Death by Giant Cockroach!!!

Last night, we had another session of Justin's Vaults of Ur on G+.  Only two players showed up, Dean (Elder Karl) and myself (Thidrek).  This was Thidrek's 10th session.  He's survived quite well, but it was another close one this session.

With only the two of us, we hired on a retainer, Skol the Hippie Viking (Justin's FLAILSNAILS character, actually) to help us clear out the Alchemist's Tower in preparation for us renovating it and turning it into our headquarters.  We've got supplies and a work crew lined up, but we just need to make sure it's monster free before we send them in.

Well, we spent a bit of time exploring the entire first floor, but found no threats and nothing of value.  We did make some notes about what sorts of improvements to make, and what certain rooms might be good for. 

We headed up the stairs, and in the second of two servants/assistants bedrooms, we encountered a pair of gigantic cockroaches.  One surprised us by dropping from the ceiling.  It got a critical hit on Skol and the poor violent hippie was hors de combat.  If I hadn't bought him a pole arm he might have survived, actually.  He didn't have a shield to splinter (and since it was a surprise round, he might not have been able to use it anyway).

In the next round, one of the cockroaches got another critical hit on Thidrek for 30 points of damage!  Thidrek of course took it on the shield.  Elder Karl took the brunt of the rest of the combat, but Thidrek also took another nasty couple of hits before we managed to kill them.  Elder Karl's magical fist also broke a new hole in the floor that we'll have to fix.

Both being wounded (even with Karl's two Cure Light Wounds spells), we decided to head back to Fort Low. 

There's still more of the Alchemist's Tower to clear, but we may want the rest of the gang along next time.

Special Note to Josh (if you're reading this): Sorry.  I sent text messages to you, but I just got a new smart phone, and didn't check.  It was sending them to your old phone number.