Session 3
We have our first true dungeon crawl. Belladonna is the scout so shes the one who inactivates all of the traps so we don’t die.
Larkspur calls Arendir ‘Hurdurdur’ because his name was initially hard to remember.
Frank is, as mentioned several times before, a murderhobo. While his IRL player tries to say he isn’t a stereotypical fighter/warrior, the only thing atypical about him is being shorter than his variety of human.
We find a crypt with a female orc skeleton (you can tell its female because there is a bow on its head) wearing blue robes. We also find a secret library where Grypho goes HAM and obsesses over the books, which he does for like 2 more sessions.
Franks irl player asks if he can just take an entire bookshelf with his massive strength, while technically possible it’s not advised so he just fills his backpack instead.
The blue robe on the corpse is taken by Leswen, who feels a connection to it and mysterious tome in the library.
They investigate and sneak attack some goblins.
NOT SEEN - they go into a tomb where they find a body holding a piece of something, they take the piece from the body and experience hallucinations and feelings of danger so intense they *&^%ing BOOK IT. With Frank picking up all of the Hobbits at once to the displeasure of Rocks.
Once they finally get outside, they are ambushed by an Orc hoard. Arendir, Nimrodel and Frank, who are the heaviest hitters, keep the orc hoard from advancing so the others can escape.
Rocks is the last to escape, but the DM hints that another hoard might be coming from behind so quickly they take the lantern from Grypho who left right before them, emptied their bag of the wood they gathered last session, and threw the lantern on it setting a fire block in the cave so the other hoard can’t come through (goblins are afraid of fire)
Once everyone is out of the cave, Arendir, Nimrodel and Frank follow, they get far enough away that they have enough of a head start for Arendir who has a skill in carpentry to build a very rough raft and float down the river.
After two days of silently floating down the river, they end of at the Old Ford, which is owned by the Beornings. The session ends as we are saved by Franks people.