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tags: [Mito, Elmer, Dubya]
date: 2018-10-07
experience: 550
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The player characters meet in the tavern around the map table. After brief introductions and a discussion of their goals they decide to “go west” which would surely result in their untimely and horrible deaths. Luckily, they’re intercepted before they can leave the tarvern by Sarah Mills, the Captain of the Westview Republican Guard detatchment. She mentions there’s a notorious bandit gathering followers a day’s ride south of Westview and they don’t have the manpower to deal with the situation, she offers to compensate the characters well if they take care of the situation for her and return with proof.
The players stop by the general store and meet Mason, gather some basic wilderness supplies and head out. They see a giant eagle flying overhead, avoid an axe beak rustling around in some tall grass, then encounter a bugbear stomping through a copse of brambles. Shannon (Mito) stealths nearer and determines the creature crashing around is a humanoid and speaking some language related to Orcish, and they attempt to avoid him. Unfortunately, Jeremy (W) and Taylor (Elmer) are terrible at stealth and they’re spotted. A brief exchange of blows ensues between the bugbear and W, then W decides to hug it out with the bugbear. With some REALLY ASTONISHING persuasion rolls, they all hug it out together, dispense some marital advice to the bugbear and tell him about the location of the axe beak the party avoided in return for part of the meat if he kills it successfully. He does, returns and delivers the meat and they part on excellent terms.
The party finds the bandit camp, waits until dark, then Mito uses a spell to generate the sound of musical drums and women talking just outside of camp. Two bandits get up to investigate and are almost immediately murdered, though not before their cries summon the bandit chief. There’s a brief battle, W is knocked unconscious by the chief but not before making the last bandit EXPLODE with Thunderwave, and Mito knocks the bandit chief unconscious. Mito notices his sword is exceptionally nice, much nicer than average bandit gear, and takes it with her.
They return to Westview with their captive, receive a substantial reward (that pales in comparison to the gold they found in the bandit camp) and Sarah tells Mito to enquire about the sword with a local scholar. They go up to level two, around 550gold/XP.
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