Session Nine - Feeling Fine

Session nine was completed last night.  A brief update of attendence follows:  Donna has gone on hiatus and we are not sure if and when she shall return to us.  Kevin was not present for the night's session leaving me to run it and Tyler and Mike to play it.  To pick up where we left off, the players had just finished combat with the hobgoblins and goblins saving the halflings.  The halflings were grateful and moved their caravan into the city limits.  Searching the goblins yeilded some crude weapons and armour as well as some coins and a map that indicated where the goblins fortress may be.  One of the choice finds what a masterwork studded leather armour that Saloch picked off of the leading hobgoblins.  The party decided to sell their loot in the morning and make their way to the fortress.  Before they left town Eden decided to split off from the group stating that her mission is just to find new recipes for alchohol and that this is becoming to violent for her tastes.  Guessing by the map they expect it to take them two days traveling on horses.  Once they had entered the deeper part of the forest, about half a days travel, the party happened up two satyrs,  one of them playing pipes and the other wishing to talk with them.  Saloch began to question the saytrs about slippy pete and the goblins.  The satyr explained that he would be happy to tell them if Saloch would give the saytr his armour.  Saloch traded and got two bits of information from the satyr.  The first is that Slippy Petes name is Zedon Zalon and that the woodland creatures call him the bug master or master of bugs.  The second is that in the fortress they are going to the total number of goblins is 2.  The party continued in the forest and a day later they found a gather of fey.  In a clearing in the forest there was a large 200 foot diameter pond with an island in the center that had a great oak tree on it.  From here the party gained a hobgoblin that was pretty much perma-stunned and the knowledge that the goblins in the fortress have brought a large oafish beast with them for protection.  Something very stupid and very big.  The party continued their travels and made it to the fortress by nightfall.