I genned a new, bogeyman and ( sadly ) nightcreature free world, made a pretty cool pikeman, was sent after a goblin gang. I think my pikeman may have slept near the camp, because the next thing I know, the goblins surround me and tear the ever-loving-[censored] out of me. I made a new adventurer. Same deal. Got ambushed, surrounded, ripped apart by a dozen multi-colored gobbos. I, for some strange reason, made a completely unarmed fighter. Same thing happened.
I made a swordsman, decided to get a maceman for a companion. I slept near the camp, the ambush screen pops up, I try to run and fight them one on one, my maceman friend gets ripped apart by arrows, he dies, and eventually ( after inflicting a few casualties ) I die.
I try ONE LAST TIME. I make a crossbowhuman ( all those previous adventurers were human by the way ) and I head there, and massacre them. Unfortunately, their own crossbow goblins managed to pincushion me, but I managed to kill their chieftess.
Funnily enough, the chieftess had no kills to her name, but some of her lackeys, especially the axe-man who killed two of my failed bandit-slaying adventurers, had kills. I sensed some political tension in the group, which I alleviated with my crossbow.
I kill the chieftess, along with several of them, BUT THERE ARE STILL A FEW ALIVE. I had already suffered from a heart laceration due to a crossbow shot, I didn't last particularly long.
I will destroy these bandits, I don't care how much like the Hills have Eyes they are, they will rue the day when they messed with a guy who could send an infinite number of adventurers after them, like some sort of idiotic manhunter army.