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"May I see the bead?" Hiro asks Dolvin. Taking the bead, Hiro sits cross legged and studies the bead, rolling it over in his hand, peering at it, and studying it carefully. Finally he stands and says, "It is called a boro bead. It allows an alchemist to recall an extract drank and reconstitute it."
Looking to the south, he says. "Perhaps we should examine the room to the south before proceeding north?"
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"I could heal him if you all would like to interrogate him now."
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Rishh recovers his hunga munga, and takes the scene in with interest, but is content with studying his fellow pathfinders and their wide variety of varied skills...
Rishh takes a bottle of fire water from the Cleric called "Tad"
Your assssessssment is spot on Tad of the Cloth....ussseful this stufff.
Rishh awaits the interrogation of the Goblin scum...
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Tad's face visible pales, with a faint greenish hue, and his jaw clenches upon Armik's comments on the tail-like growth. "Hnnn," he gives a slightly strangled sound in response. Oh gods, I've got to get rid of this thing!
Standing, he draws a dagger from a belt sheath and, squeezing his eyes tight, he attempts to remove the unwelcome addition to his body.
Tad tears a strip of cloth and binds his arm (depending on the outcome, as part of the treatment for the self-inflicted wound or to hide the tail or perhaps both!) before turning his regard back to the group.
He is withdrawn following the (attempted?) surgery and waits on the group to decide their next course of action.
Should they decide to interrogate the goblin, he approaches whoever is going to speak, touches them on the arm, and says, "Find out if there's a cure."
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As the group awaits for the goblin to come to consciousness, Hironaki leads a few more to take a peek into the room south of the current one. Eventually with Dolvin's help, the poor fool is conscious.
In the other room , smooth work surfaces line the southern wall, and a single door to the west leads to a large room filled with broken, empty boxes that have been smashed to bits. A large stove takes up the eastern half of the room. Cupboards along the walls near the stove have been left open, and scattered cookware and crockery litter the ground. A vaguely sour-smelling, beige puddle covers much of the floor near the stove. The same substance is splattered all over the floors and ceiling of the room, and small footprints are clearly visible on the floor and counters.
These are definitely goblin tracks, and the goo is nominally edible, if unappetizing.
Two goblins sit in the corner of the room, they look to be conscious but completely out of it. Their bellies are filled impossibly. They don't pay any attention to you, and make simple grunting noises. "Ughhh"
They are stunned from the overbloating from eating, maybe for another 2 hours.
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"Hahaha, " Dolvin chuckled, "It seems that they have eaten themselves into a food coma. I wouldn't worry about them. It should be a couple hours at least before they are well enough to even stand. "
Dolvin chuckles again and proceeds into the room casting detect magic and looking around for anything useful or unusual.
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Rishh steps forward and extends his forked tongue with an idea...
"Rishh wonders if the goo is flammable...for future reference..."
The sly Nagaji conducts a test in the room where they fought the goblins to see if the goo has any interesting fire properties.
after his test....
He approaches the glasses goblin and acts like he is going to throw him into the burning goo.
You look brainy...you understand common speak?
Rishh slaps him across the face to make sure he has his attention...but not hard enough to do any non-lethal damage.
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"Now see here, goblin, remember this?" He brings the blade of his nodachi up to the goblin's taut cheek. "Before, when I swung at you, I was holding back. As a matter of fact, after I dropped you, with - - mind you, I actually kept you from bleeding out. So you see, I you. Your life is, now. Why don't you start talking and you tell us a little bit more about this place. Who runs it, what dangers lurk within. And maybe I let you live another day."
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Armik's hostility provokes the little fella to a point he starts spilling the beans. He maintains the calmest demeanor as possible, exhibiting his civilized manner.
"If you insist. We stumbled upon this place by accident really, we don't truly understand it but we know we're given some form of magic powers. I have been experimenting with the vile of ooze like substance there. It has the most awful and grotesque results at first. But soon I learnt how to harness the power of fleshwarping. We planned to build an army of mutant warriors, world domination being the end goal of course."
He apologies for the unwanted effect on Tad, but does not know of any remedies.
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"The extent of the powers are not yet define, but clearly it can create remarkable results, tails, claws, wings, just to name a few. With regards to the other goblins, I'm sure they are around here somewhere, but like I said, we stumbled about this place by pure chance. We don't know anything about it except that it has grant us fleshwarp powers."
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Dolvin follows Hiro to the door. "what a fascinating goblin don't you think. Almost as intelligent as you or I, but if course world domination on the mind... Typical."
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Hiro determines that the door is safe to be opened and continues the exploration. This room looks to be where someone has been residing. The western side of the room is lined with wooden doors fitted with iron bars. Many of the doors are open, revealing bunched up piles of filthy rags heaped in what must have once been cells. A single metal door opens to the east, and another passageway leads south.
There is nothing of real interest in this room as you scour around. However, as you listen carefully, through the metal doors there seems to be more awful screeching singing. Could the room be no longer empty?
As we fled, sure we were dead,
We rolled the boulder before us.
Poor us
Heads dust!
Yes, we rolled the boulder before us.
Then suddenly, as Gugnack sneezed,
The boulder disappeared!
Such fear! M
ore tears!
Yes, the boulder disappeared!
But happy day, hip, hip, hooray!
What wonders the boulder had shown!
New home!
Our own
Yes, the boulder has shown a new home!
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Tad continues his silence, following while the southern room is explored and the questioning of the goblin scholar commences. He winces as the goblin reveals that he is unaware of a remedy for the mutation, but gives little else in the way of reaction.
His withdrawal continues a short time after the interrogation concludes. Drawing a deep breath, he exhales sharply, seeming to have reached a decision. "Well, it seems that, although this one may be unusually smart, he has little knowledge of this place," he gives a small wave of his hand to indicate their general location, "or the... substance."
"Let's keep going and see what else we can learn about this place."
Upon hearing the sound of goblins chanting, Tad pauses, listening intently, a wary look on his face.
Unable to understand what the goblins are saying, he hoists his crossbow, raising his eyebrows in query and turns to Dolvin, awaiting the dwarf's recommendation.
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Dolvin happily translates for the group what the goblin "singing" is about. "It seems to be some sort of Goblin tale, about how the they stumbled into this place by chance. Cause of one boulder. And how they are calling it home now."
Hironaki is able to discern a few key components of the liquid goo inside the pits. It is an early form of alchemy, which relies heavily on magic. The concoction seems to be very unstable and requires a lot of refining to get you results that can be predicted.
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Rishh and Pig confidently move into the adjacent room. There, in the stadium like training ground, they are met with creatures most foul. More goblins! With two of them being mutated with wings.
It seems that the winged goblins are listening intently to the performance of the singing goblin, but that all comes to an abrupt halt as they noticed Rishh and Pig walk towards the battle arena.
They scream unintelligibly at the pathfinders, and look very hostile. Battle is seemingly unavoidable in the moment.
The horrible songstress resumes her singing, but it's not the familiar tune you heard earlier, this time the song seems to be one of a raging anger. Dolvin exclaims that it is a battle song!
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Armik moves to the front lines, casting a spell of protection. Tad attempts to take a shot at the goblin, but the mutation gets the best of him, and distracts his shot. Hironaki, on the other hand, is much more focused and fires a shot accurately pinching one of the goblin's wings. It screams in pain and falls unconscious.
Rishh throws his hunga munga at the other winged fiend. His shot grazes the goblin enough to hurt it, but not enough to put it unconscious. Dolvin approaches Tad from behind and takes pity on the lad, touching him with a bit of luck.
The winged goblin retaliates and swoops right on Armik, unleashing a fury of claw attacks. Unfortunately, Armik's defences doesn't hold the goblin back and it deals him a world of pain.
The singing goblin moves up the edge to engage pig, she swings a heavy flail at him. Pig finds himself, also, in pain as the flail knocks him right in the stomach. Impressively, she maintains her horrendous singing.