Hello fellow adventurers I'm here to discus how parties can be both absent minded and gullible if not stupid. So last session we could assigned to find a goblin fort and a finger for a necromancer that they were holding on to. Once we found it both the barbarian and me noticed that the platform the goblins were standing on had pillars supporting it. So we started chopping and completely forgot about the item we needed. Our cleric didn't do much. Our sorcerer wasted charges on her magic missile wand and the bard just made it worse. So at first our idea was going great considering that at least all the goblins would be dead and we could rummage for the finger. However then our bard started to chop at the pillars with hardness of 5 with his 1d6/1 shortsword. After that he picked up burning logs and started trying to toss them at the hay near by to start a fire. It took him three turns to bring a log over 25 feet that could of taken him 1.5 turns. So the structure collapsed which started to fuel the fire and set the entire thing a blaze. Our new party member was in the fort and so was the finger. So in the end we lost 4 MM charges, two CLW charges, a party member, and the quest item. Once I realized this I almost started crying with laughter.