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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 7038243" data-attributes="member: 508"><p><strong>ADVENTURE 2: TROLL PIRATE RAID</strong></p><p></p><p>PC Roster: <p style="margin-left: 20px">Baabby, humanoid sheep barbarian/cleric (life) 1</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"> Sam Crow, humanoid crow ranger/rogue 1</p><p></p><p>Game Session Date: 26 February 2017</p><p></p><p> - - - </p><p></p><p>It was the following day that a trio of Mabu invited Baabby and Sam to a celebration of their successful defeat of the chompies infesting the nearby mine. "A celebration? For me?" Sam enthused. "This is awesome! Oh, uh, and I guess it's for you too, Baabby -- you kind of helped." The baabarian just frowned down at his little crow friend and Sam quickly decided to change the subject.</p><p></p><p>"So, how much further is the town we're headed to?" he asked one of the Mabu escorting them to their celebration.</p><p></p><p>"It's just over this next hill," replied the Mabu as they crested the very same hill. "Hmm," he added. "That's weird."</p><p></p><p>"Whaat's weird?" asked Baabby in his sheepish drawl.</p><p></p><p>"That airship's not usually there." Looking down at the town, the group could see an airship hovering just over the middle of the town square, 30 feet above a fountain. As they looked, there were flashes of reddish light coming from between some of the buildings.</p><p></p><p>"Come on!" cried Baabby, gripping his new magic greatsword as he - once again - raced straight into potential danger.</p><p></p><p>"Are you sure about this?" argued Sam Crow as he struggled to keep up. Behind the duo, their three Mabu escorts tried their best to catch up on their stumpy little legs. As they approached the town, they could see two troll archers on the rooftops of the buildings and another four on the ground. From their vantage point they couldn't see who was on the airship, but Sam was willing to bet they were more trolls.</p><p></p><p>"Baabby -- trolls!" he warned his companion. "LET"S GET OUT OF HERE!"</p><p></p><p>"These people need our help!" Baabby countered, running up to the nearest troll. He was armed with a massive monkey wrench and used it to swing at the baabarian, but Baabby ducked his blow and hit him with his greatsword, knocking him over. Sam, in the meantime, saw the troll on the nearest rooftop doing something with his shortbow, that ended up with something long and red at the end of his arrow. Not wanting to wait to see what this weird weapon would do, Sam took aim with his own shortbow and shot the rooftop troll. He got him - on his first attempt, too! - and the troll toppled off the roof to the ground below. His weapon made a little explosion before it fell to the ground with its wielder.</p><p></p><p>Suddenly, both Baabby and Sam were standing in circles of red light. "Whaat's this?" Baabby asked.</p><p></p><p>"Who knows?" replied Sam. "But let's not stay here long enough to find out!" They ran closer to the town square and the fountain, only to be intercepted by two more trolls with monkey wrenches. Baabby took one down with another swing of his greatsword, but then got beaned on the head with the other troll's wrench. The baabarian actually saw birds flying around his head as he staggered under the blow.</p><p></p><p>Sam, in the meantime, had lined up another shot at the other rooftop troll. He was all the way across the square on the other side of the fountain, but Sam thought he could get him. As it turned out, he was wrong - although he did a simply <em>spectacular</em> job at striking the roof just below the troll's feet.</p><p></p><p>The troll fighting Baabby got in another lucky shot, and the baabarian gave a bleating cry of pain as he fell over, unconscious. Seeing his massive friend downed by a troll - a <em>troll</em>, of all things! - infuriated the young crow. He'd had a hard time with trolls all his life: one particular troll used to always steal young Sam's lunch money. The crow raced across the street, leaped over his unconscious friend, and grabbed up a potion from the baabarian's belt. Unpopping the cork, he poured the contents down Baabby's throat, and the baabarian sat up, healed from the worst of the damage.</p><p></p><p>"Hey!" he said to his friend. "Why'd you use one of <em>my</em> potions?"</p><p></p><p>"No time to worry about such things!" insisted Sam. "Worry about <em>him</em> instead!" And he pointed at the troll whose monkey wrench had knocked the hulking warrior into unconsciousness in the first place, who was grinning an evil grin and advancing upon the two - but upon Baabby first, for the crafty crow had ensured he had his bulky friend between him and the troll when he administered the healing potion. Baabby quickly jumped to his feet and readied his greatsword for the attack that was coming. As the troll advanced, eager to repeat his head-bonking success, Baabby struck out at him with the blade of his weapon. It would have been an awesome blow, had it hit - but the baabarian made an uncharacteristic swing and a miss.</p><p></p><p>A sudden explosion caught both adventurers off guard. The rooftop troll had shot at them with an arrow that had a stick of dynamite at its end, and it had hit both of them in its blast radius. Then, almost immediately, red light shone down from above. Finding themselves standing in red circles once again, the two dashed off in different directions. Baabby merely stepped to the side and attacked the troll with his sword again, and missed again. (The recent blow to his head must have messed up his reflexes or something.) Sam, meanwhile, ran to the side of the fountain, where he could at least put the hovering airship between him and whatever it was that was targeting them from the sky with red circles of light. That gave the crow another shot at the archer troll on the rooftop. Another shot, and another miss! But he was still glad they had moved, for the spots they had each just vacated suddenly got blasted from some unseen foe above them.</p><p></p><p>"We gotta stay away from those circles!" suggested Sam, shooting another arrow at the rooftop troll and missing yet again.</p><p></p><p>Baabby made a dash to the fountain, ending up underneath the hovering airship next to his archer friend. The troll followed suit, swinging with his wrench and clonking Baabby on the side of the head another time. Reeling with pain, Baabby cut down the irritating troll with his sword, and just in time, too, for he was getting woozy from the blows. He had just enough time to cast a healing spell upon himself before passing out. Fortunately, the cascading fountain was between him and the rooftop troll, so that enemy couldn't fire at the humanoid sheep.</p><p></p><p>"You got this guy?" Baabby asked his little partner.</p><p></p><p>"Yeah, yeah, I got him," agreed Sam irritably, angry at himself for not having gotten him yet.</p><p></p><p>"Then I'm going to go check in there," said Baabby, pointing to a nearby building. He wasn't sure who or what might be in it, but these trolls had to be here for some reason. Dashing across the street, he yanked open the door of the building and stepped inside, safe from the airborne enemy targeting them with red circles and, once he closed the door behind him, from the rooftop archer as well. But the building was empty of people; it was a simple one-room cottage whose owner was apparently away.</p><p></p><p>Sam Crow finally got off a lucky shot and hit the second rooftop troll archer, and his body plummeted over the side of the rooftop and onto the ground just below. Baabby raced out of the cottage and past Sam, down the road a bit and swung open the double doors of the next building in line. There were four inhabitants in this building: two Mabu and two trolls. One of the trolls was menacing the frightened Mabu, who hunkered in the corner and whined fitfully. The other troll tore apart the room, as if looking for something. Fortunately, neither troll had noticed Baabby opening the doors.</p><p></p><p>Sam ran up to his friend, peered inside the building, and fired a shot at the troll doing the exploring. Baabby then leaped into the room and took out the other troll with his greatsword.</p><p></p><p>"Oh, thank you, thank you!" offered the frightened Mabu.</p><p></p><p>"Whaat were the trolls doing here?" asked Baabby. "Whaat were they looking for?"</p><p></p><p>"They-- they said they were looking for the Museum of Mystical Mysteries," replied one frightened Mabu. "We tried to tell them that there was no such place that we knew of, but they didn't believe us!"</p><p></p><p>"I've never heard of such a place," admitted Sam.</p><p></p><p>"Oh, it exists," replied the Mabu. "Or at least it used to. But nobody's seen it for years, not since the mysterious fog covered up the Forest of Despair!"</p><p></p><p>"I don't like the sound of that," said Sam to himself.</p><p></p><p>"Is this museum in the Forest of Despair?" asked Baabby.</p><p></p><p>"Well, it was," admitted the Mabu.</p><p></p><p>"So why didn't you just tell the trolls that, so they'd leave you alone?" asked Sam.</p><p></p><p>"I didn't like them. They were very rude." Having gotten all of the information they were likely to get from the two Mabu, Baabby and Sam moved on to the next building. On the way, Sam stopped at the fallen archer troll's body to check out the weapon. It was a strange-looking shortbow, with all kinds of mechanical contraptions grafted onto it and the words "DYNABOW 2.0" stamped into the metal just above where you gripped it. Looking it over, the curious crow figured out how it worked: if you flipped a switch here and held it steady, it would enhance the tip of an arrow already ready to fire with the equivalent of a stick of dynamite. Grabbing up the weapon for himself, Sam ran to catch up with Baabby, who had just swung open the doors to the next building, the largest of those ringing the fountain at the town's center. A sign by the door announced that it was the Mayor's office.</p><p></p><p>Inside were four trolls menacing a distinguished-looking Mabu - as evidenced by his top hat and fancy suspenders. Sam shot at one troll, taking him down. Baabby rushed in and got another with his sword, leaving two. These were armed with monkey wrenches, and they stepped up to wallop the duo. One got in a blow that sent Sam Crow crashing to the floor, unconscious, leaving Baabby facing two-to-one odds. The baabarian knew if they managed to knock him out as well, the Mabu in the town would have nobody left to defend them.</p><p></p><p>"We're looking for the Museum of Mystical Mysteries," snarled one of the trolls. "Tell us where it is, or we'll take care of you as well!"</p><p></p><p>Baabby thought fast. "I don't know where it is," he said. But then, pointing down at Sam's unconscious form, he added, "But he does."</p><p></p><p>The trolls thought it over. "Okay, wake him up," they allowed. Baabby grabbed a healing potion from Sam's belt and poured it down the crow's beak. Sam sat up, groggy. "What's going on?" he asked. Then, realizing how he'd been revived, he added, "Hey! Why'd you use one of <em>my</em> potions?"</p><p></p><p>Baabby ignored the second question entirely. "They want you to lead them to the museum," he said, giving his partner a wink after making sure neither of the trolls would be able to see him do it.</p><p></p><p>"O-o-o-o-oh, the museum," said Sam, getting to his feet. "Okay, follow me!" And he rushed out the door, spun around, and put an arrow in his Dynabow 2.0, ready to send an arrow flying straight into the face of the first troll to pop his head out of the door.</p><p></p><p>"This way, guys!" said Baabby helpfully, following Sam out the door and turning in the opposite direction. He got ready to swipe at the second troll to pop his head out of the door.</p><p></p><p>The heroes' plan worked just as they had hoped. Sam shot the first troll to step outside of the Mayor's office, and Baabby took care of the second a few seconds later. Then they both ran back into the Mayor's office, since they'd each gathered a red circle from above while they had been standing there.</p><p></p><p>"Here," said the distinguished-looking Mabu, who turned out to be the town mayor. He passed over two healing potions to Sam Crow. "You look like you could use these."</p><p></p><p>"Thanks!" said Sam, taking the two and downing one of them on the spot. "Ah, that's good stuff!" he declared, wiping a wing across his beak. Baabby walked over and accepted the other healing potion, drinking it down as well.</p><p></p><p>"So these trolls are looking for a Museum?" asked Baabby.</p><p></p><p>"Yes, that's right," affirmed the Mayor. "The Museum of Mystical Mysteries, over in the Forest of Despair."</p><p></p><p>"So why are they tearing apart your town?" asked Sam.</p><p></p><p>"I gather they're looking for a map," replied the Mayor. "Or anything else they can use."</p><p></p><p>"Do you have anything we can use to get up to that airship?" asked Sam. "I betcha that's where the leader of this little troll raid is at."</p><p></p><p>"Why, yes, I believe we still have a bounce pad in storage at the General Store."</p><p></p><p>"And that would be...?" prompted Sam.</p><p></p><p>"The next building over." The Mayor then explained the building beyond the General Store was the tavern, and another building to the south was a potion shop.</p><p></p><p>"We should go find that bounce pad in the General Store," suggested Baabby.</p><p></p><p>"Yeah, we should," agreed Sam. "...But let's go check out the tavern first."</p><p></p><p>"Why?"</p><p></p><p>"I just like taverns!" exclaimed Sam. "Let's go!" They raced down the street, being targeted by red circles during their run but avoiding the subsequent explosions. Baabby opened the door to the tavern, exposing one troll about to go into a back room and another one up at the bar, standing before two frightened Mabu bartenders. "I got this one," announced Sam, sending an arrow into the troll drinker's back, which sent him - and, sadly, his drink - crashing to the floor. Baabby raced after the other troll, following him into a back bedroom, where the troll was quickly dispatched with the baabarian's greatsword. The grateful Mabu bartenders gave each of the heroes a quick bite of restorative food and a favorite local drink, and then the duo was on its way once again, this time backtracking to the General Store.</p><p></p><p>"I don't like these red circles!" announced Sam irritably as they were once again targeted from unseen forces high above them. He squinted up into the sky above the airship, but accidentally stared straight into the sun and had to squeeze his eyes shut. Baabby had in the meantime opened the door to the store, revealing another quartet of trolls: two wrench-wielders and two archers. The sheep-man raced into the melee with his greatsword swinging, cutting down a wrench-wielder before he could bonk Baabby on the noggin. Sam cleared his vision quick enough to shoot one of the archers, then hurriedly stepped into the crowded store and closed the door behind him. A small explosion erupted in the space right outside the door where he had just stood.</p><p></p><p>The crowded store worked to Baabby's advantage; he managed to bring one troll down and then cleave the other in a continuation of his first swing. Then, after a quick search, the baabarian found the bounce pad in a back storeroom.</p><p></p><p>Sam had heard of such devices: they were basically small trampolines engineered to send a jumper to a certain height. Voting that Baabby drag it with him - "Because you're much stronger!" assured the crow - Sam ran back outside, with his baabarian companion lugging the bounce pad under one arm. He plopped it next to the fountain, aligned just to the side of the hovering airship.</p><p></p><p>"Do you want to go first?" offered Sam Crow.</p><p></p><p>"No," answered Baabby. "After you, Sam."</p><p></p><p>Crestfallen, Sam took a running start and jumped onto the bounce pad. It sent him flying 30 feet into the air, to land on the deck of the airship. <em>I hope there aren't a lot of enemies up there!</em> Sam had thought on his way up. By the time he had landed, he saw that you don't always get what you wish for - and this was definitely one of those times!</p><p></p><p>Sam stood surrounded by four trolls on the deck with him...and was standing in the middle of a red circle of light, he saw with a bit of worry. Fortunately, the two archers were facing the front of the ship and thus hadn't seen him. Unfortunately, the two wrench-wielders standing just before the two sets of stairs leading up to the back deck of the airship were also facing the front, and could see him just fine. And so could an even larger, fiercer-looking troll on the back deck, standing before the vessel's steering wheel with a technology-enhanced staff in one hand. Assuming this larger, fiercer troll was either the ship's captain or at least the helmsman, and if Sam took him out it might be a major disappointment to the rest of the trolls on board, he fired off an arrow with his new Dynabow 2.0. Since he hadn't had time to charge it with explosives, this was just a regular arrow. It launched from the bow...dashed across the deck...and hit the fierce-looking troll on the side of the face.</p><p></p><p>Which ripped half of his face off.</p><p></p><p>Which then fell to the ground with a plop.</p><p></p><p>"Hey!" exclaimed one of the archer trolls, spinning around at the commotion. "You're not a troll!"</p><p></p><p>"Um, yes I am!" argued Sam Crow, desperately trying to bluff his way out of the situation. "I'm a secret troll agent, disguised as a crow, so I can...uh...infiltrate the town, see, and...."</p><p></p><p>"Not you," interrupted the troll. "<em>Him!</em>"</p><p></p><p>Sam turned to see where the troll was pointing, and found himself looking at the troll captain, or troll helmsman, or whatever the guy behind the steering wheel was called. Only now he could see the guy was no troll at all. Sam's arrow had dislodged a rubber mask he had been wearing, which had ripped in half and fallen to the deck. Abandoning the rest of his disguise, the captain/helmsman/whatever dropped his phony techno-staff, flung off the full-length coat he'd been wearing, revealing himself as...</p><p></p><p>"...A tech spell punk!" cried the surprised troll crew members.</p><p></p><p>"Yes!" exclaimed Sam, as Baabby landed on the deck near where he'd first landed, after making his own jump onto the bounce pad. "An impostor! This is an outrage to troll dignity! Even to us trolls disguised as crows...and sheep!" he hastily appended. "Let's get him!" And then he stepped to the side, allowing the troll wrench-wielders to attack the tech spell punk who had tricked them into thinking he was their troll boss.</p><p></p><p>The tech spell punk raised a pointed claw in the air, and an explosion of energy shot up into the air and then struck the red circle where Sam had stood. As this was on board the airship, this caused a chunk of ship to go missing and fall to the ground below. The ship shuddered and began sinking lower in the air above the fountain. Sam shot another arrow at the spell punk, and this one finished off what the first arrow had started. The spell punk fell to the deck of the ship, dead.</p><p></p><p>"Um, I hope one of you guys can fly this thing," Baabby said. One of the trolls dropped his monkey wrench and grabbed the wheel, trying to steer the damaged vessel. "Let's get out of here!" said Sam, and for once Baabby agreed. One at a time, they each jumped off the airship, landing safely on the bounce pad and stepping off to the ground by the fountain. The airship lumbered by overhead, passing by the buildings and heading over a grove of trees, where it was lost to view.</p><p></p><p>"I don't think they're going to be able to get it flying right in time," said Baabby - mere seconds before the sound of a loud <em>CRUNCH!</em> proved him absolutely correct.</p><p></p><p>"Well, that should be that," said Sam Crow proudly, slapping his wings together.</p><p></p><p>"We're not done yet," replied Baabby.</p><p></p><p>"We're not?"</p><p></p><p>"No, we have to put the bounce pad baack where we got it from," answered Baabby. Sam let out a sigh of exasperation, but helped his friend bring the bounce pad back to the storeroom of the General Store where they had found it.</p><p></p><p>"I guess our saving-the-mine celebration party's been canceled due to this troll pirate raid," sighed Sam disconsolately.</p><p></p><p>"On the contrary," bellowed the Mayor, stepping out of his office and into the street by the duo. "Now we have <em>two</em> reasons to celebrate!" And he handed over two large bags of gold coins to the heroes who had saved his town from the troll pirates. "Let's head over to the tavern -- they have the cake ready for the celebration!"</p><p></p><p>"All right!" said Sam Crow. "Being a hero is awesome!"</p><p></p><p>"I like cake," agreed Baabby.</p><p></p><p> - - -</p><p></p><p>This adventure used Paizo's "Town Square" flip-map as well as a two-piece airship map from its "Armada" Map Pack. And as a result of having gone through this adventure, both Baabby and Sam advanced to 2nd level after it was finished.</p><p></p><p>Harry didn't roll quite as hot with his dice this time around - he rolled an "8" three times in a row while attacking trolls, which with his +4 to hit in melee combat was just <em>one number</em> short of hitting them! But he didn't let it ruin his experience, and the fact that he got a natural "20" at least once helped matters along that front.</p><p></p><p>Thinking ahead, Harry's already surmised that there's likely to be a magic spell punk in charge of looking for the Museum of Mystical Mysteries, which makes logical sense to me. Logan's already informed us that the next two adventures he has planned will be called "The Forest of Despair" and "The Museum of Mystical Mysteries," so we'll find out for ourselves before too long.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 7038243, member: 508"] [b]ADVENTURE 2: TROLL PIRATE RAID[/b] PC Roster: [INDENT]Baabby, humanoid sheep barbarian/cleric (life) 1 Sam Crow, humanoid crow ranger/rogue 1[/INDENT] Game Session Date: 26 February 2017 - - - It was the following day that a trio of Mabu invited Baabby and Sam to a celebration of their successful defeat of the chompies infesting the nearby mine. "A celebration? For me?" Sam enthused. "This is awesome! Oh, uh, and I guess it's for you too, Baabby -- you kind of helped." The baabarian just frowned down at his little crow friend and Sam quickly decided to change the subject. "So, how much further is the town we're headed to?" he asked one of the Mabu escorting them to their celebration. "It's just over this next hill," replied the Mabu as they crested the very same hill. "Hmm," he added. "That's weird." "Whaat's weird?" asked Baabby in his sheepish drawl. "That airship's not usually there." Looking down at the town, the group could see an airship hovering just over the middle of the town square, 30 feet above a fountain. As they looked, there were flashes of reddish light coming from between some of the buildings. "Come on!" cried Baabby, gripping his new magic greatsword as he - once again - raced straight into potential danger. "Are you sure about this?" argued Sam Crow as he struggled to keep up. Behind the duo, their three Mabu escorts tried their best to catch up on their stumpy little legs. As they approached the town, they could see two troll archers on the rooftops of the buildings and another four on the ground. From their vantage point they couldn't see who was on the airship, but Sam was willing to bet they were more trolls. "Baabby -- trolls!" he warned his companion. "LET"S GET OUT OF HERE!" "These people need our help!" Baabby countered, running up to the nearest troll. He was armed with a massive monkey wrench and used it to swing at the baabarian, but Baabby ducked his blow and hit him with his greatsword, knocking him over. Sam, in the meantime, saw the troll on the nearest rooftop doing something with his shortbow, that ended up with something long and red at the end of his arrow. Not wanting to wait to see what this weird weapon would do, Sam took aim with his own shortbow and shot the rooftop troll. He got him - on his first attempt, too! - and the troll toppled off the roof to the ground below. His weapon made a little explosion before it fell to the ground with its wielder. Suddenly, both Baabby and Sam were standing in circles of red light. "Whaat's this?" Baabby asked. "Who knows?" replied Sam. "But let's not stay here long enough to find out!" They ran closer to the town square and the fountain, only to be intercepted by two more trolls with monkey wrenches. Baabby took one down with another swing of his greatsword, but then got beaned on the head with the other troll's wrench. The baabarian actually saw birds flying around his head as he staggered under the blow. Sam, in the meantime, had lined up another shot at the other rooftop troll. He was all the way across the square on the other side of the fountain, but Sam thought he could get him. As it turned out, he was wrong - although he did a simply [i]spectacular[/i] job at striking the roof just below the troll's feet. The troll fighting Baabby got in another lucky shot, and the baabarian gave a bleating cry of pain as he fell over, unconscious. Seeing his massive friend downed by a troll - a [i]troll[/i], of all things! - infuriated the young crow. He'd had a hard time with trolls all his life: one particular troll used to always steal young Sam's lunch money. The crow raced across the street, leaped over his unconscious friend, and grabbed up a potion from the baabarian's belt. Unpopping the cork, he poured the contents down Baabby's throat, and the baabarian sat up, healed from the worst of the damage. "Hey!" he said to his friend. "Why'd you use one of [i]my[/i] potions?" "No time to worry about such things!" insisted Sam. "Worry about [i]him[/i] instead!" And he pointed at the troll whose monkey wrench had knocked the hulking warrior into unconsciousness in the first place, who was grinning an evil grin and advancing upon the two - but upon Baabby first, for the crafty crow had ensured he had his bulky friend between him and the troll when he administered the healing potion. Baabby quickly jumped to his feet and readied his greatsword for the attack that was coming. As the troll advanced, eager to repeat his head-bonking success, Baabby struck out at him with the blade of his weapon. It would have been an awesome blow, had it hit - but the baabarian made an uncharacteristic swing and a miss. A sudden explosion caught both adventurers off guard. The rooftop troll had shot at them with an arrow that had a stick of dynamite at its end, and it had hit both of them in its blast radius. Then, almost immediately, red light shone down from above. Finding themselves standing in red circles once again, the two dashed off in different directions. Baabby merely stepped to the side and attacked the troll with his sword again, and missed again. (The recent blow to his head must have messed up his reflexes or something.) Sam, meanwhile, ran to the side of the fountain, where he could at least put the hovering airship between him and whatever it was that was targeting them from the sky with red circles of light. That gave the crow another shot at the archer troll on the rooftop. Another shot, and another miss! But he was still glad they had moved, for the spots they had each just vacated suddenly got blasted from some unseen foe above them. "We gotta stay away from those circles!" suggested Sam, shooting another arrow at the rooftop troll and missing yet again. Baabby made a dash to the fountain, ending up underneath the hovering airship next to his archer friend. The troll followed suit, swinging with his wrench and clonking Baabby on the side of the head another time. Reeling with pain, Baabby cut down the irritating troll with his sword, and just in time, too, for he was getting woozy from the blows. He had just enough time to cast a healing spell upon himself before passing out. Fortunately, the cascading fountain was between him and the rooftop troll, so that enemy couldn't fire at the humanoid sheep. "You got this guy?" Baabby asked his little partner. "Yeah, yeah, I got him," agreed Sam irritably, angry at himself for not having gotten him yet. "Then I'm going to go check in there," said Baabby, pointing to a nearby building. He wasn't sure who or what might be in it, but these trolls had to be here for some reason. Dashing across the street, he yanked open the door of the building and stepped inside, safe from the airborne enemy targeting them with red circles and, once he closed the door behind him, from the rooftop archer as well. But the building was empty of people; it was a simple one-room cottage whose owner was apparently away. Sam Crow finally got off a lucky shot and hit the second rooftop troll archer, and his body plummeted over the side of the rooftop and onto the ground just below. Baabby raced out of the cottage and past Sam, down the road a bit and swung open the double doors of the next building in line. There were four inhabitants in this building: two Mabu and two trolls. One of the trolls was menacing the frightened Mabu, who hunkered in the corner and whined fitfully. The other troll tore apart the room, as if looking for something. Fortunately, neither troll had noticed Baabby opening the doors. Sam ran up to his friend, peered inside the building, and fired a shot at the troll doing the exploring. Baabby then leaped into the room and took out the other troll with his greatsword. "Oh, thank you, thank you!" offered the frightened Mabu. "Whaat were the trolls doing here?" asked Baabby. "Whaat were they looking for?" "They-- they said they were looking for the Museum of Mystical Mysteries," replied one frightened Mabu. "We tried to tell them that there was no such place that we knew of, but they didn't believe us!" "I've never heard of such a place," admitted Sam. "Oh, it exists," replied the Mabu. "Or at least it used to. But nobody's seen it for years, not since the mysterious fog covered up the Forest of Despair!" "I don't like the sound of that," said Sam to himself. "Is this museum in the Forest of Despair?" asked Baabby. "Well, it was," admitted the Mabu. "So why didn't you just tell the trolls that, so they'd leave you alone?" asked Sam. "I didn't like them. They were very rude." Having gotten all of the information they were likely to get from the two Mabu, Baabby and Sam moved on to the next building. On the way, Sam stopped at the fallen archer troll's body to check out the weapon. It was a strange-looking shortbow, with all kinds of mechanical contraptions grafted onto it and the words "DYNABOW 2.0" stamped into the metal just above where you gripped it. Looking it over, the curious crow figured out how it worked: if you flipped a switch here and held it steady, it would enhance the tip of an arrow already ready to fire with the equivalent of a stick of dynamite. Grabbing up the weapon for himself, Sam ran to catch up with Baabby, who had just swung open the doors to the next building, the largest of those ringing the fountain at the town's center. A sign by the door announced that it was the Mayor's office. Inside were four trolls menacing a distinguished-looking Mabu - as evidenced by his top hat and fancy suspenders. Sam shot at one troll, taking him down. Baabby rushed in and got another with his sword, leaving two. These were armed with monkey wrenches, and they stepped up to wallop the duo. One got in a blow that sent Sam Crow crashing to the floor, unconscious, leaving Baabby facing two-to-one odds. The baabarian knew if they managed to knock him out as well, the Mabu in the town would have nobody left to defend them. "We're looking for the Museum of Mystical Mysteries," snarled one of the trolls. "Tell us where it is, or we'll take care of you as well!" Baabby thought fast. "I don't know where it is," he said. But then, pointing down at Sam's unconscious form, he added, "But he does." The trolls thought it over. "Okay, wake him up," they allowed. Baabby grabbed a healing potion from Sam's belt and poured it down the crow's beak. Sam sat up, groggy. "What's going on?" he asked. Then, realizing how he'd been revived, he added, "Hey! Why'd you use one of [i]my[/i] potions?" Baabby ignored the second question entirely. "They want you to lead them to the museum," he said, giving his partner a wink after making sure neither of the trolls would be able to see him do it. "O-o-o-o-oh, the museum," said Sam, getting to his feet. "Okay, follow me!" And he rushed out the door, spun around, and put an arrow in his Dynabow 2.0, ready to send an arrow flying straight into the face of the first troll to pop his head out of the door. "This way, guys!" said Baabby helpfully, following Sam out the door and turning in the opposite direction. He got ready to swipe at the second troll to pop his head out of the door. The heroes' plan worked just as they had hoped. Sam shot the first troll to step outside of the Mayor's office, and Baabby took care of the second a few seconds later. Then they both ran back into the Mayor's office, since they'd each gathered a red circle from above while they had been standing there. "Here," said the distinguished-looking Mabu, who turned out to be the town mayor. He passed over two healing potions to Sam Crow. "You look like you could use these." "Thanks!" said Sam, taking the two and downing one of them on the spot. "Ah, that's good stuff!" he declared, wiping a wing across his beak. Baabby walked over and accepted the other healing potion, drinking it down as well. "So these trolls are looking for a Museum?" asked Baabby. "Yes, that's right," affirmed the Mayor. "The Museum of Mystical Mysteries, over in the Forest of Despair." "So why are they tearing apart your town?" asked Sam. "I gather they're looking for a map," replied the Mayor. "Or anything else they can use." "Do you have anything we can use to get up to that airship?" asked Sam. "I betcha that's where the leader of this little troll raid is at." "Why, yes, I believe we still have a bounce pad in storage at the General Store." "And that would be...?" prompted Sam. "The next building over." The Mayor then explained the building beyond the General Store was the tavern, and another building to the south was a potion shop. "We should go find that bounce pad in the General Store," suggested Baabby. "Yeah, we should," agreed Sam. "...But let's go check out the tavern first." "Why?" "I just like taverns!" exclaimed Sam. "Let's go!" They raced down the street, being targeted by red circles during their run but avoiding the subsequent explosions. Baabby opened the door to the tavern, exposing one troll about to go into a back room and another one up at the bar, standing before two frightened Mabu bartenders. "I got this one," announced Sam, sending an arrow into the troll drinker's back, which sent him - and, sadly, his drink - crashing to the floor. Baabby raced after the other troll, following him into a back bedroom, where the troll was quickly dispatched with the baabarian's greatsword. The grateful Mabu bartenders gave each of the heroes a quick bite of restorative food and a favorite local drink, and then the duo was on its way once again, this time backtracking to the General Store. "I don't like these red circles!" announced Sam irritably as they were once again targeted from unseen forces high above them. He squinted up into the sky above the airship, but accidentally stared straight into the sun and had to squeeze his eyes shut. Baabby had in the meantime opened the door to the store, revealing another quartet of trolls: two wrench-wielders and two archers. The sheep-man raced into the melee with his greatsword swinging, cutting down a wrench-wielder before he could bonk Baabby on the noggin. Sam cleared his vision quick enough to shoot one of the archers, then hurriedly stepped into the crowded store and closed the door behind him. A small explosion erupted in the space right outside the door where he had just stood. The crowded store worked to Baabby's advantage; he managed to bring one troll down and then cleave the other in a continuation of his first swing. Then, after a quick search, the baabarian found the bounce pad in a back storeroom. Sam had heard of such devices: they were basically small trampolines engineered to send a jumper to a certain height. Voting that Baabby drag it with him - "Because you're much stronger!" assured the crow - Sam ran back outside, with his baabarian companion lugging the bounce pad under one arm. He plopped it next to the fountain, aligned just to the side of the hovering airship. "Do you want to go first?" offered Sam Crow. "No," answered Baabby. "After you, Sam." Crestfallen, Sam took a running start and jumped onto the bounce pad. It sent him flying 30 feet into the air, to land on the deck of the airship. [i]I hope there aren't a lot of enemies up there![/i] Sam had thought on his way up. By the time he had landed, he saw that you don't always get what you wish for - and this was definitely one of those times! Sam stood surrounded by four trolls on the deck with him...and was standing in the middle of a red circle of light, he saw with a bit of worry. Fortunately, the two archers were facing the front of the ship and thus hadn't seen him. Unfortunately, the two wrench-wielders standing just before the two sets of stairs leading up to the back deck of the airship were also facing the front, and could see him just fine. And so could an even larger, fiercer-looking troll on the back deck, standing before the vessel's steering wheel with a technology-enhanced staff in one hand. Assuming this larger, fiercer troll was either the ship's captain or at least the helmsman, and if Sam took him out it might be a major disappointment to the rest of the trolls on board, he fired off an arrow with his new Dynabow 2.0. Since he hadn't had time to charge it with explosives, this was just a regular arrow. It launched from the bow...dashed across the deck...and hit the fierce-looking troll on the side of the face. Which ripped half of his face off. Which then fell to the ground with a plop. "Hey!" exclaimed one of the archer trolls, spinning around at the commotion. "You're not a troll!" "Um, yes I am!" argued Sam Crow, desperately trying to bluff his way out of the situation. "I'm a secret troll agent, disguised as a crow, so I can...uh...infiltrate the town, see, and...." "Not you," interrupted the troll. "[i]Him![/i]" Sam turned to see where the troll was pointing, and found himself looking at the troll captain, or troll helmsman, or whatever the guy behind the steering wheel was called. Only now he could see the guy was no troll at all. Sam's arrow had dislodged a rubber mask he had been wearing, which had ripped in half and fallen to the deck. Abandoning the rest of his disguise, the captain/helmsman/whatever dropped his phony techno-staff, flung off the full-length coat he'd been wearing, revealing himself as... "...A tech spell punk!" cried the surprised troll crew members. "Yes!" exclaimed Sam, as Baabby landed on the deck near where he'd first landed, after making his own jump onto the bounce pad. "An impostor! This is an outrage to troll dignity! Even to us trolls disguised as crows...and sheep!" he hastily appended. "Let's get him!" And then he stepped to the side, allowing the troll wrench-wielders to attack the tech spell punk who had tricked them into thinking he was their troll boss. The tech spell punk raised a pointed claw in the air, and an explosion of energy shot up into the air and then struck the red circle where Sam had stood. As this was on board the airship, this caused a chunk of ship to go missing and fall to the ground below. The ship shuddered and began sinking lower in the air above the fountain. Sam shot another arrow at the spell punk, and this one finished off what the first arrow had started. The spell punk fell to the deck of the ship, dead. "Um, I hope one of you guys can fly this thing," Baabby said. One of the trolls dropped his monkey wrench and grabbed the wheel, trying to steer the damaged vessel. "Let's get out of here!" said Sam, and for once Baabby agreed. One at a time, they each jumped off the airship, landing safely on the bounce pad and stepping off to the ground by the fountain. The airship lumbered by overhead, passing by the buildings and heading over a grove of trees, where it was lost to view. "I don't think they're going to be able to get it flying right in time," said Baabby - mere seconds before the sound of a loud [i]CRUNCH![/i] proved him absolutely correct. "Well, that should be that," said Sam Crow proudly, slapping his wings together. "We're not done yet," replied Baabby. "We're not?" "No, we have to put the bounce pad baack where we got it from," answered Baabby. Sam let out a sigh of exasperation, but helped his friend bring the bounce pad back to the storeroom of the General Store where they had found it. "I guess our saving-the-mine celebration party's been canceled due to this troll pirate raid," sighed Sam disconsolately. "On the contrary," bellowed the Mayor, stepping out of his office and into the street by the duo. "Now we have [i]two[/i] reasons to celebrate!" And he handed over two large bags of gold coins to the heroes who had saved his town from the troll pirates. "Let's head over to the tavern -- they have the cake ready for the celebration!" "All right!" said Sam Crow. "Being a hero is awesome!" "I like cake," agreed Baabby. - - - This adventure used Paizo's "Town Square" flip-map as well as a two-piece airship map from its "Armada" Map Pack. And as a result of having gone through this adventure, both Baabby and Sam advanced to 2nd level after it was finished. Harry didn't roll quite as hot with his dice this time around - he rolled an "8" three times in a row while attacking trolls, which with his +4 to hit in melee combat was just [i]one number[/i] short of hitting them! But he didn't let it ruin his experience, and the fact that he got a natural "20" at least once helped matters along that front. Thinking ahead, Harry's already surmised that there's likely to be a magic spell punk in charge of looking for the Museum of Mystical Mysteries, which makes logical sense to me. Logan's already informed us that the next two adventures he has planned will be called "The Forest of Despair" and "The Museum of Mystical Mysteries," so we'll find out for ourselves before too long. [/QUOTE]
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