There was a troll in the sewer. The story started to be whispered around, and it did not take long for Nancy and her companions from the kobold fight to hear,a d decide to try to help.
A worried looking official told them what had happened. The troll isn't the real danger, he said. The troll got in through one of the windmill pumps, and broke it - when they sent men to fi it, he came back and attacked, and one of them was killed Now, though, no one is willing to try to fix the windmill, and they were worried that the troll would break another one. He had been spotted by one; he seemed to know there were people there he could prey on. "If you could get the troll, you would save the city - if the pumps fail, the sewers will flood, maybe the water supply will flood, maybe the drainage will fail and the whole city will flood." Nancy said they would try.
The party was given oil and torches, a potion of healing, and the officials wished them godspeed. They went in, very carefully, and almost immediately found the troll. They laid a careful ambush for it - letting Bonnie Prince Charlie, the ranger, hide in one alcove, while Guinness the fighter hid (invisibly) in another, and the rest waited at the end of a passageway, hoping to lure the troll in so the fighting men could ambush it. It worked: the troll saw the others and came after them, though he spotted BPC quickly and made for him. They tried to get him with oil and fire, but Ichi the monk missed with the oil he flung at him, and the others did not have time to ignite the iol they put on the floor. But they were ready.
Nancy had magic: she cast a spell that terrified the troll and sent him running away from her at speed. As he went, BPC and Guinness attacked him, hitting him hard - and then both dashed up and Guinness was able to douse him in oil, in preparation for burning. Then Spencer the wizard stepped up and cast a sleep spell - enough to knock the troll over. they quickly set him ablaze and that as the end of him.
They left, and men moved to repair the windmill. But that very night, a troll attacked another windmill, driving the men away - word spread quickly, and no one was willing to work on the pumps. The story spread - the adventurers hired to kill the troll had failed.Left it to regenerate as trolls are known to do! When they heard this claim, Nancy and the others were appalled. "We killed it - we immolated it! we brought proof!" they said. The officials who hired them tried to reassure them - they knew they had killed the troll, once and for all. It was a vicious rumor, just a rumor.
But it means there are more trolls, Nancy said - and they all knew it was true. So they prepared to go back in, this time, ready to fight as many trolls as they might find.
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