After having killed a multitude of beasts ranging from a cyclops to a troll to many minotaurs, I got bored and headed to the northernmost point I could reach without swimming.
On my way back, having decided to not commit suicide by drowning, my party of 8 (including me) goes to sleep and shortly thereafter gets ambushed by a local gang and all but 3 of us are dead upon waking up or killed within the first few turns by their 3 crossbowmen, one of whom being their leader.
Entered a martial trance upon waking up and took out 4 men (a wrestler, a lasher, a swordsman and a spearman) in the same general area in order to save my spearman companion from certain doom. The gang had a maceman that had engaged my surviving hammerman and had, before I was unable to reach the battle, killed him. I immediately took vengeance by severing his head in one swoop of my axe.
My spearwoman shortly thereafter got shot in the hand by a bolt, damaging her bone and making her pass out from the pain.
I ran into the center of the three crossbowmen (to my NE and SE were crossbowmen, to my SW was a tree and to the NW was the leader) and proceeded to sever more limbs and disable more of them - even killing one by striking them with the pommel of my axe and sending a rib through their heart.
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After the carnage, I waited around for my sole surviving companion, the spearwoman, to wake up from her pain. We traveled southward to the nearest town and went into a house to sleep.
By the hand of either luck or fate, we stay in the house that I had gone to to receive my first quest. I got a nice welcome from them.