The Ol' Run Around... the Demon Ranch

Things were a right proper mess... seconds felt like days...
 
I kept running around the side of the ranch house, intent on reaching the back. I needed to see what was happening behind the house and with Yathue. After that I had every mind to head into the barn and talk down that cat or whatever to see if it needs help getting somewhere safer. That is until I tripped over a root from the overgrowth Jessie conjured up.
 
Did I mention Jessie's fog spell?
 
There was a lot of fog.
 
But it turned out to be a good thing, as I found Ranger Horn. The man was laying sprawled on the grass looking rough. I hauled Miro out of my backpack, hoping he had gotten over whatever terror slapped him, and got him to use that healing wand on Horn. Mostly by yanking Miro out form where he was hiding and dropping him on the grass. I felt bad about that but really... we're in a bad way here with the demon cows.
 
Anyway, Ranger looked better after that, at least enough that he should make it until we get this cleared up. Hopefully.
 
But there was still that damn fog. Miro, who could see through it, took point and led me the rest of the way around the house.
 
We made it barely a few feet before one of those vampiric cabbages rolled up at us! They had gotten larger, this one was as big as Miro. Miro slammed it with a snowball. I followed that by slamming a tonfa down onto the thing. It hurt it bad but not bad enough. It was still coming, bloody tentacles and all.
 
Those things come in packs but I needed Miro out of the way. I tried to get him to run ahead, naturally he didn't want to, but did it after I kept after him about it. Then I tossed an entangle out into the fog. Hopefully, I caught the rest and slowed them down. If there were any out there. Then I tried to bash this one in front of me in. But I misjudged the distance in the fog and missed. Rowtag tried to take a swipe but the cabbage has some sort of ice on it. Probably left over from Miro's snowball.
 
I needed to keep moving. But this cabbage thing was a problem... then an idea came to me. A right stupid one, so of course I tried it.
 
Taking a swing I tried to knock it aside. My idea was to knock it along ahead of me. But that didn't work either. Getting frustrated, I grabbed the thing to haul it over my head and slam it onto the ground. Once that was mashed, I ran to catch up to Miro.
 
Miro brought up a good point. That portal to the Outlands is standing wide open. He said he's seen nothing new coming through but something might. I didn't like the idea of letting him go slam it shut, especially since he mentioned it might explode, but I can't fault what he's saying. So, I scoop up Miro and plow through the cactus thicket and head for that noise. After I get us there, I'll help him up on the roof so he can go run over the roof and try his stunt on that portal.
 
The thicket was hell to get through. Jessie did a good job. Sometime along there, Yathue found me and whispered 'bad scroll'. I guessed she meant that book Miro saw. A book he identified, giggled over and is almost drooling about. I don't know what that book is but I'm feeling real certain it's bad news and nobody needs it.
 
I should've talked with that cat in the barn to ask if it needed help getting out.
 
At least we found Ranger Horn and helped him out.