| Game 11 sucked… Ok, so coming off of a fight that kicked my but I have about half my healing surges, so we go into a set o rooms, find prisoners locked up, and about a half dozen hobgoblins. The primary bad guy of this was a hobgoblin chain wielder, with threatening reach, and so many reaction/interrupt abilities I think DM dave had to have a whole page just for him. I would tell you about how cool the first hour of this fight went, but I am still pissed about the last 2 hours. Only Chain boy left, and he was bloodied, BUT he had a stance that let him regen in bloodied, and an at will attack power that gave temp hp, and he had dwarves armor on, and he had a recharge ability that tripped and dazed (takeing someone out of combat.), and on top of that he had a close burst 2 attack that recharged at bloodied, and since he spent like 6-10 rounds at bloodied, not bloodied, bloodied, not bloodied it might as well have been at will.
The real kicker…he got away. He left through a secret passage, and when Tor and Cap followed him(only two still up at end of fight…I was not only down, but out of healing surges as well) it went to a room below us, then wrapped around and outside, since he was ahead of them, they would have to leave the slaves and us down. So they let him get away, to come stabilize us.
Then Dave said the thing that made me throw a D20 at him “Sorry Mario your princess is in another castle…” after all this the girl we are trying to rescue was sold to one of two other groups, the durger, or the drow…
So I felt the entire session was one big waste of a night. So we had some RP time then, and found that the durger control a fortress and the drow have an outpost. However there was some good news, the Drow were celebrating this week. The out post’s commanders daughter was turning there equivalent of sweet 16, and there was a masquerade ball being thrown in here honor.
We decided that Syl, Me and Renard could easily infiltrate such an occasion, and find out some intel. (Of course this came with a threat to kill DM dave if he had us fight again to not find the girl…).
So we went back tot eh 7 pillars and recouped and planed. Dave wasn’t sure how to do this infiltration thing without the rest of the party, and my experience as DMing game day came up. “Extended skill challenge”.
So we ended early and he is working on a Complexity 5 skill challenge for us to begin next game. Hopefully next game will be better. I mean XP and treasure is nice, but really that type of thing isn’t what I play for. 3 hour fights (Broken up by dinner break s it took closer to 4 hours) defiantly are not my idea of fun… | 
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