After finishing our battles in Y’rzadel’s lair, we return to the storage room to retrieve Dan’tok, Gorin (the Dwarf) and Telly (the Sprite). As we are discussing our plans to return to the surface of the planet, Ennar tells us that he will not be returning with us — since we were successful in our mission, he will stay to combat demons in Mulkra.

Since Ennar will need the use of the port-stone to eventually return to the surface, it is decided that we must find another way. We return to the chamber with the portal, and attempt to decipher the runes on the control panel. Nadia attempts to use the Translating Orb that we found, but it seems to be undecipherable. Krodmich tries pressing the buttons on the console, but there seems to be no effect.

Hoping for the best, we step through the portal and find ourselves in a rocky valley surrounded by mountains. Krodmich and Gorin recognize the landscape, and surmise that we have arrived somewhere on the Spine Mountains, near Skraag. We decide that we must travel west, where we will eventually meet up with Josephus back at the River Rat.

Finding the terrain difficult to maneuver, we travel a mile west and camp for the night in a small cave. We wake refreshed to a light rain and continue moving west. At midday we come across a small encampment that was recently abandoned. Porodo finds orc tracks coming from the north and splitting off in every direction from the camp. Gorin warns that Orc patrols and Ogres are in the area, and that we must be cautious.

We camp another night and continue the next day. As we travel suddenly there is a rumbling that seems to be getting closer. An Ogre and a Giant appear, and Krodmich tells us to stand fast; he has some skill in fighting Giants. After fighting and killing both of them, we find that they have large sacks attached to their belts containing some treasure.

Thatsaru takes a large garnet gem, which seems to enhance his spellcasting abilities. We give a tattered cloth (which grants armor to its wearer) to the Sprite, since he was without any protection. We camp again for the night and heal ourselves.