Rangers of Shadow Deep - Temple of Madness - Part IV

TEMPLE OF MADNESS is a four part mission for level 5 - 15 Rangers for the RANGERS OF SHADOW DEEP co-operative tabletop skirmish game. This is the fourth part of that mission - "The Mirror Enduring"...

Our current lineup of Heroes:

Alfie's Team:

Arthur - Ranger (level 11)

Malvolio - Conjuror

Fern - Guardswoman

Odis - Rogue (New recruit for this mission)

My Team:

Jennifer - Ranger (level 11)

Archibald - Archer

Seb - (a character from the Bloodmoon mission who is now a companion)

After making it through the Pit of Ghouls in the third part of the mission... our heroes recuperated a bit and descended a long winding tunnel...eventually they entered a chamber... at the far end was a huge mirror.. in front of the mirror were an old man, and a huge horned man-beast!                                   
As the Rangers and their companions came through the doorway, the old sorcerer raised his hands - and instantly two things happened... a huge net of chains rose up from the floor in front of the raised dias that the evil magic user was standing on, and a wall of fire appeared in front of our guys...

Trekatis the evil sorcerer stands in front of his magic mirror, guarded by Greviks his faithful man-beast

To make it through the wall of fire, our team all had to make a Will test, or end up taking burn damage and being stuck behind the wall. Everyone made it through apart from Jennifer and Seb..

Three Temple guardians who were hanging about in the middle of the room started shooting at our teams. Trekatis raised his hands... Odis was suddenly being mind-controlled by the evil wizard... He was already in base contact with Archibald, so he started to attack his friend!

Odis - his mind controlled by Trekatis, turns on his fellow heroes!

Whilst Odis continues to try and fight Archibald, the other heroes move towards the curtain of chains...

 There was a possibility that Odis would be able to fight off the mind control, so we didn't want to knock him out unnecessarily. We left Archibald on his own, in the hope that they wouldn't do too much damage to each other... Two of the Temple guardians were taken out easily... Trekatis raised his hands again... he tried to blast Malvolio with some kind of magical blast... luckily he missed!

Trekatis casts spells as the heroes approach...

Our two rangers shot at the fixings holding up the net of chains... Arthur had an incredibly lucky shot, and Jennifer used her one-off "Steady Aim" ability... the metal Net crashed to the floor!!

Trekatis summoned two skeletons.. they appeared in the center of the room not far from where Archibald was struggling with Odis (who was showing no sign of shaking off the mind control!).. Jennifer and Seb turned and moved to intercept them...

Alfie's three other heroes - Arthur, Fern and Malvolio got into a position where they could all rush at Greviks together... Malvolio blasted Greviks with a magic bolt... rolling high, he reduced the creature to half its health!

Two skeletons appear!

Odis has knocked out Archibald!.. he moves to help the skeletons attacking Jennifer and Seb...

Whilst Jennifer and Seb took on the skeletons, Odis took out Archibald!! - The skeletons were bashed to bits by Sebs warhammer... Seb had had enough of Odis - it was clear that he was too weak minded to fight off the power of the evil sorcerer. Seb knocked him out.

Meanwhile Alfie's team did a group movement and took on Greviks together... it wasn't long before he fell at their hands.. Trekatis was looking worried... he tried to cast another spell... failing this time..

Alfie's team take on the man-beast mob-handed...

A Bloodbat swoops down into the center of the room...

Malvolio strikes the final blow... Trekatis is defeated!

Jennifer and Seb took out the last temple guardian and started to move up to help with Trekatis...

Trekatis was fighting off Alfie's guys. He kept pushing them back... He pushed Fern back so hard she scooted back across the floor 6 inches!.. He summoned a Blood-Bat, which flew down in the center of the room... but it was too late... Malvolio ran at him - and with a mighty blow knocked the Evil magic-user to the ground...

The blood-bat flew off... and our heroes were victorious. Odis and Archibald were both ok.The heroes searched the room on their way out, finding a magic Spellbook. Arthur smashed the mirror so that it could no longer be used by the ShadowDeep... now all they had to do was get back home.....

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