Playing Dice with the Universe

Summary:   At last Ryazan. Chapter 104 ~ More wilderness travel. Leaving Obelheim we travelled north toward Uckrofurt.  Rubinifer continued on with the Walton family when we had to fix a loose wheel.  Hurring to catch up with them a group of Ogres and Goblins came out of the trees in an ambush. Hayley's mount was so startled at the fearsome sight of the Ogres it turned and bolted in Terror in the other direction.  Zena and Rangrim fled with her as well.  Thinking she much have a cunning plan Tayy and Gwyn abandoned the cart and followed after. By the time Hayley had got control of her mount the Goblins had taken our cart, loaded it up with their human prisoners and headed out of sight.  Easy come easy go it was not as if we had paid for the horse. Finding a possible camp sight we saw strange Dwarven runes carved into trees and a nearby cottage.  There was no answer when we knocked on the door. Fearful of witches we decided to walk through the night and...

Summary:   Bandits on the road. Chapter 103 ~ Moving Further North. Planning to keep ahead of Rothchild our party continued north.  Reaching Wurtbad Rubinifa was able to find a shop with a pistol in stock as he started collecting the new trappings for his role as a highwayman.  Tayy and the others chipped in to buy some power and shot; it seems keeping a working pistol is very expensive! We we had fifteen people and a pair of carts the few outlaws we saw gave us a wide birth as we travelled north from Wurbad through Lieske and on towards Obelheim.  Here we had to camp out on the side of the Old Forest Road. We were disturbed in the night when a man and his dwarven companion tried to steal our horse and cart!  It seemed they were running from a gang of outlaws who decided to attack us just as we stopped the first set of thieves getting away with the cart. Armed with his human bane sword Rubinifa quickly cut through most of the minions while Xena just managed to t...