Game 2 In The Return To Elfland....

A new party member joins, Raziel, the half-elf. Once the dust clears and we take stock of each other, Rabbo and the others give him the short short version of what is going on, and gives him the option to walk away. He decides to stay.

We set up a plan to drag a bramble along the path. It will dangling from a rope from the broom. In what came to be an interminably detailed accounting of how big the bramble would be, or how effective it could be, we were attacked again by kobolds.

About 200 kobolds attack, some summoning elementals. Ethan again uses wall of fire effeciently. Eyar is set upon by a swarm of bats. After enough damage is done, the kobolds scatter. We regroup, and heal up. Raziel was killed after the initial attack, and was brought back. Ethan fireballs an area as the kobolds return. After another fireball, the wand of fire turns to dust. According to plan, we pack up all the players in the portable hole. We decide to go to a variety of places around the map, and then go to the Mires. The first place we plan to go is where our elf-friends are. Rabble dimension walks, and he encounters a problem. Something is moving him. Rabbo maintains control, but tries to drop out of the dimension walk but can't. We notice that he is moving in a spiral and we decide to ride the spiral. He fails and gets sucked in closer to the ethereal palne and sees a spiral inverted at the center of which is a large spider, who is attempting but not succeeding in closing a hole.

Rabbo drops out of the dimension walk. We end up in a tree in Elfland, west of the capitol. We set up a plan, and Validor goes exploring. He trips a falling trap and dies. Raziel and Eyar go to search for him, and Topaz recons. From the portable hole, Rabbo gets out the barrel of healing, keoghtum's, the necklaceo of adaption, the rod of absorption, and bracers AC 14. Rabbo doles out 35 points of healing to Ivy, 40 points to Ethan and has 36 left. Eyar, Raziel, and Validor are all caught in a trap, but it was an illusion. We desbelieve, and gather up our stuff after we got some darts fired at us. The darts were not illusion, but likely kobolds alerted to our presence.

We all get back in the portable hole and Topaz flies off with us.

We find a defensible cliff, and take watch. Within two hours, we are attacked by white kobolds. Rabbo goes after the chanters, kills them, and the party kills most of them. We find 3 gp, and a scroll with 6 spells: Kobold chant; Cause moderate wounds REV 2D8+1; prevent nausea, REV; striking,tracker, putrify food and drink.

Rabbo takes the last watch flying, and we end up in the dawn hours a mile from the Mires. We see the 3 towers and decide to walk thorugh the bog to them. Rabbo's arrow of direction says to go the middle tower.

We encoutner a camp of approximately 100 kobolds. Ivy gets hit with a flaming arrow, Raziel hit with a needle. We fight and kill lots. Eyar and Jerik teleport and kill several magic using kobolds. Ethan tries to hit a kobold, misses and hits and kills Raziel. We kill hundreds of kobolds. We make it to the tower, and then we decided to take a break.