We go against a combined group of Winged, Griffons, and Wind Dragons.

We encounter a new subclass of the Winged – the Night Crow.

We continue our decent through the Wind Temple’s fortress levels.

We decide to go after the Wind Shrine first.

We finally take down the boss, and learn the truth about the Fortresses.

We finally start to make our approach directly on the Lich themselves.

We continue slogging through the Lich’s minions.

Our last one of these is a fortress that a Lich appears to have moved into.

We continue to fortress number three to get mopped up.

We move on to the next of the fortresses we need to clean out for this side quest.

We end this session by clearing out another fortress.

We start to clear the path to our next big side quest.

I clear out the fort’s defenders and start to put together a plan for this side-quest.

We start to make our way to the top of the fortress.

We face a bunch of healers entrenched at the top of the fortress.

No propane here, just supporters of the late Heirophant who want Denam dead.

We manage to beat the monster trainer, and end up recruiting him.

We run into one of our old opponents – the skeevy bounty-hunting monster trainer.

We finish off this fight, with a couple more side-quests to go.

We make some progress in cleaning these scallywags out.

We encounter another group of pirates we have to clear out.

We save our “client” and now have a fusilier.

Oddly enough, the person we’re trying to protect is competent at defending themselves, so it’s not too hard to keep them alive.

We try to save our first fusilier, and end up seeing them rush headlong into an enemy formation.