Vondal's Vandals: Showdown
The giant tree finally fell beneath our blows hut not before we had suffered mist mightily. Blood caked our clothes, our armor, my shield. I fell to my knees sucking in the tainted air of the indoor grove. It was only the unnatural light that reminded me we were still in the pyramid hunting down Karivakos, an ancient enemy of times past.
The roots of the great tree reached out for me again and I lashed out with my axe, the last of my strength spent in that final blow. I surrendered to sleep then. Later I woke and cleaned. No food was waiting for us. Akmenos was off muttering to himself, cackling as he wrote in that journal of his. Not like the old days. I suspect the rod, but either way something strange has happened to my friend ever since we got here.
I went back to cleaning my shield, and tried to ignore the rumbling in my belly. It was then that Akmenos chose to reveal his secret. He called himself Thralzon, named himself a king and us his servants. I threw my shield down and shoved him up against the wall demanding he give Akmenos back. He would not relent. He laughed. He cackled. He enjoyed this, I could tell. Snowsuit tried to reason but in my anger I could not see past this evil possessing force. He claimed to want the same things as us but would not promise to give Akmenos back. In the end I punched him and left him lying there, laughing.
We pressed on through the maze of this curse pyramid but my mind was hardly there for the anger. I ignore Thralzon as much as I could despite his jests and orders.
Come on Akmenos my friend, you can fight off this evil and find your way home. We will need you before this is over.
Notes
Last session we only managed 1 fight but it was a tough one. The main enemy was a tree with threatening reach on it's roots, a power that pushed us back (it must have been 2 spaces because I can stand firm against 1) and a power that healed when it hit bloodied enemies. We got worn down pretty quick from the opportunity attacks and the fact that he was healing and making it hard to take him down. It turned into a pretty brutal fight and we burnt through our healing pretty quickly. It was also quite fun though.
Last night the fights were a lot easier with one of them being a pretty low level encounter that we breezed through. The little sappers were pretty tough though with their 12 move double attack power and their 12 move and the fact that they were really hard to hit on opportunity attacks. It took a lot if chasing them around to take them down. It was also pretty cool.
Only a few more encounters until we reach level 10. Not sure what we get then but I'm looking forward to it.
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