And so it was that the party delved deep into the fresh water iceberg, seeking the source of the corrupting evil of the sacred tomb. Here they found evidence of the on going battle of ice trolls and undead. After a fierce battles against trolls, one wielding the wand called Screecher, they found the yeti and released it. The skald Valbraun calmed it, the ranger Salia soothed it and the druidess Attya charmed him so that it followed the party peacefully. Pushing on a bit further they found a food stores chamber of mostly frozen eels and decided to take a rest there. But shortly their rest was disturbed by the arrival of the two headed shaman chieftain bearing the Staff of the Tiger Claw, with four of her guard and her pet borrelisk. There was an attempt at a parley but the party and the trolls couldn’t come to terms. As such an impatient Lasaka drew her bow and took a shot, and so the battle began. Lasaka didn’t have time to get a second shot off before she was frozen by the gaze attack of the Borrelisk. The troll shaman cast a spell but all three resisted the spell of Hold and charged into battle engaging her guards. The yeti tore into one of the trolls but was aided by Attya. Valbraun blew his horn to little effect but his spear bit into the trolls. Salia stabbed and slashed her way to the two headed troll taking a savage wound on the way that nearly dropped her. Mudrek threw his hammer to and frow. Vylmek plunged his daggers into the chieftain even though over taken by the evil of the staff. The yeti then pounced on the borrelisk and they rolled upon the icy floor ripping and tearing at each other. The troll chieftain used the staff to create darkness sending out a wave of evil. From there the battle was chaos. Party members fell within the darkness by terrible blows from the massive two headed troll, but they two did damage though they couldn’t their enemy. The yeti was bested by the borrelisk, but Sunny finished it off with some swift blows. But where the sphere of darkness went , party members fell. Even Attya using the Ice Crystal neckless fell until finally only Lasaka having been thawed by an ever burning log and Sunny were engulfed in the darkness. Lasaka after being horribly slashed by the bitch troll took up the burning log and leapt into the air somehow managing to strike the creature square in one of its heads, just as Sunny feeling about in the darkness hammered it a mighty blow with the dwarven hammer from the rear. The creature and Lasaka fell with a roar and a crash, the darkness dissipating.
Sunny stood alone, allies and foes lay dead and dying around him. The strange priest did what he could to save who he could, but had no power left. At the end of it, only Attya and the yeti died. The others somehow managed to survive…
Upon resting, they looted the corpses, found the Trolls Chieftains treasure then searched the rest of the ice troll caverns, finding previously lost gear, but no further trolls. They said a few prayers over the body of Dubbs then fed him to the eels. They eventually rejoined with Schlomo, Kenneth and the horses. They dug themselves free of the ice cavern and decided to journey back to Ersten. Having lost a total of 5 party members the though it best to leave Tonya the sister of Attya in the Wintery Grasp of the Frost Giant instead of trying to free her. Which was the prime directive of the mission…. Heroes, one and all…pfftttt…