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Day 23 Cont...

Next they encountered what can only be described as a magical labyrinth, but thanks to Barney's
tracking skills they made their way through it without getting lost.

One room they entered, had been flooded and partially washed away. The more agile members of the
group made their way across by jumping across while Wulfgar risked the pebble slope off to once side.
He was disturbed by strange sounds from the water as he did so, but ran across unmolested.

From here, there were more strange passages and arches that seemed to sometimes turn in on themselves,
but again, thanks to Barney, they followed the tracks successfully into an odd shaped room.

The first part of the room had a pit trap in it, with an unconscious female half elf at the bottom.
Barney retrieved her and the group learned more about the crypt robbers they were following and about
its sinister leader Xeron and the man that had got her into all of this, Terril.
She described herself as Leera, an archeologist who had been forced into accompanying the robbers.
She seemed innocent enough, but when Wulfgar asked to see her legs, she returned with a torrent of abuse.

The other part of the room contained statues that release automaton into the room, varying in size and
ferocity. Wulfgar was attacked by a large jaw like construct while the others were attacked by strange
smokey beings.
They were not dangerous foes though and were soon destroyed. Two bodies were here already and Leera
identified one as Terril.

From here some steps lead down to where a low wall had been made and from which could be heard the sound
of running water.

Barney pushed down the wall and stepped into the room, and saw three hobgoblins asleep by a waterfall.
Cautiously the group snuck up on the hobgoblins, but Fred seemed to want to capture them alive rather than
kill them in their sleep so Wulfgar held back his axe until the goblins awoke although he did break a bow
lying on the ground.

The hobgoblins did manage to leap up and attack though. Two were quickly dispatched, but the last one,
perhaps a tougher leader fought on, and even managed to knock Wulfgar senseless and out of the fight.
The tough enemy was killed though, in the end, and Fred healed Wulfgar and the others.

Since most of his magic was gone for the day, Fred asked for the bodies to be dumped in the pit trap
and the hobgoblins room to be prepared for camp. It was also noticed that during the fight Leera had
made herself scarce.

They settled down for some rest.

Day 24

Calamity struck! In one of the many fights yesterday, Barney had picked up some nasty blinding disease.
He was unable to fight it off through his night of rest and Fred was only just able to save the
barbarians sight.

The group, much releived, discussed what the best course of action could be...