Mugmuff goes all stealthy mode and also coats his weapon with the greenblood poison.
Gretcha gets stealthy too, as well as she can.
Torch slips into stealth mode as well.
The super-sneaky goblin squad quickly slips into town, the sounds of the crowds gathering around the temple square are heard not far to the south, while some townsfolk still mill about their homes, gathering children and the like before making their way to the festival. Ever so quietly the goblins sneak along the homes, occasionally darting behind a barrel or bale of hay to avoid being spotted.
In no time they find themselves near the base of Old Light, an impressive looking structure to be sure. At the base is a gap in the wall, surrounded by piles of boulders. The sides of Old Light themselves look climbable with the right gear, but doing so might be hard to conceal from wandering eyes.
Nuz looked up the length of Old Light and back to the other goblins. He knew they weren't good with climbing, but it might be the only thing to do if they couldn't get in another way.
Going to the gap in the wall, Nuz tested the rocks there to see if he could roll any away to extend the opening for everyone to slip in through.
"What we do now?" Torch hisses. "Torch not a climber."
"We goes in hole there? Climbing not be best idea, Gretcha thinks. We prepare to kill many longshanks inside!" Gretcha whispers to the group.
Gretcha will touch both Mugmuff and Nuz, giving them each a charge of false flanker that they can use in the next minute. She'll also use mesmeric mirror on herself, allowing her to create a mirror image of herself if she attacked in the next minute.
"Mugmuff not a climber either... Didn't Gretcha takes climby rope and hook from dead longshanks? Mebbe that helps us?"
"We no need to climb, numb-heads! We go in that hole!" Gretcha points to the hole which is at the base of the tower.
The goblins creep up towards the opening and quickly shuffle inside, eager to get out of the daylight and prying eyes of the longshanks. Once inside they find themselves in a large open space, with walls of stone on all sides. Old furniture and tools litter the space, with several desks and tables holding lanterns, paper, and other instruments. Obviously with the amount of paper and writing in this room this is some sort of longshanks torture chamber, where souls can be ripped out of a victim's body using writing.
Several ladders in the room lead upward, stopping on scaffolding platforms at various heights. Far above there is an obvious opening in the roof of the tower, where a beam of sunlight cuts through the shadows of the structure and highlights the dust in the air as it circles slowly through the chamber.
Up above, the sounds of talking can be heard in the common tongue, but the voices are muted and too quiet to hear from this distance.
Moving through the debris in the room scanning for anything that might be of better usage in his hands than the longshanks, examining the lanterns Nuz motions to Torch.
"You make these go boom?"
{After room is searched}
Putting the bow away, Nuz started up the ladder trying to be as silent as possible.
Gretcha whispers to the others "Thems is longshanks up there. Yous fighty-types go first, use Gretcha's mind-powers if you needs them. Gretcha follows, makes them fight each other if she can."
Gretcha will then follow up the ladders, also trying to be quiet.
Gretcha practically glides up the ladder after her goblinly companions.
Mugmuff climbs up after Nuz but before Gretcha.
Bart continues with the group, barely managing to avoid banging his head on the ladder.
"Whoosh!" Torch whispers excitedly. Gathering the papers into a pile in the center of the room, he puts the whole to light. Then, he follows the others up the ladder.
As Torch set the papers alfame, Nuz was happy that he brought along the grappling hook and rope from the Bird Cruncher killers.
~With fire below and bugbear boom above, we have to use rope to get down quick.~
Wondering how the longshanks would react to the outbreak of a fire, Nuz climbed even faster up the ladder.
Beeg follows the others into the tower and up the ladder, not liking these enclosed spaces.
As Torch sets the piles of paperwork ablaze, the group starts up the ladders, climbing from one scaffold to the next until they emerge on a larger platform. Several benches have been set up here as well as a pair of tables. More tools and paper litter the surfaces and some are displayed across the walls. On the far side of the platform, about 30 feet away, there are three men working on something on the stone wall.
So far your movements have gone completely unnoticed, however, there are wisps of smoke beginning to rise from below.
Beeg watches and waits as Crazygooglies starts to go towards the longshanks by herself, shrugs. Maybe she is going to seduce them. Just in case, he draws Da Boom! and prepares it to fire.
Gretcha creeps up as quietly as possible, tip toeing her way towards the men gathered at the far edge of the platform. As she makes her way across the room she steps on a banana peel, carelessly left on the floor, and nearly slips and falls because of it. Instead, she performs an amazing goblin form of the splits, then bounces back up from the floor to her feet. Stunned at the maneuver, she looks up to see the three men staring back at her, a shocked look on their face as they see the tiny goblin army arrayed against them.
The group of men simply stand there in shock as the goblins begin to run amok in the room. Gretcha, her plan already in motion, crosses the remaining distance and calls forth a spray of wildly maddening colors, giving the stunned men the grand opportunity to taste the rainbow. Two of the men fall to the ground with a thud, the brilliant display of colors being too much for their senses. The third man, however, appears to be unaffected by such tricks.
Torch tosses a bomb at the one remaining standing, trying not to engulf his companions in the blast radius.
(fire damage)
"Ha! You take that longshanks numb-heads! Gretcha powerful color-mancer!"
Gretcha literally jumps for joy at the effectiveness of her spell. She is goblin-giddy with excitement!
Drawing his bow and taking a couple steps forward as well the moment Crazy Eyes moved towards the longshanks, Nuz looked away when she hit the longshanks with her magics. Glancing upwards to see if it was done, he watched two of the men crumple to the ground while the third, obviously the leader and more powerful of the longshanks, remained standing.
Releasing the arrow quickly, before the longshank could move towards the dancing Crazy Eyes, Nuz's hands quickly reached for another arrow.
Mugmuff double moves to get behind the man as he draws his dogslicer. Since the man is still flatfooted, he's not bothering to do acrobatics, just hopes someone will move forward and flank with him.. he yells at his friends in goblin "Don't bomb me this time"
Mugmuff double moves to get behind the man as he draws his dogslicer. Since the man is still flatfooted, he's not bothering to do acrobatics, just hopes someone will move forward and flank with him.. he yells at his friends in goblin "Don't bomb me this time"
Bart Bighead will dash from his position of cover, to the pile of unconscious men, attempting to remain hidden from the 'live' one amongst the sleeping bodies of his companions.
Beeg tries to take a shot at the last man standing before anyone goes and starts getting in the way of him shooting.
Bomb, arrow, and bullet all strike true, pounding into the standing man in repaid succession. He goes to one knee and clutches at the arrow shaft in his chest, trying desperately to remove the projectile. He only manages to whisper "Goblins...", blood bubbling at his lips, before he collapses.
The two other men lie on the platform, blisters forming on their skin from the splash of Torch's bombs, quite unconscious.
Mugmuff moves to the side of one of the fallen unconscious longshanks and lifts his blade for a coup de grace. Unless anyone objects, he'll complete the action.
As the leader falls, Nuz lowers his bow and then hurries over to where the longshanks were working to see what they were doing. He was really hoping to find one of the longshank maps, as his were often very simple designed items, but if not, maybe he could find something of value among all the soul stealing paper.
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Mugmuff move in for the kill and knew that either the goblin would kill him or the blast from the bugbear's bundle would.
~Bad day to be you longshanks.~
Gretcha also runs up to the other longshanks, drawing her dagger for a coup-de-grace.
Unfortunately she's really not accustomed to using physical attacks. Like, at all. She barely makes a scratch on his neck.
The goblins quickly fall upon the downed men, Mugmuff drawing a nice smile across the man's throat, which quickly begins pumping out his victim's lifeblood in a spray which covers the nearby goblins. Gretcha, however, saws away at the neck with little effect. Suddenly, without any clear reason why, the man's head falls off of his body and rolls to her feet.
Gretcha stares in awe at the man's head rolling around. "Look numb-heads! Look how good I is at killing longshanks! Gretcha is da best!" She exclaims, heedless of any other nearby longshanks.
Dancing back to avoid the twin sprays of longshank blood, Nuz could only shake his head at the sight of Crazy Eyes doing a blood bath dance.
~No wonder Big Chief likes dis one. She as crazy as he is.~
Looking at the stained papers and the table, Nuz went through them one last time for anything of interest and then headed for the closest ladder going up, trying to stay ahead of the blaze below.
Torch applies his torch to the back of the head of the remaining longshanks, then follows Nuz up the ladder.
Bart slowly removes himself from the pile of humans, disapointed with his hiding place.
Bart follows up the ladder as well.
Beeg reloads Da Boom! and follows up the tricksy ladder.