Garrath will leave the door unlatched to the courtyard, so the horse can get out to the courtyard if it wants to. "I think the horse can take care of itself if more goblins come here. Why else would the smashed flat ones have boarded it up?"
Kelvin again does not hear any noises nor find a trap on this door either.
Not hearing anything, and not finding a trap, Kelvin steps back and lets Brandark and Garrath get in front of him so they can open the door.
Brandark clumps down the hall to the door, and then opens it up.
Garrath follows Brandark to the door.
Brandark opens the door and finds, , another hallway. But this time with TWO doors at the end of it.
Shall we go left ? Brandark queries with Kelvin before moving slightly up the hall.
"I'll check them both to make sure, but yea, lets got thru the north door first unless I hear something." Kelvin then moves up the hall and checks both doors, the north one first.
Yet again, Kelvin hears nothing beyond the doors. He does NOT detect traps, and he notes that neither are locked.
When Brandark opens the North door, he sees two more doors to the left.
To the South, Brandark sees a round table and a few chairs. These are the room’s only furnishings.
Another set of doors. When have goblins relied on doors. Brandark mutters with a sigh.
Kelvin, could you check the doors, and then stand clear, as it is now looking like we have to go back to the first tower.
"I somehow doubt that kobolds made this fort!" Slowly Elektra follows the others, careful never to be last.
Brandark pauses a bit confused, Kobolds? I agree, that they probably didn't have much to do with this place, but I was wondering about the Goblins
"Agreed Brandark, something other than goblins built this place. The runts like caves or what not rather than a place like this." and he checks out the two doors.
"Whichever way we go, we should spike the door of the way we did not."
I agree Garrath, we should spike the doors down while we finish the upstairs.
Brandark waits until Kelvin is in the room to the south, before opening the doors.
Kelvin does not hear anything through the North door. He also does not see a trap; but this time he is not as certain about it. He's more comfortable with the South door not having a trap. Also, he does not hear anything through it.
When Brandark opens the South door he finds a small, foul-smelling room featuring little more than a reeking hole in the ground, its rim stained with refuse and waste. He essentially found the Goblin's toilet.
Beyond the door to the north is a flight of stairs heading down.
After seeing the stairs down and the mess in the other room, Kelvin turns to Brandark, "well, back to the double doors and see what is behind that?"
"We should find us a local guide. Alas, my magic is weak in ursurping the minds of others."
The double doors works for me, but one minute.
Brandark takes a minute to drive a spike under the door into the hall.
I don't expect us to lower our guard any time soon, but the dawnflower looks over us.
After the doors are pinned open, Kelvin moves to the double doors and performs the ritual, listen then check for traps.
"I have a feeling we will soon have a decent challenge waiting for us!"
Garrath grins and yawns a bit after Elektra's comment "Is good. The dogs were good warmup, but challenges make for one's legend growing."
Aye Garrath, that it does, but let us be sure of the challenges before we take them on. Brandark grins up at the big man.
Kelvin hears conversation, likely Goblin, beyond the door. It is too faint though to make out what is being said.
Kelvin does not detect a trap on the door. He discovers that the door is locked.
Kelvin nods to Brandark, Garrath and the others and puts a finger to his lips, letting them know that there is noise behind the door. He then gets out his lock picking tools and gets to work on the lock.
After a couple of minutes, Kelvin manages to pick the lock.
When Brandark opens the door, he sees a large throne room decorated with hanging furs along its walls, mostly black-and-red striped firepelt skins, various dog pelts, and in some cases, what look like horse hides. Four square timbers support the ceiling, their faces studded with dozens of iron spikes, with the lower reaches decorated with dozens of impaled and severed hands in various stages of decay. To the northeast, a wooden platform supports a throne heaped with dog pelts and horse hides. Dog skulls adorn the armrests and a horse skull leers over the throne’s back.
"You do not have permission to enter the hall of Chief Ripnugget," a Goblin sitting on a throne with a Giant Gecko at his side, utters this commands across the throne room in the Common Tongue spoken with only a trace of Goblin accent.
There is a couple of female Goblins near the throne.
One of the female Goblins taking cover behind the throne begins to chant what may be a familiar tune to some.
Bonk the head to shut it up.
Bones be cracked, flesh be stewed,
We be goblins! You be food!
Goblins chew and goblins bite.
Goblins cut and goblins fight.
Stab the dog and cut the horse,
Goblins eat and take by force!
Goblins race and goblins jump
Goblins slash and goblins bump.
Burn the skin and mash the head,
Goblins here and you be dead!.
The other female Goblin moves to in front of a door and points toward the ground. She appears to be mumbling something. But is too far away to hear what she is saying at the sound level of her voice.
Surprised by the appearance of the giant gecko more than anything else, Kelvin recovers quickly though and fires an arrow at the goblinette and watches the arrow hit the wall behind her.
As he sees Stone move into the room, Captain Ripnugget jumps on the back of the Giant Gecko. He then pulls out a Dogslicer that even from a distance looks like a better than average Dogslicer, "I know that you are the Longshanks of Sandpoint. Today I will mount your heads on my wall."
If you are the one responsible for bringing them to sandpoint then Yes, we are, and now you will pay for it.
Brandark grips his axe, and shield and starts to moves boldly into the room.
Garrath rushes up past Stone,letting out a roar as the rage at the goblin song fills him, and loosens his Lucern Hammer taking a swing at the Goblin caster (1), and waiting for Ripnugget to move within range.
Starting an incanation Elektra tries to summon some help from beyond SM 1
The beams to this room are fifteen feet high. Hiding at the tops of these beams are Goblin Commandos. One on each of the four beams.
One attacks the big Barbarian Longshanks.
The second fires a shot at the shortest of the Longshanks.
The third fires down on the Longshanks Shaman.
The fourth sends another arrow down on the Dwarf Longshanks.
Round One Summary
A Goblin Warchanter begins to chant.
Stone moves in and cast Protection from Evil on himself.
Chief Ripnugget mounts a Giant Gecko and draws his Dogslicer.
Brandark moves in to the room.
Garrath moves in, Lucerne Hammer in hand, and strikes down a Goblin Warchanter.
Elektra begins to weave a spell.
Kelvin arrow sticks in the wall behind the Warchanter.
Four Goblins hiding near the ceiling strike from the top of the four square wooden post.
One hits Garrath with an arrow.
Another hits Brandark with an arrow.
The third Goblin missed Stone. And the Fourth just missed Brandark,
Round Two
Seeing the goblins on top of the post, Kelvin shoots at the goblin in front of Stone.
Goblin Warchanter behind the throne weaves a spell at the big Shoanti Longshanks.
Garrath starts to laugh uncontrollably, falling to the ground prone.
Chief Ripnugget attempt to charge with the Giant Gecko.
The Chief successfully pushes his odd stead into battle. The Giant Gecko moves to the Southern part of the room, then rounds the corner to attack Stone.
Ripnugget attacks the Longshanks Cleric.
But Stone's armor deflected the attack.
Brandark looks at the chief and his sticky rat.
Hey you, pick on someone your own size.
He then moves south to attack the chief.