May 30, 2005 22:12
Day 19
Returned to Bree with gold and Perpetually Grinning, to collect reward and have feast thrown in our honour. Said feast was interrupted by bandits, of all the nerve. Killed some and chased the others down to their secret lair, but decided not to attack until there were more than just the four of us. Thus, we journeyed to Amun Sul and recruited some Rangers. A short time later we were back at the entrance to the bandits’ not-so-secret lair.
After a failed attempt to sneak in, we burst in with weapons drawn. Battled with bandits for a while before I (cleverly) shot the bandit king in the neck, at which point the bandits started committing suicide en masse. Wanting them for questioning, I managed to shoot the knife out of the hand of one bandit, but he then bit into a fake tooth and swallowed some poison instead.
Similarly, the dwarf attempted to knock the knife out of the hand of another bandit with one of his throwing axes, but instead managed to bury the axe in the man’s forehead.
Stupid dwarf.
End result was complete lack of bandits to question, however we did find an interesting symbol consisting of an eye held in a fist, surrounded by an eclipsed sun.
Bandits seemed to be the cause of the disturbances I was sent to investigate, however the symbol has intrigued me. Will stay with party to find out what it means.