The Bridge at Skull Gorge

It was a hard fought battle the first time... The second time was even worse… If it weren't for the hearty Warforged called "Rusty", the party would surely have perished during their daring second try at destroying a critical avenue of approach for the dreaded Red Hand horde.

One party member was heroically stabilized at -9 HP, the other well into the negatives as well. Will the party be brave enough to take a third crack at the bridge? Will the Wizard and Ranger be saved? Will the Warforged Cleric recover from near fatal damage? Will Rusty figure out a way to repair his massive damage before the horde advances and wipes out the entire vale? Only time will tell…

Vrath Keep

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Short version of what happened last game
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We began the session with the Artificer and Cleric doing a scouting mission in the woods surrounding the ruined keep.

The Shifter met up with a Half-Elf Ranger who was in the woods hunting Hobgoblins, who showed him the way to Vrath Keep. When they finally got there, they heard a loud crash and went to investigate.

Meanwhile, up at the keep, the Wizard heard one of the party members shout out that they saw what looked like a large dog coming up the hill from the path leading to the Keep. Being the paranoid Wizard that he is, he cast Obscuring Mist.

Needless to say, the large dog turned out to be the shifter sneaking up the path to the keep.

Narrowly escaping a volley of thrown axes from the Warforged, the party was finally re-united.

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Encounters
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6 Hobgoblin veterans
1 Hobgoblin Cleric
2 Goblin Worg Riders
2 Worgs
6 Hobgoblin Veterans
1 Manicore

The Tomb

Our contact from the church has been delayed for unknown reasons. After waiting patiently we have decided that the situation in Randt is desperate and requires immediate action. The five of us, Felixx, Caruvial, Kevlamin, Thondran, and Aerdrick planned a 24 hour stakeout at the graveyard and hoped to gather more information. We set out on our mission after Thondran left a note with Jensen telling Von Spear to meet us at the graveyard if he should arrive.

Once at the graveyard we climbed to the top of the Ir'Droversons tomb (after many failed attempts to get a good grapple) where our 24 hour stakeout was to take place. We chose posts then we sat and watched....and watched...and watched...and watched...and watched.....and watched....... and watched.......and watched.......till the druid had to go to the bathroom.

While urinating on the Ir'Droverson burial ground the five of us became spooked at the sight of some dirt being thrown all over the place from off in the distance. We prepared ourselves for a stakeout and battle, we sat waiting for our time and hard work to pay off, we sat waiting for the enemy to finally show his evil face, we prepared ourselves for what was going to be a great battle with an abominable master of undead, thats when IT came into our view.......a cute little cuddly furry raccoon was foraging around the graves and was the culprit for our unease. We went back to our posts....

Loud grumbling, groans, and moans became heard at night off in the distance. Being obvious that it was a group of undead we decided to get their attention since we were on a roof and they couldn't get to us. We threw a sun rod down to the ground and yelled for their attention. They came to us and we fought them back with spells and ranged weapons till they ran away. The group came back later hurling rocks at us but we defeated them. Searching through their bodies revealed a triangle shaped object, the item we were looking for!
Inserting the triangle into the lock was more difficult than we thought it would be because the triangle kept changing colors. Luckily Felixx and Thondran were able to figure this thing out. Then they figured out the buttons as wells. We entered the tomb, found a secret door that we had to climb down where we got attacked by a pair of whites who drained one of felix’s levels and two of irdriks. We decided to flee back to town but on the way we discovered a buried warforged, Rusty!!!!!