3/14/2010 game session: Bugbear!

D.I.G. 11/15/1003, Time 4a.m.
Location; About a mile south of Oxford by a tunnel door leading to the city sewers, Brother Brill is present

1. After finding Alister's tracks leading west; the party hears then sees dark wolves (worgs according to TBM) surrounding a short & stocky humanoid (dwarf). The worgs are defeated & the party is introduced to Kaldur Mythral Mead (Kal). TBM & Brill have a heated discussion about the use of arcane magic, Kal is an impartial mediator. Brill agrees not to speak of what he has seen, but leaves the party immediately.
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2. DA sleeps 2 miles out of town with Panthro. He is awaken by 9 members of the Blood Belt Clan (BBC) who demand 500 gold for his use of "their land". DA opts to let them go through his belongings where they find 131 platinum instead. He is warned not to sleep in the wild again & left penniless in the field.

D.I.G. 11/16/1003; Location Tragen's Wonder Emporium, dining room

1. Oz is sent to get a cleric to heal Ph's strength damage. Art & Ash are sent to track down DA. Kal & TBM have a conversation while walking outside of the city where Kal reveals after much prodding that he is in fact a dwarf.
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2. PH is visited by his contact in the thieves guild, Scythe. He is giving the package he asked for & gathers information on the BBC. He is given a contact to speak with, Mike Bloom the bartender at Molly Plum's.
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3. Art & Ash meet up with DA in the woods on his way back to town. DA tells them about his run in with the BBC.
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4. Elder Cape Pharaxus heals Pharaun strength damage & asks that the party accompanies him to Alexandria. He will be leaving in 3 weeks time to deliver documents that are essential to the empire. Upon hearing of DA's situation ECP advises him to go to the garrison where members of the BBC are being held, awaiting trial.
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5. DA go to the garrison, recognizes 3 members of the BBC & recovers 100 platinum. Art, Ash & Oz go to the Expeditious Messengers post to look for an archery tournament on the message board. Ash remembers the letter from Alister to Mickey Crow found in the old watch tower. Ash tries and fails to recover the package.
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6. The party meets back at their common room where TBM & PH agree to go and retrieve the package for Mickey Crow. The package is opened in the common room where a delayed fireball nearly kills Art, Ash, PH & TBM. Travern tells the party to they must either retrieve his box or pay 300 platinum to cover the damages to the room. A 2 day deadline is established. TBM convinces Travern to allow Panthro to stay in the inn.
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7. PH goes to Moll Plum's, meets with Mike Bloom & sets up a meeting with the BBC under the name of Davis
   

D.I.G. 11/16/1003

1. The party travels 1/2 a days by horse to where Travern's caravan was attacked. Ash finds humanoid, but not human, tracks leading west. Something that is not a horse is pulling a cart and leaving a trail that leads to a cave. A few small & 1 medium sized humanoids greet the party with javelins and swords. Battle & victory!
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2. Inside the cave there are stairs leading down that lead to a common room filled with some goblins, hobgoblins and a bugbear. Battle & victory.
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3. While the party searches the rooms DA retrieves the horses leading them into the cave above & the remainder of the party is surprise attacked by 3 bugbears & 1 dusk blade bug bear. Battle & victory!
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4. PH leads the party down the now opened hallway to a set of double doors at the end. Oz & Kal bash down the doors revealing many bug bears. 3 ordinary, 1 red robed wizard, 1 cleric, 1 wielding a spikes chain & 1 dusk blade. Battle & victory!
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5. 2 doors in the room. Door 1 reveals a small room littered with bones. Door 2 opens to a store room filled with a chest (500 platinum), barrels of ale & mead, various weapons & Travern's flower box.
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6. As the party leaves the under cave complex they see 2 winter wolves eating 2 horses at the mouth of the cave, what will our heroes do? First they wait for an hour for the wolves to eat and run. Then PH finds a secret door opening to stairs that lead to the top of the hill that has a trail leading down.

Nice job matt