Zoom round-up November 2023

Here is a quick catch-up on what's been happening recently for Matt and Dafydd:
The party (minus Quercuis) are heading towards the Blue Tower at Dragon Lake as that is vaguely the direction that Wyldwood wanted us to go. (See: https://get-the-gelf.fandom.com/wiki/Zoom_2023-08-22_20:00). We are in a "Season of Death" so magic cannot be used to created food or grow edible plants - and it is a cold winter.
As we went through the Woods Of Chaos, we were attacked by simian-type Elves ("BabElves") who were well adapted to living/fighting in heavy forest. We managed to make it to the edge of the forest, whereupon we were attacked by a pack of Blink Dogs. The Babelves reacted to the proximity of the Blink Dogs which intimidated them somewhat - but the Babelves remained within the heavy forest out of attack range.
Although we drove off the initial Blink Dog attack fairly easily, we noted they were uncoordinated, and had just a single Alpha and no Handlers. Our attempt at getting some rest was interrupted after a few hours - so with only some spells recovered, we were attacked by a larger pack with several Alphas and a Handler. The (invisible) Handler was able to haste the whole pack of 17 dogs (which lasted about 8 rounds) and the dogs then made a co-ordinated attack. A concerted attack on the Handler by Garaf and a rabid monk managed to make it flee (a long range blink or Dim Door?) whereupon the Blink Dogs did likewise. Umar had been mowing through the dogs at an impressive rate, but Wun was in serious trouble before the dogs fled. 
So we have just finished the combat, but are low on spells and hit points - and seem to be caught between Blink Dogs to the South and Babelves to North. I'm not entirely sure where we are now, or the time or day! We had emerged from heavy forest at 115.061/115.062.