#arendir

Session 7

After taking out orcs and hobgoblins, the Super Best Friend continue their merry way, but after some ways they hear approaching hooves. Larkspur and Leswen use their super elven bullshit vision to see a band of Riders of Rohan approaching. They explain it to the party, and Rocks the only one who has profieciency in Traditions deduces that they need to speak to the spokesperson (Leswen) and another human (Frank) because they don’t know what Hobbits are and would clash with the dwarf and other elf.

So Arendir, Belladonna, Rocks, Grypho and Leswen hang out in the back as the party takes to the side of the road.

Sure enough the Rohanians stop by them and say that they have been sent by Leswens colleagues from the University in Laketown to bring them back. Leswen rolls perception and see’s that the Rohanians are hiding something, so she presses them for information and they confirm they were hiding something, but it was that the party has been followed by Orcs. Time is pressing.

They once again have to offset paying King Thranduil because now they have to go to Laketown. So they allow to Rohanians to escort them via horse. Not before this exchange though;

Rohan captian: *looks to the three Hobbits* Why are two of your children barefoot?

Frank: These are my charges and I let them do their own thing.

Each party member is with one Rider, with the Hobbits being held in front because of their small size and being mistaken for human children.

Eventually, they are attacked by Orcs riding on Direwolves, and combat begins. Arendir is terrified of horses, so he’s rendered unable to do anything (the *poke* thing is a boner joke we made IRL about that being the real reason he couldn’t fight)

Belladonna using some of her five million Treasure Hunter / Burglar bonuses, takes out most of the Orc riders in one shot, to the absolute shock of the Riders who now think Belladonna is just a demon child. Rocks is just singing their Songs of Slaying, to the *confusion* of their Rohanian.

Leswen spears an Orc to Death, and Frank the absolute mad lad jumps off of the horse and attacks and Orc Rider.

Combat ends, Leswen recollects her spear, the Rohanian who was Belladonna’s Rider is too freaked out to ever mention what she even did.

They continue their way to Laketown, and go to the University. Most of the party stands idle while Leswen talks. They talk about the shards they’ve found, but then one of the evil Hobbit Munroe’s lackeys appear, and he reveals that Munroe actually has another missing shard. They present evidence that Munroe was trying to instigate a race war, and the lackey runs away after Frank threatens him.  

Session 6

Now that the bear has been killed the party loots his hoard, finding a shit ton of treasure and grisly bear meat. The problem is, they have to talk about how to split it, and also how to actually carry it. There’s so much loot, they actually have to talk about weight.

Belladonna obvious gets most of it, because most of the rest of the part isn’t that interested in treasure (Rocks is of a prosperous culture, and Larkspur only cares about nature) They end up burying several barrels worth of gold ore rocks, with Arendir having the discern which rocks have the most gold in them.

Rocks at some point pulls Arendir to the side. They go off on a long-winded story of how they used to do a lot of shrooms when they were young, and now they think this ‘rock’ they found is actually some kind of drug rock (they thought the power of the seeing stone giving them visions was hallucinogens) So they give it to Arendir because dwarves have knowledge of rocks and stones. He realizes the power of the stone and shows it to the party, not before berating rocks for keeping to to themselves. 

“In all fairness, do you really think Human Warrior can handle hallucinations? Have you met the guy?” -Rocks.

Leswen tries to use the seeing stone, but because of her player IRL poor rolls, she doesn’t see anything. Frank takes a jab at it, and by using a SICK RHYME (and his player IRL getting a good roll) not only is he able to use the seeing stone, he can use it to the extent he can actually see EXACTLY where the Munroe, evil hobbit in Laketown who put him in jail, is. He can also see he has another piece of the shard.

Much like the interrupted session from last time, they talk about the anti-poison bracelet, silver sword, and magic ring.

The bracelet is given to Leswen, the silver sword is given to Larkspur. The ring is given to Arendir by Frank. We IRL joke about how Arendir and Frank are now engaged.

The bit about Rocks showing the other hobbits a fidget spinner is a reflection of how I, their player IRL, use a spinner throughout the session for hours because my usual method stimming is crunching dice in my hand, which causes Leswens player to have over-stimulation. 

Almost out of Mirkwood, they come across a shoddy camp of Goblins and Orcs. The party sans the pacifists like Leswen and Rocks decides to kill the party to get them out of the way.

Larkspur and Belladonna decide to sneak inside, they eventually get caught and a fight encounter is started. We have to work our way around poisonous briars and mushrooms in this fight.

Frank takes a rage potion that makes him super strong, but super out of control because neither his race nor class (knight) are adept at handling rage like Arendir. 

We joke around how Rocks singing ‘Songs of Slaying’ is basically heavy metal death growl singing.

Larkspur has seal/cat teeth. She looks cute until she yawns, and then just sharp teeth.