lurkerwithout | Sat. Hackmaster

So after much delays, due to testing of tournament adventures and my trip to the hospital, we (oh lets call them The Short Adventurers) ride again. Literally, as we decided to head out with a trade caravan to investigate a treasure map we'd found.

A normal HackMaster style journey, meaning we were attacked near a dozen times between towns. Wild dogs, monk-like gibbons, venomous sparrows and bandits all beset us, and all were defeated. Letting us reach the first stop on the treasure map, a partially destroyed town. But unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it) we get guilted into helping the caravan continue on even further. A chance for more "random" encounters and eps. But a delay of several weeks before we can get back to try and solve this treasure map.

And as we rest up for the night before we're attacked again. This time by a mated pair of Ogre Lords (like regular ogres, but bigger and smarter). Thanks to several good called shots and a lucky crit, they go down (literally in this case, falling on the dwarf and the gnome), but not before they almost smoosh the pixie-faerie.

My aardvarkian even managed to finish off one of the Ogre Lords despite my normal pitiful dice rolls...