Let's see.....where were we last time? I better write this down before I fall asleep....
Well, at the end of the adventure, we somehow lost our horses
again. So we return to the "Mancave" (our stronghold), and drop off most of our stuff. We acquire our 100 gp (each) reward for freeing the slaves, and use this money to purchase replacement horses for the ones taken from us before. The group of us then travel to the temple, and pick up Blumpy, the cleric. Afterward, we're given an assignment from the dwarven lord, Rioga, to act as security for a series of competitive games over at a place called Fort Rollings. We accept the assignment...
So we travel there on horseback, and finally get there after a five-day journey. The games are four days of competitions, such as riding, drinking, wrestling, and more. When we arrive, we see that it's a predominately halfling community. At this point, I'm kinda wishing I'd brought my halfling characters.
Now here's a list of notable NPCs:
* Constance Rollings (female halfling, owns the town of Fort Rollings)
* Conrad Rollings (male halfling, Constance's son, a hunter)
* Henry (male halfling, proprietor of the Half-Pint tavern)
* Roderick (male halfling constable)
* Delanna (female halfling priestess)
Now there's alotta friggin' halflings...
We're received by Constance Rollings, and it's made clear that we need to keep an eye on things, and do it quietly. We're offered 2,000 gp each for the job. I note that this is much more money than any job we've been offered. Maybe we'll even be able to build a manor house someday.
Well, the games begin, and we're supposed to keep tabs on a miles-long horse race. imurrx's character, Horatio officially enters the race, though we're there to keep an eye on the race. However, things quickly turn deadly as many of the riders unsheathe hidden weapons, and use them to kill each other (and us) during the race. I'm not going to get into specifics, but after one of the riders decapitates another one of the riders, I think Mutt's character, Reven Tyge, goes on an ass-kicking spree and injures or kills something like eight riders, and their horses too (using his breath weapon). Some other riders attack Horatio, though he manages to avoid getting mangled, and by some miracle, Horatio actually takes second place in the race. How he manages to do this, I'll never know, as his character is not an exceptional rider.
Later on, people are raving about this "dragon" that attacked the riders during the race, :rolleyes: and at some point after the race, we wind up in the middle of a tavern brawl at the Half-Pint tavern, until imurrx's warforged character, Kratos (nicknamed "Crotchless") initimidates the combatants into inaction. After this, these three beautiful bardic babes continue singing in order to distract the crowd. During the night, Reven is desperately trying to seduce all three bardic babes, and join him in his room. However, due to a series of highly shitty Diplomacy rolls, Senor Kramer successfully cockblocks him, and that just isn't happening.
At some point, we entered a competition where entrants had to use crossbows to hit a series of targets (a bullseye). We stupidly all enter the competition, though it would have been wiser if only one of us did, in order to not attract too much attention. After this, Reven enters the dagger-throwing competition, though he doesn't win. I think that's where the game stopped, though I could be missing something...