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When the fight ends, Merida collapses from her wounds.
She rouses herself enough to take the CLW potion, "It'll take more than a few scrapes and bruises to take me down," she chuckles weakly. Feeling somewhat enlivened by the potion, and seeing her minor wounds close up, she rises to her feet, still wincing and holding her torso. "That's the last time I try the 'Cut Off the Head' maneuver on Ulfen men...now, about that wand..." She gladly accepts Pandora's offer to use Roderick's wand on her.
The guard is treating the wounds of his leader
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As the last of her wounds heal up, Merida beams, and plants a quick kiss on Roderick's cheek, "Thanks, ya big lug!"
Seeing the remaining guard tending to Merdia's latest victim, she goes over to the two of them, falchion drawn. She allows the man to see to his friend, but wants to keep a close eye to ensure no malarkey ensues. "Ya know," she says back at her comrades, "Maybe we should tie one of them up once he's done. I'd hate to waste that victory..."
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Seeing the events and remembering about the map, Pandora approaches the guard then hit him on the neck making him unconscious "I hate unnecesaire cruelty, but we cannot risk you doing the alarm." after binding all of the unconscious guards with a robe the bard says "You better pray we come back alive, because I don't know how much can you leave in the snow."
And looking at the party she adds "After you all have healed we all should hide then depart to the old brewery. We can try to disguise as merchants and their guards." bringing out the map she starts to look for the location.
You manage to get into the city. Although there is a high concentration of Iron Guards on the street you manage to avoid them all. Suddenly Cirri motions for you to dive into a side alley as two lumbering giants walk by. The local citizens don't seem to care that these monsters are in the city! Dumbfounded you watch as several goblins try to sell "food" to the giants until Pandora urges you on.
After walking for half an hour you manage to find the location on the map where the Shadow Lodge should be situated.
A large, dilapidated building sits crammed between equally dilapidated warehouses and flophouses. Its doors are chained shut, its windows are filled with broken glass and boarded from the inside, and its facade is faded, crumbling, and encrusted with icicles. Faded, hard-to-read letters are painted 10 feet tall across the top of the ruined structure—they read: Auntie Marny’s Bitter Brew. You easily enter the building.
A mass of broken tables, chairs, and barstools clutter the center of this dusty room, and a crumbling bar still stands in front of a broken mirror on the west wall. Three small alcoves in the southwest corner once served as semiprivate bar booths but now host only rubble. The door to a storage room in the southwest corner hangs loose on its hinges, the smell of rotting refuse wafting from within. Two sets of double doors lead to the street to the east and farther into the building to the west.
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Cirri barely keeps her mouth shut when she sees the giants and goblins pass. "Wow, it's like no biggie here. If this town weren't trying to kill us I'd love to find out more about this..." She notices Pandora urging her over to continue and gives up. "Mission first! Sightseeing later!"
Cirri looks around the storage room, looking for any trapdoors that may lead to the Shadow Lodge.
While you are investigating the room you suddenly hear loud thumps against the doors to the west, after which some dogs start barking madly from that direction. Listening closely you hear three seperate 'voices'.
You find nothing of note, an old mug here and some moldy clothes there are all that is left in this room.
When Cirri approaches the door the barking intensifies.
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Pandora tells Cirri "If you accept to open the door yourself, I will have a sleep spell prepared for the dogs." In case Cirri accepts, Pandora moves to 15 feet in front of the door with her bow in one hand.
Once all the party is on place, Pandora, with her free hand, starts casting sleep and makes a signal for the door to be opened.
Cirri opens the door and Pandora casts her spell. Two dogs fall asleep, while the third one stands dumbfounded that someone dared to open the door. The room is unlit and what little light there is comes from the street behind you.
Initiative
Falinar
Merida
Quinray
Roderick
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Dogs
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Cirri - full defense
Pandora
Ryskovich - full defense
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Merida moves up behind Rysky and Pandora, whilst drawing her light crossbow. Once in position, she lets a bolt fly over her comrades' heads at the roused dog, hoping to do enough damage to scare it off.
Unfortunately, the dog dips its head right when the bolt reaches it, and the bolt does serious damage. "Oh no! I'm so sorry!" Merida gasps, accidentally and briefly betraying her bad-girl façade.
Cirri recognizes the animals as dogs . She knows that some dogs carry rabies, a disease transmitted through bites. Whether these dogs carry the disease is something only a bite can tell...
Merida shoots a bolt straight through the head of the last standing dog, it suddenly stops barking and whimpers for a moment before falling over.
Initiative
Falinar
Merida
Quinray
Roderick
Cirri
Pandora
Ryskovich
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Dogs: have been sleeping for 1 round
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Cirri steps into the room and immediately three arrows thud into the floor around her feet, obviously fired from above. Then a fourth one embeds itself into her arm!
Looking up she sees nothing, the light from the street does not extend past the height of the doors. The ceiling must be high in this room.
Initiative
Falinar
Merida
Quinray
Roderick
Cirri
Pandora
Ryskovich
- - -
Dogs: have been sleeping for 1 round
Archers
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Pandora casts alter self transforming herself into a goblin woman whom clearly recalls to Pandora.
"Let's see what is in there!" the now goblin woman enters into the darkness and looks around trying to find where the archers are hiding.
Thanks to Quinray's lights you can now take in the room
The remnants of a once-working brewery are neatly organized around this large, warehouse-like room. Huge metal colanders, giant steel pots, enormous fermenting vessels, and a massive steam boiler stand covered in cobwebs and dust, their edges coated in rust and their support joints and screws popping and bending under years of neglect.
At the west end of the room, the floor slopes down to large roller-doors that are chained and boarded shut and the northeast corner of the room holds three tables covered in empty bottles, faded labels, and broken glass. High above the room, thick oaken rafters span north to south and support enormous wooden arches that reach up thirty feet above the floor to the ceiling, the roof pock-marked with holes and bird’s nests.
On these archers you see four goblins, they are nocking another arrow.
[b]Initiative[b]
Falinar
Merida - standard action only
Roderick - standard action only
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Dogs: have been sleeping for 1 round
Archers
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Cirri - Coupe de Grace'ing
Quinray
Pandora (Goblin)
Ryskovich - Total Defense
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Merida fires an arrow up at the closest goblin to her.
"Any of you magic users have something that can bring down these gobbys? Or maybe the rafters they're on? Like fire maybe? Or if you do have fire, try setting something on fire somewhere else so they get distracted and leave us alone! Worked for a friend of mine in Sandpoint."
Thud! can be heard beside you as a goblin falls down and "#$%#$% @" can be heard from above as two others take damage from Roderick's bomb. Merida hits the goblin that just jumped got hit in the face by the blast and there falls another goblin!
The two remaining archers decide to focus their fire on the bombing alchemist, so they can find out if he will explode if pierced by arrows. One arrow just manages to hit Roderick for a minor wound
Meanwhile Cirri makes sure that one of the sleeping dogs won't wake soon.
Initiative
Falinar
Merida
Roderick 8/12
Cirri
Quinray
Pandora (Goblin)
Ryskovich
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Dogs: have been sleeping for 2 rounds
Goblin Gold: 3 damage
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The goblin woman sends the goblins a charming kiss and says "Ei! Cuties! Come play with me here!" and winks an eye while casting grease over the beam trying to make the goblins to fall down to the floor.
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Pandora's grease causes two goblins to fall down! Both of them break their neck on falling down! Cirri makes sure the other dog won't wake up for a while either.
Combat over!
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Cirri swiftly whacks the other dog.
"Shhh...that should keep you quiet. Whoa." Cirri hops up surprised as two goblins drop around her.
"Well, didn't expect goblins here. Let's take another look around here, eh?"
Cirri pesters Pandora about how it feels to be a goblin, but she manages to pay attention.
Cirri walks to the open door
The kegs in this room are almost all cracked or broken in some way, and all seem empty. Trash stands piled in the southwest corner of the room in front of a crumbling fireplace. An open door in the north wall gives ingress to a landing of downwardleading stairs.