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 | VW | [[Heilli]] | Human | Soulknife/4, Psion/1 |
 | Chris | [[Yosi]] | Wood Elf | Barbarian/4 |
-| Val | [[Allie]] | Human(Aasimar) | Favored Soul/4, Fighter/1 |
+| Val | [[Allie]] | [[Lesser Aasimar]] | Favored Soul/4, Fighter/1 |
-//Note: This adventure comes from "Forest of Blood", by Wil Upchurch, as
+//Note: This adventure is an abbreviated version of "Forest of Blood", by Wil
-published in [[http://paizo.com/dungeon/products/issues/2003/103|"Dungeon
+Upchurch, as published in [[http://paizo.com/dungeon/products/issues/2003/103|
-Magazine" #103]], October, 2003, pages 40-58.//
+"Dungeon Magazine" #103]], October, 2003, pages 40-58.//
-**//July 1111//**
+**//20 July 1111//**
-//more to come...//
+The party has made the long trek to Berlingford to visit their famous "Summer
+Faire". [[Ketamine]] and [[Ash]] remain at home because of prior obligations (or
+lack of interest).
+While browsing the booths and seeing the sights, though, a pack of four Feral
+Large Wolves crash the party -- forcing our heroes to act.  When they defeat the
+wolves, the proprieter of the Boar's Head Inn, a man named Baeran, invites them
+to stay at his place free of charge for the duration of the faire.  The party
+accepts and, after browsing the faire for a couple more hours, retires to the
+Inn.
+During the course of the day, [[Freyrik]] heard rumors that several local "women
+of ill repute" had been brutally murdered.  In an effort to gather more
+information, he begins asking around the Inn while [[Allie]] uses [[Merthúvial]]
+to scan the thoughts of the people being questioned.
+In the course of this investigation, they determine that while a couple of women
+are not working the streets as they normally do, there is no reeal evidence of
+any murders.
+More interestingly, they learn that a local wood carver named Charne has
+apparently used a magical charm on a local woman, a buxom blonde named Shella
+who appears to be an acolyte to Freya.  When confronted, he opts to leave the
+Inn, accompanied by a second woman, a fiery redhead named Lucinda (an off-duty
+barmaid from the Boar's Head -- who seems to moonlight as a prostitute).
+Without any real evidence, though, and absent a physical crime, the party
+reluctantly lets them leave.
+As the evening progresses, the party relaxes and enjoys the hospitality.
+[[Allie]] and [[Heilli]] join the bards for an impromptu jam session, while
+[[Yosi]] enjoys the free drinks a //little// too much.
+About an hour after leaving, the barmaid Lucinda returns in a panic, her dress
+torn, and her face spattered with dirt and blood.  [[Allie]] rushes to find out
+what happened and learns that the three were ambushed by bandits on their way to
+Charne's house.  Lucinda managed to escape after she bit the hand of one of the
+thugs.
+With [[Yosi]] in no shape to offer assistance, the remaining four leave him at
+the Inn and head off to investigate Lucinda's story.  They find Charne, alone,
+in his house -- nursing a black eye.  Shella, he says, was abducted by a group
+of bandits.
+The party forms up to track the bandits, but finds more than expected when a
+group of six men attempt to ambush them outside Charne's house.  The combat,
+though, is short and sweet and ends up with three men in custody and three fled.
+One of the prisoners, a man named Lars, is encouraged to lead them to where the
+bandits are holed up -- a cabin by the river.
+On the way, the party finds a badly wounded bandit holding a magical collar.
+They tend to his wounds, but leave him and proceed.  Shortly thereafter, they
+meet an //Awakened// Wolf named Felinal -- who (after a tense stand-off with
+[[Freyrik]]) tells them that the bandits are using magical collars to control
+the wolves in the area.  Several of his "brothers" have been taken by the
+bandits -- led by a man who can apparently change shape into a Boar.
+Felinal leads them to the edge of the clearing containing the bandit's cabin,
+but is reluctant to go any farther.  The party approaches the rest of the way as
+stealthily as possible, but still attracts attention from the bandits inside.
+Two bandits rush from the front door, while a third begins firing arrows from a
+window, and two more use a secret tunnel to approach the party from behind.
+When the battle begins going against the bandits, their leader emerges in Boar
+form to attack. While non-silvered weapons do little damage, the party
+eventually brings the beast-man down - where he reverts back to human form in
+death.
+Inside, the party finds Shella mostly unharmed in the basement, along with a pit
+filled with imprisoned wolves.  They also find some treasure the bandits had
+acquired and a note from a man named "Kazok" regarding payment for the abduction
+of Shella.
+^ Summary of the Bandit's Loot  ^^
+| A "fair" amount of extra weapons (4 Shortbows, 160 arrows, 2 Daggers, 2 Short Swords) |  --|
+| Four masterwork rugs |  200|
+| Four masterwork paintings |  300|
+| Two matching ivory statuettes depicting a woman in a flowing dress with her hand raised to the sky |  250|
+| Masterwork Hand Axe |  153|
+| Potion (unknown) |  --((Not Sold))|
+| Potion of Cure Moderate Wounds |  --((Not Sold))|
+| Murlynd's Spoon |  --((Not Sold))|
+| Miscellaneous Gold |  150|
+^  Total ^  1,053^
+**//21 July 1111//**
+The next morning, the party reports their adventure to the authorities.  With
+Baeran's corroboration, Mayor Garrick Delros offers them a 500 gp reward and
+agrees to buy the bandit's non-magical loot for the //slightly// inflated price
+of 1,100 gp.
+Later, after sleeping in well past the others, [[Yosi]] awakes to find the rest
+of the party has already left the Inn.  As he stumbles out into the street, his
+eye catches a large, dark shape rising from the nearby forest.  It is a long,
+gray-brown winged beast with a man riding it!  While the creature and its rider
+were too far to see any details, this does not prevent [[Yosi]] from adding some
+of his own.  For the remainder of his days at the faire, he tells stories of a
+"dragon" varying in size from 30 to 100 feet long, sometimes snorting fire as it
+rose from the forest.
+Despite [[Yosi]]'s exciting story, no other people seem to have noticed the
+"dragon" -- although in his defense, the sighting occurred on the edge of town,
+far away from the bustle of the faire.
 ^ # ^ Challenge ^  CR  ^
-| //TBD// | //TBD// |  //TBD//  |
+| 4 | Large, Feral Wolves |  2  |
-| //TBD// | //TBD// |  //TBD//  |
+| 2 | Bandit Twins (Ordalon and Garial) |  2  |
-| //TBD// | //TBD// |  //TBD//  |
+| 4 | Bandits (Berl, Karl, Lars, and Tor) |  1  |
-^ ^ Total XP (each) ^  //TBD//\\//TBD//  ^
+| 1 | Barbed Bolas Trap |  1  |
+| 1 | Camouflaged Leech Trap |  4  |
+| 1 | Dart-Throwing Trap |  1  |
+| 1 | Remus, Wereboar Warrior |  5  |
+| 2 | Half-Orc Bandits (Urlik and Voath) |  1  |
+| 3 | Bandits (Dornus, Elstan, and Zeke) |  1  |
+^ ^ Total XP (each) ^  1,760\\ 1,940  ^
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