Dwarf Rescue 2 - Another big Lizard

Moving farther into the tunnels using the light from Sky’s helm to see with. Path of travel is worked stone and it seems to follow the map. Dubious thinks it will take seven or so days to reach our destination. Elwin spots a group of bugbears as he rounds a corner. Two groups of five plus a cloaked figure. Warn the party. More debate. Attack now? Wait? Negotiate? Decide to wait and see if they will sleep after finishing their meal. The cloaked figure takes some of the food. A Drow male. They start packing up to move out after eating. Towards us. We set a hasty ambush. As the lead bugbears enter our chambers, they snort out a warning as they smell us. We attack. A convoluted melee starts. We drop two of them before they retreat. A brief attempt at negotiations is screwed up by Gracie. We move into the first chamber and attack them. A couple of fireballs go off and Sky breathes once. We drop all of the bugbears where they are but have to chase the drow down. Aerrion and Jian skin him after noting that his spellbook is tattooed on his skin. Gonna make one weird spell book. Hope the Cuthbertians don’t find out. Loot the bodies and move on. Burnt bugbear. Ugh! Later on, Elwin hears something odd. I move up and hear multiple bipeds moving away. Elwin tries to sneak closer but a loose stone almost gets him spotted. He retreats back to us and we have a brief strategy session. Dubious notes that a party of Drow would be a tough fight. While we debate, Elwin moves back forward and finds the Drow have gone. Scout about. Find tracks leading to the right. Our map directs us straight which is where we go. Travel on until we get tired and camp. Move on into another chamber. Elwin misses that LARGE dragon type multi-legged critter that breaths lightning at me. I also see a beholder type critter floating in the chamber. Elwin runs away. Damn halfling! Combat starts. I move away to drink a cure potion. The others manage to drop the beholder kin. The behire swallows Sky but we manage to kill it before Sky dies. Loot and recover. Another half day travel gets us to the Kuatoa temple.

Oosana

XP:
Kills - 900, Story - 300