The left passage

Kynareth determines that the left passage is closest to the blue jewel. Friar Jim tries to look through the jewel. He sees that Skarmad is looking at Ssark, the battle champion, and there are 3 Impalers and 6 troglodyte Maulers with him. We decide to set a trap. The gnomes get punched, rendering them invisible. The others hide behind some wicker baskets. Skeldor hides inside his treasure chest which is in the middle of the room.

Bo sets up some 80's speakers with an old boombox, trying to stun the creatures with some death metal. The creatures are freaked out, but not stunned. Rhadhar misses with his crossbow, and Falcon uses his shock sphere, but misses. Bo uses his bravery of satire to attack an area with 5 enemies. Friar Jim creates a Blade Barrier in the middle of the room, and pulls Skeldor to safety by him. Kynareth uses Lightning Strider to attack, but misses. A Mauler attackes Kynareth, causing weakness. Every enemy attacks Kynareth, but they all miss, both with melee and javelin. Rhadhar misses his attack, and Falcon misses as well. Bo's kaliope music does not affect the battle champion. Friar Jim lights up the room with Solar Wrath, hitting all enemies. Several enemies move to attack the Friar. He escapes all but one attack. Skeldor attacks, hitting the Maulers, and pulling them into the blade barrier. He then grabs the Friar by the collar, taking him out of the line of fire. Kynareth does some damage, but nothing major. The battle champion pushes Kynareth into another enemy. The bad guys can't seem to hit Kynareth or Rhadhar. Falcon's ray of frost kills one of the Maulers. Bo misses. Friar Jim tosses some acid at the Battle Champion, but misses. The enemy attacks Skeldor, causing some minor damage. Kynareth teleports around, attacking enemies. The battle champion pushes Kynareth into the next room, along with a Mauler. There are 5 bad guys surrounding Kynareth, in a separate room. Falcon misses again, and Bo can't hit either. Friar JIm manages to finish off a Mauler with his Lance of Faith. Skeldor kills the other Mauler. 

Kynareth, alone in a room with 5 enemy, uses his Lightning Clash, missing his first attack, but hitting with the second, killing it. Ssark attacks with his club, hitting Kynareth, and tries to bite, but misses. The impaler also misses. Falcon misses his attack, and Bo finishes off the Mauler. Friar Jim hits an Impaler with a flask of acid, injuring him, and Skeldor finishes it off. Kynareth attacks the remaining Impaler, who is injured, It attacks him back, but misses. The Battle Champion attacks Kynareth, finally hitting him. Rhadhar enters the room to help Kynareth and attacks the Battle Champion, putting 2 shrouds on him. Falcon attacks the Battle Champion as well, causing more damage, bloodying him.  Bo does some damage, and the Friar throws another flask of acid, but misses again. Skeldor does some damage. The bad guys miss their attacks. Kynareth attacks the Impaler, killing it. Only the battle champion remains. Rhadhar draws the shadows to his dagger, and attacks the Battle Champion, killing him. Rhadhar continues to attack.

We find ourselves alone in the entrance chamber and second room, ready to search...

The Warren

As we reach the door to the Warren, we smell the scent of woodsmoke, which can't overcome the stench of Maulers and 2 other unidentified creatures, and another in the back of the room we can't see  to well.

Skeldor grabs Smiley, invokes winds of change, causing him to hover over the enemy. Smiley's eye beam misses, but Skeldor's winds of change smashes 3 of the Maulers for major damage. He tells us the 2 creatures are Nothic Stalkers. the one in the back is a Kasset controller. We are unimpressed. Falcon hits 2 Maulers with an area burst. Rhadhar seeks out a lone Mauler and misses badly. ( the shadow of the dragon strikes again.) Friar Jim launches a Solar Wrath, hitting all 6 creatures, and heals Skeldor. Bo hits one Mauler, causing it to issue flatulence that causes minor damage to Blue is High.  Bo's attack causes major damage. Kynareth uses his Spider's leap to land on the Kasset, attacking with dimensional thunder! Skeldor targets the same target, and hits him and and adjoining Stalker. Falcon drops a fireball powered by his flame wand. It hits all creatures, and several members of Blue is High, including Smiley, who disappears. The Friar hits a stalker, and tries to let Skeldor make a saving throw, which fails. Bo misses. Skeldor, distrat over the loss of his companion, spins into the enemy, missing one, then hitting the second. Yelling "This is for Smiley!", Skeldor manages to kill the other Stalker. The remaining stalker and the Kasset attack Skeldor, hitting him. Skeldor falls to the ground, dead. Rhadhar brings Skeldor back from the edge, although just barely. Kynareth attacks for minimal damage. Friar Jim uses his Healer's Sash (Paragon Tier) to heal Skeldor, then uses Sacred Flame on the remaining stalker, killing it and further healing Skeldor. Kynareth uses Unicorn touch on Skeldor, causing some consternation. Bo tries to insult the Kasset, but Falcon finishes him off. The room falls silent. We search the bodies. We find nothing of interest. There is a bag in the corner. It contains 700 gold, 4 fine emeralds (250) +3 wand of fireburst, +3 phasing longbow. 

The Troll Haunt

Blue is High starts to ease on down the road. Around sunset we arrive at the Trollmaw. It looks like there might be some movement behind a gate. Smiley hovers over to the gate and sees 3 warren trolls. BoJangles tries to talk to them. 3 Impalers emerge from the cave, and look at him. BoJangles takes out his harmonica and plays a troll lullaby. Skeldor is muttering to Rhadhar behind the gnome. The lullaby doesn't work. We ready our weapons. 

Falcon uses scorching burst, hitting 2 creatures. Rhadhar takes on a lone troll, but misses. Kynareth attacks a warren troll, with his blade, missing everything. Friar Jim hits a troll, and BoJangles uses cutting words on the same troll. Several trolls begin flanking Kynareth. Falcon attacks one of them, weakening one. Kynareth teleports away from the group. A troll attacks Falcon, but does no damage. Friar Jim uses Solar Wrath, hitting 5 of the enemy, bloodying one. Rhadhar attacks the bloodied troll. Kynareth bloodies another troll. 3 of the creatures attack Kynareth. Friar hits one troll with his Lance of Faith. Bo glances at another troll, causing him to go cross-eyed, and bloodies him. Skeldor targets 3 creatures with a whirlwind, killing one. Smiley shoots an eye ray at one bloodied troll, causing minor damage. Falcon drops a shock sphere on another 3 creatures, killing one outright, and shocking the other 2. Rhadhar tries an attack, but fails miserably. (It seems the shadow of a dragon blocked the attack?) Kynareth's attack misses. Friar Jim hits again, but doesn't do much damage. Bo misses his attack, and Skeldor steps up with his dagger, sparks flying. He kills the first, but trips on the way to the other, and gets bitten. Falcon kills one troll with a concussive echo. Rhadhar attacks the remaining troll, hitting it. Kynareth attacks with the green flamed blade. Friar Jim hits, as does Bo. Skeldor gets hit with a javelin thrown by the Impaler in the door. He responds with a lightening bolt, bloodying him. He spins around to attack the remaining troll, but trips on a pinecone. Falcon hits the troll, killing him. 

There is a lull in the action. We hear raspy voices in the doorway. We attack.

Back to Moonstair

Blue is High regroups in Moonstair to decide their next move. The Cloudwatch Inn is where we meet, with a menu of either sausage and potatoes, veggies and rice, or boiled cowhead. Beverages include water, beer, or a bong hit. After a filling meal with great service, we decide to search for Skalmad while we wait for the next full moon to appear.

Nanarb is not with the group, since he decided to spend time in the tinker's shop to learn some new skills. Ravenex takes off with 2 creatures of indeterminate gender, an awkward undertaking. Falcon, however, has suddenly appeared to rejoin the group, and tells some tales of his spirit journey.

We head West into the troll haunt. BoJangles leads us away from the thick undergrowth, and we end up lost. Skeldor launches a whirlwind which helps clear away some of the mist. We trudge on for a bit more. Our feet are getting wet. BoJangles begins taking out a large alpine horn, which immediately begins to disintegrate. ("Hope is not a strategy" DM) BoJangles gets on Skeldor's treasure chest, and blows the horn, trying to clear the mist away. It partially clears, and we can see another rise in the terrain, which looks "interesting."

We find a half sunken road of stone blocks. It leads to a tall standing stone carved with runes. Skeldor reads the runes, which are in troll. It marks the territory of Vard, first king of Vardar. Friar Jim remembers that what used to be called Vardar is now called the Troll Haunt. We made it.