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Sessions 31: Bandits
The party stopped in Locas, the capital of Knadrek. After replenishing their supplies and sleeping in a bed in a high quality inn the party continued up the coast towards the headwaters of the Zath River.
When the party approached Brile, it struck them as a sleepy coastal town. Since none of the party had ever been there, they didn’t realize that the lack of activity was abnormal. The town of Brile has a thriving market and normally barges laden with goods are piloted up the slow moving Zath River, but a veritable army of bandits had all but halted trade traveling on the river.
The group passed by the town, not even entering for a hot meal. After traveling northwest along the river for three days, the group was nearing a bend in the river when Corwynne spotted several men wearing camouflage clothing within the tree line. Hiding as they were, Corwynne figured that they could be up to no good, so she released a fireball into their midst. As the flame died from her fireball, a large group of men stepped out of the tree line as a cohesive unit. The group could hear someone in the forest shouting orders. The first line of men that stepped out of the forest were archers. They let loose a volley of arrows. Corwynne began casting spells, Hatch returned fire with his bow, while Allister and Chiranjeev charged across the ground separating them from the archers. Just as they reached the archers a group of swordsmen stepped out to meet them. After a long battle several of the bandits broke away and retreated back into the forest. The party had defeated a force of nearly forty men, but the leaders and several of the rank and file bandits had escaped.
Corwynne had Skooby track the bandits deep into the forest. They found the lair of the bandits. Their lair consists of four trees with large treehouses built high in their boughs. There were rope bridges extending between the buildings. Corwynne decided to feel out the group of bandits, so she cast several spells, hoping to defeat the leaders of the bandits on her own. Unfortunately one of the leaders was a powerful wizard and she was able to chase Corwynne away. She joined her friends at the river, preparing to enter the forest again to remove the leaders of the bandit group.