If we're taking a short rest, Bhelmyr will use 3 hit dice. Thanks to his Bloodwell Vial, he also gets 5 sorcery points when he spends hit dice (once per day)

Matrim will be using two. (Will update post if we do with healing gained)

Edit: Healed for 11 points from hit dice.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:46, Mon 15 Nov 2021.

Ok, the party decides to rest for an hour (short rest).

- how far away from the entrance will the party move ?
- I believe it was mid-afternoon, so the short rest will bring the time up to late-afternoon.

Be aware that :

- time also passes for the bandits, who will have been alerted to the adventurer's presence.
- anyone taking any special precautions, like putting a familiar in the air, or turning themselves invisible ?

How many horses are there, and how many of us? I'm thinking, if enough horses, we could send groups of horses in different directions so they won't know which one is us, then travel for 1/2 hour to an hour, (Depending on how much time we want to give them) find some shelter away from any roads, rest, and return.

There are approximately 15 horses nearby,
and the adventuring party is 10 members.

Oops ... 9 members, Sally ... ?

I agree to Bhelmyr’s plan.

I can convince some horses to go in another direction....but a group of 9 and then several separate horses, well that won't be too effective.

Does that include our own horses? If so, most of us can double up. Matrim will need his own horse, possibly Grundold. One horse could possibly support Tali, Myra, and one other lightly armored person. Bhelmyr could cast fly on one of us, but the slot is probably better saved for battle. If we can all fit on 6 horses, we send 9 a different direction. If Sally has betrayed us, they know our numbers.

With your own horses included (sorry, i forgot),
it's closer to approximately 20 horses.

The 9 remaining party members could fit on 5 horses.
It won't be pleasant for the horses, but you're only riding a short distance.
You may not even need to ride for more than 15 minutes, but that's up to you.

After the short rest, and travel-time back to the bandit lair entrance, it will be very-early-evening.
Only a few hours of light will remain.

Works for me.

That works

Sounds good. Won't matter much how much sunlight is left, once we're underground.

The adventuring party moves away from the entrance and takes a short rest.

I'll make a post in the main thread within the next few days detailing what the adventuring party finds when they return to the entrance ...

Regarding Matrim's suggestion of shooting arrows
at the two newly-spotted bandit guards :

As the party has not been spotted,
go right ahead and roll dice for actions such as these,
if you decide to do such a thing.

So what do the other adventurers think of what they've seen and what Matrim has to say?

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If we were sitting around a gaming table,
character sheets, dice, miniatures, munchies, etc, all there ...
... you'd see me grinning-from-ear-to-ear at this scene slowly unfolding.

Just started back in my IRL game and boy oh boy id have the same reaction as you would!

I miss RL gaming....been so long

Anyone looking cloesly at the scene,
please make a perception check ...

Just a note (for Talianythn and others) :

Both the bandit guards surrendered.
One surrendered on his own,
and he then convinced his comrade to surrender.

The "prisoners", however ...

Tali is a simple elf that isn't used to humans. Her kind are honest and forthcoming. In her eyes the one who stepped up has owned what he did and admitted it. The other she sees as himself acting on self preservation only to save his skin, and while she would spare him, the two prisoners have proved deceptive and it's made her angry.

Short tempered thing, isn't she

haha !
Yes, she certainly cracked it with those prisoners !

Wow....their not holding back!

Wasn't killing them the plan?

Are you letting them take the crossbow bolts ?

I vote let them have some bolts - 10 each maybe