Rangers of Shadow Deep - Perilous Dark - Dog Days

When Carov and his team arrived back at their base, Revna held out a peculiar blade she scooped up.  It was covered in strange runes no one recognized, and Carov could detect a slight enchantment.  After several days of research, and calling in a few favors, the runes were translated, and Carov found that the blade was once carried by a member of an elite mercenary group called the Reavers.  The Reaver’s captain was said to carry a sword of great power, and had equipped his Reavers with similar, but lesser weapons. These weapons could be used to point the way to the Reaver captain’s location. 

Joined by two elves, Daryain the Swordsman and Eloborn the Archer, Carov and his merry band of miscreants journeyed out to find the Reaver’s treasure.

Cast of Characters

Carovnik - Conjurer and Ranger, searching Felstad for anything he can use to fight the Shadow Deep

Victor - Guardsman and loyal Alladorean soldier

Gorbin, Ogre Carov saved from the Incinerator

Revna, Archer, who joined the team while in Felstad

Yvanne, Conjurer, who joined the team while in Felstad

Daryain, Elf Swordsman

Eloborn, Elf Archer

The Dog Days

Venturing into the ruins, the door behind them blocked, and strange, magical hounds started to bay, their voices echoing through the room.  Four glowing crystals spaced throughout the chamber, pulsed, their magic both trapping the group in this chamber, and giving the hounds power.

Led by Gorbin the Ogre, Daryain the Swordsman and Victor the Guardsman, the team charged into the room.  The crystals must be destroyed if there was to be any hope of escape.

They quickly moved up, but the strange dogs charged into the fray.

Yvanne conjured a Raven to guard their rear

Two chronohounds guard the center crystal

Victor moves to the first crystal, and is quickly engaged by one of the strange hounds.  Victor's axe draws first blood, if the fluids pouring out of these beasts could be called blood.

Victor quickly destroyed the hound, and shattered one of the crystals, but out of the shadowy corners, the hound re-appeared, fully healed.

The team is quickly overrun by these hounds, and Victor and Gorbin succumb to their relentless assault.

And the hounds just keep coming back

While Carov heads to the center crystal to destroy it, the rear guard is hit, and the conjurer Yvanne is dropped by the bite of one of these hounds.

Carov attempts to destroy a crystal, but a magical backlash wounds him greviously, while the rear guard continues to fail as Eloborn the Elf Archer falls to the beast's relentless attacks.

As always, as the fight continues, and the game teeters on the brink, I end up taking fewer photos, and just play.  

The center crystal is destroyed, but as the two remaining members, Carov and Daryain rally around the third crystal, the hounds finish them off.

After they all went down, the hounds apparently stopped viewing them as threats,allowing the survivors to crawl out, bleeding and near death.

The dice just weren't with me; having my two best warriors go down right away just crippled this attempt.

• Carov - Full Recovery; gained 100 XP for destroying two crystals
• Victor - Full Recovery, 1pp
• Gorbin - Full Recovery, 1pp
• Yvanne - Close Call, 1pp
• Revna - Close Call - lost Quiver of the Huntress and several magical arrows <cries real tears>
• Daryain - Full Recovery
• Eloborn - Dead

Returning to their inn, Carov, always stubborn, starts looking for new warriors for a second attempt at the treasures of the Reavers