Recaps

Recaps
May 4th: Trouble in the Hills, Part 2

Having struck down the undead invaders of their starmetal mine, our heros head Threfall and the magehold, hoping to make sense of their newly acquired armor and journal and get treatment for Don Diego, who has been struck by a mysterious illness. Before they leave, Broderic of the Ash Legion expresses interest in their relics, and hints at more available for their perusal at the Legion fastness near the city of Arn.

Once at Threfall, Ullman assures them that with the insights provided by Joel Karristan he should have a translation of the latter parts of the journal available by the next day. Trouble lurks in the shadows, however, and our heros are set upon in their sleep at a local inn by three lizardmen and a wraith. Pillow Fort Karristan is destroyed, and Durden Ironblood learns of a sinister side to his ancestor's armor when he is consumed by rage and slays one of their attackers. Later that morning, Ullman confirms that the armor has been enchanted with the Bloodlust enchantment, although the strange after-effects Durden experienced seem to suggest something more...

April 27th: Trouble in the Hills, Part 1

On their way out of the ruins on the mountainside, our heros are confronted with the ghostly events of a past era, culminating in a spectral fight-one in which some of the combatants are all too real. Upon fighting their way out of the ruins, the heros are met by Senior Knight Broderic, an officer of the Ash Legion, and a dozen of his knights. He warns them of an impending attack to the northwest, which they quickly realize must be in their own starmetal mine! Our heros join forces with the Ash Legion and rush off to the mine, leaving the group of undead assaulting the primary fortifications for Broderic and his knights to deal with, the party heads deeper into the mine in search of the real threat. They find a lizardman overseeing a group of skeleton warriors who are holding the leashes of an undead bulette. After a short but brutal fight in which Don Diego is seriously wounded, the group finds a cave exposed by the invaders with a wondrous set of armor and a mysterious journal apparently belonging to Darius Ironblood, ancestor to Durden and founder of the Shields of Valor. The journal is legible up until the last two weeks of entries, which seem to be in some kind of code.