robbers on the road

The group managed to leave without a hitch. Angela's former group stopped by to say hello, and Claire seemed ready to go back on her promise and stop them, but she simply stared at them as they took the path toward the mountains.

Hours of marching passed.

Angela, maybe... I mean, maybe we should have bought some horses.

Luli: I don't intend to spend so much gold on something that could be a snack for a random monster.

Akari: We could have bought a carriage, cheaper than each getting a horse.

Sylnohir: What if I tamed some animals? I'm a druid, after all.

Angela: No bears, that trio of muscle-bound molesters pissed me off so much I'm starting to want to wipe out their species, and I'm one of the good guys.

Sylnohir: Technically, it was just one of them, and he was so romantic in his own way. Too bad you weren't interested.

Angela: Sylnohir, men are evil; they're arrogant, cruel, and annoying.

Sylnohir: It depends on the type of man, right? I knew a dragonborn poet once. He wanted platonic love. It took me a long time to change his mind. He was a very sweet and harmless man.

Angela: Yes, those exist too... but I don't think they count as "real men," and anyway, women are better in every way.

Sylnohir: So, really, you've been with a man in the past to make that comparison?

Angela: What? No, never! And I'll never try it with those disgusting beings!

Sylnohir: But you can't know if being with a woman is better than being with a man if you haven't slept with both.

Akari: He's perfectly fine.

Angela: No, I know I'm right.

Suddenly, a woman in damaged clothes comes out of the path.

Woman: Oh gods, thank you, adventurers! Please, my caravan was captured by bandits! I managed to escape and was trying to get back to the village to ask for help!

The woman, a human in her thirties, wore long, wavy brown hair, a cockatrice on her nose, a large chest, and an ass that rivaled Luli's. Her traveling clothes were very revealing, and she carried no weapons, apart from her charm.

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Luli: Stay still! Who are you? Did the bandits follow you?

The Woman: I don't think they followed me. I stunned the bandit who had accompanied me out to take a piss with a rock and escaped! But there are other people who are still trapped!

I am Mera, a merchant of fine fabrics.

Akari: Are those the harpies?

Mara: No, those are higher up. The men who kidnapped me were all human.

Angela: Do you see Sylnohir? Men, not women.

Luli: Yes, there really are no female bandits in this area or in the real world, Angela (pure sarcasm).

Mera: I beg you! Save my employees! And my cargo! I'm willing to give you a generous reward!

Luli is suspicious, the dice are rolling.... Luli is convinced that Mera is honest.

Angela: We will save your people, maiden. Can you tell me where their camp is?

Mera: Over there... it'll be about three large hourglasses away! I beg you to save them! I could wait for you here, hidden among the branches. If you don't return in a few hours, I'll flee to the village.

The group heads in the direction indicated by the saleswoman and soon glimpses a camp.

Dice roll

Sylnohir: I see seven bandits, but I don't see the prisoners. They're probably keeping them in a tent.

Luli: Isn't it strange they're not alert? They lost a prisoner a little while ago.

Akari: Maybe they haven't noticed the escape yet, after all, they're not that far from where we found Mara.

Angela: Mera, the busty merchant's name is Mera.

Akari: Same.

Angela: I'd say we storm in and take out the bandits, simple and straightforward.

Luli, sighing: Of course, because we're all warriors in heavy armor and with greatswords in hand.

Akari: Luli! No innuendo! About men!

Sylnohir: chuckles.

Luli: I didn't mean that... but yeah, why not.

Angela, then we'll sneak up and hit them hard.

Luli: Okay, this almost sounds like a plan, I'm fine with it.

Sylnohir: Okay.

Akary: Okay,

the group approaches and then

the GM rolls the dice

the players roll the dice.

Angela falls to the ground asleep! A spell is cast behind her.

Mera followed them and then revealed herself as a hostile enchantress!

Luli: Damn, I knew we shouldn't have trusted her!

The bandits from the camp rise and charge at the rest of the party.