The Farm

“The Farm”
Rise of the Runelords episode
Episode no.	Episode 46
Date	2009
Game Master	Abbe
Characters	Dorothea Gloriana Honeypot Nell Velicia
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In this chapter the heroes make a detour to a farm and see the results of inbreeding.

The Farm

The rain got worse and we got ready to continue on to Fort Rannick when Honeypot said
"The bear want to go into the woods."
"Then let it. We're in a hurry if we want to get to Fort Rannick before nightfall." I answered.
"It's well kept, better than any wild bear would be." Honeypot said.
"It's probably the companion to one of the rangers from the fort. It might be looking for it's master." Velicia suggested.
"Yeah, yeah." I said pulling the reins over Creampuffs head to lead him into the woods instead of riding on.

Walking through the dense forest we noted several simple traps that was easily avoided. We reached a small clearing from which we could glimpse a farm up ahead. Honeypot cast her telepathy ritual so we could talk without being heard and hear each other over the rain and distance. We left the horses and slowly continued through the wood toward the farm. Gloriana and Velicia stayed a little behind, but we others continued to the edge of the trees to get a good look at the farm. Peeking through the heavy rain we saw two deformed half-ogres with too many fingers working the field in front of a really big barn and an equally oversized house. Honeypot and I sneaked around to the barn through the very dense forest and found even more traps along the way. When we got there we tried to peek through the slits, but the wall was covered on the inside by something that I thought looked like simple tapestries, but that's strange to have in a barn. Honeypot said that she thought it was cob web.

We told the others and continued on to the house. The main door was facing the field and there was a side door also visible from the ogres that we could see. We sneaked around again to get a better look at the back of the house. Honeypot almost walked into one of the traps but saw it at the last moment and we got there without any further trouble. There were no doors on the back side of the house, but it had windows. They were blocked and I sneaked up to one to try to get a peek inside. There were planks nailed sparsely over the window and instead of glass was a tense skin. I tried to cut through it to see in but it had a curtain too.

Half-ogre in front of farm.

We decided that to get into the house we had to go in through one of the doors and then we had to get rid of the half-ogres in front of it. I and Honeypot sneaked up as far as we dared and waited for the others to get into place. Gloriana started by attacking one of them with her lighting magic and Honeypot and I stormed right out into the field. A big fight followed where the poor bear got attacked by two really large snakes coming out of the woods from behind. We killed the half-ogres and scared off the snakes. I got worried for Creampuff. If the snakes couldn't get a bite out of the bear they might attack the horses. We brought them to the farm and left them in front of the house together with the bear as we entered the house.