"You have violated the edicts of the lawful lord of this realm! You stand judged for your crimes! Submit yourself to the King's Justice, or be destroyed!" Radomir lowers his lance and charges the troll astride his horse.
Surprise round:
Challenge the Troll
Charge troll
do double damage on a charge
the +4 to intimidate is if circuit applies. if it doesn't, remove.
We head in to try to finish this or drag off the corpses to the cellar. Andrea taps her chin. Since the trolls are unaware of the cellar, we might use that as shelter.
Othniel fires off a bit of acid for good measure, and to shut down the troll's regenerative abilities.
Radomir nods at Andrea's suggestion. "The cellar would make for a great shelter. And, we can use the same tactics again for the next few trolls. Eventually, they will catch on, and we will need to enter their cave. Until then, there might not be a need to. But, if you want.. I will take point when we enter the cave."
That sounds like a fair plan, winnow them down and then take on their reduced numbers.
"Hit and run's always been an effective tactic. I concur - let's draw them out and winnow the chaff."
Agreed. Though if we're to use the cellar, we should be prepared for whatever might be down there. I expect that the Trolls never cleared it out.
Very well, to the cellar. Be prepared for vermin
"Let's go handle it, then."
Rasomie eakses his glaive and nods. "Aye. We must bring these lawless lands to order."
You all descend into the cellar, brushing aside cobwebs and dodging rat droppings as you walk. Obviously nothing larger than typical vermin have been down here for many years, making their homes in the remains of crates and barrels that used to hold the supplies for the barracks. All food and drink is long since gone, but there still remains some remnants of other stored objects.
There is a decaying weapons rack against one wall, rusty metal laying in a heap underneath it. Several old shields with crests of long dead noble housed embossed upon them, a couple longswords and axes with their leather handles and wrappings gnawed away. A few dozen arrowheads scattered about the floor, the arrow shafts and fletchings long since rotted.
Radomir peers into the darkness of the cellar, glaive ready.
Finnegan hisses as he sees the crack. He cautiously approaches and examines it. "There's a crack over here - it would be tight, but a person could fit into it."
As usual, Alexander is oblivious until it is pointed out. Interesting. Do you think it leads anywhere?
A secret entrance to the troll? Or getting narrower and leading one to get stuck and starving to death
"Well, it looks like one path leads towards the cliff, and the other towards the mountain. I can scout it out, if you'd like, but I'm not sure how far it goes or how long it'll take me."
"Perhaps we should tie a rope to you so we can pull you out if you get stuck."
Maybe grease you up as well.
Assuming that Finnegan chooses the crack heading towards the mountain, he is able to fit in through it and after about 10 feet in, it opens up a little bit more and seems to descend a bit. After about 80 feet, it abruptly comes to end, opening up into a vertical shaft that appears to go down another 30 feet and looking up, you can see an large crack in the ceiling about 20 feet up.
Also, as you near the entrance of the pit, your nostrils are assailed by the foul stench of decaying and rotted meat. Looking closer at the bottom of the pit, it appears that it it being used at a midden heap of sorts. Dead humanoids and animals lay scattered on the bottom along with a variety of other disgusting things that you would really not like to think about coming out of a troll......
The crack above is roughly 15 feet by 5 feet at its widest.
Finnegan notes the crack, studies the walls of the pit to see how rough they are, then turns and heads back to where everyone is hiding out. Once he returns, he says, "That path leads right to a vertical pit that the trolls appear to be using as a midden heap. It gives us a back way in - or an emergency escape, should we need it, although the smell's pretty offensive."
Considering how things have been going, it probably has a monster in it as well.
"Is there something we can send into the crack?"
Alexander frowns, Sounds unpleasant. Let's wait till they come out. Trolls smell bad enough already.
I could summon an elemental to carry someone up so they could perhaps dropa rope.
"I don't want any part of going up a troll's crack, thanks."
You will head into the crack of doom and like it!
"The creature dropping a rope sounds like a good idea, Andrea.
Would Othniel or Finnegan be willing to go up?
Alexander shrugs, If either are willing. It may be useful if we can't drawn any more of them out and we need another way in. But...I'm not inclined to climb through it unless we absolutely need to.
Would Othniel or Finnegan be willing to go up?
Othniel grimaces. "If we have to we have to, but it wouldn't be my first choice."
Very well, let us try the main entrance.
"Agreed. I'd rather we exhaust all other options first - or use it as an emergency escape route should we need to retreat and be cut off from the main entrance. It really is a horrible stench back there."
So Finnegan and Othniel scouting, Alex and Radomir in the next rank and me in the rear sounds fine.
As you venture into the main entrance, you only go 20 feet in before the tunnel forks. To the right, you can hear the sounds of two voices arguing loudly down it. To the left, it seems quiet.
Andrea whispers Those are probably trolls
"Indeed. Should we take care of them, my lord?"
"Ready when you are" Radomir hefts his glaive
Alexander nods, We might as well handle them now.
When you head into the cave with the voices, you see a very large troll with two heads arguing with itself.
Rnd 1
Andrea advances behind Radomir with her longspear.
Alexander bounds into the room and yells, Get him!
Eduard will start to cast Summon Monster II to summon a small fire elemental. Since the rest of the party will move before the cast finishes, he'll try to place it in a flanking position once it arrives.
Radomir points atthe troll. "You have violated the laws of this land! You have been judged, and shall be ended"
He charges the criminal brute, glaive leveled for a wicked stirke
[Spoiler=rules]
Sentence on troll: power of Destruction! +3 to damage
Finnegan studies the two-headed troll, then launches an arrow at it.
Eduard begins summoning...
Radomir charges and strikes the troll, plunging his spear into its belly.
Alexander Inspires Courage as he enters the room...
Finnegan studies the two-headed monstrosity and sinks an arrow into its shoulder.
Andrea advances with her spear in hand...
The troll brings forth a huge, studded greatclub and swings it down towards Radomir's head...
...but the arrow to his should must have thrown off his aim and he misses him.