Part the Second
Day 6th to Day 8th: Bandits and Necromancers.. oh my..
After a suitable amount of time praising Noth, I found the dwarf Tekkud rithilir the hammer-dwarf nearby. I convinced Tekkud to join me in my new found adventure, and preceded to trade my spare leopard shoes and a cloak for his fine steel shield and superior bronze chain-mail. I dropped the Koala statue and told Tekkud to guard it, while I started to venture into the nearby Lost Forest for two reasons, first to hunt and stock up on extra rations for the journey, and secondary dwarfly wrestle any animal I came across along the way. After showing off my martial prowess to a coyote and owl, I came across a small group of goats. While beating on these goats, I was joined by a mad dwarven ranger, who proceeded to engage the goats in conversation while helping me on my current task.
Soon while later after the goat gave me a good couple of kicks to the lungs, the ranger and goat ran off into the forest never to be seen again. I returned to Tekkud and the statue only to find a small patrol of dwarves consisting of a crossbow-dwarf Zon Kerliggoden and 3 recruits. He told me of the nearby dwarven town of Gladjungles, and I decided that would be our next destination. The next morning, after collecting the statue, me and Tekkud headed Northeast through the lost forest towards the local hillock settlement of Wheelsrained.
After crossing the bridge to Wheelsrained we were attacked by a small group of bandits. A fight ensured, Tekkud and I managed to rout them by killing three of them, however Tekkud died of his wounds shortly afterwards.
After looting a two-handed copper sword from one the bandits I left the now dead Tekkud behind, my Noth save his soul. Seeking new companions I headed to the nearby drinking mound, only to find it deserted, except in one of the corners where a small female bow-goblin of the name Batow Leopardwet was standing. After she agreed to take the place of poor Tekkud, we headed out to the central civic mound in order to gather more information of the local area. No one was there or in any of the houses we past along the way, seems like this village was abandoned sometime in the near past.
I continued north-east towards Gladjungles, stopping in the elven forest retreat of Scrapesongs along the way. A short while after leaving Scrapesongs, we came across a curious sight. A dwarven Necromancer up a tree, who began hailing insults down at us. Batow began firing silver arrows up at him in return, until she ran out and proceeded to climb the tree and bash his brains out. During the brief encounter I noticed the necromancer drop something, I slab titled "Iturnokor" surely full of dark forbidden knowledge. I know wish I had learned how to read more then just a few words.. argh well at least I have something for the museum.
After collecting the slab and climbing down from the tree, I gave Batow an iron axe since she now she had ran out of arrows as well as the Koala statue to carry as we resumed our trek onwards... to Gladjungles.
End of Part two