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<blockquote data-quote="Rhenny" data-source="post: 6788739" data-attributes="member: 18333"><p>Session 3</p><p></p><p>The three Dwarves (Aedd, Clean Baldy and Rawth) checked the barn once more and tried to determine if the two remaining red goats were tainted by evil. Aedd could not sense any magic and Rawth thought that they seemed pretty normal. Clean Baldy thought they were acting like normal goat kids, so he did not bring his quarterstaff down upon their little heads. Then, following the directions that Bea had given them, they set out for the far fields, as the sun was setting.</p><p></p><p>The adventurers came to a turn in the path that led through some briars and other growth, and in the middle of the field about 100’ from them, they saw a Half-Elven man with a silver sickle guarding a Tiefling boy from a pack of wild dogs. The Dwarves rushed up to the scene, realizing that the boy was Pynroth. The Half-Elven man was relieved to receive help as he told the Dwarves that these dogs were acting unnaturally; he would not have been able to hold them at bay for very much longer. Clean Baldy was first to down one of the dogs. Then Rawth moved in and called upon Moradin to guide his warhammer, which connected, smashing another dog to the ground. Rawth also used his holy power to restore Clean Baldy’s health. After Aedd hit one of the dogs with frostbite, he flew into a rage. That’s when a huge alpha dog pounced on Rawth from the brush nearly 30’ away. The alpha dog knocked Rawth prone, and took a bite from him. Now the party had to fight that much harder.</p><p></p><p>Aedd, Clean Baldy and Rawth took down the alpha dog and then finished off the remaining dogs. The Half-Elf thanked them for their help and told them that he had been sent to investigate strange reports of unnatural animals, disfigured and dangerous. He introduced himself as Beralt, of the Emerald Enclave, and after the party told him about the two headed goat and the red goat spawn, he realized that the rumors were true. He gave the party a vial of alchemist fire, a healing potion and his silver sickle. Then he asked them to show him the two headed goat before he left to report back to the Emerald Enclave in the village of Elventree. The party saw Beralt off, and mentioned that he would put in a good word about them to the Enclave if any of them ever wanted to join. With Pynroth safe, the Dwarves made it back to Bea’s farmhouse and were able to share dinner and some stories. They shared the mad man’s prophecy with Bea, and found that the Goodroot farm was only a few miles to the east, so they planned to go there in the morning.</p><p></p><p>With the three halflings that they had rescued a few days ago, they made their way to Goodroot Farm. As they approached, they saw four Red Plume Guards on the steps of the Goodroot Farmhouse speaking with a young Half-Elven teen. When they got close enough, they heard the leader of the Red Plumes say that the Goodroots had to produce 8 barrels of dye tomorrow or under the law, they would take control of the farm. Then the guards left, but before they did, Aedd made some off color joke about beets and dye. The leader of the guards warned Aedd and the other Dwarves not to get involved. He was stern and had no sense of humor. However, Aedd and the others did see one of the Red Plumes crack a smile and chuckle a little as the Red Plumes left the farmhouse and headed down the road.</p><p></p><p>The group spoke with the Half-Elven teen, Constance Goodroot and found that she was very worried that the Red Plumes would take the farm. At first she said her parents were away, but then she broke down and cried and showed them into a large cellar. When she pointed at two long wooden boxes, the group realized that this was another part of the mad man’s prophecy. Constance showed the Dwarves her dead mother and father inside these boxes. They also had the strange purple welts that the mad man had. Rawth knew it was some disease, yet he could not figure out what it was. She told the group that they had returned from negotiating a contract and then they died of this strange disease. She also told them that there was more. </p><p></p><p>By this time, Aedd was worried that the girl would not have enough beets to make the dye that the Red Plumes would be back for, so he went out into fields with the other workers and he started to pull up beets. He raged and turned himself into a savage beet picker.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, back in the cellar, Constance showed Clean Baldy and Rawth another room. Inside there was a sick, nearly dead, Drow. She told the Dwarves that this Drow was with her parents when they returned. Clean Baldy, speaking Undercommon, found that this Drow was a merchant who came from the Underdark to deal with the Goodroots. He also seemed to be suffering from the same disease that the others had, and he did not seem like he would live much longer. Rawth checked him over, but still could not determine what the ailment was nor how he could help the Drow recover. Just then, the lantern that Constance was holding fell to the ground and shattered. The room went dark, but luckily the Dwarves could still see.</p><p></p><p>Clean Baldy could tell that there was shuffling noises one near Constance and another about 10’ from her, but he could not see anyone or anything. Rawth tried to glean what was happening, but he could only rely on the monk’s description. Then, a voice came from the room telling the Dwarves to step aside and surrender the Drow. Clean Baldy spoke with the voice a bit, and he smashed a barrel of water so that the water spilled out onto the cellar floor, hoping to use that to hear or see any creatures that walked into the room. Rawth stepped toward the sound of the voice and swung his warhammer wildly at the air in front of him. Then he retreated behind a pillar.</p><p></p><p>The Dwarves heard the sound of footsteps in water as Rawth was grazed by a war pick. A large Duergar stood in his face grinning with dark glee as the voice said that they would have to take the Drow the hard way. Another Duergar become visible right in front of Clean Baldy, and its pick dug deeply into the Dwarven Monk’s shoulder. It was a vicious blow. As the two Dwarves battled the enlarged Duergar, Constance ran from the room and shouted for help. Rawth managed to duck a few blows from a Duergar, but Clean Baldy was not as lucky, even with his ability to dodge more gracefully. Rawth managed to heal Clean Baldy a few times, and even try to help him with Shield of Faith, but the monk did not fare so well.</p><p></p><p>After hearing Constance’s cry for help, Aedd ran into the cellar to help, but soon after, Clean Baldy took another deep pick wound and went down. Aedd attacked one of the Gray Dwarves with rage as Rawth attacked with the guidance of Moradin. The Duergar were tough. One dealt a super deadly attack upon Aedd (Crit with enlarged war pick). Since Aedd was raging, he didn’t feel as much pain as he could have so he managed to stay on his feet. Then, one of the Duergar went for the Drow, scooped him up, and carried him in an attempt to escape while the other fought the Dwarves. As the Drow carrying Duergar fled, both Aedd and Rawth saw an opening and attacked, crumpling the Gray Dwarf to the ground, dead. When the other Duergar had the chance, he also ran to the Drow and tried to escape carrying the Dark Elf. Aedd finished him off as Rawth called upon divine power to stabilize Clean Baldy. </p><p></p><p>The Dwarves found 200 gp on the Duergar and a wanted poster. When Clean Baldy awoke in an hour, he was able to read the poster since it was written in undercommon. It was a reward offering for Arrizz the Drow. It seemed as if Arrizz had left a Drow family without permission and these Duergar were bounty hunters trying to bring Arrizz back. On Arrizz they found documents that confirmed his purchase of beets and dyes, and his contract with the Goodroot Farm. All this time, Constance was becoming more and more worried. She asked the Dwarves if they could help her so that the Red Plumes would not have cause to take over her farm. She needed to do something with the bodies of her parents and the Drow so that nobody would know that her parents were dead for she was not yet old enough to inherit the farm. If the Red Plumes found out, they would certainly seize the farm.</p><p></p><p>Aedd began digging a hole in the cellar so that they could bury the bodies, and the others helped Constance make more dye. If they worked through the night, they would be able to supplement the dye supply and perhaps make 8 barrels so that they could pay off the contract with Hillsfar and keep the Red Plume’s happy at least one more day. </p><p></p><p>Working through the night, the Dwarves and Constance made the dye and buried the dead bodies. They were exhausted and bleary eyed when the sun rose. Then, they heard a knock on the door. It was an old woman who said she had been following the Dwarves. She had not seen the Red Plumes but she offered to help the group, join up. Then she offered to cook them some grub and told them how she too had no love of what’s happening in Hillsfar. The party took her in, and later learned that this was just a disguise for a Half-Elven Warlock named David Smith. After eating, the group waited for the Red Plume’s to return. Clean Baldy, even offered to stay with Constance to make sure that she would be safe for the few months before her 16th birthday, when she would be legally old enough to inherit the farm from her parents. </p><p></p><p>Comments</p><p></p><p>We played for 2 hours.</p><p></p><p>Duergar are tough, especially when they are invisible and enlarged and make their first attack from invisibility. (I thought that I would TPK the group, especially since Aedd had left the cellar to work in the fields before the Duergar showed up…but luckily, Constance was able to call for help and Aedd heard her…he rolled an 11 for a DC 10 perception check).</p><p></p><p>In the combat with the Duergar, nearly every attack against Rawth missed while nearly every attack against Clean Baldy hit, even when Rawth guarded him with Shield of Faith. Yes, the dice are fickle.</p><p></p><p>This was a fun session. We had a player who had not played in a while pop in mid game to control Rawth, while Aedd made pun after pun after pun about beets and dyeing, etc. This made the others roll their eyes a bit, but it was entertaining.</p><p></p><p>It seems as if Clean Baldy’s player will be switching bodies and playing the new Warlock. Perhaps he can help the group deal with the Red Plumes when they return to make life more difficult for Constance.</p><p></p><p>So far, two items in the mad man’s prophecy seemed to come true. What’s next?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rhenny, post: 6788739, member: 18333"] Session 3 The three Dwarves (Aedd, Clean Baldy and Rawth) checked the barn once more and tried to determine if the two remaining red goats were tainted by evil. Aedd could not sense any magic and Rawth thought that they seemed pretty normal. Clean Baldy thought they were acting like normal goat kids, so he did not bring his quarterstaff down upon their little heads. Then, following the directions that Bea had given them, they set out for the far fields, as the sun was setting. The adventurers came to a turn in the path that led through some briars and other growth, and in the middle of the field about 100’ from them, they saw a Half-Elven man with a silver sickle guarding a Tiefling boy from a pack of wild dogs. The Dwarves rushed up to the scene, realizing that the boy was Pynroth. The Half-Elven man was relieved to receive help as he told the Dwarves that these dogs were acting unnaturally; he would not have been able to hold them at bay for very much longer. Clean Baldy was first to down one of the dogs. Then Rawth moved in and called upon Moradin to guide his warhammer, which connected, smashing another dog to the ground. Rawth also used his holy power to restore Clean Baldy’s health. After Aedd hit one of the dogs with frostbite, he flew into a rage. That’s when a huge alpha dog pounced on Rawth from the brush nearly 30’ away. The alpha dog knocked Rawth prone, and took a bite from him. Now the party had to fight that much harder. Aedd, Clean Baldy and Rawth took down the alpha dog and then finished off the remaining dogs. The Half-Elf thanked them for their help and told them that he had been sent to investigate strange reports of unnatural animals, disfigured and dangerous. He introduced himself as Beralt, of the Emerald Enclave, and after the party told him about the two headed goat and the red goat spawn, he realized that the rumors were true. He gave the party a vial of alchemist fire, a healing potion and his silver sickle. Then he asked them to show him the two headed goat before he left to report back to the Emerald Enclave in the village of Elventree. The party saw Beralt off, and mentioned that he would put in a good word about them to the Enclave if any of them ever wanted to join. With Pynroth safe, the Dwarves made it back to Bea’s farmhouse and were able to share dinner and some stories. They shared the mad man’s prophecy with Bea, and found that the Goodroot farm was only a few miles to the east, so they planned to go there in the morning. With the three halflings that they had rescued a few days ago, they made their way to Goodroot Farm. As they approached, they saw four Red Plume Guards on the steps of the Goodroot Farmhouse speaking with a young Half-Elven teen. When they got close enough, they heard the leader of the Red Plumes say that the Goodroots had to produce 8 barrels of dye tomorrow or under the law, they would take control of the farm. Then the guards left, but before they did, Aedd made some off color joke about beets and dye. The leader of the guards warned Aedd and the other Dwarves not to get involved. He was stern and had no sense of humor. However, Aedd and the others did see one of the Red Plumes crack a smile and chuckle a little as the Red Plumes left the farmhouse and headed down the road. The group spoke with the Half-Elven teen, Constance Goodroot and found that she was very worried that the Red Plumes would take the farm. At first she said her parents were away, but then she broke down and cried and showed them into a large cellar. When she pointed at two long wooden boxes, the group realized that this was another part of the mad man’s prophecy. Constance showed the Dwarves her dead mother and father inside these boxes. They also had the strange purple welts that the mad man had. Rawth knew it was some disease, yet he could not figure out what it was. She told the group that they had returned from negotiating a contract and then they died of this strange disease. She also told them that there was more. By this time, Aedd was worried that the girl would not have enough beets to make the dye that the Red Plumes would be back for, so he went out into fields with the other workers and he started to pull up beets. He raged and turned himself into a savage beet picker. Meanwhile, back in the cellar, Constance showed Clean Baldy and Rawth another room. Inside there was a sick, nearly dead, Drow. She told the Dwarves that this Drow was with her parents when they returned. Clean Baldy, speaking Undercommon, found that this Drow was a merchant who came from the Underdark to deal with the Goodroots. He also seemed to be suffering from the same disease that the others had, and he did not seem like he would live much longer. Rawth checked him over, but still could not determine what the ailment was nor how he could help the Drow recover. Just then, the lantern that Constance was holding fell to the ground and shattered. The room went dark, but luckily the Dwarves could still see. Clean Baldy could tell that there was shuffling noises one near Constance and another about 10’ from her, but he could not see anyone or anything. Rawth tried to glean what was happening, but he could only rely on the monk’s description. Then, a voice came from the room telling the Dwarves to step aside and surrender the Drow. Clean Baldy spoke with the voice a bit, and he smashed a barrel of water so that the water spilled out onto the cellar floor, hoping to use that to hear or see any creatures that walked into the room. Rawth stepped toward the sound of the voice and swung his warhammer wildly at the air in front of him. Then he retreated behind a pillar. The Dwarves heard the sound of footsteps in water as Rawth was grazed by a war pick. A large Duergar stood in his face grinning with dark glee as the voice said that they would have to take the Drow the hard way. Another Duergar become visible right in front of Clean Baldy, and its pick dug deeply into the Dwarven Monk’s shoulder. It was a vicious blow. As the two Dwarves battled the enlarged Duergar, Constance ran from the room and shouted for help. Rawth managed to duck a few blows from a Duergar, but Clean Baldy was not as lucky, even with his ability to dodge more gracefully. Rawth managed to heal Clean Baldy a few times, and even try to help him with Shield of Faith, but the monk did not fare so well. After hearing Constance’s cry for help, Aedd ran into the cellar to help, but soon after, Clean Baldy took another deep pick wound and went down. Aedd attacked one of the Gray Dwarves with rage as Rawth attacked with the guidance of Moradin. The Duergar were tough. One dealt a super deadly attack upon Aedd (Crit with enlarged war pick). Since Aedd was raging, he didn’t feel as much pain as he could have so he managed to stay on his feet. Then, one of the Duergar went for the Drow, scooped him up, and carried him in an attempt to escape while the other fought the Dwarves. As the Drow carrying Duergar fled, both Aedd and Rawth saw an opening and attacked, crumpling the Gray Dwarf to the ground, dead. When the other Duergar had the chance, he also ran to the Drow and tried to escape carrying the Dark Elf. Aedd finished him off as Rawth called upon divine power to stabilize Clean Baldy. The Dwarves found 200 gp on the Duergar and a wanted poster. When Clean Baldy awoke in an hour, he was able to read the poster since it was written in undercommon. It was a reward offering for Arrizz the Drow. It seemed as if Arrizz had left a Drow family without permission and these Duergar were bounty hunters trying to bring Arrizz back. On Arrizz they found documents that confirmed his purchase of beets and dyes, and his contract with the Goodroot Farm. All this time, Constance was becoming more and more worried. She asked the Dwarves if they could help her so that the Red Plumes would not have cause to take over her farm. She needed to do something with the bodies of her parents and the Drow so that nobody would know that her parents were dead for she was not yet old enough to inherit the farm. If the Red Plumes found out, they would certainly seize the farm. Aedd began digging a hole in the cellar so that they could bury the bodies, and the others helped Constance make more dye. If they worked through the night, they would be able to supplement the dye supply and perhaps make 8 barrels so that they could pay off the contract with Hillsfar and keep the Red Plume’s happy at least one more day. Working through the night, the Dwarves and Constance made the dye and buried the dead bodies. They were exhausted and bleary eyed when the sun rose. Then, they heard a knock on the door. It was an old woman who said she had been following the Dwarves. She had not seen the Red Plumes but she offered to help the group, join up. Then she offered to cook them some grub and told them how she too had no love of what’s happening in Hillsfar. The party took her in, and later learned that this was just a disguise for a Half-Elven Warlock named David Smith. After eating, the group waited for the Red Plume’s to return. Clean Baldy, even offered to stay with Constance to make sure that she would be safe for the few months before her 16th birthday, when she would be legally old enough to inherit the farm from her parents. Comments We played for 2 hours. Duergar are tough, especially when they are invisible and enlarged and make their first attack from invisibility. (I thought that I would TPK the group, especially since Aedd had left the cellar to work in the fields before the Duergar showed up…but luckily, Constance was able to call for help and Aedd heard her…he rolled an 11 for a DC 10 perception check). In the combat with the Duergar, nearly every attack against Rawth missed while nearly every attack against Clean Baldy hit, even when Rawth guarded him with Shield of Faith. Yes, the dice are fickle. This was a fun session. We had a player who had not played in a while pop in mid game to control Rawth, while Aedd made pun after pun after pun about beets and dyeing, etc. This made the others roll their eyes a bit, but it was entertaining. It seems as if Clean Baldy’s player will be switching bodies and playing the new Warlock. Perhaps he can help the group deal with the Red Plumes when they return to make life more difficult for Constance. So far, two items in the mad man’s prophecy seemed to come true. What’s next? [/QUOTE]
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