The Valley Untouched Recap
The party had learned about the Valley back in their far away homelands, and had uncovered things that piqued their curiosity. After many months of travel and excitement, our band of adventurers had become caught in a somewhat nasty storm. Trudging through the heavy rains and high winds, they came across a building called Crossroads Inn.
Upon entering the building, they found themselves being greeted by the rather eager tavernkeeper. The commons held only one other person within, a woman in a grey traveling cloak warming herself by the fire. Finding a nice warm spot to seat themselves, the cold and weary travelers ordered their meals and drinks. As the tavernkeeper brought out their orders, the Noticing the beauty in the corner, the adventurers offered to share their meal with her, but she declined. They spoke with the woman for awhile, learning of a group of people known as the Lightbringers, and that two of their fellows had caused trouble in the inn any a few days before, as well as a little information about a valley where that when people enter, they do not come out. They also got the distinct impression that she did not like the Lightbringers at all.
Finally coming introducing themselves, discovering that her name was Daemora, Biff and Crei offered her to accompany them to the entrance of the valley.
As they continued to speak, the door to the inn suddenly opened and a man, soaked and dressed in leather armor stepped into the room. Asking the tavernkeeper if there were any extra rooms available, he looked over each of the adventurers with a strange look in his eyes. The strange man, however, was almost instantly welcomed by the small band. As the man spoke of his friends who were still outside, Biff, wanting to know if the man was of good nature or not, claimed that "Nature calls" and had the tavernkeeper point him to the outhouse.
Secretly casting detect evil, Biff discovered that the man was of a dark nature. Soon after, the stranger exited the building to retrieve his friends, entering the storm outside once more. The bartender went upstairs to prepare more beds for their arrival, oblivious of the strangers true nature. Biff warned his fellow comrades of the man, and the party prepared themselves should anything happen. As they continued to speak with one another, the tavern door flew open, three shrouded men standing behind the doorframe.
Instantly they could make out the pointed elven ears that the strangers had, yet...there was a smouldering rage enhanced by the fireplace in their eyes. A strange, large, leashed reptilian creature with horns also stood beside the men. Walking into the building, they spoke of their intentions, telling the group that they had come for Daemora, who was grasping her forehead in pain for unknown reasons. O'yassen, the druid of the party, placed himself between the men and Daemora while the others prepared to battle.
The battle was intense and powerful. The beast charged O'yassen, inflicting horrific damage with its powerful horns and eventually knocked him out of the fight. Crei and the archer exchanged shots, while Biff tried to deal with the wizard who was causing chaos, mostly targeted at him. Vladen did battle with the crony and easily dispatched him, double teaming the draconic beast with O'yassens enraged wolverine companion. Crei ended the archer with a well placed critical hit to the eye, and Biff tackled the wizard. They struggled for many moments and seemed on the verge of capturing him when he used the scroll in his hand to teleport himself elsewhere. After the fight, the party did some precursory checking of the bodies and healed O'yassen and all the other injured.
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