Fight with three clerics and a fighter, it's tough. But the loot is good - Elmo gets a flaming sword!

We then retreat as we're battered and out of spells. We have a priest prisoner, he appears to be pretty significant.

We make it all the way back to Nulb, scouting ahead to make sure the pirates aren't waiting for us. We make it back to Otis. He says the pirates are out of town but are looking for us. He tells us he's actually an agent of the Viscount. And there's a priestess of St Cuthberti n town (level 6). We tell him were taking the captive priest to Verbobonc.

One day to Hommlet and three more Verbobonc. We interrogate the captive. He says we've killed the leadership of the fire temple, but the are a few guardians left and two werewolves. Magical effects around the altars. Water priest might know what's going on downstairs. Main temple is two levels down.

In Verbobonc, we get some spells of healing, we turn in the evil priest, and do some shopping. Diren keeps a low profile. We spend a week waiting for armor for Theldin.

Diren drops off 500 gold for what he owes Spit in Hommlet.

We head back to the temple -it takes 4 days back.

Head down again into the fire temple. Diren dispatches a sleeping troll, and we get a ring of fire resistance (smart troll).

Moving on we find a circular chamber with a pyro hydra chained in the middle. We kill it without a lot of fuss. Thankfully, Pire cast a communal resist fire which prevented us from being burnt to a crisp.

Back to the troll room, we head through the door. Other troll, we attack. He tries to bargain, but we're having none of it.