The party meets up in the tavern and catches up on recent adventures and then debates their current course of action for a while. Gary advocates toward heading out west to explore but eventually the party decides to go have another look at the temple of the snowflake cult so they saddle up Donweeeeigh and head that direction. Halfway to the temple they hear a crashing in the forest nearby and Gary manages to make the cart stealthy enough to sneak up and spot the creature crashing through the underbrush as a troll. They set up a bit of an ambush with Ovi and Dubya off to the sides andGary in front. Unfortunately the troll spots them just as they spring the ambush and the fight is on. Dubya tries to tie a gunpowder flask to a flaming arrow but only manages to blow the shit out of a nearby tree. Mirime manages to splash the troll with some tar and set it on fire. Gary falls back on his knowledge of nature and informs the party that trolls regenerate almost any wound unless they’re on fire or splashed with acid, so Mirime’s flaming tar pot is an excellent maneuver. Gary rushes in and bites the troll, presumably right in the crotch given the height differential but the troll picks him up bodily and throws him at Dubya, missing, but embedding Gary a few feet in the forest floor face down. Mirime does some acrobatics out of a tree and tries to garotte the troll with a rope but unfortunately the troll manages to rip off the tree limb the rope is tied to and use it as a sort of flail. Eventually with some more tar pots and a flaming sword attack from Dubya the party manages to kill the troll and actually keep it dead by decapatating it with Dubya’s flaming sword. They take the head and some blood back to town. Mason buys the blood for 2000 gold and Captain Mills takes the head for a trophy.