D&D : The Magnificent 7 Apparently without a trace of irony, that's what they have named their adventuring company. This litle bedraggled band of paupers and potential Orc bait, The Magnificent 7, oh well, much like buying a jumper three sizes too big, it'll give them something to grow into. They have been picking up jobs in Varaghast, as clerks, office staff, scribes, gravediggers etc, and then doing a bit of adventuring when they can afford to. They have found a sponsor of sorts in Chalce, a magician whom they helped when she fell foul of her own Necklace Of Polymorph. The army of Varaghast marched out from the city, heading South towards Tilverton. Chalce asked that the 7 follow the army, and that when the attack had (hopefully successfully) taken place, that they enter Tilverton and search out some old friends of hers. Most of the friends were alive, one wasn't at all happy to see them and the last, the mage Gahlaerd Mossmere, was sort of alive, cut open from chest to groin, his entrails being turned into some foul snake headed creature. A vampire creature with similar wounds was tending him. They quickly despatched the vampire spawn and put poor Gahlaerd out of his misery. Exploring further in Mossmere's mansion, they surprised a Shadow in its hiding place, and then, oh the joys of 1st level combat, spent the best part of six full melee rounds trying to kill it. Those incorporeal creatures are so hard to kill when you have no magic weapons and your spell list is down to 3 cantrips. They succeeded in killing the Shadow, returned to Varaghast, got paid, didn't get killed, a fair evening's adventuring then.