Session 2 Journal
Party Present
Introduction
Our session begins in the forest just outside of the mixing expanse following the bungling of Lord Goldenspire's coronation.
We can see the 7 people space out around the clearing ahead:
Yellow Priest Orc
Orange Knight
Green Bandit Captain
4 bandits (2 x blue human, 2 x violet humans)
Sneakkkyyyy Tiiime
3 of the bandits were placed around as lookouts and the others were standing around an unconscious Crimson Blaze.
We lured one of the guards over by using a combination of illusions and whispers, where Apollion managed to incapacitate him with that cheeky little scorpion on his tail!
We might need to keep our eyes on that.
Gest then got out her makeup bag and used some lovely artistry to kit Alfie out like the knocked out blue human who we worked out was called "Brother Close to Us". Weirdly he was wearing a pink thong that had the name of his sister "Sister Faraway" sewn into it.
Alfie refused to put that on to help get him into character and we're lucky that didn't give us a disadvantage.
Alfie went back in as the crew started to get suspicious of how long Brother Close to Us was taking out in the forest.
Irmia helped out by finding a rock and Gest cast minor illusion to make it look more interesting.
Somehow Alfie got away with coming back and all of his crew go annoyed at him for getting distracted.
With Alfie taking the 3rd guard's place, the party were able to creep closer to the group. They used another distraction to get 2 of the guards to run off into the bushes and then Gest stepped out and knocked the bandit captain on his ass with a cheeky bit of laughter.
We rolled combat and our first battle began.
Combat!!
Throughout the battle Irmia used her magic to heal and protect the party - while occasionally taking some hits.
Gest did a great job knocking people out of combat for a few rouds.
Apollion was a heavy hitter with a particular vengeance for the Orange knight.
The yellow Priest Orc had it in for Gest for no apparent reason.
And Alfie cheekily dropped in and out from the bushes to take brutal crack shots with his bow.
Alfie started the combat trying to get Crimson Blaze onside - managed to wake him up but because of his disguise was an unconvincing ally!
At the very end after killing all of his group the Bandit Captain was the only one left standing. The group began to intimidate him into telling them when happened, when all of a sudden a single ball bearing hit him clean in the forehead and killed him.
As they reviewed the scene they realised that every single one of the group that had been knocked unconscious or incapacitated throughout the combat were now definitively dead, with the same ball bearing wound to the forehead.
Irmia began to look at the yellow priest's cloak - when she realised that it wasn't a real cloak of a yellow priest of colouria, as this cloak had pockets!! And any self-respecting Colourian priest knows that the suffering of the yellow priests is a lack of pockets.