Episode 3: The Bard and Sorcerer

"...we're just a squishy damage dealer and a pansy buff class. Sorry but it's true."

-Gwenevere

Cast

 * Edwin Perez as Fernando
 * Tara Pratt as Gwenevere
 * Adam Lucas as the hobgoblin

Plot
Gwenevere the Sorcerer and Fernando the Bard are tied up back-to-back in a hobgoblin's camp. When the hobgoblin leaves, Gwenevere reminds Fernando that they were ambushed by some goblins with poisoned arrows and a rusty axe, and the rest of their party (Astrid the Ranger and Torval the Cleric) is whereabouts unknown. Fernando insists that they not leave and instead find their lost party members and fight their captors, but at the hobgoblin's reappearance, they flee. They successfully make it down the mountain, and then decide to head to the nearest town, find a meat shield and a healer, and come back to rescue Astrid and Torval.

On the way to town, Fernando composes a song on his ukulele about their death-defying escape from hobgoblins, and says that it will be the first movement of a great symphony. Gwenevere is not convinced.

Details

 * This is the first mention of Fernando's favourite band, The Raging Gnomes with lead singer Shortpants Longbeard.

Trivia

 * The hobgoblin is played by Adam Lucas, who was one of the composers for Standard Action Season 1. He also built the outhouse in Episode 1.
 * This episode is one of the only instances where Fernando refers to Wendy as "Gwen," which was the original shortening of Gwenevere before the series settled on "Wendy."
 * This episode was filmed in January, and it snowed on lunch, so the first half of the episode (scheduled to be filmed in the afternoon) was set "on a snowy mountain," which was not the original plan.