Escape from Fargun

After running out of town, the group were attacked, quite nastily, by three cougars. After some cries of ‘Bad Kitty!’, and some solid thumps on the nose, they ran off, after causing some damage of their own.

Towards the end of the day, the group spotted an upturned stump marking a path away from the main road. Following the track, they came across a house atop a small rise. It seemed at first as if no-one was home, but then a halfling answered the door. After some cagey small talk, a greedy (on the halfling’s side) deal on healing potions, and noticing how out-of-place the halfling seemed here, it was time to investigate what was really going on. Squeezing through the freshly extinguished (well, maybe not fresh) fireplace, Tak managed to cop an arrow through the throat. A mighty heave from the pint-sized Gallidad sent him the rest of the way through. Similarias was helping Nedly try to take down the locked bedroom door, to no avail.

Gallidad used his head, and called for parley. The halfling swapped a chance at riches for a higher chance of living, and left out the front door, keeping the four at bay with a threatening flask of alchemist’s fire.

A brief investigation revealed the truth. Two bodies- A man and a woman- were secreted in the cellar. It seems the halfling had them, and waited for more takings from the next party to use the house. It did however give the group a place to rest and heal up.

A day or so later, scratching was heardat the door. Fearig the return of the cougars, Tak punched a hole in the roof to act as a lookout. Returning down, he opened the door to admit the scarred, bleeding, near death halfling. It seemed the cougars had got to him.

Realising that the halfling’s pack was still out there, Similarias and Tak went to search it out. A burnt patch was found, with a charred corpse of a cougar in it. The pack was nearby, in thick bushes. While trying to retrieve it, the two remaining cougars lept at them! Similarias was ready for them, and the two of them made short work of the animals.