Tuesday, 6 July 2010

The Dire Wood

After enjoying the reception, organised by the town for their past accomplishments, the party obtained some supplies and set off North to find Draigdurroch Tower. They had been told it was a good days trek to reach their goal and it wasn't long until they found the weather changing. It turned cold, the wind grew in strength and then snow started falling, until they were battling against a driving blizzard. Although the storm seemed almost personal in attempting to turn them back, they plowed through and after a few hours, things miraculously calmed.

They trudged on in better weather, although the temperature was still very low, until they reached a hilly area. Approaching a narrow vale, the ranger tracking out front, spotted skulking figures on nearby ridges. The party split up and snuck towards the ridges, to surprise the lurking figures. Cresting the ridges, they came across frost goblins waiting to ambush them and though the fight was tough, the party defeated the goblins and continued on to the tower.

Reaching the edge of the Dire Wood, the party approached the ice encased tower; its entrance accessible via an ice covered pathway bordered by demonic statuary. The tower arced 4 stories towards a spired roof, above which the ice spiked nearly 60' above the ground, the walls were covered in carven imagery of winged demonic figures swirling round the tower. Whilst attempting to break through the ice covering the door, their actions activated a number of construct guardians.

Several of the pathway statues turned on the party, whilst some of the demonic wall images pulled themselves away and flew down to join the assault. The paths slick surface and narrow statue lined area restricted the psrty's freedom to fight, however they played the waiting game and forced their construct opponents to attack, as they followed their orders to defend the portal. The party's tactics allowed them to defeat the the portal guardians, leaving them free to complete uncovering the doorway and gain entrance to the tower.

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