Session 8 – The Mud and the Blood and the Filth

Jean confesses to Tobruk that he is actually the reason that his room was broken into. He gave the woman Tobruk’s room number when they agreed to meet later. He didn’t trust the woman and thought that they might break into the room, but that Tobruk would be able to handle whatever happened.

As we are finishing our conversation with the harbormaster, suddenly we hear a loud bell ringing in alarm. Almost immediately we see three river trolls emerge from the water and start to attack people on the piers and nearby boats. They are vomiting a horrible substance on them, smacking them with huge clubs and eating them.

Vedasi fires off several arrows but they don’t seem to have much effect on the trolls. The dwarves run back to shore and then across to the other pier to reach one of the trolls. Tobruk attacks one of them several times and finally fells the beast, therefore becoming an actual “slayer of trolls.” He also yells to the others that the trolls are vulnerable to fire and also that they are stupid.

The third troll swims away. A fourth troll emerges out of the water near the town and the elves.

Brokk attacks one of the trolls but gets vomited on. Maruviel starts firing flaming arrows at it. Jean takes a lantern and hurls it toward one of the trolls but also hits Brokk and Tobruk. One more lantern toss immolates the troll entirely and he falls into the water.

The fourth troll continues to attack the elves and Geeves approaches, using a small pin to cast a shock spell on him. The others continue to shoot flaming arrows at him until one finally hits him in the heart and he dies.

Geeves heals everyone using healing draughts and poultices. We look through the troll’s bodies and find XXXXXXX. Deciding we’ll go after the trolls, we ask the harbormaster for a skiff. We head after the fourth troll and take the skiff into the troll lair. It is smelly and close in here and we see the troll and his victim (one of the townspeople) is here. After we attack it for a long while it finally goes down.

We search the area, though it is filthy, and we find a dwarven rune axe wrapped and in fairly good shape. Also there is a wood elf cloak that is magical. These make you harder to see and harder to hit by some weapons. We also find four healing draughts.

We leave and take the remains of the townspeople, and later make a small caern for their bones.