The party gains a healer to better succeed against old, tough foes
The party has once again grown in size, with the newest addition Thambelar the Priest joining to ensure everyone has a shot at living longer to do more damage, by healing them and using their prayers to help gain victory in the toughest of battles. It was a good sign that they should head back to get revenge for being killed previously, to get valuable experience while really testing the party out.
Getting victory over this Forest Lurker would be tough to do and needed great team work.
They all got stuck right into doing damage, Thambelar soon after the battle started, got a prayer ready so once she had finished it would see some of the damage the party has taken to be healed up.
McStabby had been knocked out with Thambelar soon to follow, but they kept at it due to how damaged it was getting and there was no time to waste. It continued for a short time while with TheGoliath getting knocked out as well before it finally got taken out and they all rose once again, ready to camp out and recover.
Approach to Defiance Bay was stopped by some troubles at Madhmr Bridge, as Peregund proceeds to mention about the bridge being out right now, so another route is to be found to get to Defiance Bay. She was upset about losing her shipping crates hadn't sunk but the looters attacked her, making it impossible to get them.
"Do not worry, Peregund. We shall go have a look for you and sort this issue out, then come back to you" announced TheGoliath before they were thanked and they headed off.
As the party proceeded down the path they were attacked instantly by a pair of looters. Just the two of them were easy pickings. After killing them, the party ventured down the path further and were confronted about the others being missing.
"You killed them? How could you?" sobbed Hanwen.
"They attacked us on site and we had heard there were looters taking shipping crate cargo, so we defended ourselves and disposed of them" said TheGoliath with a smirk on his face.
The conversation went on for a short while before a fight broke out as TheGoliath announced, that he would not lie about their thievery.
Upon the fights start, the party focused their efforts to destroy Hanwen first by dealing mass damage and as usual, McStabby did a lot and got hurt first. But Thambelar got a heal off to ensure the party was all fine, allowing them to finish off the looters and get the cargo for Peregund.
They took the ferry cargo and headed back. Passing it onto Peregund, she was delighted to have not lost everything! It was great experience and money gained for a job well done, making it so future travels and hiring a final party member could happen in time if they could find someone willing to join them.
Quickly they went to talk to the people at the bridge and that would be the end of this little side adventure, then back to the usual Gilded Vale Inn.
This was part #4 for my Pillars of Eternity series.
Stay tuned for part #5 and see what happens next and what TheGoliath will get up to.
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