The party was joined by two new adventurers, a gutsy dwarf ready for battle and an ambitious gnome with his own plans for Necromancer's Cave. With fresh intel from the hobgoblin soldiers that had ambushed them in the previous session, the party raided and looted a supply depot, scoring some deadly siege weaponry and poisons. But in the process, Salvyn the squirrel and Amber Ironfist were infected with a mysterious disease by a hobgoblin captain. Both began to show symptoms in the following battle at Old Orc Hill, where the party slew a chimera for its recently acquired Vorpal Scimitar, which Viktor now enjoys. Derik's repeated exposure to the portals since his blood ritual at the kraken temple is beginning to reveal to the party the nature and extent of the true danger that lies ahead, something potentially greater than the elemental evil cults themselves. The party is beginning to catch its first glimpses of The Hunger. Will they learn how to save all of existence in time? Will it cost them their sanity, and their lives? Only time will tell. If time itself can survive the telling.
