Yasu's arrow flies from his bow, impaling the fleeing one through the back and dropping it to the ground. Laufey attempts to strike at the lone goblin remaining, but her foot slips in blood and she is off-balance as she swings. Isabella takes a moment and again prays to Reymenda to heal the wounds of her allies.
Rasmorn, breathing a sigh of relief that he got the doors locked before the remaining goblins could flank the group, fires acid into the melee with Laufey, missing quite badly. He keeps the wall up just in case - after all, the goblins hadn't been taken care of yet. Talia also fires into the melee, but her bolt goes wide due to the confusion before her.
The remaining goblin, hearing his allies words, looks at you all and gasps before hunkering down behind his shield and cautiously backing away from Laufey.
Yasu 12/12
Isabella 9/9
Talia 9/9
Blue Goblin 3/6
Yasu smirks as the goblin he shot drops, pulling another arrow and firing it at the last remaining goblin with a little more confidence.
Yasu's arrow takes the final goblin, punching through its shield and knocking it to the ground.
"There are three more goblins that were in the back half of the room; they left, and a short while later the doors behind us were tried, so I assume at least one or two of them circled around, probably all three of them. Hard telling where they are now. Do we wait for them to come back into the room, or go out after them?"
"Someone open the door, the rest shoot them?" Is Talia's suggestion.
"Sounds like a plan to me." Yasu agrees, drawing another javelin-arrow and turning to face the door.
"Sounds good to me" Rasmorn says, hopping up on the table in the middle of the room, and trying to keep an eye both on the action up front as well as glancing back occasionally to the back half of the room in case they circle back around again. Just for good measure, he maintains his wall illusion, just in case. "Who's going to open the door?"
Laufey walks to the door. "I'll do it."
She unlocks the door and opens it wide, moving back from the opening along with the door so any shots that can be made will be clear ones.
Yasu and Talia aim their bows at the door as Laufey throws it wide to reveal - nothing. The goblins appear to have run off after finding the door barred. You hear faint sounds of Goblin jabber from around the hallway and down the corner - not loud enough to make it out, but loud enough to reveal they're still in the hallway somewhere.
The goblin voices move further away from the group, as the goblins move down the corridor. Rasmorn has yet to see any of them come through the other door.
Yasu relaxes the tension on his line, letting out a held in breath as he does so. "That can't be good. Everyone alive? We need to stop them from getting help."
"I'm fine. We need to head deeper inside and see if there are more goblins, and what might've happened to any people caught in here." Isabella seems quite determined.
"I'd prefer not having those obnoxious pests creeping up behind us."
Talia sneaks out to check if she can see the Goblins.
As before Vigny follows along behind Talia, her sword ready in case the goblins turn out to be closer than it seems.
Sneaking around the corner to the long part of the hallway, you just see the back of a goblin disappear through the double doors at the far end.
Talia goes back and tells the others where the Goblins went. "Should we follow? They may be reporting to someone or getting more pests."
While Talia goes back to the others Laufey maintains her position in the hallways, just in case the goblins turn around and come back.
"Yes. Let's go hunt them down before they can come back with more." he says, joining Talia and Laufey.
Since the goblins were able to exit the room at the far end and then circle around, it stands to reason that the doors at the far end will connect to that hallway somehow. You may be able to head them off there, depending on how much of a head start they have.
"Indeed, as I said before, we need to track them down and keep them from hurting anyone else!" says Isabella emphatically. She hefts her falchion up on to her shoulder and says, "Is everyone fit for further battle?"
Rasmorn tries to get the other's attention before they leave the room. "If we go this way, we can probably cut them off! They left from here and went around."
Rasmorn dismisses his wall illusion with a wave of the hand. "This way - they left through those doors down there!" He will, however, cautiously wait for someone bigger and stronger to take the lead.
Getting Laufey from the hallway, the group moves through the room in pursuit of the goblins. It is evident from the presence of glass-encased body parts that there are likely no Glassworks employees left living, unless one was fortunate enough to find a hiding place and avoid discovery. Halfway down the room, the fate of Lonjiku is discovered.
The elderly Tian-Min man appears to have been tied to a chair, and then had molten glass poured over him. By the look on his face, he was clearly alive when it happened, and it was likely an incredibly painful manner of death. Whoever did this to him was either sadistic or hated him with a passion - or both.
Once out of the furnace room, you come into a loading area. There are several doors leading out - one that appears to lead to the outside ahead of you, another two on the right-hand wall, and, on the left wall just out of sight, another door with stairs leading down to the basement. The door closest to you on the right-hand wall and the door to the stairs are both open - the others are closed and, in the case of the door leading outside, barred.
"Oh. Lonjiku..." Yasu mutters. "what a horrible fate"
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Laufey looks at the body with distaste. "Did you know this man Yasu? This is simply hatred. Nothing could have been gained by doing this. Who would hate him so much? It is too clever for the goblins I think."
Yasu looks uncomfortable. "This was Ameiko's father. The man who came and yelled at her in the tavern the other day. He didn't have much nice to say about me even on a good day, either." he explains.
"But I wouldn't do something like this, even if I hated him. This is personal."
"He was... not well-loved," says Isabella, clearly shaken. "But this is beyond the pale. I doubt even the townspeople who argued with him would imagine this kind of revenge. And it would have to be someone able to get the goblins into town and into the glassworks."
Talia grimaces at the sight and mutters a quick prayer. She may not have cared for the man but his fate was far too cruel.
"We should finish looking around up here before going down. We don't want to find anything at our backs."
"I agree. Let's sweep this area." Yasu adds.
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As you look further about the loading room, you see containers holding various reagents for making colored glass. A safe, sitting upon the ground, hangs open, its contents taken.
You identify the reagents as manganese (for clear glass), cobalt (for blue glass), and tin (for white glass). You know that gold and silver are used to make red and yellow glass, and they may have been stored in the safe as opposed to just left out.
Of the two doors leading further into this floor of the Glassworks, the door closest to the outer loading door leads to a small room containing sand, soda ash, and quick lime - all the basic ingredients for making glass. The other leads to a short hallway that ends in a pair of open double doors - likely leading to the main long hallway - a standard door next to the double doors, and an off-shoot that leads to another door.
Without any idea what the building is like inside, Laufey has no idea how to evaluate their choice of doors.
"Should we just check them out in order? Left to right?"
She approaches the door farthest to the left and opens it.
This room appears to be some sort of reception area - a place for customers looking for custom glasswork to meet and discuss pricing and design. The room is in disarray, as though the goblins had been through it, but otherwise you see no sign of them. There are three additional doors in the room, one adjacent to the current door on the same wall, one to the left, and the other to the right - which also looks to lead outside.
Moving through the remaining rooms on the main floor of the Glassworks, you find evidence everywhere that the Goblins had slaughtered all of the workers, as well as generally ransacked the factory. The majority of the blood is in the bunk room, showing the workers were asleep when the Goblins broke in and killed them. Despite the general chaos and disarray, the one thing you notice is that none of the windows are broken, and none of the doors shows signs of having been forced or broken through. There is no sign of how the goblins got in. You are forced to conclude that either someone let the Goblins in - or else there's another way into the Glassworks.
With the main floor cleared, you find yourselves only with the stairs leading down. As you descend into the basement, you notice that there is much less light down here - in fact, only a couple of torches burn, providing a dim, smoky light. At the base of the stairs, to your left, is a broken down pile of rubble leading to what looks like an older passageway. Straight ahead, the passageway curves slightly left. You notice a couple of wheelbarrows propped against the wall - similar to the ones in the loading room upstairs.
Rasmorn makes his way down into the basement, mostly behind the others. Creepy dark goblin-infested basement, haven't I skirted death enough times already? Should be home studying... He glances around at his companions briefly. Good to have friends, though. We'll keep each other safe.
The bleachling peers forward into the darkness, trying to see what lies ahead of them.
Talia does have Lowlight vision thankfully.
Despite the dimly lit corridor, the two of you are just able to make out the ear of a goblin, hidden behind a crate.
Talia makes a gesture to halt the others, indicating the concealed Goblin to the party, while she chatters about something harmless.
Talia and Rasmorn are able to tell the Goblins aren't moving any closer.
Laufey stops along with Talia, but doesn't know what they are waiting for.
You can use Bluff to pass hidden messages to another character without others understanding your true meaning. The DC of this check is 15 for simple messages and 20 for complex messages. If you are successful, the target automatically understands you, assuming you are speaking in a language that it understands. If your check fails by 5 or more, you deliver the wrong message. Other creatures that hear the message can decipher the message by succeeding at an opposed Sense Motive check against your Bluff result.