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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 8592832" data-attributes="member: 11">I wasn't so sure it was as smooth as it could be, but the players all seemed to have a good time as there was a decent mix of exploring, social encounters, and combat.The party successfully found a splinter group of monsters from the World Below and negotiated with its leader (a goblin named Wyckwax) to have him not join his forces with the evil trolls the party would have to fight and work to draw off more of the trolls' forces (goblins and trolls) from those legions. In return, the party is supposed to go defeat the guardians watching over the Troll Chieftainess's treasure hoard and allow Wyckwax and his people to take it.My favorite moment from this exchange was when Wyckwax explained that "ALL the evil races - elves, dwarves, gnomes, and the like - banded together to drive his people to the World Below ages ago."After that the party went to camp out where they were to wait for their firbolg allies, but instead were captured by treants they did not want to fight, successfully argued to be allowed to be brought before the treant queen and made a deal with her, once she explained that the firbolgs had helped precipitate the problem of the troll hordes, the forest fires, and the marching trees in their quest for blind revenge.Negotiations with the firbolg after this, to get them to drop their plan of total revenge for a more manageable goal that also allowed Wyckwax's group to leave the area unmolested (as opposed to the firbolg goal of killing every last one) did not go as well and the giants retreated to discuss their options, saying they might come to help the PCs defend a local hamlet from the encroaching trolls - but were not sure they could agree to the conditions. Finally, the PCs made their way to roadhouse in the path of the troll horde, where they set up defenses to aid the locals who refused to leave their homes, despite the danger.  As we left off, the party had defeated a wave of goblins (with a good use of a tidal wave spell when they were awkwardly wading across a deep stream) and all but one of the first wave of ogres - but a second wave of goblins were arriving just as trolls, who were hidden beneath the water, emerged to join the fight!My two favorite moments from this battle were Nora the ranger/sorcerer's player saying "Ogres are a lot easier to deal with when you are prepared!" (compared to last session, when she expressed fear of a TPK when facing off against a large group without a warning). And when Rollo the Barbarian held a simple wooden bridge over the stream against three ogres by himself.We're playing again in two weeks because May is looking difficult for scheduling and we may have to skip that month and we didn't want to wait til June.</blockquote>

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