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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Sky" data-source="post: 5944612" data-attributes="member: 60965">Okay, so another player joined us for this session with the following character:Sorcerla Wizlord - Elf Wizard 1He had bravely (foolishly?) wandered out on his own tracking down his cousin Goblinsnack. He reached the mouth of the cave, saw the heaps of bodies and took it as an omen - good news or bad, he wasn't sure. Wandering into the cave beyond, he heard the sounds of combat down the left-hand tunnel Keen-Senses is gnarly. When the game comes out an elven rogue with his Wis/Dex will make a killer scout!He found the group looting the dead hobgoblins. They had a brief discussion that went something along these lines:"I'm looking for my cousin." "Goblinsnack? You look kinda like him except less dead." "I'm sure he died bravely." "You must not have known him very well." "It seems you need a new wizard." "Sure, you look trustworthy."They pushed on down the hobgoblin tunnels, reaching the branch that led either to the prison or into the hob-warren proper. They heard distant shouts in hobgoblin one way and sobbing from another and decided that sobbing was a curiosity and went that way.The jailers were waiting for them and put an arrow in Hungloose before dying messily. The guild-woman was tied to the chair, looking like she'd been beaten heavily but it was her portly husband, untouched and chained to the wall who was sobbing. Their guards were also chained fast to the wall with their hands behind them.Cheese walked in and proclaimed "anyone who wants to be set free, raise your hand!" He laughed at his joke as everyone else rolled their eyes.As Cheese untied the woman and proposed they go somewhere private together so she could "thank him", Rockhard tried to hack the chains of the guild merchant. McMick went over to prod the feral Gnoll with his staff, only to have the Gnoll rip it from his hands Str vs Str. In retaliation, McMick blasted him with a McLaser, only to take a ringing blow to the head. McMick backed up and blasted the wall next to the gnoll, who threw the quarterstaff at him. They decided to leave said gnoll for the hobs to deal with.They tried to talk to the orc, who spoke no Common, and through a series of pantomimes decided he was legit and Rockhard shattered his chains Crit Str check with his axe. The orc promptly looted the two jailers including swiping their silver and removed the chains from his wrists with the jailer's keys.The party exchanged a glance that translates roughly to "duh!" and Cheese said "how sad is it that an orc was smarter than all of us" as said orc cut the jailers into little bits, literally with a vengeance. They let the guild merchants free, who promptly told them about their caravan being raided and offered a reward if they were escorted to safety as they gathered weapons and armor for themselves.They agreed and started heading back, stepping into an hobgoblin ambush consisting of two shield-hobs protecting two archers. There was a short, but viscous fight in the hallway in which one of the still wounded clerics went down as did the wizard who found out Sleep doesn't do much against hobs but did get himself targeted as the hobs realized he was a magic user. The NPCs made a run for it down the other tunnel.The wizard dropped right at the end of the fight and they debated whether or not to use their last healing potion on him or just carry him out. The courageous Cheese suggested looting him, propping him up against a wall with a weapon to make him look more threatening, and leaving him to distract the hobs.They took the middle ground, carrying him off to use the healer's kit on him later, the group leaving the caves without difficulty and heading back to town. On the way back, they ran into a random encounter of seven hobgoblins on their way back from an unsuccessful raid.McMick and Cheese dispatched one of their archers right off the bat as four shield-hobs marched forward in a phalanx. With 2hp, Wizlord Burning Handsed the phalanx, burning them all pretty heavily with a warcry of "Please kill them before they murder me!"Yeah, not so much.Cheese snuck through the grass and assassinated one of the archers, then had a bow/sling fight in a grove of trees that was ended unceremoniously by a crossbow bold from Rockhard, who had finished destroying the last of the shield-hobs the round before. Cheese pouted ("my kill!") but set to looting the hobs out of habit. They poured their last potion into the unconscious wizard, grabbed the hobs weapons and armor they were close enough to town they could justify carrying all that weight and made it back.The reward from the guild merchants was enough for a Whorehammer-brand Healing Potion and they used the 20% discount to buy a new healers kit and a few odds and ends.They were a couple-hundred xp short of a level, so I just gave it to them gave some "quest xp" for rescuing the merchants even though it doesn't really seem to exist yet.They leveled up and headed back, ready to finish their goblicide.This all took about an hour-and-a-half. We took a quick break to grab some food, feed the cat, change the baby, and stretch, then got back to it.</blockquote>

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