Globlob shrugs amiably and glances around at all of the so-called "Bah-Grah." "Okay, if you want. Globlob barely know what he sayin', though." And without waiting for anyone to try to stop him, he goes right back to sliding through the motions of interpretive dance between the two groups. Because comedy relief is the true mediator here.
Blekk nods appreciatively. "Glob, gotta have you teach me how do that later."
Globlob scoffs in the middle of his dance without breaking stride for a moment. "Is all in hips. Nothing to. You try, come join."
"Andretta... I am Andretta, and I am very pleased to see you", the woman smiles sincerely before snapping at Ravboom, ”Don’t!!! Let them sleep for goodness’ sake!!! If they wake and see other strangers here they are likely to attack… it’s not their fault, they… oh…", Andretta stops as the first of the sleeping Bha-gra awakes… Groggily, it murmurs to itself as it stands… lips snarl back exposing savage teeth, presumably as it takes in its surroundings and remembers the situation that it found itself in… before the Bha-gra from the southern room start barking at it… backwards and forwards their crude language goes as an argument seems to escalate… before, with Andretta getting ever more tense, dissipating. One by one, the other sleeping bha-gra awake… and each time, they are eventually quietened…
…moving off to one side, the bha-gra – who are still eyeing Andretta with some degree of suspicion – seem to be conversing with each other; allowing Andretta to continue, ”Do you know where we are yet? Did you suffer the same fate as us? Who are you?”… the questions come thick and fast… and, so far at least, Andretta does not seem overly perturbed that the majority of the group are goblins.
Blekk stands off to the side, self-consciously swaying his hips in a poor imitation of Glob's dance. "Dunno about them, but Blekk got picked up by flying circle people last night. Or maybe not last night, not sure. Fell off roof, hit head. Could be last night, could be three years. No way to know..."
Blekk nods. "You no have flying circles near you? Huh. Thought everyone did. They come by my village every once in a while, take goblins away. When goblins come back...they different. Flying circle people change them somehow. We put those people in charge then, because they been chosen by the circle people to lead."
Showing a little self-consciousness as she moves into the main chamber, Andretta enquires of Palomia, ”You have found your clothing then… and your weapons? There was nothing in my room… and the Bahgra, they were unarmed also – although, maybe that was to my advantage”.
As Bleak talks of the manner of his abduction, Andretta wonders aloud, "I have no idea where we are… I was on a trek with friends, on my way to the Temple of the Suns, and we camped beneath the shadow of the Uldenspires… when I awoke, I was in one of those cylinders… and now, the presence of the Bahgra? I am at as much of a loss as to what is going on as you appear to be – you have met no others?'
...and then she picks up on something that Biggun says, "Taking the sun? Which one?"
Andrea is becoming increasingly confused, "But which sun, there are three of them... some folk have thought to harness the energy of the smallest of the three... Solie, are you one of the Cult of Solar Engineering?"
"Wha...three suns? Wow, good day to be Solie-she gets to choose which sun she wants!"
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"Temple of the Sun..." Solie repeats slowly,then her eyes light up like a kid in a candy store. "YES YES I HARNESS THE POWER OF THE SUN! ALL THREE! WHERE ARE OTHER TWO?" Solie walks around the woman as if expecting her to be hiding the others somewhere. "Take me to your cult! Biggun! Take notes!"
– you have never heard of the Uldenspires nor the Temple of the Suns…
Andretta is coming to the same conclusion as the rest of the friends, ”My world has three suns; the ‘Wife’ and the ‘Suitor’ that dance an endless trail across the skies… and then, every century, the ‘Vengeful Husband’ returns – it is a time of wildfires, of drought and of pestilence through which our people must struggle before the years of prosperity return. The Cult of the Solar Engineers seek to harness the energy of the ‘Vengeful Husband’ – some have even spoken of capturing and holding it in place somehow…”.
For a moment Andretta seems wistful… as if she is already resigned to the fact that she is far from ‘home’, ”You say your lands have only one Sun? …and that your world is called ‘Golarion’? You are not of my world, the Bhagra are not of my world… nor of your world… We have been taken by someone or something that can move between the worlds – but why? And why us in particular? Blekk, you say you encountered flying circles? How about the rest of you – did anything unusual happen in the days before you awoke here? Nothing like Blekk’s circles happened to me… I suppose there was an unusual light in the sky a few days ago – but I thought it nothing more than a shooting star”.
…and, finally 'answering' the question that has been whirling through everyone’s heads, ”I’m afraid I have no more idea of where we are than you do… and whilst we remain here, with no windows nor view of the sky, we are unlikely to get the answers we seek”.
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"Ravboom blow up stupid gel thing that think it smarter than Ravboom. Sollie and Biggun Die and become ghosts, maybe tank make them alive again. Maybe we all die in Ravboom explosion and just dream we alive, maybe this place go when die. If so, Rav want money back, not worth trip." He spits on the ground, and begins to examine the tanks in this room, to see if there are any differences. "Slimy goo thing came from falling star, so that similar. Wonder if dogs have same issue. Why two groups of dogs? Two humies, one nutty gnome, and three goblins... oh and Biggun, not sure what he is. Think maybe Giant and Goblin got busy, make dumb in-between goblin." He thinks on that one for a second. "Must have been male goblin and female giant..."
Ravboom looks up from his pokings in the interiors of the tubes. "How so local gobbies turning violent and killing each other strange?" He looks at Glob and Blekk. "That pretty much damn near normal every day thing, yes?"
Blekk smirks. "There be some gobbo families near my tribe...been killin' each other for hundreds of years now. Nobody knows why anymore, but they still doin it. Friend of mine sells them "special rocks" to throw at each other-takes all their money! But his secret, they're just regular rocks. Don't tell the gobbos, k?"
He conspiratorially winks at Ravboom.
Globlob pauses in his dancing to peer over to Andretta, nodding enthusiastically. "Yeah, yeah, yeah," he says, his ears flapping about as though he means to take off, "Goblins always fighting goblins! Is no new thing. But she right, we leave. Pick a door."
"That seems kinda pointless to kill each other all the time," Relas comments, frowning as much as a cat-creature can frown. "Wait...some sort of 'survival of the fittest' thing? In that case it makes sense, sort of..."
After a moment, he shakes his head. "Anyway, Glob's right - there's still a bunch of doors left to try. Going west didn't work so maybe we should try going east instead!"
Andretta nods as the group, some more lucidly than others, explain how they got here, ”Whoever… whatever brought us here has technology and immense power… we must tread very carefully… and we must escape as soon as we can”
As the group, now with Andretta following close to Relas, move out into the central chamber, the Bhagra watch with some interest… it appears, although it is impossible to tell without a shared language, that they are content to let the strange dancing goblin take all the risks… Moving towards the eastern door (although, as Solie points out it is more of a feeling than a certainty about where north is… or whether it is there at all!!!), the more attentive of the party can hear noises emanating from the other side of the door…
With weapons to hand, someone attempts to open the door… and is rewarded with a loud buzzing sound as the door remains steadfastly closed. The shuffling noises from behind the door stop, and are replaced with guttural – yet indistinct – voices…
...the over sized goblin is about halfway through unfurling his chain when the door, near silently, opens – and, standing behind the door, three imposing humanoids - one of whom is holding a metal cylinder to the disk on its side of the door. Unlike anything any of the friends have seen before, these creatures gaze at Biggun with unblinking, milk-white eyes, claws and wicked bone spurs ready to rend as green, calcified skin covers their body like a hardened exoskeleton.
…and, for the second time since waking, the friends hear their language being spoken, ”Prisoners return to their cells or suffer pain”
"Yeah, what she said!" Relas roars as he too springs into action and moves up to take a bite at the nearest of the lizard-men.
Blekk moves up to the closest lizard man, and then drinks something in a glass bottle simply marked with a big smiley face. He makes a face as he swallows it, but then grins hugely to reveal his teeth growing long and pointy, as are the claws on his hands. "Hoooo boy, this feels GOOD! Blekk eaten many lizards before, none as big as you though. Gonna be good eatin' tonight, friends!"
Clattering down hard, Biggun’s brutal chain knocks the ‘dumb lizard thing’ to the ground… it twitches once and is then still…
Bounding forwards – and past Biggun, Relas bites at the second creature – jaws crunching down hard as the lumbering creature fails to move out of the way…
Remarkably, Palomia’s words cause hesitation in her foes…
The creature attacked by Relas claws viciously at the eidolon... but, as the calcified blades swing at Relas, he ducks out of the way quite easily...
The second creature, bringing a bone-like device up to its chest, ‘fires’ it in much the same way that the Boomrav is used. A thorny projectile, some six inches in length – thuds into the centre of Biggun's chest.
...and for a second time, the creatures insist, ”Prisoners return to their cells or suffer pain”.
Globlob, after taking a good few seconds to take stock of the situation, knows what to do. He draws in a deep breath and starts to belt out a rousing song to keep his companions in the fight!
"They big and mean and green,
But they not on our team!
Tear them down!
Beat them 'round!
Bet they taste nice and lean!"
"Whoa, what are these things??" Relas gasps as he dodges the creative's claws. Not wanting to find out what would happen if one of them managed to strike him, he shuffles around the creature to allow Blekk to close in as well before attempting to deliver another vicious bite.
Relas, slinking around to a flanking position behind the lizardfolk-like creature, bites… and, finding exposed flesh, bites hard… with the creature in a vice-like grip, Relas shakes his prey furiously before letting it fall limply to the floor…
…and then Biggun and Palomia turn their attention to the remaining creature – Palomia’s bolt thuds hard into its shoulder before Biggun, moving with purpose now, swings his chain and sends the last of the group’s attackers to the floor.
…just as the door to the north-east opens, and from the small room beyond, a similar refrain as three more of the lizard-folk like creatures heft their weapons, ”Prisoners return to their cells or suffer pain”.
Ravboom watches the others demolish the original three, and nods, holding his last few rounds jealously. But then, when the new door opens, he grins. "Ravboom no prisoner, you be dead for being stupid now..." He lays the Boomrav over the crook of his other arm, aiming down the sights, and pulls the trigger...
...and seems very satisfied as a large hole appears in the lead lizard, spraying blood everywhere. Andretta is likely not to be too happy about the firearm belching smoke out all over her, especially given this is the first time she's seen it in action.
As more join the fray, Solie continues her heroic streak of self preservation.
Quick to react to the opening door, Ravboom brings up his gun... levels it, cocks the hammer and blows a small hole in the leg of the advancing creature.
Blekk stares at the corpse of the lizard thing laying at his feet. "Aww...Blekk wanted a piece of that."
He then moves back to the main room, and then drinks another vial of liquid-this time, growing until he's about an inch shorter than Biggun.
"Biggun, later you gotta tell me how you make the bigness last-can only keep this up for a few minutes. Can see why you like it though, everyone else so small!"
With smoke belching from the BoomRav, the creatures find it difficult to find their targets. The strange rifles are brought up, and with a mechanical 'clunk', peculiar thorns are fired at Ravboom... but, in the swirling smoke, both miss wildly...
Globlob snatches up his own bow and scurries around to get a better look at these creatures. But his eyes immediately go wide at their odd spike guns and he gets briefly distracted in the process.
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"RAVBOOM WILL HAVE NEW THORN GUNS! YOU ARE ALL BEING DEAD NOW!" The small goblin says with glee, seeing the guns firing in his direction. "RAVBOOM WILL MAKE SURE THEY HIT THEIR TARGET"
Putting words into action, Ravboom pulls the trigger on the Boomrav again, and another cloud of smoke belches out and another 2 ounce chunk of lead flies out and slams into the same lizard, not opening as big a hole, but adding to the blood pouring out of his body!
"There's more!?" Relas gasps as the sounds of gunfire echo from behind them. Following after Biggun and Blekk, he bounds out of the room and towards the sounds of new fighting. Upon seeing that quarters up ahead looked rather tight, he slows and stops behind Blekk.