Editing Game-Summaries:5/22/2020 Recollections (section)

==Recollections by [[Gawyn]]==
Jeroy assembled our team to investigate Kord's ancestral halls, a place uncovered during their excursion to the Pardor Pass to prevent an army of the Dreadhorde from doing to Aethelfirth what had been done to my homeland of Folcom Keep. We began as the Order is apparently wont to do when not pressed by an encircling army, and spent several hours after our arrival to the Halls of Dormannus in what they call "Investigation" and in what a saner individual may describe as "faffing about". After exhausting our faculties with the acquisition of details about the Hall of Dormannus, its residents, their trade habits, their gambling habits, their hierarchy, the curious fact that no one appears to be above the age of 60, and the presence of a cleansing water fountain at the entrance to the halls, we elected to wait around until a great feast that had been planned for that evening, and which would be attended by a Deep bard. This proved to be the key to our investigation, as the bard, a duergar equipped with a suspiciously mycotic lute, whipped the revelers into a frenzy that almost devolved into violence. It was interrupted by the lord of the halls, who ordered the seizure of the bard.


Acquiring the lute, Iago exhibited signs of an odd psychosis, whose details I will skip over. I was able to wrest the lute from him, and cleanse it fully in the fountain, removing its maddening taint. Now having an in-road with the Lord Dormannus, we were informed of a recurring demonic incursion in their mines that would slaughter a generation of dwarves on a cyclic basis. We volunteered to do what we do best and kill the demon(s), and were given a map to the likely location of the next incursion after a little persuasion. Descending into the mines, we arrived at the entrance to that section of the mines via a set of conveniently-tracked minecarts. Proceeding in, we slaughtered several demons with minimal effort, and then slaughtered a greater Balrog the others recognized as Wendonai with considerably more effort. Retrieving an obsidian wand from his remains, we returned with further proof of our deed to the Halls and were rewarded appropriately.