Tadg the druid led a group into Freya's Fist, including Ormr with Augnir the golden spear in hand. The goal appeared to be filling in blank spots on the party's map, which they did with some success. Pius the cleric suggested some effort be made to clear the "mushroom room" prior to setting out, but the plan was apparently to go around it by way of a side passage. That didn't really pan out.
Some zombies were dispatched, revealing a weird necromantic black magicky cache of fetishes with some treasure and a journal of lunatic scribblings, but not before a fresh PC immolated himself with a fumbled oil flask throw. Then came a couple ogres that the party surprised and easily defeated, capturing Owen the Ogre in the process. Owen was easily convinced to aid the party instead of die and doped around in front. He warned them of "bad men" in one area that they avoided.
A long hallway with invisibly concealed traps at the end could have been disastrous, but a useless Norse cleric cast Find Traps and revealed like 4 or 5 separate traps clustered together. An attempt was made to talk the druid through the traps a la Catherine Zeta Jones in Entrapment. He failed and was nearly killed in a chain reaction of death. They scooped up some discovered treasure and realized they were trapped by a sliding wall, one of the many traps triggered in the chain reaction.
It took them a while but they eventually released the pressure plate causing the door to slide shut and escaped. Loaded down with heavy treasure they duck waddled their way towards the exit, right into a waiting ambush near a portcullis. The men lying in wait called out to the party and Floki the MU immediately responded by casting Sleep. Initiative rolls went out, Owen in the front soaked the crossbow fire, and magic won the day. Floki Wizard Locked the portcullis shut and the party fled for the exit.
I rolled how long it would take the remaining men to wake their partners, think through their options, and lay another ambush near the exit. Then counted the party's reduced movement speed and distance to the same exit. It was a near thing but without any other encounters to slow them the group made their way out with pursuit on their heels, loading their horses, killing Owen (who didn't see that coming?), and fleeing for Bloodfall.
Grading:
Floki: Excellent. Good use of spells, interest in weirdo magic stuff.
Pius: Excellent. Good use of spells.
Ormr: Excellent. Front line, bold.
Tadg: Excellent. Good use of spells, caller
Drunan: Set himself on fire with a fumbled oil flask. RIP.
We had a lot of chatter about working with and then killing the ogre and what that meant for a Lawful and/or Good PC. Ormr actually took the action on the execution. Be careful cooperating with Evil (Good) and/or making and breaking deals (Lawful). It was borderline and I'm generally a pushover. Don't be surprised if a repeat event gets a harsher response.
