The Road to Feynor

Darko was surprised to find that the shopkeep, although looking at her hatefully, refused to press charges. The guards led her away to the royal island where she found himself across a table from Maarit, the minister of secrets. Maarit asked Darko a few questions, and Darko's answers seemed to satisfy her. She appointed Darko to look out for the rest of the group, and sent Darko with all speed to feynor to catch up to the group.

Meanwhile on the road the group passed by a valley that looked like some kind of crater caused by the impact of a huge projectile. The cart pulled up to a man working a field near the lip and asked him about his life. He said he wasn't interested in what he was doing, but when Pois offered him to come along and hold an egg for his days he seemed off put by this and went back to tilling the field.

A couple mornings later the group awoke to a foggy dawn with the sound of a chuckle. The laughter increased, growing in sound to be almost a war cry. Poison threw a slab of meat into the night and the large head of a gnoll appeared from the mist to snap it up. The frantic yipping changed into the repeated cry, "Ikitak! Ikitak!" As a large figure with the shape of wings started working itself into a frenzy.

Poison asked Brob to help, which he seemed reluctant to do, but was more than willing to peel out. John caught an early approaching gnoll with his sword, chopping its head clean in half. Ikitak leaped onto the cart and almost a dozen other gnolls managed to clamber up as well, as the cart left the rest behind. Daisy unleashed a devastating attack on Ikitak who sprang at her with a laugh. Bearing twin skull based weapons, he unleashed a flurry of attacks on her, seemingly less affected by the attacks of the group than he should have been. As John tried his best to protect Daisy and Poison, and Poison tried to kill Ikitak, Daisy was knocked unconscious. Ikitak turned to Poison, who struggled under his frenzied blows, but her and John managed to finally fell the ferocious fellow. They turned to find two gnolls remaining and terribly frightened, killing one and throwing a javelin at the other one as it scrambled off to safety.