With everyone at Level Three, it was time to go on another Decapitation Journey. At Level Three, there are TWO different Decapitation Journeys that need to be completed, and can be done in any order. The group chose to do Whispers in the Dark - hunting down Torgilius the Chamberlain!
This game was played over a month ago at the beginning of May. We kind of got a bit busy with other things after that for a few weeks...
As Decapitation Journeys take a bit longer, we played this on a Sunday afternoon when we didn't have anything specific going on...
In this game, Amanda played Qlathis the Exile and Glaurio ven Alten III. Finnegan played Octren Glimscry and Brutogg Corpse-Eater.
As always, the Decapitation Journey started with a dash through the streets and alleys of Ulfenkarn to escape a Suffocating Gravtide!
The first two rooms FILLED with rats and bats were easy enough to clear out!
And then they ran into Torgilius!? The TARGET of the evening's hunt!
Brutogg and Qulathis beat him down before he could open his mouth and summon more bats or rats or cast a spell at them!
They knew that wouldn't be the last of him they saw this evening, though... When they made it to his lair he would have to be put down again - and all his phylacteries destroyed!
Next they were assaulted by a patrol of the Ulfenwatch!
The larger groups at Level Three aren't too much more difficult to slay... but they do take time... and that slows the group down, so they just barely kept ahead of the Suffocating Gravetide...
With the Gravetide hot on their heels... they ran into Radukar the Wolf!
Yikes!
Glaurio was the first into the room and blew two large holes in the venerable vampire with his pistols. Qulathis finished him of with a couple of arrows...
Then charged past the disipating corpse to attack the Zombies beyond...
Sweet Jiminy! They were just running into ALL the Big Bads this evening... A Vargskyr was lurking just around the next corner!
Brutogg was the first into contact laying a serious beating on the gigantic beast.
Then Glaurio joined in blasting with pistols and slashing with sword!
Just a few last deadwalker zombies to knock down...
and they'd found their way to the entrance to Torgilius' lair!
We took a break and had supper and I set up Torgilius' residence.
This hunt had some interesting new features - which made me wonder what might be coming... The Guard and Torgilius don't move until they activate with any of the Heroes within their line of sight (so, in the room with them, or at the door of an adjacent room) which was nice... BUT, there were NO DESTINY DICE until Torgilius was slain!
Qulathis charged through the entrance and started clearing away huge swarms of rats...
Glaurio smashed the first Phylactery! Hope Torgilius felt that and got a little afraid!
Then everyone was SWARMED with Rats and Bats!
It took some fighting to clear them all away.
Brutogg smashed the next Phylactery!
Then Octren smashed the third... after admiring himself a moment in the magical mirror...
Uggghhh...so many rats and bats... I think by this point Glaurio wasn't in a good way. I think he had one or two grievous wounds and one or two diseased tokens!
He has such poor vitality, that it is difficult for him to get rid of them with recovery actions...
a few brief moments were taken to give everyone a chance to catch their breath - and for Glaurio to fruitlessly attempt to recover a few of the wounds... This is where Destiny dice get REALLY IMPORTANT!
Octren tried to hold off the swarms of bats and rats at door...
Glaurio eventually recovered one or two of his injuries and charged in against the Kosargi Nightguard, blowing holes in the monsterous undead ogor.
He continued on into Torgilius' chamber and blew a few holes in him!
"You FOOLS! DON'T YOU KNOW THAT... "
BLAM! BLAM!
A few more shots wounded Torgilius so grievously, his last Phylactery shattered....
Then Brutogg charged in and battered the withered old man to a pulp!
Torgilius was no more...
But they still had to escape through hordes of rats and bats...
and MORE Kosargi Nightguard that were rushing to Torgilus' aid, much to late...
Late though they were, they were still very dangerous!
Octren almost at the door leading to the extraction point!
GAH! ANOTHER Kosargi Nightguard!
Everyone almost at the Extraction Point!
ANOTHER Kosargi Nightguard - and it stormed into the Extraction Point, blocking Glaurio's escape!
Once in there it took out Qulathis!
The Kosargi Nightguard was destroyed and the Hunters made their escape.
Back on the Adamant, Qulathis was revived and there was much rejoicing!
BOOM! Torgilius gone... Only two more decapitation journeys to go on... the next would be to hunt down the Ven Alten triplets - cousin's of Glaurio that have been turned into vicious vampires in the service of Radukar the Wolf!
But before that, they wanted to tool up a bit more...
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