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Message: <blockquote data-quote="babomb" data-source="post: 125642" data-attributes="member: 1316">So the trolls bust up the party in the tavern. Aeron recovers from his fall and runs for the torches. Wan climbs on the wall and casts manifests bio-current (which, at best, ALMOST negates the trolls' regeneration). Bard man shoots crossbow bolts (and in some cases flaming crossbow bolts). Rurik hits them with his sword. Cecil the paladin charges at them but misses and hits the wall, falling prone (natural 1). As the fight goes on, Cecil is knocked down to single-digit hit points, mainly due to poor luck. So he yells "Taste my justice!" and smacks a trolls for a lot of damage (or so). As the troll grunts in pain, he counters and knocks Cecil unconscious (exactly -1). Luckily, it's not a mortal wound. Cecil stabilizes on the first roll. (That and his last attack were the only two good rolls he had the whole day.)Meanwhile, Aeron jumps to the chandeliers with the intent to make them fall on the trolls. One troll hits the chandelier, knocking it down onto a nearby table while Aeron hangs from the chain. He moves to the other chandelier and shoots arrows. Somewhere around this time, Mathias L. Jackson, bard extraordinaire, remembers that he's pretty good at singing. So sing he does, giving everyone a +1 to attack and damage. Wan comes down and tries to attack the trolls with his quarterstaff, but he sucks at it. A guy comes and drags Cecil away. One troll is finally brought down, and Rurik carries him into the fire where the chandelier was, effectively killing him.It looks like the second troll is about finished, so Mathias turns invisible and heads after Cecil. He sees Cecil and another person in the back of a wagon. About this time a guy runs in and attacks Wan with a sap, knocking him out, too. Mathias makes Cecil invisible and heals him. Rurik comes out to help, but a guy jumps at him from the roof, and several others attack him. The guy driving the wagon takes off (with a third troll and another man climbing in the back), despite Mathias hitting him. Cecil breaks the hitches of the wagon, throwing most of the occupants out. Some run off, and of the remaining, fast-acting guards arrest those still alive (namely, the troll).The second troll and the guy with the sap are taken care of. The sap guy is tied up and interrogated, the girl in the back of the wagon is untied and questioned, and the bartender has a deal with the contractors, because this sort of damage to his bar seems to happen quite often. The girl was the mayor's daughter. The guy was hired and doesn't know why, but he does know the Citadel Fellbar has something to do with it.Our heroes have had enough of this Citadel, and opt to go there rather than continue their mercenary gig. They don't even know where the guy they were after went (other than west), and reflect that the Citadel WAS west of where they started, so he may have even gone there. They collect partial payment for the journey, to the tune of about 4000 gp, a Ring of Jumping for Wan, a +1 defending longsword for Cecil, a +1 small steel shield for Rurik, and 1 or 2 other minor magic items that I can't remember. Cecil and Rurik also buy better armor, Aeron gets some masterwork daggers, and Mathias gets a weapon enchanted with the shocking attribute. Andrew or whatever his name is also tells them of an orc encampment nearby if they want to train or something. They plan their travel. Wan doesn't want to go, instead wanting to continue west after the guy with the magic, but they get him to agree. They crash at Cecil's pad, and head out in the morning.</blockquote>

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