Journal of Rollo Lavius 2

Entry #420 - Annoying the Unseen

(G420 01/08/2020 via Roll20 - AP(GM), JF) LR23

[Back with me and my companions again, trying to deal with all the Unseen nasties in the  cave atop Midpoint Island.]

DAY 493 (8th Flamerule) (July)

Arrows and javelins flew threw the air, some painfully finding their targets. Sylvia reacted first and blocked off two of them with a Wall of Thorns.

They fired another volley then moved in, six men armed with bastard swords and wearing chainmail. They would have been better off sniping from the darkness because once we could see them they were quickly defeated with crocodiles, magic missiles, hypothermia spells and Corum's sword.

I realised that they were probably dominated and we managed to take two of them alive. They were stripped of their arms and marched down to the boat where hopefully whatever glamour was on them would eventually wear off.
One was an old-ish scarred man and the other a young man. It was a shame about the others, but considering what we are up against, not unexpected.

After that was done, we re-set the watch and slept through until morning. When it was  light I followed the trail of the attackers around the island and found that they had arrived by boat. Not just any boat either, but a sort of sister ship of the Anubus, all the way down to the magical runes and a crystal ball in the captain's cabin. It was empty, so we sailed it round the island to join it's sibling.

Lavinia was surprised to see us turn up like that! But she was delighted of course that we had now two marvelous boats, and I could see the next trip to Farshore being planned in her head as she eyed up our latest aquisition.

Anyway, me and the shore party returned to the cave and once more headed in to continue being a general annoyance to the Unseen.

We smashed our way in through more of the crystal barriers until we reached the rear chambers again. We were careful but a mindflayer caught us and stunned Corum and Jiggles. I tried a Baleful Polymorph on it, but it was resisted. I ordered a retreat and Irritator teleported us all out except Sylvia who ran back and met us at the entrance.

Well, at least we had carved a way in, and this time from a cave about half-way in myself and Irritator recommenced the 'Wave of Beasties' attack. Crocodiles, Wolves and Apes rampaged into the caves.

We heard the sounds of fighting and if I had to guess I would say our beasts  were fighting an ogre or troll. After some seriously loud 'ape on ogre' noises all was quiet...
Jiggles was there, counting on her fingers - timing our waves of animals for us. Was the way clear? We sent in more critters to find out.