Adrik celebrates victory over the second goblinoid wave as a rock flies over the defensive wall around Goldenfields and conks him in the head. Adrik loses consciousness. Grund won’t be quite the same until his comrade comes to.
Mel cures Lifferlas, returning him to the fight. Grund and Lifferlas run down the escaping goblin with competing Naxene and Harry providing ranged support behind them. Baergar sorts through the fallen goblinoids for items of value. The bugbears yield some gemstones [14 gems @ 10 gp each].
A pair of ogres lead a third wave of goblins in from the fields. The ogres smash Lifferlas back down, wood chips flying everywhere. Grund charges into an ogre while firebolts from Harry and Naxene blast it. Mel, unable to find time for mending her battlehammer, chops the ogres with her handaxe while simultaneously bringing Lifferlas back to the fight. Again. Zi’s quarterstaff bashes the ogre, and Xelbrin’s crossbow just barely finds it way into the ogre’s big toe. Shalvus sneaks in a hit, and the first ogre is down. Self-appointed treasurer Baergar continues searching for gemstones.
Harry explodes a massive fireball in the swarm of goblins behind the second ogre, wiping out seven goblins, two bugbears that both looked like a friend of Harry’s, and the last ogre. Naxene follows on with a second fireball that knocks out the remaining goblins and injures a pair of bugbears that resemble no one she knows. The yelling bugbears flee with Mel, Zi, and Grund in hot pursuit. Shalvus cracks his quarterstaff botching a swing. Firebolts from Harry and Naxene blast into the scrambling bugbears. Shalvus unslings his crossbow and drops one bugbear, Harry’s firebolt slays the other. Baergar, increasingly separated from the party, finds an intriguing ring with four diamond-like gems set along the edge alternating with four indentations.
Behind the combat, a pair of hill giants climb over the wall on the other side of town. They scoop swaths of wheat from the fields and stuff the food into their bags, quickly closing on Baergar’s looting operation. Baergar hides among the piles of dead goblins. Poorly. Ogg scoops up Baergar, fresh meat for Guh, as he explains to his fellow hill giant Lob. Ogg stuffs Baergar into his bag with the other food. Baergar explores the inside of the bag and shelters in a stone coffin full of curiously strong mint leaves.
Mel completes the mending of her warhammer. Approaching Ogg and Lob attract the attention of the rest of the party. Harry and Naxene position themselves at their customary casting range. Grund, especially antagonistic toward giants, quickly closes with Ogg and judges him mercilessly. Shalvus’s sneaky bolts, Naxene’s fireball, Harry’s scorcher, Mel’s hammer, and Zi’s staff all concentrate on Ogg. Baergar escapes the coffin and cuts his way out of Ogg’s bag, liberating a pile of collected wheat along with a shrub and a rocking chair. The stone coffin gets hurled at Harry by exceedingly irritated Ogg. Shalvus gets the fatal hit on Ogg with a critical crossbow bolt leaving just distraught Lob.
Lob surrenders asking for mercy, but then also sprints away just to be on the safe side. The party runs him down easily and Lob offers to answer questions in exchange for his safety. Grund will be the judge of that.