manages to wound another as it tries to stab him.

Bob ravages another mite successfully killing it.

Vaneer turns his attention to Tickleback, the giant tick, and successfully lands an attack on the creature.

Miro sensing a good opportunity moves himself into one of the giant tick's blind spots and manages to land a blow, injuring the creature.

Otto casts a magic missile at Tickleback, grazing him.

Kyrander shoots at Tickleback, successfully hitting and injuring it.

Tickleback attempts to bite Vaneer, but fails to get through the cleric's armour.  Grabbles, the mite leader riding atop the tick manages to successfully stab Vaneer whilst hissing "Humans!  Inconceivable!", which sounds considerably more amusing than it was threatening, oweing to the mite's raspy lisp.

 

Another mite attempts to stab Otto but just misses him.

Two mites attack Bob but miss the badger.

Summoned by the noise of the plant pot's clanging, four more mites enter into the chamber to join the fray.

Natalia hits and injures the giant tick.

Bob growls at the two mites before ripping the throat of one of them out, killing it.

Vaneer lands another successful blow against the tick.

Miro acrobatically jumps on to Tickleback's back and jams his blade into the ticks neck, killing it out right.

Otto attempts to stab one of the remaining mites only to miss it.

Kyrander shoots Grabble who is still clinging onto the back of the dead tick and injures him, just as the ex-tick riding mite angrily swipes at Miro, but misses the rogue and so jumps onto the floor.  "What are you doing here, humans?  This land belong to our kind!  You are not fey!  You do not belong!" the leaders lips angrily at the party.

Each remaining mite tries to attack the group, but being shaken after seeing the death of Tickleback they all fail to land a successful blow.  Another mite charges through the group, brandishing a knife towards Otto, only to be decapitated by Kyrander before he could reach Otto.

Kyrander, unwittingly from this point had begun the domino of death effect on the mites with Vaneer next striking another mite and killing it with his mace.

Miro attacks Grabbles and finally puts an end to his reign as he rasps his last, "The First World is coming!  But you will not live to see it....."

Otto smacks another mite killing it.

Kyrander jumps back into the fray by shooting and pinning two mites to the wall through their chests.

Bob devours the face of another mite.

The last remaining mite attempts to attack Bob but misses the large badger.

Vaneer approaches the remaining mite and whilst staring the mite down, his mace soon connected with the critter's head, caving it in.

The group take a minute to rest and heal their wounds now that the battle had finished. After a short rest period the group leave the chamber of slaughter and make their way down a short passage which leads them to another chamber which is split down the middle by a deep chasm.

As the group peer over the ledge a pair of glowing red spheres is looking back at them from within the chasm.  All of a sudden a 25ft long pitch-black centipede with red eyes launches itself out of the chasm to attack the group.

Bob is the first into the fray, and bites off one of the centipedes many legs.

Natalia is the next to join Bob but her attack fails to connect with the centipede.

Otto throws a spell and hits the centipede.

The centipede attempts to bite Natalia but misses her whilst its tail attempts to slap Bob into the chasm but fails to hit the badger.

Miro jumps at the centipede and critically injuries the under belly of the centipede hurting the creature a lot further.

Kyrander attempts to shoot at the centipede but just misses the creature to only shoot the darkness.

Natalia swings at the centipede and hits the creature.

Bob bites the centipede and is seen spitting at the awful taste of the creature.

Otto attacks and injures the centipede further.

Giving up on Bob and Natalia the centipede focuses its attention on Miro but misses with both its attacks on him.

Vaneer seeing that the group was struggling with exhaustion from the previous combat decides to cast a Bless spell to aid his comrades.

Miro has another attempt to injure the centipede and succeeds at shooting the critter.

Natalia misses her next attempt to hit the creature.

Bob chooses to swipe at the centipede instead of biting it and successfully deals damage to it.

Otto casts a magic missile spell, shooting the critter in the face.

The centipede attacks both Miro and Natalia but misses both adventurers.

Vaneer shoots the centipede with his crossbow, the bolt lodging itself into the skull of the creature, killing it as it falls back into the chasm from where it came from.

Starting to feel the tolls of all the previous combats, the group slowly make their way through the chamber and into the next, hoping that nothing awaits them. The next chamber appeared to be a sort of egg shape with cages dangling from the roots of the ancient tree above.

All of the cages apart from one contained a dead creature reptilian humanoid, however there is one still alive and upon seeing the group approaching and that they are not mites jumps up in his cage waving them over to him.

“Come here’s strangers!! Comes here! Help Mikmek! Yes?” said the creature as the group approached.

Tired and wanting to avoid another conflict the group set about questioning Mikmek, to see what the creature’s intentions were:

Mikmek explains to the group that he is a Kobold that had been captured by his enemy, the mites who have been warring with his Kobold tribe for a while.  He was on a holy quest to retrieve an idol that the mites had stolen from him. As Mikmek explains what the idol looks like Vaneer pulls out a statue from his backpack, which the group had picked up in the fight against Tickleback and Grabbles.  Seeing the idol, Mikmek screams in delight, exclaiming that this is the holy idol he had been sent to find.

Vaneer tries to hand the idol back to Mikmek, but he refuses to take it, saying that he would be cursed should he touch it with his bare flesh.  Tartuk is the only person that is allowed to touch it but he isn’t liked by the other kobolds.

Intrigued by this, Otto asks Mikmek why no one likes Tartuk, so the kobold explains that Tartuk, a shaman kobold, visiting the tribe a few months ago and announced that he was to lead the Sootscale Tribe instead of Chief Sootscale; if the kobolds didn’t do as he said, the idol would kill his entire clan!  This was an especially grave threat for the kobolds as the idol (an ivory statue depicting a crouched horned devil) was a great and mystical artifact that was capable of speaking to Tartuk and relayed it's orders to this shaman, relying on the newcomer to enact the idol's will...

The group looked at each other, suspecting that some underhanded mischief was in play, made especially evident by the fact that the idol gave off no magical aura at all.  And so the party of adventurers (remembering that they had a quest to either kill or parlay with the kobolds, which they picked up at Oleg's Trading Post) offer their services to accompany Mikmek back to his clan and speak with Tartuk (and possibly kill him should he be doing wrong against the tribe).

Mikmek grinned a large toothy smile, happy with his new friends' offer and with that they all made their way up out of the ancient tree and into the plains, with Mikmek leading the way to his tribe's home...

Pharast 4th - Part 1 - The Flaming Cleric and the Mighty Mites

The group awaken from another uneventful night’s sleep.

After a spot of breakfast the group debate where to head next and agree that they should head west.

Couple of hours later the group come across what they believe to be a cave opening, after much murmuring they decided to investigate the opening. Looking further into the opening they manage to discover that the cave is roughly 30ft in diameter of uninteresting stone until just as they are about to leave the cave a small glint in the wall catches Miro eye, he begins to chip away at the rock to slowly reveal a small vein of gold! Reluctantly the group leave the cave with no possible way of mining the resource making note on their map to return here at a later date and begin to head south east.

Riding through this hilly area whilst discussing what to do about the cave they had just left behind the group notice a large ancient sycamore tree in the distance, hoping to stumble upon some more treasure as they had with yesterday’s tree they make their way to this looming ancient giant.

Walking around the ancient trees roots the group discover an entrance like whole big enough for a human with a shaft heading underneath the tree. The group climbs down the shaft and find themselves in an earthen passageway heading deeper under the tree.

They eventually find themselves in an long chamber (Kidney shaped) which had steps leading down in various places and the smell of dung was strongly evident throughout the air, the group notice that on the other side of the chamber stood with its back to them a small blue humanoid creature. The creature was standing in front of what appeared to be a nest of eggs, Miro hoping to catch the creature by surprise quietly attempts to sneak upon the creature but poor Miro had not seen the 3 large centipedes lying near the blue creature that had noticed his presence.

Seeing the centipedes stir the blue creature turns and also notices Miro, the creature smiles in delight with a mouth of pointed teeth at the rogue and brandishes it's knife by which point Miro had already began to "strategically retreat" back towards the tunnel. Miro shouted at the party to retreat back into the narrow tunnel as he ran towards and past them in hopes he wouldn't targeted by the 3 now very large centipedes chasing after him.

Otto started to get ahead of the defensive by taking the offensive and threw a flask of alchemists fire at the approaching centipedes and managed to set the leading one alight, the lead centipede run up to the tunnel ceiling and ran past the majority of the group as it headed after Miro.

Vaneer took the opportunity to strike the centipede crawling on the ceiling with his mace and whilst he successfully squished its brains in and kill it the centipede had the last laugh as the cleric got caught by the flames of the earlier alchemist’s fire and soon found himself alight as well.

Kyrander attacked another of the centipedes and kills it with only seconds from its attempt to bite him, hoping to end the combat quickly so that his comrades could assist with his now flaming presence Vaneer pushes his way through the group to meet the one remaining centipede and with a mighty "Thwack" of his mace into the creatures abdomen he quickly completes the combat.

The group quickly deal with their flaming cleric and then make their way back into the previous chamber only to find that the blue creature had disappeared and most likely down the passage way on the opposite side of the chamber.

Not sure whether to pursue the creature or not the group stand at the edge of the tunnel it had escaped down discussing what to do, restless, Natalia suggested that if they were to waste time standing around would it make sense to destroy these centipede eggs? The party agree and start smashing, as they start smashing the eggs a noise of voices shouting could be heard coming from the tunnel they were just standing at.

Hoping this time to get the upper hand in this situation, Natalia and Otto flank the sides of the tunnel entrance, Vaneer stands in front of the entrance to ensure that whatever is coming is enticed out of the tunnel at the sight of him standing in the open whilst Miro and Kyrander fall back and prepare their bows to shoot at whatever appears.

As the first blue critter (A Mite) appears out of the tunnel Otto takes a swing at it and aimed too high to miss it, Nataila and Bob seeing Otto miss make their attacks and successfully dispatch the mite.

The 2nd mite runs out of the tunnel heading straight for Vaneer, Miro takes his shot and misses the mite, Kyrander shoots and also misses leaving the cleric to swing his mace only to also miss the mite who fails to bite him.

The 3rd mite runs out and attempts to attack Otto only to miss him.

The 4th mite ran straight for Miro and ironically manages to land a successful blow to the rogue.

Otto retaliates against the mite standing in front of him and manages to kill it with a single blow.

Nataila and Bob rush to assist Miro but fail to damage the mite attacking him; Kyrander steadied his arm and took a deep breath before lodging an arrow into the final mite killing him instantly.