This time Poog circle round and stick dog.
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This room is a blood-splattered chamber of horror. Dead rodents, snakes, and birds have been variously nailed, tied, and hung around the walls. At the far end of the room, a large cauldron bubbles over an iron stove set against the aft wall, its stovepipe chimney extending up through the ceiling. A bloody burlap sack sits on the floor next to the stove. The center of the room contains a long, rickety table surrounded by chairs that contain several grisly decorations—a whole family of skeletal goblins, their bones bleached white and bound together by reeds and twine.
As you search around in this room you see that in the large bubbling cauldron there is an left arm and heart of a goblin which are currently stewing in the cauldron, while the bloody burlap sack contains the rest of his body, including his uniquely branded face. It's Scribbleface's
What do you want to do now?
Reta pauses to admire the grim scene in wonder, being sure to take mental notes to mimic this interior design. The critters nailed around the walls were exquisite, and she hoped that they were still alive during the decorating process. She could have done without the skeletons in the way, though.
"Cannibal should best other gobs, not eats them." She reaches into her worn leather satchel and drinks her healing potion, feeling the stings of the angry dog melt away.
She seems to catch her second wind, seeming no worse for wear. Whether due to the magic potion or the strange decor you'd rather not dwell on.
"Scribbleface mess with dark powers. No big loss. But Vorka not leave Reta critters to splitters into splinters." She waves the Chief's dogslicer around, knocking over several knick-knacks. "Will not do. Reta must play with Vorka instead."
Reta big bobble head admire decor, though think Vorka undeserving.
She rips a stray snake nonchalantly off the wall, idly smacking it around. They were so hard to catch that Reta has spent one summer devoted to trying. When she finally was able to, though, she found out that snakes don't make much in the way of noise. Torture without noise doesn't make much in the way of fun. Reta didn't like snakes anymore.
"Where is he? He is where? Gruesome gruel is hot in pot. Mutts not as quiet as snakes. Vorka hide or Vorka gone. Or Vorka deaf."
She steps on the serpent's head, seeing how much stress it takes when stretched. Dead specimens like this never gave quite the same results though. "Could crash his fancy dinner party. Surprise if he returns. Or go back down to ship basement? Basements always good for storage, Reta know. Also: good for squealy echo. Good indeed. Where go?"
"One vote no for surprise party," Reta realizes. She tosses the snake to him with a shrug and heads back out of the cabin. Her spider climb potion was still working, though she hadn't seen any sneaky entrances down there to really take any advantage of it. She muses about kicking Cuddles down the flights of stairs for effect, but he was a particularly large and heavy mutt. "Reta go down and take care of Vorka. I bring her back here for you to play with, if want."
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As Reta opens the door of the lower cabin she sees:
The air in this cabin is thick and close, stinking of swamp and sweat, with a thick, glistening layer of mud on the floor and swaths of oily fungus clinging to the walls. Even more dangling decorations of goblin bone and animal-part fetishes hang from the ceiling on lengths of sinew here, and what appears to be a nest made of rags, sticks, mud, and castoff bits of clothing lies against the westernmost wall. But scattered amid the filth and clutter are several exotic-looking man-made objects—including a tantalizing red chest.
In the room are also a GIANT frog and a female goblin. Her mouth is her most fearsome feature—it's a bit too wide, even by goblin standards, and ger habit of filing her already sharp teeth has resulted in a snaggletooth grin of mismatched teeth that leaves little doubt as to her preference for tough, stringy meat. Like goblin meat. She wears rags and bits of stained cloth—trophies harvested almost at random from her hapless victims,over her equally patchwork leather armor.
She also wears a floppy, pointy leather hat with crude alterations to in order to make it fit her large, mishapen head.
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Vorka and the Frog
Her eyes widen at the sight of the tremendous toad. "...me gonna need a bigger meat hook."
Poog ask Zargonel for help and cast Divine Favor.
She wasn't about to let Mogmurch have all the fun. Such a large critter might well be Reta Destiny. Walking into the room sideways along the wall - she was really getting too used to that potion - she skitters up to carve up some of that barbeque.
Her climbing and clattering approach does nothing to help her aim, and what she expects to be a graceful gutting is really just her flopping haphazardly to the floor beside the alchemist. She scowls at the sword: it hadn't been as nearly as good as she'd assumed. Or possibly, as she'd left her luck toad inside of a horse, her luck had simply run out. She realizes that she also left her bow on this floor, crafted by her own horrid hand and the help of many dogs earses...es.
"Reta got recipe for Vorka. Time to stop Hop Hop. Bop the top, then wallop till flop, till need a mop. Big mop. Reta not afraid to get her hands dirty. Her pretty dainty hands. Much prettier daintyer than yours."
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Reta does what a spider...hrm goblin does and tries to take a swing at something.....but misses
Chuffy in the mean time with an insane glint n his eyes lights the biggest piece of fireworks you've ever seen...and it starts to shake and emit a handful of white sparks.
The frog in return opens it's maw wide and tries to grab hold of Mogmurch
which he succeeds at for and clamps down hard.
Vorka looks at you:
"Hmm...Goblinses! Your ear will be mighty tasty after I stuff them with eyeballs!"
After which she takes a step back and casts a spell. In her hand a ball of flame appears.
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Vorka and the Frog
She jumps up with a start as the toad chomps the chemist. "We eat you, you no eat us!" You're not quite sure if she's talking about the cannibal or her pet.
An angry Reta chops hard at the toad's side.
An angry Reta then...runs away. Wait, what? There she goes! Once a goblin always a goblin.
Poog hide behind mast outside and ready to firebolt any badguys stupid enough to come out.
Reta squeals in pain as the frog bites her hard. If she had the capacity to believe in karma, she might have thought this was retribution for all the torture she'd inflicted on animals. The gobliness didn't have that capacity, however. Just simpler notions, like fear, rage and vengeance.
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Skyrocket (50 gp): When lit, this foot-long wooden tube begins to shake and emit a handful of white sparks, shedding light as a torch. One round later it takes flight, moving in a straight line with a fly speed of 90 for 1d6 rounds before loudly exploding in an burst of light and sound, dealing 2d6 points of fire damage in a 10-foot burst (DC 15 Reflex save for half ). If a skyrocket impacts a solid surface or a creature before reaching its maximum range, it detonates prematurely at the point of impact. Anyone who takes damage from the explosion is either blinded or deafened (a 50% chance of either) for 1 round.
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Mogmurch seeing the sparking rocket behind him decides it's time for a ...tactical retreat and moves out of the cabin where he drinks a potion
Chuffy with a maniacal laugh let's go of the rocket and it flies into the cabin hitting the frog in the chest..it explodes with a huge sound of thunder, there are sparks everywhere filling the entire cabin
Both Vorka and the frog are able to dodge some of the explosion though
Both of them seem unable to hear anything due to the ringing in their ears.
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Vorka and Lord Longtongue
Vorka walks forward and aims a ball of flame which she has in the palm of her hand at Chuffy
but Chuffy manages to dodge out of the way
The frog steps out of the cabin and Poog shoots a bolt of fire at it..but he misses as well.
The frog tries but he fails to get a hold of the dodgy little goblin
Poog wait for brave allies to slay poopyfrog-butt-mclamerson.
Move into cabin, NE of pillar and fire fire bolt at evil dog keeping cannibal goblin.
"Zarongel very disapointed."
Step NW to get frog and bad cannibal goblin (and the rest of my poor allies)
Channel Negative
The sounds of fun were ringing in her ears, and she was nowhere near it. This would not do. Reta was battered up and didn't have any healing left, but the sooner she could retrieve her bow and get back to the thick of it the better.
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Chuffy fails to stick his weapon into the frog..it seems that yelling stab, stab, stab does in fact not make you better at stabbing stuff.
Mogmurch throws up some fire at the frog
but the frog just barely manages to get out of the way of some of it
Reta moves to retrieve her bow
Since the other goblins failed to take down the frog Poog decides to take matters into his own hands and send the divine power of Zarongel out into the world (hitting everything for 2 negative energy damage- so will save DC 11 for half damage)
Vorka isn't bothered by it too much..the frog drops to the floor after getting hit in the face by some fire that was burped up all over him..this was too much to handle.
In responds Vorka hurls some flame back at Poog but she fails to hit.
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Vorka
She snickers as she grabs her bow , getting comfort from petting her dog earred quiver with a stray hand. Reta was going to kill it all just right. She wasn't about to let the area's only real challenge to her feminine brutality continue breathing. She was sure that the Bigbad was going up against the Bignotquiteasbadbutsoontobedead. She might need a better name. Except that she wouldn't. On account of all the being dead.
Reta then scrambles on all fours, skittering along the ground and the walls, finally ducking behind the mast. "Look like Poog not so bad at frog killing. Maybe Poog switch Gods?"
Poog move into room playing leap frog with Reta before throwing a flame bolt at the Vorka.
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Vorka takes a swing at Poog as he walks through the door but she misses.
Poog returns the favor by missing with his attack as well.
Mogmurch breath fire all over Vorka
and she get's out of the way of some of it
"Your guts will taste yummy when fried and stuffed with lizards!"
In return Vorka throws some fire back at Poog
but yet again she manages to miss
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Vorka