We continue toward civilisation. Murmei got a papercut from the old map - the meaning of this has yet to be revealed, but might become important later - when we do the sidequest the troll gave us instead of the main quest.
As we were making our way through the forest, we saw a big snake-type creature coiled around a tree branch, but it completely failed to spot us - somehow - so we decided to leave it alone. It's the type of creature that will pick off people one by one so it can eat in peace, and we didn't much like the thought of being eaten, frankly. Besides, if it hasn't noticed us ... let's just move along.
Moving along, we came across some elves. Elindra talked to them, making sure to name-drop some winter elves we had befriended previously. This made them decide among themselves that we weren't worth the bother killing, so we didn't have to fight them either.
The guide proved so observant we didn't notice we were nearing a cairn until we were almost on top of it. It rumbled and a hole opened up, with a couple of undead coming out of it - the type that would indicate a necromage might be in the vicinity - so we decided to give it a wide berth.
In fact, we made it all the way back to Thistlehold without murdering anything. So, true to form, Elindra decided to change that, by murderising some people that had "our" house under surveillance ...
That face doesn't inspire confidence
We're trying to get back to Thistlehold. First, we went and told the goblins what had happened, and they were very grateful that the spider had taken the Creeping Darkness with it. They weren't so keen on their hideout having partially collapsed when the sinkhole collapsed a bit further, although that wasn't actually our fault and we don't know what happened. We were lucky not to fall in ourselves, basically. No one was hurt, though, and that's the main thing.
The journey back was uneventful, up until the point where a big boulder with a sword sticking out of it was spotted. Turned out to be a massive arch troll, and Murmei was delighted. Those things are exceedingly rare, don't you know? It's also kind of rare to survive an encounter with them, but it didn't stop the young lad from striking up a conversation.
Because Murmei has awesome diplomacy skills (stop looking at me like that, he totally does!) the carts and oxen managed to get away a bit, and the troll, Uhux, was convinced to let Valgai ("who is big and strong and really good at stuff like that, honest") remove the sword from his shoulder.
The troll was so grateful to not have a poisoned sword in his shoulder that he gave the party a quest, to find where his friends had got to. They were going to Erdengald (Murmei stopped listening to what that was as soon as "great knowledge" was mentioned) but hadn't been heard from since.
Uhux even gave the party a map, and went to pat Murmei on the head, at which Elindra decided the troll was attacking her friend ("friend" here being used in the loosest of terms) and we very nearly had a diplomatic incident, i.e. Elindra would have been insta-killed, and possibly got the other two wiped as well. But as luck (helped along with some XP losses and temporary corruption) would have it, we were free to go on our merry way. With a magic artefact sword! We could also brag about having met and survived an arch troll! Win!
The journey back was uneventful, up until the point where a big boulder with a sword sticking out of it was spotted. Turned out to be a massive arch troll, and Murmei was delighted. Those things are exceedingly rare, don't you know? It's also kind of rare to survive an encounter with them, but it didn't stop the young lad from striking up a conversation.
Because Murmei has awesome diplomacy skills (stop looking at me like that, he totally does!) the carts and oxen managed to get away a bit, and the troll, Uhux, was convinced to let Valgai ("who is big and strong and really good at stuff like that, honest") remove the sword from his shoulder.
The troll was so grateful to not have a poisoned sword in his shoulder that he gave the party a quest, to find where his friends had got to. They were going to Erdengald (Murmei stopped listening to what that was as soon as "great knowledge" was mentioned) but hadn't been heard from since.
Uhux even gave the party a map, and went to pat Murmei on the head, at which Elindra decided the troll was attacking her friend ("friend" here being used in the loosest of terms) and we very nearly had a diplomatic incident, i.e. Elindra would have been insta-killed, and possibly got the other two wiped as well. But as luck (helped along with some XP losses and temporary corruption) would have it, we were free to go on our merry way. With a magic artefact sword! We could also brag about having met and survived an arch troll! Win!
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