April 8-9, 2946 Resolved to try and rescue Radril, Fosco, Skari, and Hauz make a plan to sneak into the castle and search for their comrade. Unfortunately, they are noticed by the carbain nested in one of the towers. The PCs end up barreling through the ruined tower, killing a “birdman”, and driving off the flock who make all kinds of racket. Continuing on to the second tower where they know there is a secret door leading to the under chambers of the keep, the PCs find it strangely empty but stinking of orcs. After searching around a bit, the Party then proceeded down the hallway. Near its end, the small snaga orcs began peppering them with arrows and then retreating. But the PCs pushed on eventually emerging on the second basement level of the keep (where the torture chamber was). Still moving forward, the Party stumbled into a group of orcs guarding the hallway near the prison cells. This is when shit got real. Hauz took the brunt of the damage and went down. The PCs tried pulling him back out of melee and suceeded, but he was ht when he was down. Left with in the Dying 2 condition, he failed his recovery roll and died. The rest of the Party soon realized that they were outmatched, and surrendered. They were stripped of all of their equipment and imprisoned. The lone bright spot was that they were reunited with Radril. The PCs also reached 5th level.