Onward to the cave!

The next day they wake up and continue on their journey to the cave. They reach it late in the afternoon. The boy and the dog stay outside, the dog whining the whole damn time.

The cave is dark. Torches are lit. Fucking skeletons. Full armored, well armed skeletal guardians. It's kind of scary. They're rather formidable. Say goodbye to the remaining guards.

In the end, all of the skeletons are defeated and the glow of treasure can be seen somewhere in the distance. A shit load of treasure just dumped in the cave. I fucked up. I was supposed to make a dungeon but totally didn't. I should have made a dungeon. Now I have to come up with a reason that it was just laying in the back of a skeleton-patrolled cave. Maybe they'll go back one day and I'll make it more interesting.

Anyway, so the monsters are defeated and all of the guards are dead. It's just Sir Helut Mobley and a band of mercenaries.

It was Tobin who acted first. "It's just us and the knight left?" he asked. It sounded like an innocent question at the time.

"Yes," I said.

"I'm going to attack the knight." It was one hell of a fight, Aust nearly died (he's quite good at that, actually), and everyone took quite a bit of damage. But in the end the knight fell dead at the hands of this villainous crew. The treasure is theirs.

They put the boy on a horse and send him on his way back to the King. I have a feeling this will come back to bite them.