(edit, the abridged version. This girl can talk)
It feels strange to be alive again, the last I remember was trying to fend off a xvart with my shortbow in a dark wet and cold cave. I'm so proud of Vorle for getting me to a temple before it was too late. Anyway;
I don't get it. There we were, surrounded by bandits in a well orchestrated ambush when Edwin decides to cast armour. Serves him right to get an arrow in the arse but Viconia and I also got hit despite running. I'm the only one who had to drink a healing potion and Edwin casually saunters out of the ambush with his spell in tatters and only half his 6hp still in place.
I'd planned a really funny trick on Edwin, it was going to be sooo gigglesome. Right up until the point where Vorle decided he didn't like the girdle I gave him and swapped with Edwin. Vorle has received enough of my japes over the years to know immediately that I was involved, but I'd hidden before
he she could cuff me.
Now we're in another dark wet and cold cave, only they have delusions of grandeur and call it Nashkel Mine. We've barely set off when Edwin runs out of throwing daggers - pfft what an adventurer he's turning out to be.We've returned a dagger to Miner Kylee and Viconia seems to be having trouble keeping her hands off Vorle(tte) in the dark - although she says it's purely medicinal when I tease her about it. Edwin is a laugh a minute, thinking his armour spell will protect him in melee against kobolds - why do I sense another temple visit is imminent?
I have to eat my words as we clear this level of the mine - Edwin using his lonely Magic Missile and three Larloch Minor Drains to kill four of the eight kobolds in our way. I might just sneak a peek at his spellbook when he's dozed off.
After a fitful night (or day) of rest fighting off four more kobolds, we wake up. I was going to write about finding and disarming my first trap but the area was strewn with human remains and a green ring; obviously another trap was horribly triggered with fatal results. I clear two more traps on a bridge as Vorle(tte) shields me from arrows - strangely happy as there is no way for an arrow to get him/her in the vulnerables! Plus his voice has feminised overnight (changed voice set until curse is removed).
Ugh. Two huge spiders. Vorle(tte) soon cuts their legs off and then there are more kobolds, including a commando. Vorle(tte) almost falls to this group but a potion followed by 2 cure light wounds and a lay on hands sees him/her have the last laugh.
I clear three more traps, getting good at this, and we continue to the next level of the mine. Another kobold commando wounds Vorle(tte) before we kill it and then we find the base of the mine. Inside are four kobolds and then a half-orc cleric called Mulahey. We lead him to the "pool of death" where Viconia commands him twice. With him defeated all that remains is for us to clear out his minions. Two gray oozes are removed and then we rest before heading outside. Vorle(tte) is learning from Viconia, and is now able to cure light wounds twice a day.
Viconia silences four amazons, her experience as a drow helping her recognise mercenaries and bounty hunters that the rest of us would just see as um well armed locals. Lamahla and Maneira are held as Telka dies, then Zeela is killed shortly after a second hold captures her. Maneira and then Lamahla are finished off before the original hold expires.
Back in Nashkel we identify the owner of a greenstone ring and return it to his widow before collecting our reward from Berrun Ghastkill. Nimbul is supremely confident of his ability to stop us, casting mirror image and trying to scare Vorle(tte). He fires one volley of magic missiles as we kill him and I ask Edwin why he only casts one at a time when Nimbul can cast a handful. Edwin tells me not to be so nosey and for a moment I thought I heard something else (clueless shrike!)
We make our way to Beregost in search of a compatriot of Mulahey and Nimbul. He's at Feldepost's, and shows Vorle(tte) how to cast Melfs Acid Arrow. Once he is dead I ask Edwin why he doesn't cast such a useful spell and his sharp retort is to say he is biding his time with another loud mumble afterwards (and when the time arrives I will strike you all down!)
Vorle(tte). Cavalier 3, 31hp. 72 kills, Tranzig. ** 2HS, * staff, ** 2 handed weapon style.
Imoen. Thief 3, 21hp. 25 kills, Lamahla. * short bow, short sword.
Viconia. Cleric 3, 14hp. 20 kills Arghain. * mace, * sling.
Edwin. Conjurer 2, 10hp. 11 kills, gnoll. * quarterstaff.
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