Dimral points at the pipe:"Better find out where these critters came from. They are pretty innocuous in low numbers but can make a nuisance of themselves if not culled regularly"
Dimral squeezes into one of the pipes while Germain is looking down the other. It takes him a little bit but he eventually comes out the other side into the goblins cramped and filthy lair. The air is foul and the floor is worse — a slowly flowing shallow morass of sludge. A large sewer pipe exits, going deeper into Magnimar’s sewer system to the east. There is almost no light.
Dimral lits one of his torches and explores the room wary of a possible ambush.
The only thing of any real interest in the cramped room is a bulging, dried and half-eaten dire rat carcass. The larger pipe to the east appears to continue on past what you can see with your torch.
A flutter of wings, and Valai's raven familiar zips past Rommin to land a safe distance behind Dimral and Germain.
"The mistress asks what's taking so long, Calistria have your bones," he tells them in a conversational tone of voice. "Unless the girl we're looking for is hiding in here?"
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"If they attacked us on sight, then it is our duty as good and decent people to make certain that it is safe for others. Besides, are you not interested in being one of those Pathfinders? From the stories my father told me decades ago, it's would serve thee well to become accustomed to this sort of thing now, rather than later."
The raven preens, its beak seeking parasites underneath its wing, before it eyes Germain and replies. Its voice sounds oddly urbane for a glorified bird: "The mistress wants to have stuff to do with your Pathfinders, mate. Me, I just want my next meal. And for her to be happy, of course."
Dimral proceeds down the narrow corridor torch in one hand and hammer in the other
Dimral tries to determine the depth of the passage by putting his torch forward. Then he turns towards Germain silently asking if he wants to proceed.
Dimral nods:"Agreed" he says simply while walking back towards the others.
Dimral and Germain come crawl back out of the sewer pipes to join everyone else.
Dimral grunts at the others:"Nothing of note down there, we may need to explore it later but for now we have better check this place first" as he finishes the colossus starts climbing towards the door above
Dimral climbs up ontop of the beam in between the two doorways, now standing in front of the closed door.
Before opening the door Dimral lowers the beam down so the others can have an easier way to climb up.
When everyone is up with him Dimral flings the door open and breaks in the room weapons on the ready
Dimral swings the door open and as he does you here the click of a crossbow firing.
The bolt whizes by Dimral barely missing in his surprise. Quickly looking the floor of this room has fallen away as well, leaving a narrow, charred ledge along the south and east walls. To the northwest, a ledge heaped with crates and barrels sits, while above the rafters of the attic lay bare to view. You see the source of the crossbow as a goblin has his head popped up from behind the crates.
Catching Dimral by surprise, before he has a chance to react the goblin shifts over and picks up another already loaded crossbow to take a shot.
The goblin curses at his aim and you hear in the background "Wawa kana kamata ya buga su da harbi!" The goblin you can see looks back and sticks out his tongue at something you can't see behind the crates.
If Valai has line of sight on the Goblin and it's in range of her heavy crossbow, she aims -- and shoots!
Dimral is taken aback by the sudden turn of events, but he overcomes his surprise quickly and moves towards the goblins intent on smashing them to pulp.
"Die you rotten bastards!"
Valai tries to find a way to get across. If she does find one and gets line of sight on the Goblin, she shoots!
"Get the bridge back up!" Valai shouts. "I can't shoot at something I can't bloody see!"
Dimral moves into the room after the bolts fly by and the rest of you loose sight of him. Running around the ledge he comes to a spot that is slopped a bit more then the rest of the room.
He deftly leaps over the patch getting to the opened door. On the other side is another room like the two before it. This chamber has no floor, opening directly into the sump of a sewage pit below. Likewise, the charred ceiling has fallen away, revealing the fire-blackened rafters above. Next to a hole cut in the southwest corner of the wall, a crude ladder that has been nailed to the wall provides access to the rafters above.
Rommin walks up the beam following behind Dimral without him getting too far ahead. After Rommin gets up, Germain lifts the beam for Valai and Judah to get across. Valai walks in to try and help out with the ranged attacks she saw flying by Dimral.
She manages to keep her balance getting across and stepping into the room. She takes a shot at the goblin that had fired at Dimral. The bolt looks to fly true but it smacks into one of the crates blocking the path to the goblin.
Judah seems to be waiting to decide on his next course of action with everyone running into the next room. The goblin crouches down behind the boxes and you can hear something being cranked.
Cursing, Valai seeks what cover she can find, slots a fresh arrow into the heay crossbow and starts winding it up. "Keep the little toad off of me!" she tells the others. "Unless he surrenders, flush him out once I'm done with this."
Judah couldn't see what was going on, but he could hear the goblin's foul language and some sort of mechanism being prepared. That was not good. He was perfectly happy to be where he was.
He waited, ready to hurl a dagger if he saw the goblin.
Considering the makeshift barricade the goblin is using to hide himself Dimral has a simple solution in mind: smashing it to pieces!
Dimral opens the door. On the other side is another room just like the rest, the floor opens up into a pit of muck below. There is a door on the western wall and a ladder next to a hole in the western portion of the south wall. There is a slight ledge along the eastern wall.
Judah stands outside the building in realative safety waiting to see if he can see a goblin from where he is at.
Valai works to reload her crossbow not finding much cover in the doorway. Rommin winds up ready to attack one of the goblins if they pop up. Germain waits to act making sure the beam stays in place.
A goblin pops up taking aim where Dimral was seeing two other people in his place he readies to shot, until Rommin slings a stone at him he promptly changes his aim toward Rommin.
The bolt clinks off his armor and falls into the muck below. You can hear the crossbow being reloaded behind the crates.
Valai takes aim at the Goblin, now that her crossbow is ready once again, and fires...!