Session 15: Our First Death

(This is a placeholder so I can catch up to where we actually are.)

A single Fiendish Dire Rat falls out of the portal, which Orrin easily bashes. Then the Fiendish Owlbear falls out of the portal. Led by Arren the Unlucky, everyone heads in to cast spells and beat on the thing. They manage to take it out, but at heavy cost: Arron the Druid and the two lizard folk are dead and Orrin, Tex, and Arren are all down.

Tthardas starts checking their friends while Zay tries to close the portal. At that point another Fiendish Dire Rat falls out. It takes out Tthardas but Zay manages to finish it off and then get the portal closed before something else goes wrong.

Digging through the lizardman's belongings, Zay finds a healing potion, which he gives to Orrin so he can check on and maybe heal up some of the others. They decide to camp outside the portal room, not trusting it. Moving the lizardwoman's body woke up her snake companion, which refused to let them search her after they'd moved the body out of the room. Leaving well enough alone, they rest. During the night they hear rats coming and move everyone who is still alive inside the room. The rats kill the snake and eat the three corpses.

The next morning dawns and everyone soon feels much better...except for Tthardas who is still diseased, as is Zay. They retreat back to the fire symbol room where they rest again and advance to Level 3!