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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crothian" data-source="post: 639097" data-attributes="member: 232">Part 3A few hours later the group arrives to the small town of Parvue.  They don’t see anyone out and about and decide to split up.  Aust leads them into the small inn and into a common room.  They hear some sounds coming from the back room so Dell calls out “Innkeeper, are you around?”    A voice calls from the backroom “Ah, sorry; wasn’t expecting people this morning.  Give me a few minutes to finish up this straightening up and I’ll be right there.”    They hear a few more sounds of things being moved around and then come walking out a man in his thirties.  Not the cleanest person they’d seen but he comes right out and says “Sorry about that, I was doing some work back there and lost track of the time.  The name’s Seth and can I get you guys a drink?”    “Some of your best watered down ale!!” Aust asks for in a joyous voice.    “Coming right up,” Seth spends some time going through the cabinets but eventually comes out with the ale.          “Quiet little town you have here,” Dell says.    “Well, most of the people work in the logging camp during the day.  We don’t get many visitors here.” Seth answers.    “You wouldn’t have seen a bard come through here by the name of Contel?” Feng inquires.        “No, can’t say we have.  It’s been a few months since any sort of minstrel has been by this way.” Seth answers.    “Well, are their other inns in town?  Perhaps he went there instead.” Aust say.    “Nope, only inn in town,” Seth replies.    The men finish up their drinks and go on their way.  Mean while the women find another inn with stables.  They head into the stables and find an eight or nine year old boy taking care of the horses.  He jumps as they speak.    “Excuse me, has there been any new horses stabled here in the past day,” inquires Seriphina.    “N-no,” the boy answers nervously, “We haven’t got any-anyone new here in a while.”    Mardnab shrugs her shoulders and is ready to leave when Seriphina leans over and whispers to her “I think the boy’s lying” she says.  Mardnab gets a stern look on her face and walks up to the boy and in a very stern voice says    “Look here kid; we don’t have time to be jerked around.  Who came here yesterday?”    The boy wets himself in fright as he begins to cry “B-B-Bandits!!  B-Bandits came yesterday.  They took most of the women….And-and mom said I was to stay here and everything would be okay.”  He falls to the ground weeping.      The women go back outside and meet up with the men.  After they catch each other up on what’s been going on.    “Ya, the ale’s really good for being so watered down here,” Aust says.    “Towns people have been taken over by bandits, we have to go rescue them.  They are down in the lumber camp.” Mardnab answers.      They all then journey down to the lumber camp.  They sneak down and spot a pair of really rough men in the camp.  They men are slowly walking around, obviously on guard duty.  Mardnab approaches them while the others try to hide.      “Hey boys, the guys in the village said this was the place for fun.” She calls out being as sexy as she can which is not much.    “Hey, this could be rather kinky,” one replies.    “Ya,” says the other,” especially with her friends back there with the weapons!!”    Bows, crossbows, and slings fire bringing the two guards down before anyone hears them.      “This bow is defected, “Aust complains as he picks up his arrow that went well past the mark.    “A good craftsman never blames his tools,” Dell replies.    “Maybe you should find a horse,” Mardnab suggests.    “Of course,” Aust proclaims, “I need a mount.  I was born on horseback you know.”    “Your poor mother,” says Seriphina,” to give birth on horseback.”They then split up and do a building by building search.  They few guards they run into are quickly dealt with.  Aust fines a magnificent beast and uses it to ride down some of the evil bandits.  Dell spots a small side path leading off into the woods.  They explore the rest of the logging camp first.  They wonder were everyone is and decide to follow the small path.  Aust decides to leave the horse behind.          The small path goes on for about a half mile then opens up into a clearing.  They can see a large pile of dead people, lumber jacks and town’s folk by the look of them.   In another part are four men standing around drinking while two others are having their way with two beat up towns women.  Mardnab sees this sight and charges in their foaming in rage.  Aust and Dell run up as well as Seriphina and Feng rain down sling bullets and crossbow bolts.  Feng also breaks into a great war tune and aids his friends by lifting their spirits.  He also proves to have deadly accuracy with the crossbow for ever bolt he fires find it’s mark.  The battle is long and dangerous.  Mardnab is bashing people left and right with her warhammer and through her fighting prowess the group eventually defeats the bandits.  They comfort the two women as much as they can and send them back to the town while they groups goes about dealing with the bodies.  In the pile they find the remains of Contel.  They find his flute in a small collection of valuables.  They collect everything and meet go back to the village.  There they give most of the money back to the few living townsfolk.  However, the innkeeper Seth is not around.  They look in his inn and in the backroom they find the dead sheriff of Pervue.  While Aust secured them some horses Seriphina tracks Seth out of town and on the road to the north.  So, even though it is already past sunset, the group journeys north on the road back to Jalston.</blockquote>

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