Mach returns with a disappointed look in his eye.
"Couldn't see anything inside. All the windows are boarded up. Couldn't hear anything either... at least, not behind the front doors." Mach's hand nervously plays with one of his knives.
Krupt taps the haft of his polearm impatiently on the ground. "Well, I say we just barge right in. We waited around and observed the last time we did this, and look what little good it did us. Two of us still ended up unconscious on the floor."
Checking the door you find that it is unlocked.
Krupt walks around to the side door, and takes another listen before opening it a few centimeters and peeking in ... and becoming distracted by the strange patina of the flaking paint on the outside of the building.
The entire floor of this chamber has collapsed into the pool of water five feet below. The earthen walls of this flooded subcellar ooze with foul rivulets, and the smell is abominable. Two oozing sewer pipes protrude through the east wall of this pit just above the level of the sewage. Part of the ceiling above the entrance has collapsed, revealing an attic crawlspace above; a rickety ladder leads up from the water into the crawlspace. A door stands in the far wall across the sludge pit. A wooden plank balanced between both doors makes a precarious bridge between the two doors.
"Well, this looks promising," Krupt remarks sarcastically. He reaches in to the ladder next to the entrance and checks to see how sturdy it is ... ... and is distracted by the sheen reflecting off the pool of sewer sludge.
Mach coughs at the smell before creeping inside across the plank to the opposite door. He readies his knives, not entirely convinced that this room is as empty as he thinks.
Krupt checks the ladder while Mach slinks by quietly to check the other door. The plank creaks a bit under Mach's weight but holds strong.
As the other start to follow after Krupt and Mach two men come out of the other door.
Yelling the one in the lead say "Hey yous! Get out of here. This ain't no place for you!" The other one rounding the corner seeing Krupt at the door draws his weapon before also yelling "You're not s'ppose ta be in there!"
"Why is this no place for us? You don't know that much about us. Maybe this is the perfect place for us."
Petronicus shrugs. "I just thought this was the house for the oiled halfling wrestling."
The rear thug looks to the front who shakes his head "You're lieing, and we know no one should be here. So get out of here before we have to make you get out of here!" The rear thug also pulls out his weapon.
It sounds like there's a bit of an argument going on outside... perhaps that meant there were less people inside for Mach to deal with?
He listens at the door...
...before slowly opening it and creeping through.
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"Listen, my large friends," Um'bala begins, approaching the two ruffians. "I think we can all agree that if an altercation were to take place here, then it would go very poorly for one of our sides. We have you outnumbered. I am sure you think yourselves competent and able to hold your own in a fight, but I must caution you to reconsider - if you raise arms against us, then you will lose. We have come here looking for someone. If they are not here, then we will all depart, and you will never see our shadows to darken your doorstep." He flicks his eyes between the two men. "Natalya Vancaskerkin. Have you seen her?"
At the mention of Natalya they both jump to attack.
Quintus sighs and then unleashes a blast of color on the guards.
rounds
rounds
Then stunned for 1 round.
rounds
Then stunned for 1 round.
The creature is stunned for 1 round.
Mach grins, drops his knife, and takes out his shortbow. Nocking an arrow, he fires at the goblin on the right. He has the element of surprise here.
He hides back in the shadows, to avoid goblin retribution.
Quintus casts a spell on the front thugs weapon, hoping to make it more difficult for him to manage. Mach, still inside the building, pulls out his bow and takes a shot at one of the goblins who isn't paying attention. The arrow flies threw skewering the goblin in the neck as it falls off the boxes and into the muck below.
The front thug moves over to Krupt to attack while trying to hold onto his weapon.
As he swings, the weapon slips out of his grasp and flies over Krupt to land behind him in the dirt.
The other thug moves up to Nimt and attacks.
Nimt easily ducks out of the way, avoiding the blow.
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"Hmmm? Oh, um, y-yes, Nimt," Um'bala replies nervously. "I had hoped these two men could at least count past two. So much for that." Rather than casting spells, Um'bala pushes past the man that's lost his weapon, and picks it up. "Let's try this again," he says, pointing the weapon awkwardly at the thug. "Tell your friend to drop his weapon, and all of us walk away happy. It's your only play, when you think about it."
Krupt steps back and sweeps the legs of the thug in front of him with his guisarme.
Um'bala rushes over to the weapon the man lost, standing over it ensure he can not easily retrieve it. Krupt easily, knocks the man to the ground, using his weapon to pull the man's legs right out from under him. The thug crashes to the ground with a big huff as the air in his lungs is knocked out of him for a moment. Nimt steps back from the one assualting her and takes a shot. At such close range the arrow easily finds its mark, though only knicking the man as it passes straight through the side of his arm.
Inside the building the remaining goblin in the boxes, grabs one of the loaded crossbows and takes a shot at Mach.
The bolt smacks into Mach in his chest almost knocking him off the beam and into the muck below. Shortly after some other goblins, obviously alerted by all the noise start to spill out of the sewer pipes below, seeing Mach they gleefully pull out some small burlap sacks, looking as though they plan to start throwing them at Mach.
Yep. Time to go.
The crossbow bolt hurt like all hell. Mach immediately turns on his heel and moves back across the plank to get outside.
He emerges next to a fight, bleeding badly, and runs behind Um'bala.
"Goblins inside. They've got some sort of sacks: one of them nailed me with a crossbow."
Quintus pulls out his club and moves so that he can grant flanking to Krupt on the fallen thug.
Krupt sees Mach's wounds, his eyes growing wide with wonder. "Keep behind me and out of the way. One more hit like that might kill you!"
While Quintus moves into a better position to aid Krupt, the Thug on the ground stands up.
Once standing he will start swinging at Quintus who is a closer target.
The punch goes wide and misses Quintus. The other Thug steps up to continue his assualt on Nimt.
His swing goes wide as well, as Nimt manages to avoid the blow.
While Quintus moves into a better position to aid Krupt, the Thug on the ground stands up.
Krupt grumbles "Stay down, bandit, or it shall go ill with thee!" Despite his best offer, the thug stands up, and draws a swift attack from the Chelaxian. ,
"Asmodeus' horns, I said stay down!" he yells at the thug, and sweeps his legs again. His guisarme sadly gets caught on the side of the hovel and nearly stuck in the wood of the siding.
After the thug stands up Krupt and Quint both take a swing, but only Quint manages to connect, and just barely at that. Um'bala cloaks himself in magics of protection after he picks up the thugs weapon. Nimt steps back, next to Quint and takes a shot, but with the close quarters and the threat of imminent pain her shot goes wide and misses the mark. Krupt tries to knock the man down again but has little luck.
You can hear the goblins talking and one gets up the ladder in the first room and onto the beam.
Quintus seeing that he can't do much in this fight steps back and lets the others begin to handle this.