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The very second thing our party decided to do was wipe out the bandits in the area (the first was negotiate peace with the Kobolds). We were still level 1 when we started tracking down the bandits.
By the time we reached the Stagfort (we'd gotten it's location from some bandits we'd... interrogated), we were level 2. Our party broke down like this:
Level 2 Aasimar monk (me)
Level 2 Human wilder
Level 2 Elan psion
Level 2 Human druid
Level 2 Human rogue (the guy who played him wasn't there, so he was essentially an NPC)
20 vials of alchemist's fire
During the first few nights we would set fire to the walls under cover of night. The druid would call deer and I would use my daylight spell-like ability on a cloak that we wrapped around it. While the deer ran around the fort we would scream and howl and generally be spooky. On the third day, the wilder (with help from the psion) disguised himself as a thief and snuck in. He put contact poison on the buckets (that they'd used to put out the fires) and the weapons and then started throwing alchemist's fire all over the place. Many thieves were burned to death in the barracks, a few were poisoned while trying to put it out. Some thieves tried to find out who was behind this, but most tried to leave the haunted fort. The druid's animal companion and psion had their fun suppressing these guys while the zombies killed them, but I ran past the zombies right into the fort as fast as I could. The wilder and I killed the thieves who remained in the fort, keeping away from the Staglord.
Once we'd finished them, we ran out and called in the druid and psion. We found the Staglord and the wilder, animal companion, and I waded into melee before he could respond. The druid cast entangle then the psion and druid cast spells from afar while we wailed on him. Then the owlbear showed up. He went right for the melee fighters while the casters tried to knock down his hit points (they had a long time to work on him thanks to the entangle spell). Fortunately, the wilder and I had been in a contest to see who could get the highest AC and the owlbear got horrible rolls so none of us was hit. The wilder used up the rest of his power points on the owlbear and tried to flee the fight. But we managed to knock out the owlbear in a couple rounds and refocused on the Staglord (the wilder still was running away). The bloodied, intimidated, stunned Staglord was easy work at this point.
The melee fighters were low on health and the casters were out of spells/points, but we had a burnt out husk of a fort all to ourselves. The wilder and I wanted to put impaled heads on all the ramparts, but the druid vetoed it ;_;