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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 8685183" data-attributes="member: 508">Last night's "Ghourmand Vale" session was interesting.  We made it to the Vale, got paid, and were hired almost instantly to find out why the church of St. Cuthbert hadn't received its wagonload of foodstuffs from a farm they deal with.  We went to the farm with our own horse and wagon, just in time to see a wagon loaded down with food (much of it in crates marked with the holy symbol of St. Cuthbert) tearing down the road, being carelessly driven by three hobgoblins.  They turned a corner hard after passing us by, broke a wagon wheel, and were pitched forward to the ground.  We took them out without any difficulty (two were dead before the third even realized we were there), then loaded the goods onto our wagon (the other one didn't have a spare wheel, so we left it where it was and tied the two horses' reins from that wagon to the back of our wagon) and backtracked to the farm where the goods came from.There, we found the farmhouse had been taken over by a band of hobgoblins.  The human husband and wife were bound and unconscious inside, along with two foreign strangers who barely spoke Common.  But we were up against a full nine hobgoblins plus their leader; the only thing that prevented a TPK was the "normal" hobgoblin warriors came at us in waves of 2-4 - well, that and the fact that my nephew Harry's dice were on fire last night.  (He took out five hobgoblins completely on his own, with one strike each with his longsword - and that was without smiting evil; as we're still 1st level and he only gets smite evil once/day, he was saving that for the "boss.")Our halfling rogue got taken out almost immediately, dropped into the negative numbers by a single blow from the hobgoblin leader's +1 flaming burst longsword; I had to save her with an unseen servant that dragged her away from battle and poured the contents of a healing potion down her throat.  But she was back in action in time for the big finish, when we were up against the boss (who was being flanked by my nephew's half-elf paladin and my own human "doesn't realize he's a sorcerer" young nobleman) and she managed to sneak attack him with a kobold shortspear through the back of the neck, delivering the killing blow.The foreign guys weren't sure how they'd gotten there - they claimed to have walked into some mist and ended up here from their own country - but they were radiating evil like crazy and their story of having been captured along with the farmers didn't add up.  (Why would the hobgoblins have tied them up but left them their scimitars, and why were there no knots in the hunks of rope by where they had apparently been bound?)  So we got in a final fight with them, which knocked me into unconsciousness almost immediately - the other three PCs took care of those two.And then, to add insult to injury, they decided to just bind my wounds to prevent me from bleeding out instead of feeding me the potion of cure light wounds I carry on my belt.  Their reasoning?  Then they wouldn't have to listen to me prattle on during the journey back to the church of St. Cuthbert, since I'd be unconscious in the back of the wagon....But we all leveled up to 2nd level.  I, naturally, rolled a "1" and now have a grand total of 9 hp.  (Good thing I have a +2 Con bonus!)  And the other PCs have me pretty much convinced I might just be an arcane spellcaster after all (although I'm fairly certain I'm a wizard, and must just be so good at it I don't need to bother with a spellbook like "commoner" wizards apparently have to do).Johnathan</blockquote>

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