The Adventure Continues. Session date 21st Feb 2011.

The brave adventurers continue their exploration of the goblin liar. They come to a room with coarse bedding. A split skull banner hangs menacingly in the room. A hollow log corridor leads away. Maglor scouts ahead. He notices a small trap door halfway along the corridor. Maglor pokes at it and he can see another part of river. Vyaareb fears that this is some sort of goblin toilet. The party shudders. The log opens to another room.

The room is tidier. There is wooden furniture in there. Another log at the base of the room. Ferrets appear, the bare teeth. Maglor throws food at them, the sniff and eat it. Less threatening than they were before. There is no treasure to speak of.

We move to the next room. Two Hobgoblins with vacant looks block the way and start to advance upon us. Stephen tries to turn them. He fails to do so that proves that they are not undead. They are still advancing. Maglor sneaks off to one side (we guess as he is still invisible, he might have buggered off altogether for all we know).

Combat is joined and Vyaaren, despite landing a couple of hefty, if not mighty blows, is paralysed in return for her efforts. The party despatch the creatures but Jubal is also paralysed. The party are able to move the two statues with them. The room is well appointed, cushions, tables, bed and comfy seat. The rooms get nicer and nicer. There are clothes and a chest. It is empty of anything interesting. Orcish undies, you get the picture. Maglor finds a small door, he opens it carefully but triggers a trap which drops a massive petrified branch onto the room. The unpetrified people take a heavy blow. This is enough to cause us to retreat from the area.

We pick up Babusha. She is relieved to be out of there. She has been there for a while, and was captured with a young girl. Yes, she has seen Stephan the hostage we are searching for. Goblins in iron collar appeared a few days ago and took Stephan the hostage to Zitarka, to see Old Skinny Leg. The girl was taken too and the old woman left as she was too slow and scrawny. According to the woman, the goblins are led by Vlak. They are looking for an Old Map. This is what she could garner whilst listening to the people being interrogated by the goblins.

With the woman in tow and the party wounded they head back for Suskiskin. It will take us two days to get there. The horse traders are a day away. We clear the petrified forest and find a suitable place to camp. At the camp we are joined by two more refugees, Egor and Dzulietta. Stephen heals the wounded people around the campfire with his staff.

We set off again to the west for the horse traders. The trek passes without incident. As does the following days trek to Suskiskin. Much damage has been repaired in our week away. Gregor is here as well. We relate tales of our battles.

They are unable to shed light on where Zitarka is. However Stellio’s mother suggests that we speak to the Horseman. Who is the horseman we ask? He takes the form of either a centaur or a black horse….

He is contacted on the moor by standing on one leg in the moonlight. And whistling. We remember leaving him on pleasant terms. Although as he runs with the horses he has no love of horse traders who enslave his people.