As we are heading to Woodhelm, we get ambushed by the town artificer. I don't remember his name, but he holds a grudge for a broken carpet and our failed raid on his home. I'm not sure what he means. I was never there!
Anyways, we fall into his trap. I wasn't expecting a trap, but I saw our barrel dwarf in a bind and ran to see if I could help him. Something tried to grab me as I was running buy I quickly dodged out of the way and made it to him. He informed me that it was a trap.
The artificer had two warforged titans, 1 retriever, and 2 trappers (one of the rug-like things that tried to grab me). The battle was quite a sight and we barely made it out alive. The retriever was particularly nasty. It had a way of paralyzing us at the wrong moment!
Just as we were getting ready to take out the retriever, the crazy artificer jumped on its back and rode away like some recurring villain in the storybooks. Oh, well. Gives me the chance to get the drop on him and stab him in the back at my earliest convenience. We got a ton of loot though: a set of fine clothes, 3 art objects (a brass mug, a gold birdcage with electrum filigree and a turquoise box each worth 250 Galifars! We also got 392 CP; 1,936 GP; 8,670 SP, and 31 PP. Poor fool looks like he had all of his wealth with him.We decided to take a full rest and rebuild Atom Smasher as he got wasted again.