Campaign Report - The Price of Freedom - 02

After recovering from the battle against the bloodsucking plant and the Id Fiend, the party studied the map they found with Volkur and found out they could follow two different paths to get to the slaver's hideout. The first was longer, but the path was easier to follow, it went through flat sand wastes and dried river courses. The second was shorter, but it would pass through canyons and stony barrens, making it hard on the party's vigor.

After considering each one, they decided to go through the shorter but harder path. They felt they had no time to waste and they needed to be quick. Guided by Arbitria (Druid) and Abbadon (Ranger) they followed the path until the spotted two individuals on the path ahead, a half-giant carrying a huge obsidian great sword, and a halfling carrying a spear with a very roguish appearance. The group tryied to hide and observe the couple, but Eben (Battlemind) did not manage to stay silently.

This lead to a fierce discussing about who was who, and what do each group wanted, and where they were heading. In the end, both realized they were after the same guys (The slaver Szur) and they decided to join forces to go after them.

The path was hard and tested the group's endurance and mobility but they finally arrived where the map lead to. Apparently the slaver's were using an old temple behind a hill as their operation's base. Abbadon and Errich (Monk) decided to scout ahead and see what they could find out, while the rest would wait in a hill behind the temple. It happens that Abbadon was discovered by one of the guard drakes the slavers were using and a battle started. It wasn't pretty, the slavers had a bunch of arches, 3 guard drakes and a battlemind on their own. It took good teamwork of the party to take them down, but 2 arches managed to escape inside the temple to warn the others.

The group chased them in, but found out that the old temple still had a few traps working (or they were set by the slavers). The session ended as the group made a few turns on the temples corridors and are heading to where the sounds of screams are taking them. Let's see what happens this sunday!