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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 8449543" data-attributes="member: 11">It was another great one. November was looking dicey for us actually scheduling a session, but we found four hours to play a shorter session yesterday (normally we play 5 hour sessions).The entire session took place outside a troll hole.   A place Wendall the Singing Trolls unwelcome relatives were holed up, that also served as the short cut to where the PCs had figured out their friend (the sage that hired them for their first adventure and whose letter drew them back to this area) was hiding out - having gone there to hide from the cultists in town, but then getting trapped there by the trolls.<a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/how-was-your-last-session.667468/post-8436078" target="_blank">We left off</a> with the PCs trying to sneak past the opening to find a place to hide and rest until dawn, when they figured the knightly suitor and his men-at-arms would arrive and could be coaxed into fighting the trolls. Unfortunately, Rollo the barbarian botched his stealth check and a troll came out to investigate. The party scattered and hid, using the shadow of trees and ducking behind cliffs.  What followed was a cat and mouse game, as the bard/wizard used minor illusion to create a panther so the troll might think an animal had made the noise. The troll quickly figured out it was not real. When it disappeared and another appeared ten feet over, the troll got paranoid that a wizard was about, so he called his brother out of the hole. Thron the druid then wildshaped into a panther and ran out, causing confusion. The trolls were sure it was a trick and ignored the third panther, considering it was an illusion too, but then bickering when one insisted that unlike the others, this one actually smelled like a panther.This allowed the druid to slink away, hoping to draw them off. But by now the trolls were close to the trees where Rollo was hiding, and smelling him turned as if to attack, though one was sure it had spotted the party ranger/sorcerer who had climbed up to an overlooking bluff.The wild fight that ensued got off to a rocky start as the players seemed unable to roll higher than a 6 and the druid pounced at a troll in panther form, only to get grappled, rended and bitten - changing back to human form. This also happened to the barbarian, but luckily both were able to break free before getting ground to paste.Keep in mind these are all for whom a campaign like this is a first, so they didn't even know what a troll looks like, let alone its vulnerabilities!  After Rollo did a sick amount of damage to a troll and its wounds started closing they got worried, but when Alston cast a flame bolt, the trolls got really mad, which gave them a clue that fire was the key EXCEPT it also drove the trolls into a rage.Eventually, they killed one of the trolls, but the other one made it back into the cave entrance and the party did not want to follow it in there, so instead they found a place to hide, try to take a short rest, and wait for either more trolls to emerge or the knight and his men to arrive. Eventually dawn arrived without more trolls, but first the girl who was in love with Wendall the singing troll shows up, ahead of the soldiers, explaining that when she found out her potential suitor was hunting the trolls and the PCs, she came out into the fens - but when she ran into Wendall (who she has never seen before) she freaked out at how big and scary he looked, which made him feel like he was being being made fun of, so he started chasing her, just as the soldiers arrived to see it.  The girl took off and felt regretful.  Soon after the knight and his men arrived, having driven off Wendall and there was something of a standoff outside the trollhole.At first no trolls emerged, but Alston cast fog cloud above the gulch to help block out the sun enough to draw the trolls out, which worked - but Uncles Feester and Fooster turned out to a single giant two-headed troll! The other troll also eventually came out.It was a mess of the fight, but in time the men-at-arms were all killed, the knight surrendered and was knocked out - and the party killed both trolls with some healthy applications of fire bolt, chromatic orb, and melf's acid arrow. It took 15 rounds total.We left it there.What the above description misses out on was all the fun climbing up and around the bluffs surrounding the troll hole, including pushing people off to fall (this happened to two men-at-arms and the party ranger - the barbarian also jumped down from 20 feet up onto someone, which was cool - taking damage in the process) and the near drowning of the half-plate garbed knight (which led to his surrender).Below are a couple of pics of the DIY scenery I set up. . . . I think the next session should mostly be wrap-up and traveling back to Saltmarsh.[ATTACH=full]146278[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]146277[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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