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***Chevy*** · 12-09-2021, 02:02 PM

Bandits

The party had a lovely evening talking about middle earth with the Knight and describing to him the game of Hockey, which surprisingly in the modern age he, nor his squire had heard of. As dawn came, the group broke camp and after saying their goodbyes to the knight and his squire, pressed on. Most of the morning is uneventful so they decide to stop...in the most hobbit fashion...to indulge in a second breakfast.

"This looks like a swell place, not too far from here I think is the bridge and the creek. I can get water to boil!" shouted Ruggsy, whos idea it was to stop for a second breakfast. As they laid down their backpacks and began setting up a spot for a small fire and also breaking out some biscuits to make. they were startled by a sudden arrow arriving among the middle of them.

"Now that I have your attention!" shouted a voice from behind a large honeysuckle thicket just before several armed men emerged from hiding, "I want everyone to stay as they are and not move a muscle."

In complete shock, Toast fainted and crumbled to the ground. Ruggsy moved back to the circle as all party members raised their hands.

"Good", said the bandit as he placed his sword back into its sheath, the remainder of his party keeping their weapons out and ready. "Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Easton Craft. You may or may not have heard of me, but you are passing through my area. My colleagues and I..." he paused as he gestured to the four other average sized men in his party and the one, rather tall...seemingly gargantuan man in the back. "My colleagues and I are interested in taking what you have there. If you cooperate, there will be no issue so please set down all of your backpacks, gold, jewelry and other magical devices on the ground and step away."

"And if we refuse?" retorted Geekusoid.

"If you refuse..."

A creeping grin peeked across Easton's face. He snapped his finger and pointed at the party. The "giant" in the back of the bandits lumped forth with alarming speed and grabbed ahold of Toast's passed out body, and baring a knife.

"If you refuse, your passed out friend here will see the end of their travels....permanently. You all seem like decent folk. I'd hate to have to spill blood..."

"Well, you don't seem like a decent fellow..." snapped Jess. "We'd honestly hate to die. How about a bet. Seeing that you have us at the disadvantage, I don't see why you wouldn't want to."

Easton raised an eyebrow. Nobody had offered to make a bet with him before as mostly he and his motley crew would just take what they want, kill who resisted and go on with their day. "I'm curious...why would you want to make a bet with a bandit who could just simply kill you and take what he wants?"

Jess smiled.

"Because you seem very confident in your abilities. You probably think you're very smart. Just, not as smart as I am. Here's the bet. Over a battle of wits, if I win you let us go and we will even make you breakfast. Second breakfast in fact, if you've ever heard of it. If you win, you can kill us and take everything we own."

"Jess, WTF are you doing?" snapped Geek.

"Its okay." Jess replied as she looked back at Easton. "What do you say? Let us begin making breakfast so you may feast after I win?"

The bandit was taken aback by her own confidence. He looked back at his own crew, knowing that the end result will get them what they want anyway. "Bet." He motioned to the giant, who then laid Toast back on the ground, who was now moaning groggily from passing out.

And so, the battle of wits had begun. While Jess, who secretly had a built up immunity to iocane powder began testing intelligence against the bandits, Ruggsy began working on second breakfast. All the while, Aleris, Kalesalad, Ragnarr, Wulf and Evok sat down and began eating what could have very well been their last meal...a delicious feast of Ruggy's creation.

The feasting was grossly interrupted as the bandit stood up, obviously irritated. "How is it possible that you outsmarted me! I even knew that it was iocane powder. Everyone should have figured that the Dread Pirate Roberts was Wesley from the minute they were climbing the wall!"

No more than the bandit screamed that at Jess, than one of the other bandits fell to the ground, unconscious. Both parties, travelers and bandits were stumped at what just happened. One of the other bandits reached down next to his associate and picked up what looked like to be...a shaker bottle.

"She outsmarted you, because you let yourself get distracted!" a voice boomed as the other bandits dropped to the ground, including the larger one. The party of GM's began to smile as @sve7en @Thunder39 and @Nhamlet came into view.

Oh how the turns have tabled! All party members stood up now, outnumbering the bandit leader 12 to 1.

"You can either leave my friends alone now and run..." began Thunder.
"Or you can be...regressed" chimed in Nhamlet.

The bandit, knew that he was beat, dropped his own materials and ran, leaving his colleagues in his proverbial dust.

The team stood up and proceeded to welcome the other GM's.

"How did you find us here?" piped up Geek

"Funny story", Sve7en started. "We had heard rumor that you and the others were up to something about a mysterious puck. We thought it was just bull crap, but then this strange Knight passed by and was talking about some hockey players he had just met."

He bent down and picked up his shaker bottle and dusted it off.

Nham and Thunder spoke up next almost simulataneously.

"So we decided to come find you. If you're going on some wild adventure, we're going as well."

And so the fellowship of GM's was larger and fuller now, thanks to a wonderful second breakfast...and slightly richer now as well thanks to some of the things left behind by the bandits. They decided that was enough excitement for the day and traveled only further enough to be by the bridge by Brandywine river.

Fluw · 12-09-2021, 02:06 PM

Ahh perfect! As expected I did nothing, really captured my likeness Geek. <3

***sköldpaddor*** · 12-09-2021, 03:07 PM

REGRESS THEM HAM

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