Session 32: Battle of the Bugbears

March 24, 118

I didn't take good notes of this session, so point form mode activate:

• As they suspected would happen, bugbear reinforcements arrive quickly and begin attacking them.
• The enemies consist of goblins and bugbears, who arrive in waves and continually reinforce their side as the battle continues.
• At one point, the biggest, meanest-looking bugbear arrives, but Feyrith hits him with a Hold Person spell, allowing the party to dispatch him while he is paralyzed.
• At another point, a band a goblins appear from around a bend, attacking with ranged weapons and refusing to close with the party. Kaplan charges at them, triggering a pit trap right in front of them. He falls in, and spends most of the fight unsuccessfully trying to climb out.
• After the chief, the bugbear shaman also arrives and attacks the party with spells, but they kill him as well.
• Partway through the fight, a monstrous, gorilla-like creature appears out of nowhere in the party's back ranks and begins wreaking havok among the spellcasters. Although it does a lot of damage, they are eventually able to kill it.

Finally, after defeating six bugbears (not counting the original three from the storeroom), eight goblins, and one demonic ape, reinforcements stop coming and the party are victorious.