3 - Everybody Was Bandit Fighting

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## Summary

From their hiding place in the woods, the party's members decide to send  Peter to check out the mysterious camp in the  hollow ahead. The people moving about there don't hear his approach, even though he stumbles a bit. He stops just short to watch, and sees several rough-looking men at work: two are sitting at a cooking fire, two are digging into an exposed rocky cliff with pickaxes, and a final one is on watch in the trees nearby. Peter overhears a conversation that seems to be about Wamberbash and one of the men holds up what looks like the  spoon Wamberbash described previously.

Peter retraces his steps and informs  Wamberbash and  Tira of his findings. They deliberate quietly, then try to form a plan. As Wamberbash begins to hide himself in some leaves for some inscrutable reason, Tira decides to march in and retrieve the spoon. Naturally, Peter insists on going with her, against Tira's wishes. When they reach the edge of the camp, Tira has tired of Peter's presence and pulls an iron pot from her pack. She conks him solidly on the head with it, then steps confidently into the camp and tells the bandits, "You have something that belongs to me."

Battle erupts as Tira leaps into action. She starts by hurling her javelin into the shoulder of the nearest bandit tending the fire. The others move to engage her, and Peter steps toward Tira, berating her for trying to incapacitate him. Wamberbash hears the commotion and abandons his hiding place as his hair changes to a brilliant red color. He begins fashioning a makeshift sling from his notebook.

In the hollow, Peter continues griping as he fires his crossbow, but the string snaps. Tira dashes into the fray in a rage as the bandits with the pickaxes charge at her. They miss, but the other two connect. As Wamberbash continues to put together his sling, Tira wades in, heedless of her safety.

At last, Wamberbash readies and looses a stone, but is startled at the unexpected arrival of the fifth bandit. He decides to change tactics, rushing into the clearing as he attempts to tackle one of the bandits. He misses monumentally.

Now the bandits begin to fall under Tira's and Peter's attacks. Wamberbash continues his acrobatic attacks, but continues to miss in spectacular fashion. With a final effort, Tira swings her ax and cleaves the bandit leader's head from his shoulders. He falls, and the last bandit steps into the clearing, dropping his weapon as he raises his arms. He is Jarrett White, a militiaman of Arden who has infiltrated this small band to send word back to  Chiswick. The party decides to bind Jarrett and confirm his story in town.

In the quiet following the battle, Wamberbash's hair returns to its natural brown color as he retrieves his spoon from the fallen leader. Wamberbash also takes a knife, and Peter starts to take the leader's mace, but is overcome by guilt and decides not to. He instead prepares to perform a funeral rite of Vasham, arranging the fallen bodies for cremation as delineated in the Green Book. Wamberbash offers Tira some  *puer cha* leaf to help her cope with her wounds.

## Quotable Quotes

* "I'm coming with you." - Thane
* "Ah, I see you share my enthusiasm of blunt weapons." - Thane
* "Yes, look in the index for *Punch, Groin*." - Rhett
* "You should've stayed in your leaf pile." - Meredith
* "Not so junior now, aren't I?" - Thane
* "That was me, not Tira." - Meredith
* "I have a 2.0 KDR." - Thane

## Chapters

* 2.08 - Actual Play
* 54.29 - XP Awards
* 57.03 - Outtakes

## XP Awards

* The party receives a total of 20 XP each:
	+ 10 - For the bandit combat
	+ 10 - For discovering Dismal Hollow
* Tira gets 1 XP for her battle prowess, and 2 XP for using her iron pot against Peter
* Wamberbash gets 1 XP for his sling
* Peter gets 1 XP for his battle prowess

## Notable People

* Peter Greyhawk
* Tira Ironstag
* Wamberbash Bensonmum

## Notable Places

* Dismal Hollow
* Griphook Forest
* Moriga
* Wamberbash's House