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Game summary for October 11, 2016, Reign of Winter campaign, for Phoenix Gaming Club. Session included: Deska Starseeker (Half-Elf Druid played by Kaliegh Belda), Kenwrec Battleglaive (Dwarf Slayer played by Peyton Harmon), Magnus Erlingsson (Human Cleric played by Chris Harmon), Tiswichtt (Orc Witch played by Casey Scruggs), and Tulvur Xandersen (Dwarf Fighter played by Taylor Averdick). Game Master for this session was Charles Plemons.

Bloody brutality erupted as the bandits charged to kill the intruders.  Kenwrec leapt forward and cut one down with a single swipe of his mighty dwarven axe!  Magnus and Deska darted across the field toward the archer.  Tulvur gutted another bandit as Tiswichtt spun her orc double axe in a mighty arc to decapitate the bandit assaulting her!  Deska mortally wounded the archer while Kenwrec cut down the last of their foes.

The team swept into the lodge and began searching rooms.  They discovered four sick bandits coughing with flu-like symptoms.  The team managed to intimidate them into leaving the lodge!  They then moved into the kitchen and found themselves facing the loaded crossbow of a powerful young half-orc woman named Ten-Penny Tacey.  After some negotiation, she agreed to join them in the search for Rokhar in exchange for a full share of the loot.

The group moved upstairs and found a room occupied by two frost skeletons empowered by winter’s fury.  The frigid creatures possessed a damaging aura anathema to most life.  Kenwrec jumped up on a table and ran toward a skeleton, only to miss in his attack.  Deska closed in and narrowly avoided a deadly swipe by using her windy escape spell.  Tulvur noticed something brush past him and heard the stairs creak.  Magnus channeled positive energy to disrupt the undead and moved to the balcony to watch the doors to see if anyone was trying to escape.  Tulvur cut the leg off the table with an errant power attack while Deska tried to bull rush a skeleton through a window.  Ten-Penny emerged from the shadows and dealt a lethal sneak attack to one of the frost skeletons.  Tulvur managed to cut down the other.

Meanwhile, Magnus darted downstairs and went out the front door in pursuit of someone.  He found tracks in the snow and discovered four of the bodies of slain bandits rising up in a mockery of life!  The zombies turned and lurched toward the lodge!