Story

Session 07

We start off on a hill overlooking The Mossback Raiders village (the evil Trollkin). The party splits up with Yeahm and Scrabble going west to make a distraction while Ghada, Treb, and Miralou headed south towards a tower.

Flint heads towards a house and spots Trollkin in there, but fortunately is not spotted. Then he heads to the tower and tries to scale it. He is able to scale the Tower and surprises the Trollkin in there. With just one incredible deft move, he fells the guard there.

As Flint signals the group to invade the village, Scrabble checks houses to look for the wharg puppy. Scrabble then uses Bardic Performance of Velvet Lullaby to shade everyone on his side of the river and help give them half-cover.

Then the dwarf with the name Foul-Farter messes up in his stealthy investigation of the town and alerts the whole town to the team’s presence while Flint falls in the tower as well. (So much for stealth!)

The group ends up in combat while Treb finds the house with the wharg puppy.

Session 08

Battle continues from last time…

Lots of great moves in the battle, including Scrabble holding his own and eliminating one of the trollkin as wel as providing advantages with his bardic powers.

After the battle we rescue someone who was tied up by the trollkin. We also helped rescue a new guy, Marlik. (New player; sappapova - frog kin) We introduce ourselves. Marlik and Jorgi The Bard were looking for a northern entrance to The Shadow Roads. (note: The Shadow Roads are a Kobold Press Midgard mirror world run by Dark Elves)

We then wandered to a cave in the forest after a short rest. There were 2 trollkin there and Scrabble successfully charmed one while Flint BS’d the other and the group were let into the cave. The trollkin told us to go to the right. Scrabble was wary and heard wings and smelled a bear. They went left instead and found the warg pup, some trollkin children, and adults. Some of the party threatened the Trollkin into gaving up the pup. They asked us to deal with the boss, but most of the party did not want to do that. On the way out the charm spell on the guards wore out and they fought the party. We were able to kill them and move on with the warg pup.

Player Thoughts

After the last session spent a lot of time deciding what to do, these two sessions were action-packed and fun.

During the part in the cave, I was so caught up in keeping Flint from charging into the cave with an obvious trap, that I didn’t put 2 and 2 together. About 15 minutes later, I realized that the smell of a bear and the sound of wings - it was an owlbear! I felt stupid, but also laughed my head off at missing that obvious clue.

This will be my last update gaming with this group. I have been having a blast and the GM is great, but the schedule doesn’t work well with my current family schedule. Sadly, this meant I had to depart from the group. Maybe at some time in the future I’ll find another group where I can be the player that works better with my schedule.

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