Aersalus Season 1, Session 10 The Battle of the Pigs

 

The Cast of B-Team (Aersalus)

Listens to Ocean aka Osprey (Rory) Halfling Magistrate, mage, healer, priest, historian.

Rhum Kaldalsson (Curtis) Minotaur artist.

Trapper (Chris D) Gremian, artificer, hunter, Armsmaster.

Unit 7 (Brice) A Cog, magical construct golem.

NPC's

Altan ru Chuulaii the tax collector

Raito

Tesseikai Watersinger, healer

Murk the Lurk, spirit crab

Skeleton Man

Back at WolfTrap

Listens arrives at his body to find Unit 7 and Murk playing a game of Lejune over his body. He wakes up and gets a little info but is interrupted by screaming. The group run towards the yelling, sounds like some townsfolk in trouble.

A cart of people headed into town were attacked by bandits and giant porcupine pigs, affectionately called porkypines. The others who were in town head over to deal with this too.

Turns out to be a trap, as Listens quickly finds out by getting peppered with crossbow bolts. Something that is turning into a very bad habit.

The bandits appear to have some good leadership and planned to lure the group into a fight and then ambush them with bandits hiding in the trees. Luckily this time was wearing his armor, its very expensive silk armor enhanced to fight spirits so he has been leaving it packed for routine travel. It helps a little, though he still gets hurt.

Trapper dashes for a tree and uses the cover to snipe the bandits.

Raum tosses an axe at a bandit but its reflected back at him, hitting him in the shoulder.

The bandits then toss a fireball at us, Listens probably would have died but Raum covers him with his own body, 

Unit 7 charges a porkypine that charges the group.

 There are three of the porkypines, one fire mage (Listens thinks its a witch since he didn't sing), and several bandits, most of whom are hidden in the trees sniping at us.

Unit 7 works hard at one of the porkypines, they seem to be very resistant to injury. A skeleton ally of Trapper tries to help but breaks his sword and gets rather frustrated. turns out to be quite the acrobat though!

Two others charge Raum and he has some issue killing them but keeps them busy, especially since one charged the other by accident.

Trapper pretty much takes out the bandits.

Listens gets a lucky crit on a chill spell and takes out both the pigs.

Aftermath

Overall a tough fight but one we won pretty handily, though some of that was luck.

The warriors perform their role very well.

Listens was not built as a fighter and I chose poor songs (paths) for fighting, mostly being a support character with excellent healing and some light buffing spells.

Trouble is the group really has little need of most of his buffs, the skill levels are so high that an extra +1 or 2 just is not significant. He can't add DR or direct damage buffs and has limited direct offense himself.

Talked with the other players after the game and he has one buff that can help Trapper do more damage against heavy armored types. Listens is not a bad character or design, just fragile and easily hurt while being a priority target (since he's a mage most sapient's think he's the dangerous one). However, he is good at a lot of noncombat activites.  The lot we picked up included a magic boomerang he might try out. His Wood singing might help him hit better with it. He really needs to figure out better buffing or defensive spells though. Maybe a Parry Missile Weapons spell for all those crossbows and bows being used.