Hexcrawl 36 - Conquering Haela's Halls

Dwarf warrior Fjori leads Barriq, Jhank, Artvirous, and Benji to retake a dwarven fortress in the hills that is infested with trolls. On the way there, they discover a hidden valley with many ostriches. Barriq scouts in as a fox but runs into troll trouble, barely escaping back to the party. In a nighttime assault on the fortress, they end up in combat with an evil treant and a troll on a battlement, which causes some difficulty as it keeps pushing them back down the wall. Barriq uses his fire-based abilities to keep the trolls from regenerating and Jhank manages to put the treant into a stupor, allowing everyone to get on the roof to deal with it. Afterwards, two more trolls show up and the battle begins anew.  After the trolls are all vanquished the party discovers a group of mercenaries from a rival power there and decides to hire them for now rather than killing them. Treasure and dwarven ghosts guard the lower levels of the fortress, which Fjori plans to oversee as his new abode.