Session/Game: Marches 3e
#3 Date:
9/24/00
Campaign Date: Sau 23—Rep 4th Imp Year 468
Characters:
Rannos, human fighter level
3, CG, Bob “Mr. Target” LaForge
Malakai, human, cleric,
level 3, LN, Jonathan “can I do this?” Clark
Kronin, dwarf, fighter,
level 2, LN, Dave” Low Initiative” Hanley
Grog, half orc, barbarian,
level 2, CG, Andy “3+4=9” Leuders
Ragnar, human, rogue, level
1, CN, Shaun “Momma’s Boy” Sipple
Whitefire, human,
rogue-1/wizard-1, CN, Chuck “Partially Whipped” Fleurie
Ashmar, human, rogue, level
1, CG, Andy Leuders
And, in Absentia
Bayne, elf ranger level 3,
CG, Matt “Too Whipped to Show Up” Digulielmo,
Log:
Sau 23rd
Rannos, Malakai, Kronin, Grog and Bayne, took their
horses and wagon from the Old Wood across country to Ludwig.
Sau 24th
In Ludwig,
Malakai suggests that they travel to Baltburg, buy some better equipment
and recruit some more people. Bayne vehemently disagrees, claiming that he
can take the Road Agents all by himself, without all the clanging and
blundering the rest of the party makes.
So Bayne travels off into the wilderness while Rannos, Malakai, Grog and
Kronin take the main road down toward Baltburg. They stray from the road to track down and kill an Owlbear, which
tears up Rannos and critically wounds him.
Malakai heals Rannos and they camp for the night. A group of three ghouls rush the camp at
night and paralyze Rannos and Kronin, but Malakai and Grog destroy them all.
Sau 25th
The four adventurers arrive in Baltburg. They enter Harry McCheese’s pawnshop and
sell off some captured equipment, but soon hear an altercation next door. In the Guild of Sell-Swords, its master,
Tobar, an old half-elf warrior, is in the process of ejecting a young rogue
named Ragnar. He yells at Ragnar in the
street that he won’t risk his reputation by arranging jobs for common
sneaks. When Malakai tries to
intervene, Tobar tells him he “don’t want no Holy Joes mucking around in his
business”. Malakai “finds his lack of
faith disturbing” can casts a “Command Spell” ordering Tobar to
masturbate. Tobar begins to do so to
the howls of the mercenaries sitting on his front porch. Malakai offers Ragnar a job and he accepts.
Sau 26-27th
The party spends two days in Baltburg buying
supplies. Rannos and Malakai meet their
old companion Whitefire who also agrees to join them on their expedition
against the Road Agents.
Sau 28-29th
The six adventurers travel back to Ludwig, avoiding some
prowling wolves. They arrive just in
time for Granny Holdbean’s stew night.
Sau 30th
The posse heads for the Road Agent fort. They find an old farmhouse near the fort and
have Ragnar scout it. After a quick
check he summons the rest of the party who make a thorough search, disturbing
some monstrous spiders. One bites
Rannos and the poison makes him a bit weak-limbed and woozy, but he soldiers
on. They soon kill all three
spiders. They then class the open plain
in front of the fort, attracting the attention of the bandits. Gumbak, the Ogre-barbarian led out 8
goblins, 4 rangers and 3 rogues to intercept them. A savage battle ensued.
Grog and the Ogre came to grips and the Ogre pounded Grog into a fine
powder. The rest of the party killed
the Ogre and the other bandits, only one of the rangers escaped. The aggrieved party cut off one of Grog’s
ears (there’s a bounty on humanoids after all) and buried the rest of him.
Rep 1-2
They return to Ludwig, rest for a while until the spider
poison works its way out of Rannos. In
Ludwig they recruit another “scout” named Ashmar. They had captured a number of prisoners in the battle with the
bandits, and manage to find out a great deal of information about the strength
of the bandits from them.
Rep 3
Once again they set out for the bandit fort. On the way they stop at a ruined
village. .Whitefire, Ashmar and Ragnar
are sent to scout out the major buildings, and Ashmar stupidly walks into a
building he knew had no floor and is injured falling into the basement. The three rogues then surprise and kill 8
goblins sleeping in the abandoned church.
In an old cottage, Ragnar is chewed upon by some dire rats, but is
rescued by the party. Rannos uncovers
some giant centipedes in a smithy, but these are soon killed. Ashmar, Whitefire, and Ragnar then try to
sneak into an apparently intact cabin with an open front door from which snores
can be heard. The cabin proves to be an
illusion and the three rogues fall down a 20 foot shaft. Ashmar and Ragnar are knocked cold by the
fall, but all three are soon pulled up.
After some healing spells from Malakai, the party presses
on and attacks the goblin village at the base of the fort’s hill. They quickly kill the 12 goblins and the
goblin priest and then withdraw to the ruined village to rest and regain spells
for the night.
Rep 4
Soon after dawn the six adventurers make a direct assault
on the front door of the fort. They
catch the door open and kill an archer standing guard there. They rushed right in, taking some light
fire damage from a murder hole, but push into the inner hall before the doors
are closed. They kill several archers
and rogues inside and then ascend to the upper floor, killing two more rogues
and the 4 thugs who were the bandit leader’s bodyguard. Tlag, the half-orc rogue/sorcerer joins the
fight, inflicting a major wound on Malakai.
Whitefire, however, enchants her with a Charm person spell and the fight
is over. They use the enchanted leader
to find the treasure and to trick the goblin chief and his bodyguards into a
battle on favorable terms. Several of
the goblins are slept by Whitefire, and the rest killed or captured. Ashmar shoots the goblins’ dogs to death from
a distance without risk.
The fort now secure, the party finds Bayne in a prison
cell in the basement, but doesn’t free him.
They tie up Tlag and gather their other prisoners, but find that the
bandits were holding Ernak, the personal messenger of the Count of
Storm-Eagle. Ernak reveals that the
count’s steward, Morvik, is a traitor and plans to poison the count on Rep the
8th, if he is not warned in time.
The party also discovers two letters in the fort (text below) and fail
to prevent the escape of several of the bandits from the outer blockhouse.
Letter #1
Mistress Tlag,
The plan proceeds apace.
The subject will taste of the bitter fruit at the Oponto festival, as I
have sworn. Tell the Master that the
halfling is prepared as he suggested.
Feast in Darkness!
Morvik
Letter #2
Tlag,
Is the plan prepared?
There has been some trouble. The
kobold god is dead and his forces scattered, but they were a diversion
anyway. He did not however discover
the crystal key, which troubles me, and my agents could not find it either
afterwards. Another means must be
found.
Otherwise things are looking well. That fool Sir Malcolm sits and does nothing. The Borderers are busy, as we discussed. The strike is prepared. Have the wood elves
answered? Give my regards to my brother
and keep him out of trouble.
Feast
in Darkness and Prepare for Victory!