Fergal's letters - Return to Borin's Folly

Hey father, me again. Not that you'll be reading these until I eventually come back for a while.

**A long road back**

We've decided to investigate that forge (as we've called it) a bit further but first we had to get there after few days of preparations and recovery. This time it was my duty for the whole way to get us there safely and not getting us lost in the wilderness. I smashed it obviously! Not that following straight stone road surrounded by swaps is hard or anything but yeah...

Our party has changed a little bit because everyone has their own business here so it's not something unusual. As I've mentioned, I was assigned with duty of leading the way while **Seonbi** was looking for details that he may have missed last time to mark them on the map. For the whole time **Artemis**' eagle eye was focused on noticing whatever could've be stupid enough to try to deal with us and to top it of **Sairina** with two newcomers - **Sonnet** and **Furious** were looking for additional supplies for there's no such thing as too much of food or water.

Day was successful. We've spotted graveyard we missed before due to mist restricting our vision range, got some food and water which made awesome meal prepared by **Furious**.

**Night raid of the shadows**

Obviously it weas too perfect to be true and we got woken up by our companions that were keeping a watch at the moment. We got attacked by two shadowy figures with strange terrifying aura surrounding them. We've dealt with them pretty quickly. unfortunetly Artemis' deep sleep lead to him receiving a nasty scar across the face (it looks kinda cool tbh) and destruction of his tent. He looked pretty broke down because of that so **Sonnet** used this moment to shine with her skills and repaired it beatifuly.

We got back to sleep because we still had quite a distance to cover.

**A little bit too extremly realistic looking statue**

Next day was unevetful as well... Until we've stumbled upong a strange figure with it's bow drawn on the middle of the road. Reasonable arguments were not enough to make the figure put the weapon down. And as we've found out it wasn't the only thing that was too late for it. The creature appeared to be petrified lizardfolk which I've decided to use to potentially scare potential attackers to let us sleep peacefuly for once. I don't know if it's beccause of my bright idea but we had a lovly night uninterrupted and rested like never before.

Next to the place where we've found the statue, we've also found multiple tracks of other of archer's kind and we also assumed this statue is basilisk's doing so we've decided to approach our destination from different direction to not put our mission in danger.

**Through the fire, flames and the rotten flesh**

**Sairina**, **Furious** and myself split up to scout ahead and it wasn't long before **Sairina** alarmed that we have company i didn't get to see much of their fight as I went for a different approach trying to flank them. Unfortunetly I was stopped in my tracks by two corpses, one of which was on fire. After some arrows being shot, spells casted and weapon swings we've put an end to those poor souls and let them free to rest for eternity. We've baricaded ourselves in one of the buildings and patched up before going down into the so called forge.

Right after we've clibed down the ladder we got attacked by beasts made entirely from fire. I've pushed forward, swinged once at the first attacker and took defensive stance when approached by another two flaming creatures. Not gonna lie, they may have been squishy but they were hiting like a wagon if you didn't pay attention for a split second. Overwhelmed by the speed of attacks we've quickly decided to fall back and reconsider different approach. i've stood my ground until every single one of my companions climbed the ladder. After covering the last one which was our lovely leader, I made last swing to get some distance and rushed to the others. **Sairina**'s armor was still red hot when we got away but **Seonbi** quickly colled it down with his glorious magic.

We may have underestimated the conditions we're supposed to operate in if we want to take care of that thing to the end. We're retreating for a bit to reconsider our approach.

Gonna notice you when we decide and proceed to solving the problem properly prepared.