[This is the third part of the story I heard from my brother Corum about an unlikely band of adventurers known as the 'The Habibi Club'. They were: Ewiz the Great a human wizard, Sir Buttskii a gnomish bard, Tate a halfling rogue, Kayne a human sorcerer, Goobus a rather fat human bard, Gilbert a human monk and Walter the White a half-elf druid. We last saw them causing trouble in the Huntsman Inn north of Waterdeep.]
DAY 3
In the morning the group was smaller. Ewiz had already gone on ahead with some horsemen and Wendy had decided to stay at the Huntsman as she had met a friend of hers and was busy catching up with gossip.
Harag Tusker the half orc was there though, still wanting the lift he had arranged the day before.
Gilbert and Kayne went outside to get some air and look around. Meanwhile Walter the Druid tried to talk to some women at a nearby table in the common room of the Huntsman but only ended up annoying them. When three Road Wardens stepped in Tate had to come to the rescue with apologies and a few gold coins.
After breakfast they set off again. Tusker sat up front with the driver. After a few hours of travel they entered an area of forest and deep inside it they saw that a tree had fallen over the road. The coach stopped and suddenly they were attacked by goblin bandits that had been waiting in the shadows of the forest.
Tusker killed the driver and called in the goblins. A fierce battle commenced. Walter and his rat lead the charge, as the others piled out of the coach to take on the goblin attackers.
Kayne attacked with his magic, aided by Goobus at the side of the coach. Gilbert charged off to the right to fight two goblins in the tree line. Tate charged to the left, but struggled to fight all the goblins there and had to climb up a tree.
Buttskii, who was a gentle fellow and not used to violence cowered under one of the seats in the coach. But when a goblin came in to try and flank Kayne and Goobus, he bravely stabbed at its knees with his dagger.
Up the tree, Tate was badly injured. Goblins were shooting crossbow bolts at him and another was climbing up to get him. Not knowing what else to do he dropped his crowbar on the goblin which hit it right in the head and sent it tumbling to the ground.
Looking down he could see that Tusker had been killed and with their leader gone the goblins that remained alive fled into the forest.
With the fighting over it only remained to get Tate out of the tree. He had two crossbow bolts in him and was too injured to climb down. Walter tried to climb up to get him, but after falling twice gave up.
In the end Goobus and Buttskii convinced Tate just to fall out the tree and for them to catch him. Remarkably, this worked!
They gathered the goblin dead, looted their corpses, moved the tree and got the coach ready to go again. Luckily none of the coach horses had been injured in the fighting.
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