The Fight for the Forgotten Fort (Date 1/6/19)

Winter gave a detailed layout of the interior of the fort, and a two-fold attack strategy was hatched. Marty & Euwyn would distract the leaders at the gate, while Lex led a stealth team in the back to rescue the children. The plan worked up to a point. Marty’s magic was able to hold the leaders at the gate, but the hole in the wall was not unguarded as hoped. Lexington’s attempt at a stealthy assassination failed and an alarm was raised.

Minerva jumped off the wall to engage the prince, while Darwin made for the back with the rest of the bandits. Hedge managed to rescue the children and send them running with Winter before the troops arrived. Darwin quickly proved to be too much for the team, and Lex and Hedge were forced to flee. Using horses and magic cloaks, they beat a hasty retreat toward the remainder of the team with Darwin close behind. Minerva was a tough combatant, but a fog cloud hampered her abilities until the combined efforts of the Prince, Marty and Justice were able to bring her down. At one point a Marty’s magic seemed to fail, and instead of healing energy flowing to his comrades a ghostly apparition touched Euwyn restoring his spent spells. Then, just as the stealth team was arriving a mysterious wind blew aside the fog cloud, revealing Minerva. Justice took full advantage of the sudden, clear shot and brought the woman down. Darwin witnessed this and uttered a cry of anguish and a slew of curses before fleeing to the forest with his few remaining bandits.

Lex was sent back to Malwan to gather troops to guard their new holdings, while Euwyn and team set to work fixing the place up. Marty complained vociferously about boredom and a severe lack of sexual opportunity, sparking a lengthy discussion about the benefits of masturbation. Eventually Marty agreed to stay until the soldiers arrived, but only if they would return to Malwan and stay put for a month. It was… Sort of agreed.

Upon returning to Malwan, Euwyn went to work in the tower, seeking an answer as to why his magics seemed far less impressive to him than they did to the rest of Malwan. He poured over Narlock’s notes hoping to find a secret he might have missed that would make his spells more… certain. One morning, he awoke at the desk in the library from a dream about bees, only to find an odd, distorted light pattern buzzing around him. As he pondered what it might be, and where he had seen the anomaly before, the light and sounds faded into the shadows and corners…