Calmth returns to the explored rooms, and Vayu and Zen'yr have some time to get their bearings on the westernmost room.
Two tables with benches lie scattered around this mess hall. Decaying food of an indescribable nature sits on the tables. At the southern end of the chamber, doors exit to the east (to the rest of the party) and the west.
One the table is a meticulously ordered collection of decaying vegetables, with an area the shape of a goblin head in the middle. Looks like someone was having fun decorating a sleeping comrade. Coming to think of it, that one goblin did have parsley in his ear.
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"Uhm, sorry... Redke... I, uh... forgot..."
Ilya takes the wand of cure light wounds from Vayu, and gives her two taps on her shoulder.
"Here you go!" Ilya says as the wounds heals, then returns the wand to Vayu.
Ilya returns to the room where the party fought their first enemies inside the dungeon. She starts searching for anything they'd missed yesterday when they left hastily.
Not finding anything of interest, Ilya decides to move over to and search the room where most of the others now are.
"Let us finds out what's beyond the door to the west," Ilya suggests, checking to see if the others are ready to proceed.
The room to the west is completely empty. From the curving room, doors lead east and west, and a passage leads south. A small table with four rickety chairs sits in the middle of the room. A pair of dice lies on the table amid cups and plates.
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"Sure," Ilya replies as she follows Vayu into the room. She catches the die, and puts it in one of her pockets.
Ilya takes a look around to make sure there aren't any hiding things to discover in the empty room, then heads for the passage to the south. "Let's go here next?"
She looks into the passage while waiting for the others.
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Brayden's robed attendant swiftly moves back to his side after the battle's end. The creature whispers something lowly to him. Brayden shrugs as they enter the next chamber, "Eh, I guess I thought this would be a touch more exciting... I mean, the legends of this place are... well... legendary! And all we find are a bunch of goblins?"
As they continue he stows his shield on his back and places his morningstar in the baldric on his hip then draws his bow. "Anything catch your eye?"
The passage leads further south through a narrow carrier corridor, and then ends into another curved hall. There's a door on the west, which is locked with a rusty padlock, and double doors to the east.
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"A door, and more corridors," Ilya replies to Brayden. "But I have a feeling we'll encounter much more than just goblins. Give it time."
"Come on, people! Let's go." Ilya moves further down the passage, until she ends up in another space. She takes good look around to see where the various corridors are going from here.
There's something of a makeshift, but very tight barricade to the west, and a door to the east.
Also, some faint sound from beyond the barrier, something of a yelping or squeaking.
The door open to a rectangular room. This room is full to bursting with a motley collection of cots and other furniture cobbled from scraps of wood and cloth. The stench of rotting food is overpowering.
A riot of broken bits of metal, glass, stone, and other things scavenged by the goblins from the ruins of the keep and the surrounding woods clutter the room. Goblins find value in practically everything, so this chamber looks as much like a trash heap as it does a living area.
Under one of the goblin beds, wrapped in a tattered and dirty piece of cloth, is an arm from an emerald automaton - it looks to be Clanky's missing arm.
There's a locked door in the middle of the passage between the round chambers, and a set of double doors opposite of that door. There's a barrier on the southwest, with faint sounds coming through, and a door on the northwest.
The double doors reveal a staircase. Stairs wind downward to the right, circling around a glowing wall of semi-translucent green stone. It seems the Azlanti tower was built around a core of some other material—a spire within a spire.
The door in the hallway (in the passage) is locked with a crummy, rusty lock.
With a loud cracking sound the door gives way, opening up to a musty storage room. Rows of wooden racks on the walls of the room hold a ramshackle collection of rusty blades, scraps of armor, and warped arrows.
The only items that are not completely worthless are a number of dog slicers and horse choppers, six each in total.
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"Indeed," Ilya replies while rummaging through the junk, and puts all the goblin weapons she can find in her backpack.
When done, Ilya moves out of the room again. She goes back to the room with a table and four chairs, where the dice were found, and tries to open the double doors in the western wall.
The double doors open to a large ruined corridor. The walls are thick on the north side, The all-penetrating darkness is ever present, and those that can see through it notice a bunch of grinning goblins waiting in ambush.
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Kellan
Redke
Vayu
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Goblin
Goblin
Goblin
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Brayden
Zen'yr
Ilya
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As he closes distance on the closest goblin Vayu brings his free hand to his pistol to stabilize it. The die that was in his hand falls to the floor, tumbling until finally coming to rest on
When he is within 20 feet everyone who can't see gets a instantaneous flash of brilliant light, revealing slightly more of the scene ...
Vayu reloads while ready to react (with a deed) to ranged attacks.
A loud bang fills the air, and in a flash briefly illuminates the area, showing the grinning faces of goblins to tiefling and human alike. One of the goblins recoils, but does not collapse.
Instead, the goblins start sniping at Vayu, a single arrow hitting the gunslinger.
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Brayden
Zen'yr
Ilya
Kellan
Redke
Vayu
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Goblin (5)
Goblin
Goblin
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Kill the longshanks! Kill them!
Kellan runs away form the shouting human, up to the shouting goblin, and skewers it with one swift stroke.
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Brayden
Zen'yr
Ilya
Kellan
Redke
Vayu
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Goblin - Dead
Goblin
Goblin
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Ilya moves up, and has a look at the large hall to the south. The large foyer seems to have been the main tower entrance, but the grand doorway leading outside is now a broken mass of glass rubble. Crumbling archways lead to the north (where she's standing) and south.
Further south, something else catches her eye: a goblin riding a... what seems like a large rat, the size of a dog. It rings the an alarm bell as soon as it spots Ilya, making a huge ruckus.
Vayu moves up as well, and unleashes a shot, but these small goblins are hard to hit.
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Brayden
Zen'yr
Ilya
Kellan
Redke
Vayu
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Goblin - Dead
Goblin
Goblin
Goblin Commando
Goblin Dog
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Hearing Ilya's words, Brayden follows in behind his companions and seeing the mounted goblin, let's loose an arrow. "I'll try to silence him!"
As his arrows launches forth, Brayden's companion steps past him, letting out a low snarl in preparation for the next wave. Scanning the chamber, he looks for other goblins.
Brayden launches an arrow at the mounted goblin, whose cries of alarm are momentarily silenced as the arrow knocks the breath out of him. He still looks determined
Longshanks! In the north tower! Kill them! Make them food!
The two goblins near Ilya and Vayu retreat north, into some kind of narrow tunnel. The mounted goblin charges the eidolon with the large horse chopper he's holding
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Brayden
Zen'yr
Ilya
Kellan
Redke
Vayu
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Goblin - Dead
Goblin
Goblin
Goblin Commando (charged, -2 to ac)
Goblin Dog
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In some cases, you may have to squeeze into or through an area that isn't as wide as the space you take up. You can squeeze through or into a space that is at least half as wide as your normal space. Each move into or through a narrow space counts as if it were 2 squares, and while squeezed in a narrow space, you take a –4 penalty on attack rolls and a –4 penalty to AC.