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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 522147" data-attributes="member: 158">The 2nd level PC's are tracking a missing courier. Their trail takes them to a seedy bar. The PC's decide to patronize the bar, and one will start a fight, while the others will sneak in to the obvious entrance to the back half of the bar.The fight ensues. One PC sneaks in, alone, into the back entrance. He is ambushed, and captured.The PC's, seeing one of their member enter and not return, decides to send ANOTHER single member into the back room. He, too, is ambushed, and does not return.They are about to send a THIRD, ALONE and UNPREPARED PC into the back, before the fight catches them all in it, and the constables arrive to break it up. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />The first PC (who was captured with little effort struggle) is found naked and cold on the doorstep of a temple, missing one finger.The second PC, who put up a bit of a fight, and actually hurt someone) was never found - except for his eyeballs, which were sent by courier to the party. They resurrected the PC, and gave up searching for the courier altogether. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The sad part is, had they went in as a group, the fight was evenly matched.--------------------Same PC's, clearing out a goblin war party in a cavern. Trapped in a ravine in the cavern is an Umber hulk (well beyond the party's capacity, and I was sure to describe it as such.) The 'hulk was making a home in the bottom of the ravine and had no reason to go further up, only down to food.Two of the PC's decide to leave the party, which has gone to fight the goblins, and try to kill the Umber Hulk. The main party, diminished by 1/3rd of their strength by the maverick PC's leaving, have a hard fight, but win.They had to come back to retrieve the remains of the two maverick PC's, who were serving as the 'hulk's supper by now. They also had to have the local militia come in and kill the 'hulk, because it has suddenly discovered that two-legged food came from above, as well as below. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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