Hearing the howling coming from behind, Brandark grins at the goblin that turned to face him. Your time has come little thing.
With that, Brandark tries to disembowel the goblin with a side slash.
"Smash the goblins,
Before their evil can spread,
We be humans,
You be dead!" Calene says in a vaguely goblin-esque voice.
"And uh, elves and a dwarf," she adds quickly as she takes a few small steps to the south.
Garrath takes a cautious step to the north, and swings his falchion at the goblin standing there.
Nocking another Arrow Elektra lets loose again.
Round Six
Again Elektra struggles to find her mark while crouching uncomfortably amongst the thorns.
Kelvin's arrow whizzes past one of the Goblin with a bow's little green ear.
Calene’s oratory once again inspires the party.
Brandark drops another of the foul little fiends, then steps over the pooling mass of blood and innards.
Garrath too takes a step and sends yet another Goblin to the infernal regions.
Seeing Goblin after Goblin fall, then watching as two scary big Longshanks approach, the Goblin drops his bow and turns to run. But it soon realizes it has nowhere to run to.
The weird yelping continues, but nothing else attacks the party.
Round Seven
Victory is yours.
After dropping the last goblin, Brandark moves to C30 I will guard here, if we want to gather the weapons that they had, and drop them off by the entrance
Then we can quickly tend to wounds and push on from here.
Brandark will adopt a defensive stance while this is going on.
Kelvin steps up behind Brandark and looks down the southern trail, "you keep watch east, and I'll keep watch south."
Garrath collects his various dropped weapons and sheathes or shoulders them, and joins Brandark at where he's guarding, catching his breath as the rage fades from him.
"The dogs are still east of here, and not coming closer. Perhaps they are tied up or caged. Either way, we will need to find them before too much longer just to make sure."
As the party moves more to the East, the thistle tunnels open into a large cave-like chamber to the South from your position. Above, the thorny canopy grows thin enough that tiny slivers of the sky above can be seen, while below, the ground consists of trampled dirt. You hear the sound of sloshing waves echoes up from a hole roughly in the middle of this cave-like area. While in this area the party can stand without crouching.
Elektra slowly follows their scouts ready to trap the dogs with a pit as soon as they appear.
Noticing the thorn walls leave only one path to follow, Kelvin says "lets go" and moves stealthily south along the trail to the slightly more open area and looks around.
Kelvin sees a large hole with the sounds of water sloshing below into the darkness. The baying sound is a little more clear coming from a place where the cavernous like area returns to narrow thistle tunnels.
Kelvin looks down the hole, and tries to determine how deep it goes before the surface of the water. "What do you all think is down there?" he asks, and to Brandark, "while my vision is pretty good, you can see in the dark so can you see anything?"
Garrath walks back to where they just had a fight and comes back with a goblin body and tosses it in the hole trying to judge how far down until a splash, and then listening for sounds of it being devoured.
shortly after the body goes down the hole, Brandark looks down the hole using darkvision
As for what is down there, I cannot say right now. All I hear is water, and I for one swim like a rock.
Garrath and Kelvin estimates that the Goblin's body fell 70 to 90 feet before you here a splash. After a couple of minutes, you hear a brief howling sound coming up from the hole. Then the sound of splashing and gnawing as you presume the Goblin is being devoured by some sea creature below. It is too far into the dark for Brandark to make out what is below clearly. He will make out what looks to be something with fins thrashing about.
"Well, at least it can't get up here. And I guess it liked the goblin. What say we continue on. Maybe there will be a way to that area that we can find later."
Kelvin then moves stealthily on towards the next open area and looks beyond the opening.
Kelvin see five Goblin dogs. They appear to be tied to stakes via
leashes of hairy, fraying rope. They do not notice Kelvin.
Kelvin moves back to the group and reports what he saw. "We will have to get rid of the beasties. The rope is fraying and looks like it won't last much longer."
So shooting them at range is it ?
Brandark pulls out his little used sling. I wonder if I remember how to use this. he says with a grin.
Round One
Knowing that they need to put down the dogs as quickly and as painlessly as possible, Kelvin moves to where he can get a clear shot at the lead dog, but not within reach of it and lets go with an arrow.
Brandark moves to and lobs a sling bullet at the lead dog.
After the one shot, he puts the sling away, and rehefts his shield and pulls out his axe.
lets finish these things.
Oferring her ranseur Elektra adds."Let us kill them from afar. No need to endanger ourselfes."
Elektra draws a scroll and prepares to cast it as soon as possible.
Brandark sets himself, for any dogs that get free.
Calene begins a quiet chant to inspire her allies.
Calene drops her rapier, and pulls out her crossbow. She drops a bolt into the bow and pulls back on the lever to ready the weapon to fire.
Garrath draws his greatsword and readies in case any dog breaks loose, or anything unexpected comes their way.
Kelvin gets a well placed arrow into the Goblin Dog up front, just missing a critical strike. Brandark's sling bullet drops it. Calene again inspires the party. Elektra reads a scroll. And Garrath readies himself for what may come next.
The Goblin Dogs bay wildly and strain against the fraying ropes, but the ropes hold.
Round Two
Taking aim at the next dog in line, Kelvin shoots it "one down, four more to go."
Seeing that the ropes hold elektra casts a cantrip.
Garrath remains on edge with his Greatsword drawn
Garrath slices down on the cat, "Cats AND dogs?? Who did we anger?"
bab+str+furious focus+inspire-Power Attack-thorns+masterwork
Even tethered the Goblin Dog manages to dodge Elektra's Acid Splash. Garrath, Greatsword in hand, readies himself in case something else comes along or a Goblin Dog breaks its fraying rope. Kelvin, meanwhile, put an arrow into yet another of the creatures truly too hideous to be called Dogs. The Goblin Dog staggers, severely injured by the Elf's shaft.
Then moving quickly from the south portion of the easternmost crossroads of thorns and thistles comes a Firepelt Cougar. Garrath swings at the attack big cat.
Coming from what looks like the thistles themselves, a Goblin, dressed unlike any you have ever seen before, steps onto the trail to the North, a flaming sword in one hand. Then all of a sudden the thorns and thistle begins to quickly grow around the party attempting to Entangle the party.
Figuring that Garrath and Calene can handle what is behind them, Kelvin attempts to move out of the entangled area. "Brandark, step up if you can."
Garrath, I think we have angered an animal lover
Brandark holsters his axe I think I will try this out. and draws the longsword that he was wearing across his back, and igniting it.
only to have the plants grasp him, impeding his movement.
Garrath swings at the Firepelt Cougar, but the beast is too nimble, and dodges the blow.
It returns the swath with sharp pointy teeth:
The Cougar bites at Garrath's legs causing the big Barbarian to fall prone.
The brambles and thorns grow around you:
The remaining Goblin Dogs fail to break the bonds of their ropes. One of the Goblin Dogs , weak from the arrow sticking in its side, barely holding on to consciousness, did not attempt to break free.
Round Three