Finally beating some Rat-Men

It seems that Tuath is having symptoms of an STD (Slime Transmitted Disease). I called on Mitra to heal him. If it really is a disease, or poison, he should be fine. We just have to wait to see if symptoms reappear.
 
Ozzie thinks he knows where Axehome is. He thinks he overheard something related from Dazelene. We swung by the Miner’s Exchange to talk with Halia (who really wanted all the details on orcs in the mountains) and she confirmed what Ozzie had. North Northwest into the Soneheart mountains. About 3 days travel. Between the Twin Sister’s peaks (which we are going to presume are two peaks that look alike). It is going to be a high vantage point. If we can find a trail, follow it. She offered an apprentice as a guide but we let that pass. We did buy shovels and rakes and implements of destruction. We stopped at the Lyonshield Coster and bought a couple pack animals and all the pack gear. Then we stopped at the smith, and arranged to have him silver dip 20 arrow heads and 2 clubs. I swung by in the morning to assist with Mitra’s guidance and the outcome was pretty good.
 
I ran a couple morning services. Using thaumaturgy seems to have been a bad idea in that the local farmers seemed more afraid than impressed. Perhaps I can convince Adabrah to put in a few good words with the townfolk for me. Toblin the innkeeper was rather unhelpful when I approached him but he was busy at the time.
 
We had a brief party chat to set direction and I swung the group over to taking another run at the Mountain’s Toe Mine. I fear there are miner’s enslaved there and, with silvered weapons in hand, would like to free them. It is mostly on the way to Axehome anyway. If the new weapons don’t work, we will flee and count it as a good try.
 
We did run our assault on the mine and the weapons did work. I think we killed 8 rat-men. I cast bless as we came in and I think it made a huge difference. While we have not cleared the place, we have broken in and are currently unopposed. Unfortunately, we are also bloody, tired, and very low on magic. I fear we are going to have to step back and rest before coming back tomorrow to finish this place. Somewhere in all this fighting, Balderdash seems to have picked up a rat-man infection. When we get a free moment, we will have to see what I can do about that.
 
Thinking further on that, Balderdash needs to take some notes from Ozzie. Ozzie stood in the middle of the fight, dodging shortswords and blocking bite attacks, for the longest time. Dash was behind Ozzie and seemed to get in the way of nearly every sword or bite that came his way. I can see that he is wearing chainmail but somehow it does not seem to be helping. Dash gets points for bravery but he was easy to follow around the caves. Just go from one blood puddle to the next.
 
(Start session with Preserve Life on Dash. Then the 10 minute rest. Then Short rest. Then long rest.)