Songs of Blades and Heroes campaign game 9, ‘The Heist’,
was a fitting title as Bayaz and his lads "wuz robbed!"
Rumours have spread
that a warband has obtained a magical artefact. A thief has been hired to steal
the powerful item! Now everyone is chasing after him – the warband that was
robbed is hunting him down while his employers are trying to organise his
escape.
The First Law crew, having paid their share of damages to Fat Eddy, the proprietor of The Blue Oyster Bar, since the mass brawl withthe elves, spent a couple of weeks recuperating and generally keeping a low
profile. Even Rudd Threetrees. It was Curden Craw, after a marathon game of
dice with a couple of Gurkish traders, that became the recipient of information pertaining
to some kind of magic artefact ripe for the taking in a hamlet a dozen or so leagues away.
After a long discussion, Curnden convinced Bayaz and the
crew that investing in the services of a specialist would greatly improve the
chances of success for this particular venture. And so it was that Grendel
from the Dishonourable Guild of Thieves was contracted. After an increasingly anxious few days
waiting, Bayaz eventually received a folded piece of parchment from a discreet
courier, which simply read, " Belt of Strength. Meet in Ostenlet. Two days. G" a roughly draw map indicating a few isolated
buildings and wooded locations was drawn on the reverse. Apparently the
investment had paid off.
It was only a short while after the First Law set out
from the barn that Fate once again mischievously intervened. There seemed to be
some sort of disturbance emanating from a traders house next to the inn. As
they approached they saw someone that looked like Grendel duelling with the obviously
svelte figure of an elf. Threetrees then pointed further up the trail. More
elves approaching - Galan's elves!
But it was too late for Grendel as he lost his valiant battle
with the elf before the First law lads could close the distance. The elf quickly
headed back towards his comrades, with Grendel's leather man-bag slung over his
shoulder. Ironically Grendel had himself been robbed! The First Law crew were
enraged, Black Dow particularly keen to close with the bloody elves.
Once again, the First law crew found themselves
outnumbered and engaged in yet another vicious skirmish with Galan's wily warband.
Threetrees dragged the grievously wounded Grendel into the traders house, whilst Forley,
Red Hat and Black Dow charged the elves who were quickly forming a battle-line. Forley skilfully
flanked and started loosing arrows whilst his comrades crashed into the enemy.
Bayaz had caught up and, sighting Threetrees through an open window in the trader's
house, bellowed for him to leave Grendel and support his friends. That he did, the
door hinges being rattled apart as Threetrees charged from the house bellowing a thunderous
war cry.
With Red Hat and Black Dow outnumbered and doggedly
trading blows with the elves, Bayaz himself, embittered by months of lost engagements
with Galan's warband, uncharacteristically let his self-discipline melt away
and charged into the melee himself. He even exhausted his rare Charmstone hoping to get the edge on Galan. The First Law lads fought so valiantly,
that Galan somehow found himself being engaged by Bayaz, supported by
Threetrees! Sensing his imminent demise it was
all Galan could do to hold off the onslaught. But once again, luck sided with
the elves and they swiftly ran to their leaders aid.
Inevitably, the greater eleven numbers told and the
skirmish concluded with the First law lads wounded and beaten. Galan, battered
and bruised himself, and more than a little perturbed by the ferocity of
Bayaz's onslaught, ordered his warband to disengage as they had got what they
wanted - the mysterious Belt of Strength.
Galan briefly held his sword in
salute to Bayaz and then slunk away, melting back into the woods with his
warband.
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