Closing the Ruinous Rift

With Cray joining the party, the heroes decided to go ahead to close the Rift with Hail’s help.

Before heading out, the party met a shifty-looking man who challenged them to a game of bone dice. Tempting but the party has better things to do.

On the road to the Ruinous Rift, they found a flock of carrion birds feasting on a body. It’s the body of the brother of the man from Sleeping Lion. The party decided to bury the body and bring the chain around the dead man’s neck back to the brother.

All in all, the party gained 3 Reputation points. With 12 points, a the new Sun class will be unlocked. But first, the Rift...

The party took 2 attempts before successfully closing the Rift. In the first attempt, the party was overwhelmed by the spawning demons. It was quite fiddly to keep track of all the spawning demons but at the last round, the party either were exhausted from running out of cards or losing HP.

The second attempt was much better, with a more measured plan by trying to contain the damage by discarding cards, and blocking the path to Hail.

In the first few rounds, the party was able to kill the two enemies spawning in the rounds. But from the third round onwards when two enemies spawn each round, they could not kill faster than they spawn.

Cray’s Avalanche ability came in useful to create obstacles that blocked the demons’ path, and at times being able to cause some damage with Clear the Way and Heaving Swing.

By round 7, things are looking manageable. Although they still can’t dispatch the enemies, they could protect Hail and keep the demons at bay. From now on, it is all about just holding on.


Finally, Hail managed to complete closing the Rift. Cray ended up exhausted when it ran out of cards, but at least Weaver and Tinder managed to hold on, giving Hail enough time to do her magic.

With the Rift neutralized, the party went back to Gloomhaven to do the usual... leveling up for Tinder, gaining Enhancements for all, and looking at the new Sun class which is now available.

Thoughts: This scenario is the simplest to set up in terms of map tiles. But it’s such a challenging one, to keep track of the demon spawns. And it’s all about positioning and preventing damaging, as well as protecting Hail by keeping the enemies away from her.