Prelude:

We made it into the temple, unfortunately it was not a very warm welcome from the inhabitants. The beastmen and walking bones were a plenty. We were able to dispatch them. However we did suffer a few casualties. Had to yell at Akila as he left the child unprotected. I believe he understands the significance of saving the child now as we have yet to determine what role this child has at the temple.

Game Day thoughts:

Bingo and I took a tribal warrior and began investigating the rooms. We did find a few of the previous search party. They were alive yet had no life in their eyes. We had to give them what we hope is their final rest.

Ajax seemed upset and unsure the entire time we were in the temple. Still trying to get a feel for him but I do believe he can be trusted but I still do not want the child left alone with him. Akila seems to have accepted this charge.

We found a room with a few statues and an alter. It also appears there may have been more statues but they must have been destroyed. When Ajax saw them he kept rambling that they had a purpose but he could not remember what that purpose was. More riddles

Found more of the raiding party. They appeared just like the last group. They were walking as if alive but you could see it in their eyes that the fire just was not their. Have heard superstitions about people raising the dead but this is just not right. We did give them their final peace.

Found a rune tablet in the wall and Ajax appeared to finally remember something. Saying these are teleportation runes or something of that sort. It was on the wall and he said they usually have a paired one, whatever that means. After some more investigation we did discover one on the floor next to one on the wall. He had us stand on it and said something I do not understand and we were in another room.

Bingo and I each took one of the tribal warriors and began investigation the rooms while giving Akila the charge of protecting the child again. We found what appeared to be the last of the search party.

During our search, we happened to stumble onto more walking bones and beastmen. The beastmen appeared to be stealing and ransacking this place. Bingo surprised them and in his unique way pissed them off and took a few his direction. The bonemen were immediately on me and had to make quick work of them before I could go to his aid.

Unfortunately the beastmen charged and one of our warriors went down. The beastman charged past me heading towards Akila and Ajax’s party. They have 2 warriors so they should be able to handle that one. The remaining beastman ran past me down the hall, I can only guess he was trying to cut off Bingo. We can’t have this so I will leave Akila and Ajax to the one beastman and I will aid Bingo.

After coming around the corner I now see what mess Bingo has gotten himself into. He had them in front of him and behind him so I will even the odds a little and immediately dispatched the one to give him a little breathing room. We did make a good fighting team as with him distracting the beastmen, he dropped to the floor and I was able to come in and slice through them all.

There was blood everywhere but fortunately very little was ours. Saw that Akila had protected the child but his party looked a little light and realized we had lost 3 more warriors in this fight. A tough loss but the child still lives

Ajax had an epiphany and suddenly remembered some things about the temple and the statues. he was saying the statues are the guardians so we took the portal back to the alter rooms where he recited a few words and the statues came to life. I do not understand what just happened but I believe we need to be even more on our guard

Akila was able to see to the wounded and we will rest a little and recoup as we try to find out what the beastmen were doing here. We survived this battle but we need to be more careful next time.

Everyone did their jobs well. Ajax was able to remember how to get access to the guardians. Akila protected the child and offered his healing and saved those that were saveable. And Bingo, well he was Bingo.

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