Gygax & Greyhawk Session #12 - Interlude with Bandits

DRAMATIS PERSONAE:

Solcha (Elf Fighter 2 / Magic User 1)
Skeff Hawkridge (Half Elf Druid 2 / Thief 1) and his wardog 
Goro (Half Orc Cleric 2 / Fighter 1)

Balthus (Human Fighter 2) and his wardog Slasher

Date/Time

Planting 19 mid-day to Flocktime 8 morning

The kua-toa are curiously reluctant to engage in combat, focusing instead on protecting whatever sits on the bottom of the pool. Ranzel is able to skewer one however, and the second then flees down the river. Skeff, being lighting armored, then jumps in the pool and recover a treasure filled leather sack that was chained on the bottom. At this point, the party is getting loaded down with coin and opts to head back to Vestval and thence onto Oxton for a bit of rest and training before returning to the dungeon. 

Travel to and time in Oxton is uneventful. Pinella and Paxon choose to take their leave of the party, accepting a gift of treasure as they go. After 8 days in town, the party is ready to return to the mountains. Skeff convinces them to spend a little time in the wilderness as he wishes to find a new animal companion, a mountain lion or a bear. They have no luck encountering animals, but do fight a band of starving bugbears and stumble upon the bandit camp of Fulva the Half-Ear. The party fends off a probe by  a group of bandit scouts on horseback, capturing one in the process. Their captive (Mordric), does not want to give up much information, especially not on their numbers. But based on their observations, the party knows there are 50+ bandits at least. Mordric tells them they raid the roads and byways to the south, retreating into the mountains when pursuit gets too hot. Hoping to make peace if not friends with the bandits, the party release Mordric back to his companions. The party then returns towardstheir own camp, encountering another band of mounted bandits along the way. Both sides ignore each other. 

On the next morning, the tomb of the Salanders beckons ... 

GAINS

397pp

237gp

2 gems (10gp, 100gp)

KILLS/VICTORIES

1 kua-toa

6 bugbear

1 bandit (captured)

LOSSES

None