Venturing Forth

                               Beyond Fort Galandar  

Just as the party sets out to explore the valley further their lieutenant calls after them and brings them a slightly worn down figure, someone they had found in the roads who it turns out is someone on a similar mission, to bring good back to Mas Medina and the lake!

 Enter Arken a holy warrior in service to the Maimed God Tyr!

  Introductions made they decided to unite forces and head into the vale, what a different landscape to Mas Medina! Oppressive heat yes but now with lush vegetation pressing on both sides of the track, a track that was once a pretty grand paved road but now rotting away and almost overgrown in parts. 

                 YELLOW SHRUBS AND THEIR THRALLS:    

 The heat increased as they descended and the vegetation became more and more luxuriant, then suddenly two shrubs, one on either side of the road, puffed yellow clouds of dust into the air and Andrena and Thraug were completely overcome by the effects and just wandered over to their creepers!

 The battle started badly but Frost and Arken fought back Arken wielding his greatsword to good effect and tinged as it was magical fire it seemed to hurt the creeper more deeply!

 But now the thralls of the thing shambled out of the undergrowth, 5 of them, soon followed by another 5! and began to attack the party, the fight was long and although the zombies were neither fast nor powerful they were many and the creepers themselves also fought with lashing tendrils, however the party defeated this horrible enemy finally and after judiciously applying flames to the creepers ensured they were truly destroyed.

 As they were about to leave the area Thraug spotted something in the undergrowth close by one of the creepers and with a bit of a struggle extracted the treasures some other hapless adventurer had lost there.

 A well forged orcish war axe with decorated with symbols and a beautifully well formed Longbow of High Elf manufacture, probably from Kirshim.

 After a rest it was a much more cautious party that set forth once more, and before long they came to a vantage point from where they could see the first village and sending Arkan's raven to spy they learned of the presence of strangely short humans with thickset bodies and heavy facial hair but also four huge humanoid hippopotamus like beings that were clearly sentient and warlike, possibly even soldiers or mercenaries...