Sho’s P.O.V.

Upon awakening we spend a small amount of time getting ready. Rak looks as though hes come up with some new concoctions, Mirei looks as though shes prepared her magic more so than usual, and Harvus seems to have an even more intense look of determination than before. As for myself, I think I have a better idea on how to handle the elemental magic that flows through my blood. I had hoped that I wouldn’t have to test my theory to soon however.

Harvus turned to the group and in an unshakable tone said that he was going to head back to the cove and hopefully find Sandara alive. Part of me really wanted to help, but I felt as though I would be of little use down there. Just as I was resigned to offer my assistance anyway, Mirei spoke up, offering to assist the bold strix with his quest. Rak offered a potion to assist him, but we knew someone had to meet the crew of the ship lest we all be left behind. And so with the intent of convincing the others to come back for them, the party parted ways.

Rak thankfully had another potion available for use and at my request, handed it to me. I had no idea what we would encounter on the way back, but I’d rather be as best prepared for it as I could. We were safely able to make it to the destroyed bridge, where Rak showed off his skills and chucked all but five coconuts clearly across the river. We climbed the trees and branches back across and made our way to the beach we originally landed at with record time.

However when we arrived, we found that some members of the crew were already there, looking through the huts and bones that littered the beach-side. Among them was Scourge who demanded to know what happened on the island and the whereabouts of the other two. We explained the short version of the events that happened which then prompted him to command the others to beat us for “Not following orders”.

Slippery Syl was the first to hit me across the face whilst Ebony slipped in behind. I saw Rak hit with a rather hard thwap from Samms. I took up a defensive stance and made a threat that the next person to hit me would soon regret it. This didnt go over well with Scourge however, as he made another snide remark and whipped my face from a distance. Ebony kept attempting to grab and hold me from behind, but I continued to slip out of his grasp, and after a few more hits of both the physical and verbal, they offered me an ultimatum. Kneel and stop what I was doing and they would forgive, or else. I kneeled, but I think Ebony could sense my hostility and intent to go all out on Scourge the moment he got close enough. He looked to me and caught my eye and shook his head slowly, as though he were trying to tell me something. I clenched my fist and bit my lip and decided to trust him, both out of guilt, and something told me he knew more than he let on. Regardless I looked up at Scourge once again before getting struck one more time and then only blackness.

-To be Continued.

Sho’s P.O.V.

As we awoke the next day, we saw a fort atop this rocky area and decided to investigate, hopefully there would be something of value inside. Along the way we found a stream of fresh water, Rak began doing some tests, but seeing as it looked fine to me, and I was quite tired of drinking coconut water, I drank my fill and seemed to feel fine. Mirei, didnt seem to feel the same, but I suspect she must not have a great immune system or something because Rak had some shortly after and he seemed fine.

Anyway, we approached the fort, it seemed well constructed of sturdy wood with a large tree inside whose branches dangled far out of the barrier itself. Whilst the others went inside, I decided to have a look around the perimeter so as not to be taken by surprise. The outside seemed fine and I casually walked inside. A brief worried look from Harvus was all I got before I saw a frightening face come from above and wrap its arms around my neck. In a panic, something sparked again in me and my arms ignited in flame. I swiped at the creature holding me, the fire scorching it slightly, causing it to drop me to the ground. I shouted to Harvus and the others that there were terrible vines and when asked if we should burn the place I struck the wooden barrier with my flame engulfed arm and shouted yes.

Harvus and I left the barricade and waited as we waited for Mirei and Rak to grab something from inside. I spotted one of the creatures heading in the direction of Mirei and started to sprint off towards it, but was caught short when I heard Rak making the sounds of a struggle and turned to help. However once again I was caught off guard and pulled upward by familiar choking vines. I could make out Harvus attempting to throw rocks with some success at the ones holding Rak, but I found myself being hard of breath. I attempted to tap into that power I had only a few moments before but sensed it was empty for the time being and it was up to my physical strength to deal with the problem. With some effort, I pried the vines free and dropped to the ground, making sure to get a lot of distance between myself and the vines of the tree. Rak fortunately was able to drink one of his concoctions and grew double his size, forcing the creature holding him to let go. We all quickly made our way out of there where Rak and Mirei told of their discovery.

They had told us about a grindilow on the coast of the southwestern part of the island wearing Sandara‘s hat. Harvus’ face turned incredibly serious and he made it known that was exactly where he was going. Despite my physical condition at the time, I knew he must care for Sandara to risk heading there. I gave a smile and patted Harvus’ shoulder, reassuring him that he had my support, and the others seemed quite adamant about doing so as well, and so off we went.

We made our way to the coves Rak and Mirei mentioned and decided wed try to climb our way down slowly. Thankfully Rak had a climbers kit with him. (Seriously what doesnt he have? he he) Harvus was the first down, Rak on the rope behind him. Harvus in a fit of concern cried out for Sandara when he reached the bottom. (Not the smartest move, but I know his heart was in the right place.) No sooner than he called out did four disgusting batlike bug creatures come swooping in after him.

Rak saw this and dove in without a second thought, but poor Harvus had one latch itself onto his back before he had the chance to dive. With the two of them in the water the creatures turned their attention to Mirei and myself. With a little hesitation I ran and dove into the water, successfully not getting hurt in the process, but finding a goofily grinning Rak upside down in the water. Mirei was soon to follow, ever gracefully entering the water, we soon found our way into one of two caves. The one we went into had the water flowing into it rather than out, which made the process of it much easier.

Harvus took point, being that he and Mirei were the only two who could really see in the cave. I could see a little, but once we got to the point the sun didnt peer any light in, Rak and I were essentially blind. I guarded the rear whilst the sounds of combat came from within. It would appear that Harvus was battling some of the grindilows that were spotted earlier. Feeling like we might need an exit, I made my way back to the entrance only to find more grindilows ambushing us from behind. I took a few swings and crushed the skulls of the two in front, but in my condition the other two took a couple of stabs to my shoulder and leg respectively and I fell unconscious. I had a dream about Agatha for the first time in a while, I wonder if it had something to do with the floating sensation, or being held that had something to do with it, but regardless the next thing I remember was coming to with Mirei feeding me a potion to bring me back from the depths.

I was told that Rak rescued me from the grindilows that had stabbed me, and that Harvus was heading further into the cave to take some of them on. I felt an additional surge of energy, perhaps the potion had a latent effect in my body, but Id happily take it. I was no good to them as a limp body. Mirei moved over to Rak and as though trying something shed only heard about she cast a spell that lit up Rak’s trousers light a torch, providing some much needed light for the two of us unable to see in the dark. Not sure why she picked his pants, but a light is a light I suppose. Its a good thing too, as some grindilows came swimming into our tunnel, giving us the light needed to quickly dispatch them.

Shortly after, Rak noticed Harvus come back to the entrance, Ive never seen him so haggard, it looked as though only pure anger and desperation were keeping him conscious. This was made even more obvious as he passed out on our way back through the tunnel. We decided to brave the upstream waters of the other tunnel and managed to swim out of the area into the open ocean on the other side. There Rak and Mirei spotted a sunken ship. But we were concerned more with getting back to land. We couldnt carry Harvus in his condition, much less ours, so Rak tasked Mirei with guarding him whilst he and I climbed the cliff face to reclaim the rope we left behind.

After obtaining the rope, the disgusting flying creatures stirred once again and without hesitation the both of us dove into the pool below again, swimming back out to sea. Once there, I made the climb again, securing the rope at the top and taking a much needed rest whilst the others made their way up, Rak carrying Harvus on his back. Honestly I feel like I might have had Rak all wrong, his violence on the mans promise had me worried, but his desire to help out all of us leads me to believe he has quite the kind side as well.

Once at the top, we rested a few minutes more. Harvus began to come to, and given our current situation, we decided to make a retreat for now, with the intent to come back sometime after we contacted the crew of the ship. We made it all the way back to the blazing fire the others had created a couple of days prior and rested for the night.

Sho’s P.O.V.

This next day on the island I had hoped would go better, but would soon find this island would become quite the ordeal to overcome. We traveled through rather thick jungle, with the path the only real indication of where we were going. Rak seemed to be looking for anything he could use in his alchemical concoctions with the other two and myself staying mostly silent. We came across what I originally hoped to be a clearing, but found it instead to be swampy marshlands. The place had a feeling of foreboding, which quickly grew with the sound of buzzing as we moved further in.

Rak had the right idea when he heard the buzzing grow louder as he quickly handed the few bottles of alchemist fire he carried. We were shortly set upon by disgusting swarms of some kind of mosquitoes. We were barely able to fend off one wave, myself and Harvus taking quite a nasty blow from their bites. (EWWW EWWWW EWWW GET THEM OFF!)

We heard another group of them fast approaching and admittedly in a blind panic I dove into the swamp water in the hopes to escape. The route I took unfortunately didn’t go forward but went back the way we came. At the time however, I was not in the soundest of mind to care, I only desired to get away from the swarm. As I made it back I could hear no sign of the mosquitoes, but I also saw no sign of the group. I cursed myself for panicking the way I did and after a few minutes of waiting, psyched myself up to take another dip into the swamp to find the others.

I swam for what seemed like a while, poking my head up only to get my barrings and for air. However, as I got closer, I could smell smoke, and soon saw the blaze of a fire on the horizon. I grew concerned something went wrong and when I heard no sign of the buzzing, jumped back onto land and took off in a sprint. I arrived to find that the fire had been started by none other than my group to which I asked justifiably what the hell had happened, the only response I got was from Rak, who looked at me with a smile and shaking his hands in excitement said “ALCHEMY! SSSSSSS….” A few small explosions erupted from the fire and I figured I wouldn’t be getting a straight answer from anyone that day.

Harvus seemed to have taken a larger hit than I realized from the mosquitoes’ assault and so I parted with one of my two potions of cure light wounds, deciding it best if I drink the other. After a moment of rest we pressed onward, we didn’t have a lot of time before the boat would leave us so we needed to find what we could.

We ended up finding a beach just east of the path. We noticed a figure off in the distance near a giant palm tree and decided to investigate. There were many giant palm trees that dotted the beach, some with smashed coconuts underneath them. When we drew close enough to see the figure in detail, it was obvious they were undead, however they seemed content with smacking the base of one of the larger palm trees. Before we had a chance to do anything however, and much to our surprise, a giant crab dropped from the tops of the tree and flattened the undead in the blink of an eye.

We decided we were in no shape to fight such a foe and backed away quickly, however the coconuts in the other trees seemed like quite the haul we needed. Both Harvus and I climbed to the top of one of the trees. I threw down coconuts whilst Harvus chopped some of the leaves so that Rak could makeshift construct a basket to hold these giant coconuts in. False dusk began to set in as we made our way back to the road, and in the hopes to gleam more from the island, as well as be in a better position we hiked upward on the rocky slopes of the path and finally made camp for that night. Boy do I hope the worst is behind us here on the island.

Sho’s P.O.V.

I was excited to see that we were going to be spending time off of the ship and away from those despicable and rotten excuses of people Plugg and Scourge. The nights prior were quite draining and hectic. I found it difficult to try and say anything to Harvus about Sandara, and Mirei had seemingly closed herself off to me. I suspect that Scourge is keeping a close eye on her at the moment so I decide to keep silent about the matter.

We arrive on the island with little trouble thankfully, though the place feels as though it has a story to tell. Had the circumstances been different, it might have been an interesting place to explore. We made our way to a destroyed bridge across a swampy river. Most of us climbed, but Rak, never one to miss a chance to “Parkour” as he puts it, jumped across the remaining stumps to cross. To his credit he nearly made it, and the only thing that stopped him was a large frog monster. I was about to leap into the fray, but Mirei surprised me with a display of magic, entrancing the frogs long enough for Rak to get loose and escape.

We soon found a suitable clearing with which to call it a night and set up watches around a fire so as to not get caught unaware. Which thankfully we did as we were ambushed in the night by three undead women. It was over quickly, though I do believe one of the boys were bit. It didn’t seem to affect them, though still I worried a little. The night passed rather quickly after that and I hoped the next day would fare better.

A night of rest. HP isn’t completely crap. Still bear signs of trauma. No longer I shall tarry in my duty. My state must suffice

Rak, Sho, and Mirei wish to head to the ship and report our findings on food and water. I cannot go with you. I will not leave Sandara, alive or dead, in the clutches of those monsters. I will deliver her from that doom. If I must, I will return for her alone. But return I will. I begin my trek back to the caves. Mirei volunteers to accompany me.

Calistria, hath thou answered mine prayers? Hath thou giveth me strength of rage this day? …I feel it, goddess. And I will carry it to the end. Vengeance upon those that would harm her thus! Vengeance to those whom forsook us to this hell. Mirei and I circumvent the ridge and return to the cove from the sea entrance. Four creatures pose as sentinels to their layer.

Your end is nigh

Climb up the cliff. Position atop one grindylow. Drop down, spear first. The others, unsure, look on as a black ink permeates water.

One.

My spear emerges from the ink to gore another

Two.

The two remaining take up posts just outside the tunnel entrance and ready actions. I surface in front of them triggering their actions. One misses, but not the other. I respond in kind

Three.

The final makes its stand fruitlessly.

Four.

With the tunnel clear, Mirei and I make our way back inside stealthily. Should have entered at low tide before. Would have been in our favor. The tunnels are eerily empty. Guess we thinned the population a bit. We come to a chamber with 3 possible exits. The sounds of creatures can be heard from only one however

Mirei, pause here, I will scout ahead and return with news. She hands me a potion of invisibility. I thank her, knock it back, and scout the tunnel. It ends in a large, flooded chamber. The water is littered with debris, most of it corpses of some kind or another. Three creatures inhabit the chamber. The grindylow wearing Sandara’s hat, an angry female grindylow, and a large whale like thing. Above, dangling from seaweed and sinew….

Now is the winter of my discontent, made glorious summer by Besmara’s own. I have found you! Now to free you. With her also is Tilly Brackett and someone I recognize from the Man’s Promise. Humans…. better to have you as allies than to wind up your corpse. You too will come with as well.

Sneak back to Mirei, get her to cast Cure L. Wounds on me. Suddenly 3 splooshes in water can be heard followed by commotion from the chamber. I sneak back.

Player aside: Somehow, even like… 60 god damn feet away, with cave ambiance, and all the racket the creatures are making in the chamber, somehow they can still hear Mirei cast her little spell. I guess spellcasters can’t cast without fucking screaming at the top of their lungs. Shenayays homie, shenaynays. The DC for that perception check should have been like… I don’t know… higher than it was. Just sayin… Ok that’s the end of my rant… because what follows turned out pretty epic.

Back at the chamber Shit! They’re in the drink. Alas, we’re discovered. So much for that advantage. Sneak into the water. Begin swimming after the my ship mates. The whale swims right above me, narrowly missing me. Soon I pass a large tentacle thing with teeth everywhere (a devilfish).

Really?

Finally catch up with them at the bottom. A pair of shackled ghouls await. One swipes at me and lands its hit Doth this forsaken gape not bear enough yet?

Pat Tilly on the shoulder as a sign of benevolence, cut her loose, and hand her my flail. She blindly swims to the surface. Cut Sandara free and place her on my shoulders, then cut Goyle Free. Begin swimming back up.

I must succeed.

About half way, the whale makes a lunge for Sandara (being that I’m still invisible. Use a hero point to brace my spear against its attack. It attempts to swallow us whole…. Rage on…. I crit the monster, stabbing it repeatedly from the inside. Its jaws land a few deep bites in my flesh.

No more shall they rend thy flesh. I shield Sandara from the bites, taking the all the damage. I do however survive it and keep going, watching as the devil fish blows bast and begins feasting upon the whale’s corpse. Enjoy creature. And toil not with us.

As I continue my way up, I notice Tilly embroiled in… something… with a small squid monster. Guess I ought deal with thine troubles too. Spear it. Kill it. Now I have to clutch my spear in my mouth, Sandara on my shoulders, and an unconscious Tilly Brackett with a dead squid stuck to her. Mirei calls out to me through a message spell she had cast prior to my entering the water. She asks me to gurgle if I’m still alive.

Gurgle, gurgle…. lose the spear…. because god forbid I should be able to gurgle with a spear in my mouth. Apparently one can only make noises when their mouth is empty.

Attempt to grab it with my feet. Fail. Fantastic. And it would appear that Tilly hath lost MY weapon….sigh Surface. No other creatures in sight. Mirei helps me get Sandara and Tilly above water.

Session ends with Mirei and I looking over Sandara and Tilly, wondering where Goyle is.

I will find Sandara. And the plague of vile creatures here within will rue this day! Carefully tread deeper into the caverns that awaits, spear in hand. A pack of grindylows surface and attempt to ambush. One bears Sandara’s hat. You, wretched thing, I will end you last. For the rest? I remove you from your mortal coil.

Use hero point to enter “rage”. Kill a few. The grindylow bearing Sandara’s hat flees. A couple implant their spears into me. One more so than the other (got crit). I will be no easy-lad for the whims of these creatures. Withdraw from combat to a nearby tunnel. Drink a potion to heal up. Two of the grindylows follow suit. Kill one. The previous that crit me, hits me again. I’ve had enough of you. Gore the grindylow with my spear and slam its corpse against the walls in a deep fit of rage.

FUCK. Tis seeming that only my rage bears me. I must retreat…. rest. Calistria grant me strength to return and smite these low things with glorious vengeance. Trust my love that I will find you and deliver you from this place! Retreat through the tunnel back to the entrance. Come up to Rak. Doth my eyes deceive me? Or hath the snake found luminescent breeches? It matters not

Rak, we must retreat for the time. And further more, you may need to bear me. Rage ends. HP drops to the negs. Black out.

Wake up sometime later on a cliff over looking the ocean. How came here did I? Rak regales me with tales of rope acquisition and cliff scaling with me on his back. Rak Wraithriser. I am much in your debt. And I will see that repaid.

We hike back up the ridge, past the stockade, and back down the path towards the beach. We reach a junction, Rak looks down the path with a spyglass and discerns a wild grown field of corn. The sun will be setting soon. If we tarry too long, we’ll be setting camp in the dark. Rak suggests camping by the bonfire we set that still rages. I concur. Sho shakes her head.

We camp for the night.

Session ends with the party splitting in the morning. Because that always works out well for parties. Right?

Rak’s POV:
I approached the village with Sho and we were approached by the crew members we saw. They were being overseen by Scourge who immediately asked where the other two (Harvus and Mirei) were. I informed them that they were cleaning up a Grindylow nest we had found which apparently pissed Scourge off. After letting him know we found food and water, he mumbled something (I wasn’t listening, heard something about “minds of our own”) before having everyone attack us.

No one drew weapons so I figured he just wanted to rough us up a bit but getting hit sucks and I didn’t feel like getting hurt. I still ended up getting whacked pretty good in the face by Samms but she seemed to feel bad about having to do it to follow orders so I’ll let it slide this time. Eventually Scourge listened to reason and called them off of me but still beat up Sho for mouthing off while they were attacking. She really has a bad mouth and knows how to get in trouble.

With all of that settled, Scourge wanted me to tell him everything that happened on the island. I decided to give him the edited version:

• First day was spent just getting through the swamp, nothing of note happened. Climbed/hopped over a river with a broken bridge and made camp when it got late.
• Second day we managed to get out of the swamp and saw a bunch of rotting corpses in a tent. Set fire to it since it looked like a breeding ground for disease and I needed to cleanse it, can probably still see the smoke in the distance. Harvus and Sho got heavily injured by swarms of botflies at the edge of the swamp, something to watch out for. We continued forth after tending to their wounds a bit until we ran into a beach with giant palm trees. This is where we found those coconuts but there were giant crabs living in some/most of them, I used my wits and led the other to trees that had no shells in order to safely get coconuts out. Who knows what would have happened if I wasn’t there. I made a glorious basket-thing from some leaves to drag some coconuts back with.After that we went back to trail and continued up hill till we found a stronghold. The stronghold was empty except for some weird vine creatures in a tree and some guy who hung himself in a shack. I wanted to set fire to it since he seemed a little undead but I didn’t have anything useful to start a fire with on me. There is also a spring of fresh water running out of the stronghold where I filled my waterskin from, that’s some delicioussss water and I recommend bringing back some barrels of it. I also spotted the Grindylows from this stronghold wearing some items that made me think they were the same ones to attack our ship during the storm. It was getting late by then so we camped for the night outside of the stronghold before going to find out if these Grindylows were the same that attacked us.
• The third day was spent making our way to the Grindylow nest and investigating it. We ended up having to fight them off and killed a bunch of them before I had everyone get back out to regroup and report what they’d seen. It was also here that I spotted the sunken ship a few miles from shore on the other side of the island. After tallying up how many Grindylows were killed and how many might be left, Harvus and Mirei were confident they could finish searching the caves and dealing with any Grindylows they encountered on their own. I knew we were running out of supplies so I wanted to get back and report the food and water locations and came back, Sho followed while I left Mirei and Harvus to deal with the caves. On the way back I stopped by some fields we saw (they were down a different path) and found out it was full of corn. I didn’t want to spend too long checking it out and so I let it be for the time being to come back here.
• Today was spent making our way back to here before the ship left. Harvus and Mirei are likely still investigating the caves for anything missing from the ship after the attack while Sho and I trekked back through the jungle and swamp while dragging the coconuts to bring word of what we found.

insert replies and comments from Scourge while this is being told and let me know if I need to adjust anything based on his replies

Rak’s POV:
Things were starting to look a little iffy in the cave with the Grindylows swarming us but we managed to pull a victory out of our asses. I heard a lot of fighting coming from within the cave but…it was dark and I couldn’t see.

Eventually Sho and Mirei came running towards the entrance saying to retreat (I guess things were getting pretty bad in there). Mirei touched my pants and things grew brighter but it also revealed a few Grindylows that were chasing them towards the entrance. I stepped in and saved the day once again.

I hadn’t seen Harvus for a bit and the other 2 mentioned he had run further in so, with my bright ass pants, I ventured further in to see where he had gone. After rounding the corner another Grindylow had the balls to try and attack me, he is now a pool of blood. Harvus ended up being near there and ended up passing out as we were exiting the cave. I grabbed him and swam out through the other cave to the open ocean, once again saving my team. It ain’t easy being the hero all the time.

After climbing up the cliff and retrieving my rope (with another refreshing swim through the water to avoid the Stirges) we all ended up back on shore. I did manage to spot what looked like the wreckage of another ship a couple miles into the sea but I didn’t feel like investigating it at the time. We can always come back later and it was starting to get close to when the ship would leave us so we needed to get back soon.

After heading back to the camp, refilling my waterskin with some delicious water outside the stronghold on the way, I grabbed the coconuts and we headed back towards the boat. When we got to the fork I decided to use my spiffy new spyglass to try and see down the path we had not gone. After traveling a tiny bit I was able to see it was a very overgrown field of corn, that could prove useful later.

We then went back to the great tree fire and camped for the night. I spent some of my time on watch brewing a potion from the sparse ingredients I had managed to find on this island since some of the others looked pretty beat up. In the morning we decided to split up, I would go with Sho to the boat and report what we had found while Mirei goes with Harvus to finish off the cave. That guy seems pretty obsessed on clearing that place, seems to have a big crush on Sandara.

After getting back to the river, I epically tossed most of the coconuts 70 feet across to the other side. After that we used the branches to climb over, recollect them and continue down to the village we had landed at. Pretty uneventful journey there, after we arrived we saw that a bunch of the crew from the Man’s Promise were on shore already and searching through the village for stuff.

The snake hath revealed a cove southward. Lo! A grindylow bears the hat of Sandara ’pon its pate. No lowly creature shall defile her in such manner. Revenge!

We set forth through the rugged jungle and slopes of the ridge to the entrance of the cove. Tis some 40-60ft down. Rak furnishes me with his climbing equipment and I set on making a way down.

Upon reaching bottom, “Sandara!”…. no answer…. save from a group of stirges nesting in the cove….. “not good.” One finds purchase upon my shoulders. “Vile creature.” I submerge and it releases. Inside the cave it is dark. 11 (by my count) grindylows spring forth and begin advancing. Rak furnishes me with a spear, to which I impale one on.

What news from the south doth my ears receive? Hark! The monk hath fallen in battle as more creatures attempt a flank…. yet the snake denies them such bold action. His courage is to be commended, performing such a… dance?.. in the midst of battle whilst retrieving a comrade from the throngs of death.

Now these creatures shall know my wrath…

Session ended with me deciding to head into the caves… alone… because that will work out well for me. Right?

Rak’s POV:
We went south to the cove where we saw the Grindylow’s with Sandara’s hat and saw that it was a tidal pool with a cave that had a current coming in and another cave where it was flowing out. We started climbing down to the cove when some Stirge’s that nested nearby flew out to attack us. We all ended up diving into the water and swam in the cave entrance that water was flowing out and where the currents weren’t so crazy. This turned out to be where the Grindylows were hanging out, including the one wearing Sandara’s hat. Harvus killed one of the Grindylows while I went towards the cave entrance after seeing Sho get ambushed by 4 more Grindylows. She took out two of them before going down, I took out the other 2 and pulled Sho back to the surface before handing her off to Mirei. Harvus began to move further into the cave to chase after the Grindylow’s while I am guarding the entrance to make sure nothing ambushes from behind (and because I don’t have darkvision so I can’t see inside the cave, it’s dark).