Who should we kill first?

Obegard received some sort of mystical message from our foe effectively leaving us no option but to clean out the other denizens if we wished to save the lives of the remaining dwarves (assuming there really are any).

We still had a choice—fulfil the deal, or use the time to hunt down the dragonspawn and rescue his captives. Since we already knew where the other denizens were we decided it wouldn’t hurt to spend some time trying to concentrate our efforts on the enemy against whom we really wanted revenge.

We rested for several hours to permit everyone to recover their energy and then we headed off, leaving Ili and Dearthen to stay with the dwarves we’d already rescued. We didn’t find much of use, though we discovered another worked area which turned out to be a dwarven adamantine mine. There were a couple of gargoyles there but I was unable to get them to leave their post, even though the area was long abandoned. It also appeared that abyssals have made their way up to this area, which will at least start to make them a more immediate concern of the upworlders.

It became clear we wouldn’t find the dragonspawn so we backtracked to the other area occupied by the Kuatoa (or whatever it was that Erson called them).

With a bit of preparation we were able to blow past their defences and before long we were in battle with their leader, apparently called the Whip. The fight was tough but we managed to finish the Whip off quickly and I think that gave us the advantage. A couple of the Kuatoa dived into the pool of water at the back of the chapel (yes, more water!) and as we were cleaning up and preparing a huge creature began to break the surface of the pool.

The smart thing would be to run for it, but we don’t have much of a history in doing the smart thing.