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!
Courtesy of Monday 14 January 2019's Symbaroum session.
“Nature is more dangerous than the Assassins Guild, and they KILL people!”
Valgai: “Why is it that everywhere you go, trouble follows?”
Murmei: “Why do you make it sound like that’s MY fault?”
Murmei: “That circle only goes to the spider now, and she was very busy, so I hung up.”
“That face doesn’t inspire confidence.”
Murmei: “Maybe it’s a troll that has been injured by someone sticking a sword in it, and maybe if we remove it, it will be grateful.”
Elindra: “Yeah, but we’re in Davokar.”
Elindra: “If it’s Balanced …”
Valgai: “It’s a magic sword, it’s mine.”
“You’re not a loot whore. This is the wrong game for loot-whoring.”
“We’re not monsters.”
“But he is!”
“Look, next time we play 5th Ed we can be monsters. But not now.”
Valgai: “I don’t have to worry about retirement, Murmei is gonna get me killed!”
GM: “Can I use XP for re-rolls?”
Player: “You can give us all 1 XP, we’ll allow that.”
Elindra: “I don’t mind them spotting me, I could do with killing someone.”
Valgai: “There’s gonna be plenty of opportunities to murder people, Elindra.”
GM: “Never argue with a murder hobo.”
To be continued!
