Posts from RPG on the Portal.

Verdan, Givi, you hear a roar... followed by a snake's hiss... from the darkness emerges... a MANTICORE (they are almost extinct now, but can still be found in remote lairs underground)!
What do you do?

And Verdan and Givi went in the direction from which the light came.

Knight, what's the problem!
I raise my staff slightly, and you feel your wounds slowly beginning to heal, the pain subsides, and you start to feel much better! (can cast once per post, next time I'll heal Smoke).
So, are we heading towards the dwarves?

Asks the guards. How is your service going? Do you need help defending the city?

"Knight, we'll have to go back, but we won't rush headlong into the fray. We'll quietly sneak up to the outskirts and, from an ambush, wait for the battle to begin, and in any case, after the battle, the dwarves will either be destroyed or severely weakened... and then we'll be in a good position. I feel that the 3rd shard is already in our hands."
I heal Smok. His HP is restored.

I certainly wouldn't have minded, especially since we encountered numerous dwarven squads along the way to Hikamu, who were acting as reinforcements for the defending Hikamu.
But their squads were so weak that...