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 | VW | [[Heilli]] | Human | Soulknife/4, Psion/1 | | VW | [[Heilli]] | Human | Soulknife/4, Psion/1 |
 | Chris | [[Yosi]] | Wood Elf | Barbarian/4 | | 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  ^ ^ # ^ Challenge ^  CR  ^
-//TBD// //TBD// |  //TBD//  | +Large, Feral Wolves |   | 
-//TBD// //TBD// |  //TBD//  | +Bandit Twins (Ordalon and Garial) |   | 
-//TBD// //TBD// |  //TBD//  | +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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