The goblins have amassed a small cache of spoils from recent ambushes of travelers along this path, which they now heap in a pile on the ground floor of the western (lower) tower.
Among the worthless junk collected here is a potion bottle and two tanglefoot bags.
You also find another potion and 2 alchemist's fire on the goblin shaman. Your goblins, upon seeing these and the rest of the equipment, start asking for weapons and armor to protect themselves against other baddies.
In fact, they start just trying to grab the equipment.
Flamebringer and Torch jump up immediately. "Fire! Yah yah, we buildz big fire!"
Nemrok's diplomacy seems to be holding the goblins in check, but you can tell that they would grab whatever they could as soon as the opportunity presents itself.
The potions are Cure Light Wounds and Bull's Strength.
As far as stopping or not, you are days away, so it really just depends on if you want to refresh spells, etc. or not. It is probably a good place to stop, though, because it is shelter and easier to defend.
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What time of day is it?
Auriferous will take the bulls strength potion if nobody else wants it, and also secure the alchemists fire away from goblin attention.
"I think if we all stick in the one tower it would be best."
She is more than happy to spend time rendering the weapons unusable (bending swords etc).
You notice that the goblins all are paying close attention to where the alchemist's fire is put.
Auri's question has all of the goblins on their feet jumping and screamming "Me! Me! Light em up! Light em up!"
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Auri looks around the group, and then deciding that there was none especially well or badly behaved, plays favourites and suggests "Flame Bringer."
She looks around the rest.
"But you can all help build the fire that he will be lighting. So you all get to have a bit of the fun. Once lit, no prodding though."
The goblins, under Wyatt's watchful eye, help build a fire and seem to revel in making the flames go higher and higher...
You stay the night in the tower, posting guards on both the outside and the goblins .
The night passes uneventfully, and so you eat and head out.
You resume your travels and walk for quite some time. The goblins are fairly well behaved, but constantly ask for food.
With the rough hills at now far to the north, the land opens into a broad grassland where the snow is much sparser. The sky is overcast and the temperature has risen, making the march south somewhat easier. For as far as the eye can see, there is nothing but open ground and great fir trees that dot the landscape.
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Nemrok continued to try befriending the goblins during the travel. Hoping to gain their "trust" and to stop them in the case they behaving wrongly, speaking to them in their languages.
Looking at the landscape, despite is lack of knowledge about nature and such, something caught Nemrok's eye.
Looking worried he said to his comrades Guys, I think we may have a problem. Winter is coming ! A big snowstorm ! We mesut prepare a camp as soon as possible !
You need a DC 15 Survival check to get camp set up in an hour. You can have 1 check and the others aid if you like. The goblins provide no help - in fact, they jeer at you and make fun of what you are doing.
Let me know who is setting up, who is aiding, and who (if anyone) is watching goblins.
You make camp just as the storm rolls in, Temperatures drop severely, and visibility is very low. Inside your shelters, you can handle the weather. It looks like the storm will be raging for a while.
What are your plans?
So you are rotating shifts to watch the goblins. Anything else?
The weather outside is frightful - a rather severe snowstorm. Temperatures are such that without the camp, you would have certainly frozen. The goblins seem less concerns than you, however they are from around these parts.
While Wyatt is doing rounds outside, he sees a strange occurrence. A pale blue daffodil-like flower is blooming in the snow!