(G56 - KT 13/06/09 Saturday)
During the night, a knock was heard on the door, and a dwarf warrior called Wulfgar
announced himself, explaining he had been sent from Seawall to lend a hand.
(day 7)
That morning, either in earnest or in jest, Banjax mistook the newly arrived dwarf
for his Aunt Petunia. He was so convincing in this belief that the others went along
with this, much to Wulfgar's protest. The alternative title of 'Madam Spinkysponk'
was no better received.
Upon leaving the room and heading for the narrower tunnel that lead further down
into the mines bowels and argument broke out between the confused bard and the
angry dwarf.
'After you Auntie!', the bard bingled cheerfully.
'Call me yer Auntie again and I cut off your tongue!', growled the humourless dwarf.
'Please do so.', declared the bard and stuck out his tongue insultingly.
Incandescent with rage the dwarf struck with his axe and cleaved the bard from his
tongue!
The others reacted in horror as Banjax staggered around, shrieking, with blood
pouring from his mouth.
'Hold him still!', cried Fredorick and Bokk neatly knocked the bard senseless.
The cleric, with the aid of a needle and thread and no small amount of his precious
supply of healing magic spent the next half hour sewing the bard's tongue back on.
After all that drama, the erstwhile heroes continued on there way and Wulfgar
immediately blundered into a pit trap and fell twenty feet. Banjax rushed to the
front and proceeded to empty his bladderful of morning water onto the raging dwarf.
'Everyone join in, Auntie loves golden showers!', cackled the bard gleefully although
he could hardly speak due to his mangled tongue.
Bokk 'accidently' pushed the urinating half-elf into the pit too, but did at least
stand back to let them both climb back out again.
Ever onwards, the heroes continued on to a room full of stalagmites where they were
attacked by even more crossbow wielding kobolds. A few were killed and the rest
surrendered. Fredorick escorted them out of the mine, before he and Bokk relieved
them of their valuables.
The next chamber was full of undead, which Fredorick turned using his clerical magic.
Bokk, hasty as ever, rushed after one as it felt down a narrow tunnel into a large
chamber that held within it a pool and a waterfall.
He killed the zombie, but had not seen the evil cleric that lurked behind a pillar
on an island in the pool. Banjax rushed in to help, and then Wulfgar who went to
hit the evil cleric, but instead received a 'darkness' spell on his body that plunged
most of the chamber into perfect darkness.
What happened next was utter chaos. While Wulfgar was knocked senseless, Fredorick and
Bokk stumbled around in the darkness while Dana stepped indecisively around its edge.
Banjax chose that moment break into song, which helped a little in its magical bardic
way but did nothing to alter the situation.
An angry Fredorick called the retreat, Bokk was struck down by the evil orc cleric
as it stepped laughing through the darkness. Banjax, seeing the barbarian fall, dragged
him out and away and when Fredorick used his last healing spell on Bokk, he picked
up Dana who was crawling, injured from the darkness.
They then fled.
This left Wulfgar though, at the mercy of the evil cleric, but he managed to flop into
the pool, swim underwater and then climb out the other side and make a somewhat soggy
escape to join his fellows.
Much discouraged, and reminded of everything they had done wrong by the preaching words
of Fredorick the heroes made there way back to Seawall to heal and plan their next
move.
