…and the sky full of dust.

Session 42 The old man invited the heroes down to his cellar, to spend the night and partake of the roasting pig him and his friends were about to settle down to eat. Callum said he needed to talk to his friends first, and walked back to the others: there Magnus told them all that the old man was under a glamour and was actually some sort of red-skinned, dog-headed demon! The old man called out that they should join

Session 41 Back outside, the heroes discussed how best to go back in and destroy the undead barrow wights and their self-proclaimed king. With their magic-arsenal at full-strength and armed as well as they were, it wasn’t long before they decided to just head back in and simply charge them. With Alf leading the way, they made their way back through the tunnels and came into the large central chamber: but is was empty, the enemy had flown! Callum spotted

Session 40 The tide of the battle turned for the heroes, as Callum, Jacob and Willow took out the remaining skeletons and zombies, and Magnus engaged the lizardman trying to skewer him. Blows were exchanged, but one-by-one the walking dead fell to ruin, and the wizard held his own long enough for Jacob to move in and decapitate the lizardman from behind. Meanwhile, under the barrow, Ratkin charged after the lizardman struggling along with the paralysed Alf, and used his

Session 39 After retreating into the surrounding forest, the heroes watch and see another lizardman appear from around the stone building and drag his friends out of sight. A few minutes later they all rush across the clearing and disappear into one of the other barrows. Taking advantage of this, Alf and Magnus cross to the building and nip inside, and are immediately confronted by the injured zombie that is still standing there: Alf takes it out with a well-placed

The heroes travel to the ring of stones known as the Blood Sisters and come across several dead fir darrig, a few days old and ravaged by some wild animal. They find bear prints but nothing else. So they spend time chanting away to activate the portal and use the teleporting ring to travel to the linked stones all the way South near the Inn of the Dancing Donkey. There they chat to the innkeeper and learn that the Lord

Session 37 From the cellar below the heroes could hear coughing, then grumbling, movement, and a splash of water as the fires were doused. A few more coughs followed, then silence. Alf decided he was tired of waiting and headed down again, spotting a couple of the ogres lurking in the darkness, squinting to see. He told them he could see them, and that he and his party were looking for something, and they intended to search the place, whether

Session 36 After burying their box of statuettes (in a place marked by a recognisable tree) the party of adventurers approached the ruins of the monastery with caution. They could see movement in the ruins, visible through the gaps in the trees: ogres, more like the feral ones they’d fought several times, not the kindly monks they had rescued a week ago now. Magnus came up with the idea of using his newly learnt cantrip to create a sound across

Session 35 After tending to their fallen companions, Magnus using his healing skills to bandage Willow and Jacob, the party retreated into the hall with the ogre-monks and rested, feeling fairly certain that the Shadow Man below couldn’t get out. Just to be sure, Callum and Ratkin took turns watching from the stairs, but nothing came out and slowly the fires inside winked out, until the entire shrine/cellar was in darkness. By that time the rest of the party had

Session 34 Turning round to face the attached Shadow, Jacob cut a large swathe of it away with his magic two-handed sword, leaving Alf to finish it off with his spear. The remaining ogre fell to Callum’s arrows, and the last fir darrig corpses fell, releasing their Shadows. At this point, Ratkin took the full skin of water from Willow and used it to douse the fallen corpse that was still on fire and providing the necessary light for the

Session 33 The old monastery stood in a clearing of the forest, the smell of wood-smoke in the air. They approached, knocked at the gate to the courtyard and getting no response they entered a well-maintained garden, next to a couple of doors into the monastery itself and a smithy. This close they could smell the smoke more strongly, and could hear what sounded like heavy pounding or knocking against a door, or maybe doors, from inside. Carefully looking through