Beth Lyons

To quote Spinal Tap, “I hope you like our new direction.” We finished Shackled City. Yep. It is done. The stats are impressive: Time on campaign: 2 years, 2 months. Body count: Sadi (twice), Myntilly (once), Indira (once), Ilyea (once), Ragnara (once) for a total of 6 deaths. For a meat grinder like Shackled City I’d say that means our DM was incredibly generous with us.

The beholder flew out of sight. There was a moment of silence. Ian crouched by the door. “I’m going in.” Myntilly nodded. “Left or right?” Ian jerked his head left. “I’ll go right.” Sadi smiled. “I’m going straight!” And she ran into the room and half way up the far wall. Myntilly ran right and jumped behind a table, pulling it over as a shield. Ian crouched by a half wall. Orbius’ eye stalks tried to take all the movement in. I closed my eyes. “Pelor. Pelor shine your light upon us. It is our darkest hour.” Acgar hefted her …Read more »

We were still arguing about books, their merits and flaws, hen we entered a chamber filled with statues. The figures depicted were demons of the Underdark. Ian peered up at what looked like a Farastu demon. “Hmmm, incredibly life-like. Indira, don’t cast any stray restoration spells, eh?” I walked over. They were very life-like. “You think these are just petrified creatures?” On the opposite side of the room Myntilly was studying a painting. It showed Cauldron under a fiery sky. “It’s hard to say but I think this is a Betelle. It has his distinctive brush strokes. This is not …Read more »

We stood outside the fire warden’s door for a minute, weapons raised. And nothing happened. “Well, that turned out OK.” “You mean the way we didn’t die? Yes, that was quite clever.” Acgar patted my shoulder. “How much did you give her?” Sadi was rummaging through one of the bags of holding. “Um, it was…. I dunno. Whatever I had left after the Myntilly thing.” I gestured vaguely, not wanting to bring up the resurrection. “Ladies? Shall we move on?” Iam and Brus stood at the next doorway. Myntilly looked at the sigil on the door and read out a …Read more »