We had the second session of play while my youngest son was here over his spring break on Friday. My oldest son’s girlfriend joined us.
There was a lot of delays, etc. but finally got underway. The boys’ characters had amassed some wealth and spent a lot to fortify the house they bought in town and buy iron bound chests with high quality locks and lots of supplies.
Finally, all that was done and they were on their way to check out a kobold warren they had cleared a couple months ago in game time. On their way out of town, they passed their favorite tavern and a woman rushed in to report her husband missing. They agreed to look for her husband, and artist, who went south of town, the same direction they were heading, to get his pigments and stuff to make his paints.
They ran into a couple of plains lions going to their stronghold. The lions messed them up, but they killed one and drove off the other.The hilarious thing is that my youngest son’s character, Fan the elven fighter/magic-user had a barrel of beer in the wagon of supplies. The other two jumped off to fight the lions. His first effort at helping was to throw his empty beer mug at a lion, he rolled a 19 and hit it in the head. You can’t make this stuff up. We all had a great laugh at that!
They got to the former kobold stronghold and the men they hired to guard it were gone, as they had not returned to pay or resupply them for a couple weeks past their expected pay date. Thankfully, nothing had moved in. They locked two of the doors and the druid cast fire trap on the third.
They then continued looking for the artist. They found his trail and managed to find him on top of a rock surrounded by kobolds. They killed all but one, and charmed one, so now they have two charmed kobolds.
They got almost back to town and had a random encounter with a bombardier beetle, but I rolled that it had a positive reaction so it was just going to walk on by, but the druid decided to do speak with animals. It was fun playing a creature with no intelligence talking about food. He tried to get the beetle to to understand marks on the ground to try and figure out how many beetles were back in its burrow. I had to say, “Me no understand differential equations….” before they got that the beetle was not smart enough to understand. We had a good laugh at that.
They finally made it back to town and returned the artist to his family.
They got healed up, etc.
The next day, my youngest’s character goes looking for a guy who sells treasure maps. He went to the bar he is known to frequent, but he went in the evening and then bright and early the next day. The next day, upon not finding him, he offered ten gold pieces to whoever could find the buy. That cleared out the tavern. Word soon spread that someone had a bounty on the map seller’s head and there was basically a riot in town. I had to give a very non-obvious hint that a lie that the map seller had been found and the bounty paid finally calmed the people.
We ended play on that note.
One can never tell what will happen once you mix in a few players. We may see about trying to play with Google+ Hangouts and Roll20 to keep this going. It is definitely a LOT of fun!
