Tonight was the first night of the new D&D encounters night. It was a good turn out tonight, we ended up with two tables. I ended up a little late and my table already had two mages (which I came prepared with). So I looked through the pre-gens and I decided to go with the Halfling Thief – Merric. The Thief would have been my second choice anyways. So the party looked like this… 2 Knights, 2 Mages, a StormWarpriest of Kord and little old me. (The next part will be told from the point of view of Merric)
Our story begins at the table of our patron. He’s telling us some sob story about some missing so and so named Gordie who was kidnapped by some so and so who may have been worshiping an evil god. Ho hum, but then he mentions the missing jewel of Avandra and me ears picked right up. He tells us where to start looking, so I sharpens up me daggers and meet with my crew in the morning.
We make our way to the cave where kidnapper was last seen, we casually saunter up to the cave. We sees them, they sees us. To the right is a drake and a burly lookin draco. To the right I sees a man sewing up a net. Man with net it is! I runs up and toss one of me daggers into his stomach. I notice a pit with some sobber cryin fer help. I shout back and me crew runs in after me. The knight Quinn runs into me man with the dagger in his belly and hits him with his sword. The draco runs up to the group and wacks the other knight. Then outta nowhere he breathes lightning on the rest of the crew. Seems I made the right choice going left.
From the back of the cave some koboldy lookin fellas drop down and join in our little dance. The other knight starts smackin up the draco and they ends up by little old me. Whats a halfling ta do? So I sticks one of me daggers in his side. Wouldn’t ya know the sucker starts bleedin and he starts cryin to his mamma. So we force him inta the pit with da sobber. I look back and the drake starts bitin at the mages, and the kobolds start spittin some darts too. The mages fire back with der magic missiles and the kobolds start fallin like flies. Next thing you know the other knight is knocked out. Poison I thinks. Then one of the mages fall down. So I shift myself over and and start pokin holes in the drake. The cleric ends up bashin the drake down. I loves me the dwarves. The knights end up takin down the boyo with the nets.
We pull our man and the draco baddie outta the hole. We ties up the draco while the healer tends to the others. So we stand around tryin to decide whatta do with the draco, when the knight outta nowhere says ” We should kill him”. I’d prefer to shake him down abit, but the draco doesn’t give us much choice. He busts loose and the knight and the draco enter a duel of sorts. When I say a duel of sorts it’s because it was one sided. The draco with one swipe KOs our boyo. The draco escapes off in the confusion.
<back to Mike>
It was a fun start to what I hope is an exciting season ahead of us.
