• Orlando
• Delemir
• Jacob
• Josalyn
• Briiz
• Iona
• Thorgard
• Tatrin
• Fandillas
• Baldingo
• Honji
• Arusun

We are starting where we left off.

• Jacob is on his Hippogriff on the top of the tower.
• Iona is dead. One of the Trolls is eating her body and the other Trolls are currently Feared (from a magic wand of fear) and are running.
• Jacob climbs down the rope to get to the door and open it.
• Meanwhile, Josalyn and Briiz put on their armor which will take 5 rounds and 4 rounds respectively.
• Thorgard is going to hold the trap door and try to swing at the Trolls.
• Tatrin moves to the yellow orb.
• Baldingo has a flask of oil.
• Honji has his wand of fear out.
• Delemir puts on his armor at the trap door.

A Troll is coming up the ladder while Baldingo dumps oil on the it. He must hit AC 4. At the same time, the yellow orb is activated just as the Troll comes through and the Troll is severed in half. The top half is sticking out of the trap door and it was severed in half by teleporting the level away!

The Troll took 15 damage from being severed in half and blood fills up the stone cradle that fills up the ladder. The severed Troll attacks with its claws and Thorgard is being attacked. He has AC 5 and no armor being worn so he is hit on an 8. One claw hits for 8 damage.

Thorgard gets his second attack and hits. He does 10 points of damage to it and he finishes off the Troll…for now!

Outside, the Troll that killed Iona is eating the Giant Goat, Xarnos, right now.

• Thorgard hands Baldingo a flask of oil.
• Fandillas will move to the other orb and touch it.
• Baldingo will light the Troll on fire.
• Arusun and Honji wait around.
• Delemir puts on his armor.
• Jacob waits for the room to teleport back.

Fandillas manages to bring the level back and the lower half of the severed Troll is pushing itself. The non-bisected Troll is staring at the body then looks upward as Baldingo has lit the Troll on fire. It is wreathed in flame as it lands on the bottom of the level below the trapdoor. Jacob wants to charge down the ladder.

Jacob gets an attack and hits one for 18 damage. Then, the Troll retaliates against him. Jacob has AC -1 and he fights them off, there are no hits. Jacob gets a second attack and this time hits for 16 damage.

• Jacob continues fighting the Troll.
• Thorgard grabs the candle from Tatrin and moves to engage.
• Fandillas runs down to help Jacob in battle.
• Baldingo will follow with a torch to burn away the Troll bodies.

The Troll bites and claws, which manage to hit Jacob. It deals 4 damage to him and 2 to his full plate armor. The bite does 5 damage to Jacob and 2 to his armor. His armor has 2 points left, having started with 8 points.

Jacob hits the Troll again for 8 damage, which downs it! The other half of the severed Troll is scooting around. They have enough movement that they have 3 segments at the bottom of the ladder. Fandillas grabs the severed Troll by the feet and pulls it over to the downed Troll. He plans to barbeque the Trolls!

The Troll that was cut off at the bottom has almost grown back, taking only a couple rounds to regenerate, but it has no head or claws yet.

Round 11.

• Briiz has his armor on at this point as one of the Trolls was still eating the Giant Goat and continues eating it.
• Jacob tries to make a pass to shoot at the Troll that is hunched over the Goat's body. He is flying 4“ above it.
• Thorgard is going to start making his way to the top of the 3rd floor very briefly to see if the Trolls start coming back / regenerating.
• Tatrin helps Delemir put on his armor.
• Fandillas walks over to the stairs to wait for the electricity to get turned off to see if Trolls come up.
• Baldingo will make sure the Trolls burn.
• Honji turns off the electricity and will close the extra-planar chamber.

Three Trolls burst out of the bottom of the tower and they are at medium range from Jacob. One of them is hit for 3 damage. The Trolls continue running while under the trees of the forest. Jacob does a shot from his Hippogriff and they are now at short range, but this counts as medium range on flying mounts. He moves 7.2” of flight and that puts him at short range again. He hits for 4 damage.

Everything is taken care of inside the tower as we described. Thorgard is at the top of the stairs going up to the 3rd level while Fandillas and Baldingo go up with Arusun. Honji stays back. The Troll that was on Iona's Goat, Xarnos, is heading back for the tower now.

There is another bow hit, this time from Thorgard for 3 damage. The Crossbowmen can shoot but there are no hits. Three of the Trolls run back into the tower and they came back from the woods the next round.

Sanctuary and Bless are both ended.

Round 13.

• Iona's body was not eaten so Jacob goes to join them at level four of the Tower.

Two of the Crossbomen hit for 1 and 1 damage. Briiz fires but only gets 1 shot. Josalyn goes into the tower on the 4th floor. The party can see the head of one but they can hear more.

• Fandillas shouts, “Back up the ladder” and then they head up.
• Briiz stays with the engineer and the others.
• Thorgard heads up to the 4th floor and shouts for Tatrin to turn on the electricity trap, which he does.

The Trolls do not get zapped or go anywhere as everyone else moves.

Round 15.

They are still putting on their armor, a total of 9 rounds for Thorgard. They will have their armor on by the time the Strength spell is cast. A couple minutes later, the Crossbowmen see the Trolls come out of the tower. Josalyn cast Cure Light Wounds.

Jacob hits one of the Trolls for 1 damage. Delemir goes down but sees no Trolls, then he shouts to turn off the electricity. Delemir heals Thorgard with a Cure Light Wounds.

Fandillas casts Strength and gets MEGA Strength!

The Trolls are gone…

It is the middle of the night now. The party goes down to gather the body of Iona and they leave the henchmen on Floor 5. The tower itself is 90' tall but the 5th floor is like 60' up.

Honji comes out with the Wand of Fear and Briiz has Jacob's longbow ready. Everyone but the henchmen and the hirelings get on the roof.

The party is surprised.

Trolls jump out from the trees and they are now flanking the group. Iona's body was to the north of the tower. The Trolls move 1.6“ outdoors per segment.

• Delemir charges.
• Jacob and Josalyn will attack.
• Thorgard charges the south west group.
• Tatrin casts Light on the south west Troll.
• Fandillas charges the Trolls in the south west.
• Baldingo runs into the middle of the group.
• Honji blasts two with his Wand of Fear.
• Arusun tries to move as a blocker between Baldingo and Honji.

The wand goes off and there is one failure and one that passed their save versus magic. They have a 1.3 movement per segment for charge range.

Fandillas goes first and he hits a Troll and does 10 damage. Jacob hit one for 11 damage. The Troll resists the Light spell and then attacks Fandillas, getting two hits. A claw does 8 damage and its bite does 7 damage for a total of 15 damage.

Up top we have two targets, one is on Jacob. Nothing hits him and Josalyn is also missed!

Delemir did 10 damage to the south Troll as Thorgard did 20 damage, a massive blow! Jacob hits one on his second attack for 10 damage. The Troll in the south is LAID LOW, cut to pieces!

• Thorgard moves to the other group and Tatrin begins burning the dead / dying Troll.
• Fandillas casts Magic Missile at one of the Trolls.
• Jacob fights off the Troll again.

There is one that hits Josalyn from a claw dealing 6 damage. The fallen Troll in the south is toasted!

• Thorgard is now on Troll watch.
• Fandillas moves to attack.

Jacob attacks first and hits one for 9 damage. Thorgard attacks and hits for 5 damage. That kills one of the Trolls, potentially!

It attacks Jacob but there are no hits. Jacob retaliates for 19 damage and Delemir hits for 3 damage. Thorgard hits for another 14!

The last of the Trolls have been killed and burned.

Jacob collects some Troll's blood and then they go to check on our fallen. Iona's body is not destroyed or eaten yet. One third of the Horses are still alive but Fandillas's Horse is dead as well as his other Horses.

They cast cure light wounds on a bunch of people and prepare to head back. The party will arrive back in Iway at the end of the day.

They get back without any incident.

There is no combat XP to Orlando since he was not here this day.

Honji casts Detect Magic on the orb and finds that it has very strong magic on it. Zephyrx has a hidden spellbook in Elsewater and he warns us to not touch the orb while we are touching it.

Gems:

• 1 gem - 10 gp
• 1 gem - 100 gp
• 1 gem - 20 gp
• 1 gem - 50 gp
• 1 gem - 1000 gp

The orb is worth 14,000 gp and the potion is a Potion of White Dragon Control.

A Raise Dead spell will cost 5,500 gp for Iona. They vouch for her and Iona is Raised!

She spent 4 sapphires worth 1,000 gp each and 2 aquamarines worth 500 gp each along with 5 ambers worth 100 gp to repay them for the Raise.

The white dragon control potion is worth 5,000 gp.

Thorgard claims the potion of white dragon control (id 130).

There are also a pair of slippers of spider climbing (id 129).

PC shares:

• 2334 gp
• 386 ep

Henchmen shares:

• 1167 gp
• 193 ep

Iona subtracts 1,180 gp from share and takes gems instead. She now gets 1,154 gp for Iona.

Iona is raised and comes back after 1 day.

The book we recovered is worth 1d6 x 1,000 gp with a 5,000 gp bonus!

We get an additional 312 gp to henchman and 624 gp to PCs.

Iona gains 1,000 xp for being raised from the dead!

• Henchmen - get 1,110 xp.
• Everyone else get 3796 xp.
• Thorgard - unknown.
• Iona - gets 5,415 xp

Iona has 3,000 gold and she puts up her cloak of protection as collateral and takes a 3,000 gp loan at 3.5% interest.

We will travel from Iway to the Sanctum of the Yew for Iona to train. We arrive in Mombafra on Blade Moon the 21st.

• Silva the Procurer can be found in Delbo.
• We have a key that says “WF Brewhouse” that was found in a lockbox in a Wolf Lair.

Everyone has Stoneskin that went back to Mombafra.

• Maervahr
• Jacob
• Josalyn
• Briiz
• Thorgard
• Tatrin
• Fandillas
• Delemir

We descend into Mombafra and return down into the Mon-Karag Bastion, from the eastern side and return to the opening of the Giant Ants' nest.

Maervahr casts Strength on Thorgard but he rolled a 1! He then casts Levitate and Invisibility.

After we descend down the pit, Maervahr makes his way to the hole from which many Giant Ants previously emerged and casts Cloudkill over the hole. He gets behind everyone else and then levitates up 6' into the shaft.

There are 7 regular Giant Ants and 2 Giant Ant Warriors on the attack path.

• Maervahr casts Phantasmal Force on the tunnel to create a bunch of flames everywhere!

He takes 3 segments to cast Phantasmal Force. Tatrin and Fandillas shoot their first shots and must hit AC 4 on the Ants. Fandillas misses…actually, he hits for 3 damage!

The Giant Ants have 3 segments of movement and move at 3.6” a segment. They will reach us before Maervahr finishes Phantasmal Force.

We make our retaliatory strikes and Jacob hits one for 17 damage, actually 18 damage as a Prayer Spell is going also, cast by Delemir.

Thorgard hits for 6 damage and Delemir hits for 2. Josalyn hits for 6 damage. Jacob kills one and both Warriors are dead!

They are attacking Delemir and Jacob and there are two charging against Thorgard who has AC -2. They missed him due to Prayer! There are 3 Ants on Delemir who has AC -3 and there are 3 misses. One hit Jacob but this hits his Stoneskin.

Thorgard and Jacob get their second attacks. Thorgard hit for 9 damage and Jacob hits for 17 damage!

• Briiz was up at the top and starts climbing down.
• Tatrin is not in melee.
• Maervahr is concentrating on Phantasmal force which is creating flames engulfing the tunnel, including those in the front line.
• Fandillas uses his Shocking Grasp ring on one.
• Delemir attacks with Jacob.

The front line killed 3 and then the Phantasmal Force causes two to flee the area.

Maervahr concentrates on his illusionary flames. The rest of the party continues down the tunnel and…

There is a 2“ encounter distance.

The group has traveled to the edge of a large open area where they see nothing of note other than a tunnel going up and one going down. Then, they see another group of Giant Ants.

There are 8 Giant Ant Workers and 2 Giant Ant Warriors that will reach them in a charge. They charge!

There are two Warriors on Delemir and some of the Workers. Delemir's magic shield and magic armor protect him against the charge and both Warriors miss Delemir. Then, there are 2 hits from the Workers but one hits against his Stoneskin which absorbs 1 point of damage.

There are 4 attacks on Jacob but all miss.

This round the people in the back did not know what was happening and then Delemir screams!

• Maervahr is concentrating and levitating 6' upwards.
• Fandillas moves forward 120' away.
• Delemir attacks with Jacob.
• Josalyn is charging.

At this point, the Prayer spell is over.

Jacob hits one for 11 damage and he kills a Worker Ant! Then,

More Ants join from the bottom of the pit.

The Warrior Ants are still on Delemir. They all have to hit AC -3 and both miss but from the Workers, he takes 2 hits for 7 damage. Then he takes 5 damage from the rear.

Jacob is at AC -5 and all of the Ants on him miss. Likewise, Jacob misses his attack and Delemir also misses. A bunch of new Ants have shown up and are charging into the melee. Two more Ants can attack and both hit. Delemir takes 5 damage from the charge and then 5 more attack Jacob. Surprisingly, there are 2 hits on him for 6 damage and 4 points to his Full Plate armor. His armor now has 2 points left.

• Josalyn and Thorgard are both charging.
• Fandillas casts Sleep.
• Delemir casts Sanctuary.

There is 30 rounds of Sleep on two of the Ants. Thorgard hits one Worker Ant for 11 damage and Jacob hits a Worker for 8 damage. Thorgard gets his second attack but misses.

Next, the Ants attack. There are now 2 Warriors, with one on Jacob…it missed! The other Warrior is on Thorgard and it hits, which takes his Stoneskin away and this also negates the stinger! There are a total of 16 Worker Ants with 6 on Delemir. Two of them miss him just barely and then 3 more miss, He is missed entirely in the back and luckily, his SANCTUARY spell goes off!

Jacob is missed again and now there are 4 more attacks on Thorgard. One hit and he takes 1 damage. Delemir's Sanctuary goes off by the grace of RISWA and lasts for 7 rounds! The 7th level Fighters get their second attacks so Thorgard hits one for 8 and kills it!

ROUND 3.