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Nick, Owen & Alex, I am so sorry to have to spin you this sorry tale of this week’s game but I drew the proverbial short straw.

It starts at where we left it last time getting back in to the secret tunnels behind the keep at the fort after taking apart the lamia matriarch V2.0. We managed to infiltrate the keep stealthily taking out the few ogre guards before alarms could be raised. The shocker lizard distraction was working (yeah us). We made it to the big bad’s inner sanctum and that’s where the fickle dice gods gaze shifted from the players to the GM (Boo! Hiss!). From this point on Laurent seemed to crit on just about every 4th roll or so and hit with almost every other roll. When each player was rolling damage that was always almost up at maximum. The Paladin then was grappled as ogre reinforcements turned up and the group’s combat potential went downwards rapidly with me losing my sword on a fumble. So with little option of victory the group decided on the only thing left to us was a not so heroic retreat. So we ran away like the screaming big girl’s blouses we were at that point back to the secret tunnels with the ogres in hot pursuit. With the ogres trying to hack a large enough tunnel to chase us we ran through the cave system. When getting to the trapped bridge nick’s wizard fumbled crossing setting off the trap and due to being out of spells, he fell to his demise with only having about 7-8 HPs left. Once the trap was reset by pulling the lever the rest crossed cautiously, luckily Adam’s rogue was on the bridge and passed his reflex save and managed to jump clear so he could reset the trap after the wizards unfortunate accident. This is the point where we then ran in to the remaining shocker lizards who had escaped being stamped on by ogres and were not too friendly anymore to us for herding them that way. A few electrocutions later and a few dead lizards later we found ourselves down one sorcerer. The last few of the group fled thought the forests back to Turtleback Ferry to send word of our defeat to Magnimar. During the mad rush Ginga’s cleric slipped and impaled himself on a broken tree branch. Doing a crit and going beyond his con stat in negatives. Once we got back to the town we were informed that another adventuring party had been sent out from Magnimar and would be with us shortly within a day or so, so we would have the reinforcements we wanted for the fort.

So you guys just need to decide on what you guys are going to be to make up with this new band of heroes.

Ian