Dear Mother,
We found those ambushing skeletons today. It turned out that we hadn’t camped very far away from them at all. Bron used his familiar rat to track up ahead and the rat found the skeletons waiting on a rise. The Orcs, Aria, and I all crept up to the rise and surprised those skeletons who were busy looking the other way for us. The Orcs started to take heavy casualties, but I managed to keep them all alive as well as take out a few of the baddies with my Greatsword. It was an amazing battle, and I felt the rush of adrenaline surge through me as I started hacking and beating my way through them. Aria did very well too until we started to get bombarded with arrows from the other side, lower on the ridge. Aria took off after them, while I took cover with the Orcs getting them bandaged up so that they wouldn’t die. Once I had things under control there, I jumped the rise and started barreling down the hill after Aria. Unfortunately, with all this heavy armor, I ended up tumbling down the hill end over end denting and scratching my plate. I wasn’t worried about it just then, so I got up and started to climb the rise to the other side.
Once I got to the top of the rise, I found that the situation was pretty well in hand. Remember that tracker Seinic that I was telling you about? Well, he must have been quite an adventurer in his time, as when I saw him, he was circled with skeletons, but quickly dispatched them thanks to the help of Aria. By the time I finally was able to claw and climb my way to the ridge where they were fighting, the battle was over. Seinic came over and helped us search the site for the Orcs totem, the whole reason why they are fighting and not running away from these skeletons.
We didn’t find it, but we did find some more tracks leading us to a small valley. When we looked down into that valley, we saw a really frightening sight. The Necromancer had raised enough dead to actually have an army! They had dug into the valley floor, erected a piked mini-fortress, and dug a mighty trench all around it. It was going to be hard work getting I there. As we were looking down at the fortress, one of the Orcs spoke up and pointed out the undead form of their leader. The Necromancer had raised the dead from the ambush that the Orcs had suffered a couple days ago.
Being exhausted from the fight earlier, I suggested that we all get some sleep and wake fresh in the morning to make plans to invade that fortress.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------