Tax the Hobbits

Scribe Notes

Summary

Adventure: Tax the Hobbits
GM: Phil
Season: Autumn 791 WK
Night: Someday
Level: Level

Party

• Brightflare - played by Bill (Party Leader)
• Eralion Forestborn - played by Ian (Scribe)
• Flamis - played by Jacqui
• Corel - played by Trevor
• Whisper - played by Kathy M
• Basalic - played by Keith S

Employer

A magistrate

Mission

Find out why a hobbit village hadn't paid it's taxes to the local lord.

Pay

Lots

Scribe Notes - Summary

Plane

Alusia

Places visited

• Barony of Jessel, slightly south of Artzdorf
• A gnome village
• A hobbit village

Major NPCs encountered

• Poll - the gnome leader
• Mike - a hobbit
• Simon Shortkiller - a rebel hobbit
• McHale Def - the old hobbit leader
• Alex - hobbit E&E mage
• Megan - Alex's daughter
• Julia - hobbit healer
• John - Simon's accomplice
• George - another hobbit

30/06/90

The mission was to help a magistrate find out why a hobbit village hadn’t paid it’s taxes. Left by ship to go north to Jessel

05/06/90

Arrived at Jessel and headed inland.

06/06/90

Heard the news that a hobbit had passed by here muttering about ‘doom and gloom’.

07/06/90

Arrived at the magistrate’s castle that afternoon. The magistrate told us that the taxes had been collected from the gnomes and the elves but the hobbits had put up fortifications and weren’t letting anyone in. The next tax collector to try didn’t come back. We decided to see if the gnomes knew anything.

09/06/90

Arrived at the gnomes posing as traveling merchants. A flame sight saw a vision of the hobbit village with the barricades and guards patrolling. The gnomes had helped build the wall and told us that it wasn’t safe to go there as the hobbits had been rather withdrawn recently.

10/06/90

Went into the forest where the hobbit village is. Stopped by an armed hobbit who warned us to leave or suffer the consequences. Camped outside.

Caught a hobbit who said that they had paid their taxes and that they’re protecting themselves against something in the forest.A while later the camp is attacked by more hobbits who rescue the prisoner but three are killed.

An aerial survey manages to spot the village even though it has been camouflaged.

11/06/90

Go into the forest and find a hobbit campsite. Hear one hobbit reminding another about the cover story i.e. there’s something in the forest and the taxes are paid. Manage to catch most of them but one is killed and another escapes. Leave all but one - Mike.

Mike tells us that a new hobbit, Simon, had taken over and convinced the villagers not to pay the taxes as they saw little return and they could protect themselves. Also they were having problems meeting the taxes this time. A hobbit deputation had gone to see the magistrate but did not receive a good reception by his staff. Get a map of the village with the intention of going in and kidnapping Simon.

12/07/90

Get to the village but are zapped by Sleep Wards and captured.

13/07/90

We’re interrogated. Only real good thing about this is the food. Finally it was decided that we are to be released into the forest with instructions not to come back. Offer to take a letter to the magistrate. Some of us still suspect we’re going to be taken out and killed so we manage to remove our iron anklets and use dessert, a pavlova, to gum up the locks so that they’ll come off easily later

14/07/90

Get escorted out into the forest. Stop at a clearing and attack the escort. Afterwards all but two are dead, one captured and Simon’s lieutenant, John, escapes. Reach our campsite with our captive, Bob.

15/07/90

Mike is sent off with a note for Alex, the hobbit E&E. He discovered no guards and there seemed to be no one in the village. He slipped the note under the door and returned. Birds are sent off to have a look. Discover everyone is in the Great Hall, and don’t appear to be moving. Go to the village. Place is very quiet - like a graveyard. Intercepted by a guard who tells us that they were all drugged the night before and have only just recovered. Some are still in a coma, including Alex and Simon, John, and a couple of others are missing as well as most of the funds. Found nearly all of our equipment, except the healing potions and an elvish Healer was sent for. Alex and co were cured and we discovered that they were someway a long way off to the north. We fireflighted after them.

16/07/90

Finally catch up to them and set up an ambush. There are four hobbits and three humans. Suddenly they were vapourised by a Hellfire. Returned to the hobbit village with the treasure.

17/07/90

Returned with McHale, the old hobbit leader, back to the magistrate. Got paid.

27/07/90

Arrived back at Seagate.