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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 8436078" data-attributes="member: 11">As I mentioned in the new <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/what-are-you-prepping-for-your-next-d-d-session.683482/" target="_blank">"What are you prepping for your next D&D session?"</a> thread, this was a transitional session, so there was plenty of opportunity for awkwardness or faltering progress, but overall it went very well.The first half of the session was mostly logistics and wrap up - splitting treasure, talking to NPCs, and making future plans.There was a nice moment where the one woman in the party explained that her objection to the party's young friend being betrothed to a knight the party hates was not about whether he was a nice guy, but because if she is old enough to marry, she is old enough to make her own choice and she was being pushed into it by her father.The fact that part of the reason the young woman doesn't want to marry this guy is because she has fallen in love with a singing troll she's never seen does complicate the situation however.The party succeeded in befriending the troll after finding him on their way to wrap up one last loose end (the sage that originally hired them is missing and they think they figure out where he was hiding), but he warned them has his visiting family (his cousins Geeser and Gooser and his uncles Feester and Fuster) would want to eat them and the girl, should she come looking for them. The unexpected presence of the trolls had kept the sage from returning after fleeing the now-defeated cultists in the village.After retreating to a safer spot (at least in terms of trolls), they were then attacked by the knight and his men-at-arms, who took their friendship with the troll as evidence of their malintent, causing the party to flee. They followed this up by making a plan to trick the knight and his men to chase them into the trolls' lair, hoping this will weaken them and the party can mop up what's left.On their way back to the area of the troll hole they ended up fighting a phalanx of skeletons supported by an ogre zombie, because the whole area of the Black Fens are haunted. [This was a callback to an encounter they had on their way back from their first adventure. The first time they were 1st level and they fought four skeletons. This time there were 16]When they finally got back to the entrance to the troll hole in the dead of night, they decided to find a place to stand guard where they they could not be seen but they could watch for the arrival of the knight nd his men (probably in the morning). Unfortunately, as they crept across the view of the tunnel entrance, the barbarian lost his footing, kicking up rocks on the rocky beach. Within the hole the heard a voice bellow, "Do you hear someone out there?"This one was a lot of fun. Unfortunately, scheduling the next session is looking hard and we may not get to play again until early December. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

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