Shaun played King Bob, a dwarf fighter. He actually was just the Prince, but he called himself the King, and wore a 2'-3' crown made of tin. He was the Prince of Flharnaghan, a nation with some kind of bizarre obsession with tomatos - tomatos were their mascot, their national flower, the symbol on their flag and crests, etc.
Jamie played a warforged barbarian that was King Bob's bodyguard.
The new guy (Corey) played a javelin-throwing halfling ranger with a wolf companion. Which is fine...but apparently he was also the court jester...and entertained people by ballroom dancing with the wolf.
And the wolf's name was Googleflartz.
For some reason before the adventure Jamie decided he wanted a keg of liquidified tomatos. This would come into play many times as the night went on.
The adventure started when Brom, the king's elderly human advisor, told the three that the king was missing. He informs them that they are the only ones available, because the palace guards are busy quelling a riot. When asked what the riot is about, the party learns that it is because someone destroyed/stole all the tomatos and people are panicking. The party decides to go after the king.
They followed tracks to a cliff with a rope ladder, and they forced Brom to descend first. He was about halfway down when Jamie decided to leap off and grab Brom as he fell, slamming Brom into the ground. I really do not know why, especially because Brom had just mentioned how he would accompany them to provide valuable healing for the group, since they lacked a cleric.
Corey and Shaun then had the dilemma of how to get Googleflartz down the cliff. They decided to hogtie him, and tie him to Shaun's back, and Shaun would carry them both down the ladder. Of course, the rope snapped, and they fell. Jamie "cushioned" their fall with Brom's limp body. Corey managed the climb down without incident.
They found the band of orcs that had kidnapped the king, and proceeded to whup them pretty good. However, at one point Brom was left facing an angry, charging orc, and Brom was ALSO the one carrying their "torch" - a giant bundle of wood and planks tied together and lit on fire. He hurled it at the orc and lit the orc on fire, but then they were without light, and only Shaun had darkvision.
They stumble into the main room, where the majority of the orcs await. Jamie drinks a potion of Enlarge Person, and the battle pretty much ends there. He flops on and crushes a few orcs, but one escapes, and he/it spend a round rolling after & dodging each other. The orc digs something out of his pouch before Jamie crushes him, and it was a Necklace of Fireballs globe, which detonates, blowing (for flavor's sake) a giant hole in Jamie.
Shaun meanwhile is enjoying the Bull Rush fighter variant from Dungeonscape, and is ramming people into the walls over and over. One orc manages to defeat him in the Bull Rush not once, but TWICE...but is then smushed by a charging Jamie.
Brom is left alone to take care of a single orc, and to everyone's surprise, he grapples with it, dominates it, and snaps its neck. He also hurls a white fire burst into the middle of the room, which continues burning, illuminating the cave.
They subdue/kill all the orcs, and reconvene on the far side of the room, where two orcs were trying to escape down a trapdoor with the king. Googleflartz is also seriously injured, so Brom heals him before taking the dead orc whose neck he snapped, and throwing him in the fire. Brom then says he is going to go and see if there is any sign of the orc that fled.
There is also one orc who surrendered, who vows to serve King Bob. His name is Vide. The others take off the
(This went perfectly. Nearing the end of the battle, I decided to have Brom be a fake. When he announced he was leaving to go look for the other orc, it made PERFECT sense in-game to both the party, and to fake-Brom. When the party discovered that the guy in the sack was the real Brom, there was a moment of shock, and they turned to confront fake-Brom...who of course by this point had fled successfully. The only thing that went wrong was that the next fight was too easy and not dramatic enough for such a great twist. What I should have done was cause a landslide, and force the party to somehow use the evil altar...Dark Prince, anyone? And then resurface, but tainted with evil, or something, and confront Brom, who has now seized control. Much more satisfying that way.)
During the fight, Shaun realizes once that they keep forgetting to declare what Vide is doing. Then the next round he says they forgot again, so they ask about him, and realize that Vide has slipped away from the fight and has grabbed the unconscious Brom, and escaped down the trap door.
They finish off the orcs (including Jamie crushing Brom to a bloody smear) and chase Vide. They find the real Brom, awake and having knocked out Vide (because the fake Brom had only healed him 2 hp). Farther down the tunnel they find some evil, unholy altar with 3 red knives. Without hesitation they throw Vide on the altar and Jamie stabs him once with each dagger. Vide's blood slowly seeps down into the ground, then everything goes dark, and then when they can see again Vide (and all the blood) is gone.
They go back up to the cave, and Brom asks if they even looked for the king in the palace. Answer...no. They go back to the palace and find the king there happy as can be.
We wrapped it up there. Corey enjoyed the session, but was a little bored with his halfling ranger (which really isn't a very optimal build.) We discussed over classes and potential characters and he definitely seemed excited for more gaming.
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