A Leisurely Stroll Across Occupied Jersey --

After a wildly successful rescue, we decided to return to the island, take a more thorough search through the cavern/village, and then to set across the bigger island to check out the ruins of the airship we saw on our trip across the first time. We figured after the attack led by the main forces, it would be a fairly easy trek. Well, we figured wrong.
 
We came across the outposts at the pass and pretty much rushed right in. It was not our most coordinated moment. And, for such a straightforward event, it became pretty fucking complicated. There were a couple of moments in which I was pretty convinced we were not going to survive, and only did so by the slightest of margins. The good news is, i'm convinced with a little better planning, we would have handled the event pretty easily.
 
Once we got to the airship, we were beset by some animated armor -- I was pretty stoked to use my heat metal spell, and a little crestfallen when it had no effect. And considerably more crestfallen when we saw how much damage they do in one blow. Which was a lot. Also, they seems they just kept coming. The good news was, they were slow. And while my heat metal spell was ineffective, my thorns spell was quite successful, especially after I realized all we had to do was draw them into the thorns and then move around to keep them moving in the spell area. I'm sort of the idea guy, I guess.
 
The ship itself was way beyond repair, but it was an interesting curiosity to almost die for.