(G53 - BG 22/05/09)

Extract from Rollo's Notebook

(day 1)
This is a story I heard about another group of disparate individual's that formed a rather
unwilling group against adversity.
This tale starts with an unhinged bard styling himself as King Banjax Barkuuloxx, a
noble minded female monk called Dana and a half-orc barbarian called Bokk.
A few days walk south of Waterdeep a sudden storm hit the Sword Coast and caught all three
of them outside. Banjax had been wandering aimlessly in the wilds, Dana had just been kicked
off the back of a carpet caravan and Bokk had been struggling all day to move along his
reluctant donkey.
All three, as chance would have it, made for the same tor, a large burial mound as the rain
began to come down hard.
Banjax found Bokk getting his donkey inside by the simple expedient of knocking it out with
a punch in the head!
'Storm-peace', said the half-orc as he saw the bard approaching.
Banjax knew that storm-peace was an ancient custom whereby people that might usually be
enemies formed a temporary non-agression pact while sheltering from a storm.
Banjax nodded and joined the half-orc in the first chamber of the tor.
A short while later Dana arrived, peering nervously into the darkness.

Banjax declared them to be 'wooblers' (friends) and decided that Bokk was to be
'Arch Chancellor of the Underpants and Assistant Donkey Puncher' while Dana was
elected as 'Mother Superior and Chief Justice against Rats'.

The three travellers lit a fire and chatted together as the storm raged outside. As the
night wore on and the weather intensified, suddenly a bolt of thunder directly over the
top of the tor, struck and three previously sealed stone doors broke, cracked and fell
to pieces.

Suddenly six startled rats ran into the room, but were quickly killed, mainly by swings
of Bokks battle-scythe. Then the three brave souls entered the room where the rats had
came from and discovered a burial chamber that contained a single ancient standing
sarcophagus.
As Bokk approached, a strange flying head creature leapt up from the top of the coffin
where it had been nesting, but the half-orc killed it with a single swipe of his scythe.

A ring was found in the beasts nest and Banjax declared it state property, but Bokk was
the one to take it.

The next door lead to another room that had a rope dangling down into it and at the
back another exit. Two hobgoblin crypt robbers appeared and not being interested in any
sort of 'storm-peace' attacked. Banjax began to sing a stirring battle-song while Dana
and Bokk fought these new foes.
Again the enemy was defeated by Bokk's scythe and Dana's martial arts.

Two corridors branched off from here and Bokk went down the smaller of the two only to
find a chamber full of huge webs and a hungry looking spider.
He sliced away at it with his scythe and Banjax hit it as a well with a well placed
crossbow bolt.

The creature defeated, a search of it's lair turned up more treasure. The three allies
moved on to the next burial chamber and were attacked by the moaning undead remains
of a bugbear. This fight was much more frantic and all three were injured at its end.
Although Bokk did the most to beat it down, it was Banjax that finished it off, with
a blow that decapitated it!

Wearily they returned to the first entrance chamber, but the lure of treasure was too
much and they stepped over the final broken door. Inside was a chest that Bokk and
Dana went to open. Banjax wisely stepped back as Bokk's unskilled probings released
a shower of nasty little darts.

The tor was now fully explored so the new allies settled down to sleep although
Banjax kept them awake for a while with his mad stories and rambling to a mummified
head he had found in the spider's lair.

(day 2)
In the morning, the storm had passed but it still rained. The group decided to stay
in the tor for another day, resting from the previous day's ordeal. They gathered
some food from outside, Banjax using his umbrella to keep the rain off.

That night Banjax revealed again his obsession and fear of chickens. He continually
pestered Bokk with questions about whether or not there were any outside. Bokk was
sure there were no chickens anywhere in the area, but when Banjax used a 'Ghost Sound'
cantrip to make it seem that there were some clucking around, Bokk rushed out to
see ... nothing ... and returned rather shamefaced!

(day 3)

The new friends decided to head back to Waterdeep along the coast road.
Today Banjax was dressed in a wizard's robe and hat and carried his faithful umbrella.
Bokk and Dana did not comment on his unusual attire.