After taking out orcs and hobgoblins, the Super Best FriendĀ 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 TraditionsĀ deduces that they need to speak to the spokesperson (Leswen) and another human (Frank) because they donāt 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 seeās 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 heās rendered unable to do anything (the *poke* thing is a boner joke we made IRL about that being the real reason he couldnāt 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 Belladonnaās 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 theyāve found, but then one of the evil Hobbit Munroeās 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.Ā Ā
Then we go onto a fellowship phase.Ā (Basically a timeskip) Although we go a little bit past a timeskip in the second page, where Leswen (with her *season 2* design) is very bad at haggling. The original price was like 40 gold, we told her to lowball, and she lowballed a bit too much...Ā
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Larkspur finishes her side quest after her, Elladan and Elrohir raid a dungeon and kill a cave troll.Ā
In the beginning of her side quest session, Elladan recites to her a poem titlesĀ āOh Larkspurā which was actually a late birthday gift from the DM to her player IRL.Ā
I donāt remember most of Larkspurs encounter because I was in the othe room while it was being done, I do remember however that she is a day ahead of us, and they get the shard back, so Larkspur can now Naruto run back to us.
So the remaining Super Best Friends have made a bargain with the Barrelers but they have a few hours to kill. They decide to go to Rocks family inn toĀ embarrassĀ them meet their parents.Ā
Now, Rocks has told their family of their adventures so far, conveniently leaving out the parts where they almost died. They had also told their group of their family situation, but dwarves apparently arenāt good at listening.
Erindur comes in and seeās two human women, and looks at Rocks confused. Rocks explains again they are adopted. They also explain that their 10-year-old siblings, Wayford and Fearn, are big fans of the group except Leswen and Rocks, who they have decided are lame for being support roles.
Leswen and Frank both try to flirt with Rocks moms, Daralis and Harva, but Leswen is too shy and Frank just makes a bunch of dick jokes and offends them.
When the kids come in, Erindur is a bit overwhelmed by theĀ āconfusingā family dynamic and walks out for a puff of pipeweed or something. Frank decides he is going to juggle these children, but accidentally grabs Belladonna as well.
Right before we leave, Leswen decides to buy some liquor for molotov cocktails. However, she is still really bad at bartering. She keeps asking how much she can buy for x amount instead of just asking how much a bottle is. She does eventually buy some leaving a generous tip as goodwill, but also flirting somewhat.
They head to the Harbor, but they get mugged along the way. However, Frank straight up pummels a guy so bad the rest of the ruffians run away. He doesnāt kill the guy, but threatens him and says he should stop being a criminal before dropping him in the water.
We continue out way.
Once we get to
the shipyard district there's a riot. We sneak around the riot and go into the warehouse. Belladonna scouts ahead by climbing into a window she jumped into and sees we are around a bunch of easily climb able floor-to-ceiling shelves. She calls us in. Frank and Erindur can get in, but Rocks needs assistance, they climb onto Franks shoulders and tells him "No one tells the elf wanderer about this" because Larkspur is always trying to pick them up but they hate being picked up/carried.Ā
Ā The DM turns to Larkspurs player and is like "While you are running to Mirkwood, your ears start to twitch. You feel as though someone is talking about you." We IRL talk about other superstitions, such as where you sneeze suddenly when someone is talking about you, or shiver when someone in the future is walking on your grave.
Ā Once we're inside we try to sneak past the brawl going on inside but the dwarf doesn't pass his stealth check and sneezes really loudly. The brawl of Munroes goons and barrellers look at us. Frank tries to push a whole industrial shelf on them, and Erindur helps. Once the shelf crunches the brawling group we continue our way to Monroes office. The bleeding hearts Leswen and Rocks arenāt happy about this since the barrellers are our allies, but the DM insists that even though the brawlers were hurt badly none of them died.Ā
In Monroes office, we all roll for perception and investigation; we find that most things are hobbit sized, but Belladonna notices that the bookshelf is not hobbit sized, it is human sized. (Rocks doesnāt notice bc I rolled poorly, we justify it that Rocks was raised by humans and is only used to things being human sized)
We find that there is a space worth five books, and five books on Monroeās desk are a mix of red, green, and yellow books. So we figure they probably need to be put in a certain order to trigger the secret door that is definitely in the book shelf.
Rocks is standing at the height needed to see a riddle written in the shelf - I forget the exact room but it was something along the lines ofĀ āTwo cardinals in an evergreen tree fly towards the sunset and viridian leaves.ā So the order is red-red-green-yellow-green. Frank puts them in the a secret door opens into an even more secret subterranean dungeon.
Heres the highlights of the dungeon;
Belladonna finds a multitool thatĀ āmakes her feel something similar to when Leswen found the blue robe/tome. This is hinting towards Belladonna being close to unlocking her secret class
Leswen, Belladonna, and Erindur go into a room with some barrels and a steel chest.Ā Erindur and Leswen try to see if the food in the barrels is poisoned (dwarves are immune to poison and Leswen is wearing a bracelet that makes her immune to poison), but the other barrel explodes. Belladonna escapes damage using uncanny dodge, but Leswen would have died if not for Erindur burning an inspiration to make an extra move to block most of the explosion from her, since heās bulky enough to tank the damage, she would have died if he didnāt. Erindur unfortunately has some of his prized beard burnt off.
We find a room with thugs and the evil human guy who ran away from the outpost during session 4, the guy who threw Frank into jail and Monroeās No.2. His name is Doorune by the way.
While 2 of the goons are killed outright, one runs away; Rocks and Leswen who are at the entrance of the door let him through, because heās running away and they are pacifists. But Erindur, still cheesed at his beard being burned, kills the guy.
The group all piles on killing Doorune, but as he is dwindling to critically low health Frank does something unexpected and calls the battle to stop as Doorune falls to the ground.
Doorune, close to death, is trying to rip his helmet off, but it is padlocked on. He cannot talk because he doesnāt have a tongue.
Frank, Leswen and Belladonna all help Doorune - Frank tosses his weapon out of reach, Leswen pulls an arrow out of his helmets eye hole and heals him a bit, and Belladonna undoes the lock to get his helmet off. When itās off we can see his head is deformed; dented in.Ā
Doorune smiles and dies. The DM tells us we fulfilled his wish of dying with his helmet removed.
Erindur picks up Doorunes weapon
Rocks: New toy for you, Dwarf Slayer?
Erindur: No... *positions Doorune to be sitting up with the weapon in his hands*
Rocks prays / does whatever the Middle Earth version of āfinal rightsā is over Doorunes body since they canāt bury him. The session closes.
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. Thereās so much loot, they actually have to talk about weight.
Belladonna obvious gets most of it, because most of the rest of the part isnāt 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 ārockā 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.Ā
āIn all fairness, do you really think Human Warrior can handle hallucinations? Have you met the guy?ā -Rocks.
Leswen tries to use the seeing stone, but because of her player IRL poor rolls, she doesnāt 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.Ā
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.Ā
We joke around how Rocks singingĀ āSongs of Slayingā is basically heavy metal death growl singing.
Larkspur has seal/cat teeth. She looks cute until she yawns, and then just sharp teeth.Ā
Around this time, Leswen starts to show how much of a tsundere she is. The party name actually comes from Leswens player IRL calling her and LarkspurĀ āsuper best friends.
