Perren walks over to the poor wet and battered Arrius. With a wave of his hand he dries the half-elf's clothes.
"There, that will make it less likely you catch your death of cold in these caves. Death by other means, well you'll have to deal with that!", he says with a chuckle and pats his fellow adventurer on the shoulder.
Smiling at Nariella, Arrius nods. "Yeah, my spell protected me, and it's even still got some juice left in it. I'm unharmed."
Then, when Peren dries him, he chuckles. "Oh yeah, I could've done that myself, but forgot all about it in my haste to get back. Thanks, buddy."
Perception 1d20+3
With a light fluffing feel, Arrius's clothes are now dry despite his recent 'swim'.
Torbin turns to his allies whispering urgently, "They know we are here. One of our enemies ahead is speaking too well to be a goblin. We must rush them before they let loose another stream of water, there must be a dam up ahead of us".
Torbin casts Guidance on himself to aid his stealth.
Stealth
Nariella nods at Torbin and begins moving around the bend.
Guidance
Stealth:
A few moments later, the party sees. hooded figure atop the bridge looking down at them. Unlike a goblin, this one stands about as tall as a man or elf.
Raising a spear towards the party, it yells out in Common, "Get out! These our caves! You human and elf stink it up!" It tosses a spear at Torbin's feet, making it land nearby in an apparent attempt to frighten them.
"Okay! We get out. Just need friend first, then we leave. You can keep caves. We wish you the best."
The creature turns it's head some then barks a laugh. "You want friend? You pay for him! Lots gold and shinies!"
Torbin takes the spear and hefts it, "You show friend, we show gold, then trade".
While everyone is talking, Nariella moves around the bend to get a better look at their numbers.
As Nariella moves around the bend, she sees two Goblins standing further up the creek next to a small broken wall of stone, another nearby. They seem to waiting for something.
Peren, seeing Nariella moving towards the figure, tries to keep its attention on them.
"I am not going to waste my hard won gold without seeing what I am buying! Show us our friend, and then we will show you the gold."
Arrius waits, eager to see whom the figure assumed we meant by "our friend".
@Nariella: Still with the crazy rolls, huh?
As Peren shouts at the figure, it grunts and barks across the bridge to the west (where Nariella can't see, I'm afraid) in Goblin.
Several moments later, two goblins are seen dragging a human across the bridge. For those with darkvision and can see him, the human looks severely beaten.
"Now, give shinies! Or we cut friends throat!"
"How much shiny?" Arrius asks.
As the hooded figure on the bridge hears Arrius, it laughs. "All of your shinies! And if you have enough maybe we not slit his throat!" As he laughs. the two goblins on the bridge begin to laugh along.
@Nariella: Still with the crazy rolls, huh?
Trying to get the piece of sand that flew into her eye when the water hit, Nariella waits quietly, with her weapon ready.
Peren reaches into his pack and removes a large pouch holding 25 gold.
"Here you go. Now bring him down so we can make the exchange.
@Torbin: Not readily, though Nariella knows of the two further ahead and you know there had to be at least one other from up ahead from the conversation you heard earlier.
As Peren holds up the purse, the creature leans forward, the bridge creaking loudly under the weight. "How many shinies?" But it waves at the two goblins to start moving. Raising the human up, they start trying to drag him further across the bridge in the direction of the other Goblins.
"Other way, toward shinies. Bring him here, and we trade. You look at how many shinies, we look at how much human is left, we make fair trade."
Peren will dump some of the gold out in his had to show the goblins.
"You see, here is your gold. Now bring the human down here and we can trade!"
After several moments, the goblins are across the bridge and out of sight. The creature at the top of the bridge pulls out another javelin before hopping down from the bridge. Landing with a small grunt, it looks at Torbin and Peren.
"Maybe I just take shinies!" It holds up it's javelin, pointing it at Peren. "Give me shinies now and I give human to you."
Suspicious of the hooded man, Nariella tries to get a feel for the situation.
I can't let the goblins reach them...
Nariella slinks backwards towards Arrius, before jumping the goblins with the hostage.
When he hears the "maybe not give human at all" bit, Arrius thinks, "Well, we tried," and shoots one of the goblins that has the hostage.
Result: 16
Arrius then advances on the goblins that have the hostage, hoping to make himself a more immediate target than the hostage.
As the goblins round the corner, one gets a rapier pierced right through it's arm, collapsing under shock. As the other loses it's balance, a bolt from Arrius catches it in the chest, where a gargling noise is heard before it splashes into the water.
As it hears the cry and gargle, the creature that had just jumped from the ridge roars. "Rhaash daan dral!"
Cast Sacred Flame on the Goblin issuing the commands.
Damage
Going to roll for Peren...
Alright, and the average for the party is 13.5!
Alright, as Torbin's powers manifest, the creature roars and attempts to dodge it. Ducking to the side, it prepares to rush forward!
Nariella, Peren and Arrius may now act!
Dropping the coins and rushing forward while drawing his swords, Peren attempts to get to the group holding the prisoner and attack.
Arrius gets as close as he can to the prisoner, then fires at the nearest enemy.
,
Nariella moves to strike the nearest creature.
Torbin will fire his crossbow at the hooded creature.
Crossbow
Damage
Nariella focuses fire on the leader, hoping to take him down quickly.
Peren will move towards the leader and attack when he gets there (2 turns?)