Tigerwolf would move and retrieve the bubble from the water and pushes it to the edge before trying to pop it.
"Garmack look for Odak's backpack and those humans. I want them accounted for even if dead."
• As the bubble is popped by TIGERWOLF, the Kobold flops about on the sand like a fish out of water, wheezing and coughing and flopping about. The little thing squirms and lashes out at the air for no other reason than as a reflex. One wonders what this creature could be, however it isn't until the other Kobolds and the Kraggly Kobold Protector scurry on in that the identity is revealed.
(in Dragonic) "Perz XIII! Our leader lives!", the Kraggly Kobold says as he stumbles over to the beach, "Long live the leader!". Perz however is still in some kind of psychotic fit, unable to stay still for one second; strangely it hasn't attacked anybody just yet.
Tigerwolf seeing him struggle for air would move him back to the water. Since it was flopping like a fish out of water she wondered if he needed water to breath. Very unfamiliar with this type of magic.
• TIGERWOLF attempts to put PERZ back to water, but the swiping, slashing Kobold refuses and gets up instead, speaking untelligiable Dragonic. The Protector of the Kaboom seems unperturbed and stern all the same, [i]"Leader is happy, leader is free from WEEDY LADY to ravage our foes once more Yipyipyipyipyip~". The Kobolds all start yipping joyfully with one another with PERZ screeching loudly at the end with a coughing fit.
Perhaps the Kobold King is simply psychotic?
When spotting the 'King' moving around randomly starts to do similar but more like hoping and bouncing in a small area. When heard the more joyous sounding noises, also starts in making own grunts rather loudly. Perhaps a bit to loudly for some.
Majuba> "Hey, we save you. Now you give us oil and bombs."
Dergosh bursts out with a loud laugh. However, he scratches his scarred head and looks to the kobolds to see if Majuba's unique diplomacy is effective. If not, he is prepared to use his own brand of persuasion.
• PERZ continues to look around wildly, the rightful Kobold king seems to be even more jumpy than GREEZ is, and possibly even a little rabid. But the other Kobolds don't seem to mind this behavior as the Kragged Protector Kobold speaks on his behalf, in Dragonic,
"Big people stop your scariness, it is making our leader sad. We will make you bombs when Leader of the Protector of the Burnyness is--"
• PROTECTOR KABOOM is interrupted as the half-eaten corpse of a Kobold finally surfaces in the middle of the water. This certainly explains what happened to that creature before the confrontation with the WEEDY LADY. PROTECTOR KABOOM turns back to the others and then toward a random Kobold,
"New Leader of the Protectors of the Burnyness, you are here at last, let us eat shiny moss and make Ka-booms yipyip!"
• PERZ leaps on top of the Kraggy PROTECTOR KABOOM like a wildcat and hisses in random directions before leaping off and hopping out of the beach area, the other Kobolds follow after him cheering, "Throne fight, throne fight, throne fight!"
> #BRUTESQUAD's next move <
• With PERZ heading off to make mincemeat of the one who took his throne and the appreciation of the Rock-Eye Kobolds, the conflict has been resolved. The group must now wait until the Kobolds build enough bombs to please the clan chief.
• ODAK is now laying on his back, dragged away from the water resting.
Tilted head after finally stopping as the kobolds run off. He didn't just follow since wasn't going to leave the group went there with. So while waiting kind of went splashing a large foot in some puddles loudly as waited to see what next action might be. Since half listened to the translation and didn't seem they needed more help from his understandings.
Tigerwolf smiles watching the entire scene and would nod to herself. "I would go to watch if Odak wasn't in trouble." She would move over to her friend and kneels beside him. "How you doing there Odak? Hopefully that Weedy Lady, had some treasure in her lake we can pilfer while we are here. When we get back I'll make you another mask. Something with better material."
• GREEZ goes to splash about in the water for a while, it has a luke-cold temperature suitable for the cave they were in, but it seemed calm enough to enjoy.
• TIGERWOLF moves over towards ODAK, who was now sitting, leaning against the rock wall with his helm off, his mask was drenched with water and yet the giant refused to take off as a trickle of water ran down his chin. Inside he was still soaked as his armour retained water much like a bucket with holes did. He took a while to make eye-contact with Tigerwolf and then nodded slowly to her,
"",
he answered slowly, his arm refused to let go of his tower shield even though it was heavy and unwieldy.
> QUICK EXPLORATION: TREASURES? <
• The party can perform a search of the caves for any valuables dropped by friend or foe alike. Be aware that such things take time per attempt and there might not even be any treasure in some cases. The main risk involved is a mishap, looking in the wrong place at the wrong time could incur something bad, minor or serious.
> To perform a Treasure search, roll a Perception check, there is no specific DC attached but better rolls yield a better search and less risks. Groups of 2 or more take the best roll made between them.
> If you find something useful the GM will tell you what you found, if it is behind some obstacles or trap you will be given instructions on what to do next. In this case, if the search leads you into underwater or hazardous areas, you will be warned if your search takes you here.
"Ill search here first and we can work our way out and around." She says as she starts searching this area.
• TIGERWOLF rolls a 29, additional party members will improve the score if they roll [20] or more on their perception check, they grant the highest roller a +2 bonus. One search attempt takes an hour to complete and there's only a few hours left until the sun starts to set.
No help from Karol
While 'playing' in the water puddles at leat from his size they seemed as such, eyes were kept out for anything that could be noted as potential treasures.
> SEARCHING FOR TREASURE: FIRST HOUR <
• While ODAK rests, TIGERWOLF, MAJUBA, KAROL and GREEZ go off looking around the caves for valuable things. This is what they found so far...!
> In the waters deep in the beach they were standing around, they find spot a large metal object half-buried beneath it. The team found ODAK's lost longsword! It takes a couple of medium humanoids or the likes of GREEZ and MAJUBA to pull it to shore.
> Next, as the search party walk around the moss patches, KAROL spots something glinting beneath, he finds a Single gold piece! (1gp)!
> Lastly, found floating in the water, the party come across the Corpse of a Kobold Protector Burnyness, half eaten; likely from the WEEDY LADY from before. His equipment, even if it wasn't torn apart, would be too small for the team to make use of.
If was asked to would have hefted Odak's sword. Even if not, simply continued to look around while having some fun. Jumping, rolling, flipping, all those active sort of things.
Retuning Odak's sword to him she would continue searching hoping they would findeed something of actual worth.
• With the help of GREEZ and TIGERWOLF, ODAK takes back his old sword and sets it beside himself quietly, nodding to the two while he rested.
> SEARCH: SECOND HOUR <
• A search led by TIGERWOLF reveals the following discovery (additional successful perception checks will be counted in another post, rather next hour);
> In the waters floating far out into the underground lake, the body of one of those fishpeople SKUM could be seen floating face-up; likely so far away after the tidal wave brought them away from the shore. It's wearing some kind of light armour but one would need to swim over to claim it. That's all.
Karol attempts to help
hey, doctor. That's some real interesting orange slime there
> TREASURE SEARCH: FINAL HOUR <
• It is almost sundown now and the light coming from the cenote of the cave barely brings any more of it into the dark cave, it won't be long until it's completely pitch-black, except for the glowing moss illuminating the top of the cave.
• One last round of perception checks to discover new items.
• ODAK decides to push himself off and slowly tread away from the waters, he seems a little bothered about it as he turns his head around at it and turns away sharpish. He tries to find somewhere comfortable to rest.
Just continues to try to find something 'useful'.
Even if wasn't all to useful would have at least dragged it back to the makeshift camp they kind of had going.
• GREEZ is currently the lead searcher for this last hour of treasure exploration. If GREEZ's roll is surpassed but no less than 10 below the leading result, it will be a +2 to the highest roll.
Oh we are searching? let me help
• KAROL becomes the new treasure hunting leader [22], GREEZ's successful perception makes the total result [24].
Tigerwolf would swim out to grab the body and drags it to shore to see if it is worth salvaging.
She would search for the last hour before settling down to rest next to Odak.
> TREASURE SEARCH: LAST HOUR RESULTS <
• Total result: 30 (15,20,25,30)
> DISCOVERED: Iron Ore x2: KAROL finds this in the walls he was looking past after looking at the orange slime with MAJUBA earlier, it would take some pickaxing but it all there to see. The Kobolds must not have much interest in the mineral content of the land.
> DISCOVERED: A feisty Crab: GREEZ looked into a hole which appeared to have something shiny or valuable in it. But upon closer inspection this shiny thing apparently /bites/, leaving the giant Orc with a crab pinching his nose! The damage is relatively minor, 2 subdual can be restored easily through rest.
> DISCOVERED: A bottle of Goblin fire: TIGERWOLF manages to come across a bottle with a poorly drawn flame in the middle and people cowering near the bottom, likely on fire. One would imagine this is a sample of Goblin fire the Kobolds use for their bombs, not only that but it's very much usable on it's own as long as you have an ignition source.
> NOTHING!
• The Treasure Search event is finished, night falls and taking much longer in searching the cave would be risky.
> REST PHASE <
• ODAK wandered off across the moss farm and ventured up the little stairway to the next level above, he sits himself by the cave wall looking over at the moonlit and mosslit cenote with his legs curled up next to his chest, his arms wrapped around covering his face. He only got his sword back so he had no supplies to make a campfire or anything. A metallic grind as he turns his head towards TIGERWOLF at the end of the treasure search convinces him to keep his head up for the meantime, he doesn't say anything though.
Dergosh rubbed his hands over the fire as the group settled in for a rest. He scratched his scarred head in thought. "Need goblin fire for chief. Bombs are good, but we need fire too or chief will use bombs on us. Searching caves will take too long. Maybe ask old king Perz who is new king again where he keeps goblin fire?"
After getting the annoying crab off nose, had been holding it between fingers. So when the fire was going, it was stabbed onto a piece of wood or stick hopefully found as well. Then put it to get the crab to cook by the fire. He knew wasn't good at it so would let another finish it up that knew better. At least it was something to put in someone's stomach that needed it. Had even forgone his share of the evening's food to let Odak have plenty to recover with.
The Doctor content that his clan members are all healed up, looks for a not so comfortable place to rest.
I asked crazy kobold about the oil and bombs real nice like, he just babble and run around. Maybe he will be more talky in the morning The Doctor says to Dergosh
"We make him more talky with mace to the head," the cleric answered nodding.
Karol sighs.
dergosh why must you always be a blunt instrument. Let's find out the problem and solve it. Then we can get the chief's supplies.
Looking at Dergosh. "They were already going to give us what we wanted. Intimidating them only makes them not be as cooperative. I know it is your favorite tactic though. It seems that the Kobold chieftan and his cohorts do things differently. He may be half mad from all the moss they are eating and such. The other one understood him well enough so we can go with that. No need for violence. Plus, you don't want to start a war with the kobolds."
Breaking out her own rations she hands two of them to Odak. "Eat, you will need your energy. You should also get out of that armor and let it dry and sleep. Who is taking first watch?" She asked as she took the armor off of the body she had pulled from the lake and looked it over seeing if it was worth salvaging.
• ODAK sat against the wall while GREEZ and TIGERWOLF's offered some of their rations to him out of kindness, he peers down at Tigerwolf and shakes his head, he didn't want to take her food, he wanted her to have it. There was also the issue that GREEZ's rations were more sizable, but the heavy Golian only took nibbles out of the package regardless.
He takes TIGERWOLF's advice and takes off his armour, piece by piece so he could dry off, shivering a little from the cold air, hunching closer towards the fire. ODAK's armourless wear consisted only of some loose leggings and ankle supports exposing the toes and heels, otherwise his armour provided most of the temperature control he had.
> TIGERWOLF: CORPSE SEARCH <
• The Half-eaten remains of a Kobold, possibly the Goblin Fire protector leader judging by some of the burn marks it bore, it was half eaten from the torso much like oyster in a half-shell, there wasn't even many organs left to get grossed out from.
> The armour it was wearing is ruined, torn apart from the cavity devouring.
> Seems it was wearing a badge at the time, a crudely drawn fire symbol painted on a metal button. It might only hold value to the Rock-Eye Kobolds.
> The corpse seems to have been wearing a small bracelet on it's arm, untouched from a cursory examination.
Karol> dergosh why must you always be a blunt instrument. Let's find out the problem and solve it. Then we can get the chief's supplies.
The stout orc cleric laughed, the fetishes piercing his chest rattling as he shook. He patted the head of his mace, and learned in towards Karol. ”We know the problem; THIS is the solution.” he snorted.
Tigerwolf>"They were already going to give us what we wanted. Intimidating them only makes them not be as cooperative. I know it is your favorite tactic though. It seems that the Kobold chieftan and his cohorts do things differently. He may be half mad from all the moss they are eating and such. The other one understood him well enough so we can go with that. No need for violence. Plus, you don't want to start a war with the kobolds."
Dergosh stared at Tigerwolf as she speechified, a mixture of derision and disbelief creeping over his face. He stood up and strode around the cramped campfire. ”We goblins now? Weaselly timid goblins? We are ORCS! Rock Eye’s are little Wolftooth allies, they will do as we say. No need for violence? An orc says this, or a goblin?”
Dergosh muttered angrily and spit into the fire.
"No we are not goblins unless you keep acting like one. They stated they were making us the items. That takes time you impatient pair. Think for once. If you mace their little heads you will prevent them from making more goblin oil and bombs. Then you won't have your big bangs nor your fire. If you kill their leader or any others and upset the leader then we have another war to deal with and the chief will have your head for killing an friend to Wolf Tooth. We are already at war with humans. Let's keep all our allies, allies and defeat the human soundly. Don't be a stupid goblin." She snaps showing her small fangs.
• ODAK watched as the others argued for a moment about whether the Kobolds were going to give them the bombs and goblin fire yet, he thought the team won already. His eyes flash briefly and figuratively as TIGERWOLF snapped at the others, pulling his heavy crossed legs closer together. He eats a bit more of the rations that GREEZ shared with him, there was quite a lot of meat in there, not that he minded.
*Scratches head* Oh he making oil and bombs, that good. maybe no mace to face needed
Dergosh nods vigorously. "See, mere *threat* of mace to the head already working," he says, pleased with himself.
• ODAK finishes the bit of food he was given then reaches over towards his helmet with the heavy faceguard closed, he stares down at it solemnly as the others talk, seemingly lost in thought. He rolls his finger across some of the engravings upon it.
Tigerwolf shook her head. "Rest, we will see what we can get for this badge that I found when they come back." She put the cheap bracelet in a pocket. "Let us set up watches just to be safe and all get rest. We pushed ourselves hard this day."
Eating herself she looks at Odak as he is silent. "Well, now we will get what we need for the chieftain but it does bother me that the humans are encroaching so openly. I am guessing they have grown fat from taking over lands and wish to take more. They will find that it isn't such a great idea here." Takes a bite. "We will need to find a way out. I think the rope we made will hold but I am not sure for how long. I actually want to take the thing, since it is strong enough to take Odak's weight, and get it enchanted as a rope of climbing."
• ODAK listened down to TIGERWOLF as she spoke of her reasoning for the Human's invasion of the Savage Hills, detracting him from the silent musing of his helmet. After listening to the bit about the woven rope vines he speaks up briefly,
""
His eyes grow heavy as he really needed time to recharge his mind, although he had to stay near the fire in order not to get cold from the cave walls while bare out of his armour.
A hand waves above head. "Take first lookout if want. Still plenty energy!"
It was mostly true since he usually was more often doing a lot more jumping and rolling about while not on missions. The only thing been holding back inside the cave was the noise he made since both didn't want to completely give away locations to ALL in the cave system nor get smacked for being loud enough to make the small ears ring.
Karol settles down to rest. He pulls out his pipe to light it, and then notices his wet tobacco. Sighing, he puts it away.
bloody water!