Black Barrow

The party embarked on their journey to the Black Barrow... along the way, the earth started trembling and there’s the danger of falling rocks. Being new adventurers, the party decided to play it safe and ran to an open clearing. They were safe, but suffered 2 damage. This is going to affect them in their exploration into the Black Barrow.

With the two points damage taken from the road event, this was going to be a tough start. In fact, it took me three tries before the party got past the first few rounds without Brutus getting exhausted. No point going further when one of your guys has to be taken out of the fight in the first room. 

With reduced HP from the start, I quickly discovered that I could not go in head-on to face the 3 bandits in the room. Even with the difficulty on Normal and choosing not to apply the solo variant rules, this adventure was tough.

Eventually, I decided to take a risk. Ignore the 3 bandits and focus on healing the two characters at the entrance. That allowed me to survive and continue on the battle. It helped that the enemy was not able to make any attacks in the first round.

Some memorable events in this scenario:

- Brutus went into the second room, did a Push on the Bandit Guard. Which led to the enemy falling back into the 2 traps... instant kill!

- In the third (and final) room, Weaver rode the wind and jumped pass the enemies, and landed herself on the treasure chest to open a new Random scenario.

- At the corner of the room, Weaver could perform a number of range attacks which helped to weaken the enemies.

- Brutus went forward to deal a Sweeping Blow attack on the two Living Bones hoping to take them out once and for all. The first Living Bones fell, but Brutus’ attack missed the second completely!

- Brutus moved into the room and did some clever maneuvering to do some area strikes on the enemies.

It was a close fight in the final room. Brutus was down to 2 HP and Weaver 3 HP. The final Living Bones were dispatched by Brutus at the last minute, leaving me breathless at the close call.

With this, the party rested and continue on their journey into the Barrow Lair in pursuit of the thief...

So this is the state of the world after the first scenario. Managed to unlock the Well of the Unfortunate scenario, but will have to save that for another day.