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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhenny" data-source="post: 6778840" data-attributes="member: 18333">Session 2Aedd, Clean Baldy and Rawth tried to get a short rest in the copse of trees, but in just 15 minutes, they heard some commotion on a lightly traveled road just outside the copse of trees about 25’ from them.  Clean Baldy could hear the sounds of a man telling others to keep moving, followed by low cries or moans.  He seemed to be driving others toward Hillsfar.  Aedd decided to sneak through the brush to get a look, successfully hiding behind some trees at the edge of the copse.  He saw a wagon drawn by one horse with a noble sort of fellow and a burly tough up on the wagon.  Tied to the back of the wagon was line of 3 halflings chained together by the hands.  They were being pushed along by two other humans with scimitars and leather armor.  It seemed as if this was a slave merchant bringing some captives back towards Hillsfar.Aedd tried to call forth frostbite to affect the burly wagon driver, but his spell fizzled.  He was still learning the arcane arts.  Clean Baldy burst from the copse and quickly smashed the driver of the cart with his quarter staff and then tried to kick him down, but did not connect.  Rawth was able to run up to the driver and smash his warhammer brutally into the driver’s midsection, toppling him off the wagon into a dying heap.   The noble started to bark out orders to the other thugs and they attacked with crossbow and scimitar, but did not do any harm.  Eventually, without taking any damage, the Dwarves took down the other thugs.  The noble did offer 30…then 40 gold for the Dwarves to let him go, but when he said something about non-humans being scum, the Dwarves knocked him out and tied him up.  After quickly searching the body, the party found that there was a small chest with 60 gp in it and the fine robes that the noble wore covering a battered breastplate.  They also found the keys to the chains and they released the halflings who told them that they were captured near Elventree to the East.  They asked the party if they would want to accompany them in that direction to get away from Hillsfar toward the country and farmland.  When the halflings mentioned Farbough farm only 5 miles to the East, the adventurers were reminded of the crazy man’s rantings and the parchment that he was carrying that mentioned Farbough farm.  The Dwarves and the halflings traveled for an hour or so and made it to the farm at about 4 or 5 ish.  On the way, they were able to tend to their wounds and have a short rest.  Approaching the farm, they saw a young Half-Orc girl and a young Dwarven girl carrying buckets of water from a stream toward a farmhouse.  The Dwarves asked if they had seen any weird old guys here over the past few days, and the Dwarven girl, recognizing that the party were Dwarven, said that they’d have to ask “ma and pa.”   With that, the Dwarves went to the farmhouse and heard some racket within.  There were about 20 inside, 10 non-human children and 6 infant humans tended by a human woman and man. The woman was carrying two of the human infants when the Dwarves asked the woman if she had seen a crazy old man a while back.  Well, she was really busy and told the Dwarves that they should make themselves useful around there if they wanted a meal and a place to rest.  She didn’t really respond to the question she was asked.  Then she told the Dwarves to get some potatoes so she could make em, and then she asked them to go out and get some chickens and tend to Jovee, their pregnant goat in the barn.  She also mentioned that they could also talk to the two girls outside to find out where Pynroth ran off to (another child that the humans were raising).   Aedd told the halfings to get them some chickens so they did while the Dwarves went with a halfling child named Verner to the barn to tend to Jovee.  At the barn, they saw a hugely bloated goat.  Jovee looked unnaturally large for a pregnant goat, and Verner was genuinely worried.  Aedd and Clean Baldy didn’t really want to deal with the pregnant goat so they sent Rawth up to take a look.  Rawth could tell that she was about to give birth so, at Verner’s urging, he tended to Jovee.  Aedd used mage hand to lend a hand, and in a few minutes Jovee gave birth to a two headed red goat.  Then 6 other one headed red goats.  It was a very unusual sight.  At that point, it was pretty clear that Jovee was dying.  Verner cried and asked Rawth to save her.  He used his medicine skills to stabilize the goat and keep her alive.  Aedd had a bad feeling about the two headed goat especially, so he began a detect magic ritual.  10 minutes later, he could tell that these red goats were somehow infused with unholy essence.  Not sure what to do, the Dwarves went back to the farmhouse to tell Bea (the woman of the farm who told them to tend to Jovee).  The Dwarves had a tough time explaining what they experienced, but Verner verified that there was a two-headed goat.  As they were talking, Clean Baldy noticed that the infants that the woman was carrying had 6 toes on each feet.  That was weird.  In a few more minutes, the Dwarves led Bea and Verner back to the barn and when they got there, they saw some of the red goats had grown in size.  Two of them charged out, and eventually they attacked Clean Baldy and Aedd.  The group faced 4 of the little goats when a really large two-headed goat emerged and charged and Clean Baldy.  The force of it’s head butt was tremendous almost knocking Clean Baldy down, but after Aedd shot fire from his hands to burn 3 of the small goats, killing 2 of them, and Rawth smashed another with his warhammer, taking it down.  The group stood toe to toe with the two-headed goat.  Clean Baldy’s dodging and quick movements saved him, as the group fell this strange abomination.Verner immediately wanted to check if Jovee was ok, but as he ran toward the barn, Clean Baldy caught him and held him.  Then they walked in together to see Jovee, alive, nuzzled by two of the other red goats.  It seemed as if those two goats just wanted to stay with their mother.  Weirded out by this experience, the Dwarves stepped out of the barn when Bea asked if anyone had found Pynroth.  Verner said that he thought that Pynroth had wandered over to the far field, that place where Bea and Ebnez told the little Tiefling boy not to go.   Bea asked the Dwarves if they would go to the far pasture to search for Pynroth while she took Verner back to the farmhouse and took care of all of the children.</blockquote>

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