Beffa: uh-oh, still unconscious!

Makalbly Jane spectacularly lost initiate (rolled a 9!) to 5 skeletal warriors, with near-certainty of immanent demise for both herself and Frashler Katherine

Makalbly Jane then miraculously stalled for time (rolled an 18!) with the skeletal warriors (who are called “Valiant Aces”) with a semi-coherent narrative about her dear-departed Cedric, and all the valiance he stood for

…and that bought her enough time to blow the Horn of the Goat, which summoned a Red Spectral Goat, who then flew them up over the trees and to (relative) safety

Bad news: sling bullets don't work on Valiant Aces

Bad news: one of the Valiant Aces summoned a giant bird

Good news: Makalbly Jane cast Light on the giant bird, effectively blinding it

Bad news: another one of the Valiant Aces summoned a wind which slowed their attempted escape on The Goat

Change of plans: turn around, return to the hopefully relative safety of hovering over the woods

Good news: holy water does work on Valiant Aces! Cool, let's just fight it out!

Dangerous news: Oika did some science, and confirmed that the cylinders with strings sticking out of them are highly explosive

Disappointing news: Oika also discovered that sometimes they are duds

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more stuff happened

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Eventual victory, much rejoicing, and Valiant Aces corpse looting!

The inn, of course!