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Message: <blockquote data-quote="treefrog" data-source="post: 830797" data-attributes="member: 10890">I, Bold Sir Cedrik, rode forth with three lackeys, a half-breed a warrior of "good" (clearly good and evil are archaic peasant concepts), stubby a halfling of low moral character and a powerful but clearly insane mystical warrior.  We were commanded by their liege, well actually his proxy (an inn keeper), to find what mischief the residents of bell hold had gotten into.  The half-breed reported some wild tale of a dead dragon and goblins, clearly he was not made of the stuff to be a knight.  But it came out finally that the peasant were working for the goblins.  They were, for some reason, doing the bidding of goblins.  Our clearest course of action, killing the townsfolk who had aligned themselves with the goblins and then hunting down all the goblins was decided against.  I knew our kind hearts would come back to haunt us but still I could not convince myself to kill the whole village.   More to the point I was worried that my lackeys would not have the will to do what was needed, and killing the whole village on my own would be very time consuming.  So we rode till we tired then stopped off at a local farm.  The locals were away (probably too lazy to keep at work).  So, assuming they would have opened their home to us if they were there, we took up residence in their house.  The peasants had thoughtfully left stew simmering for us to enjoy.   We set watches and the halfling decided to take a look at the town.  I suspect he wanted to see if there were any valuables left unattended, but I saw no harm in letting him roam.  In the middle of the night a bear attacked our building.  Luckily our insane mystic was able to engage It in a staring contest.  A strange but effective tactic the bear was frozen in his tracks.  We then easily managed to arm ourselves and kill the bear.   Later the halfling returned with a tale that the townsfolk were loading a wagon with valuables.  We decided to track the wagon to it’s destination.We followed the wagon till it unloaded it’s loot into a mine shaft.  Stupid peasants, they put gold into a mine.  Once they were done we silenced them in a quick skirmish.  Since they were just peasants we merely administer a sound thrashing to them and did not kill them (Although one might have died beneath the hooves of my mighty stallion).    We eventually found the peasants offerings.  I took a sack of about 200 gold.  Clearly the peasants did not need the gold if they abandoned their farms and offered it to goblins and a dead dragon.   We then proceeded through the mine till we came upon 2 human warriors, some Goblins and a dead dragon carcass.</blockquote>

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