"That's right! Chuffy thought you bite wif your teef!" He makes several chomping motions. "Teef very strong, you bite, they die. Chuffy teef not so good, so he STABBY!"
"See, Chuffy agrees!"
"Maybe later!" Chuffy says with a swallow.
The discussion has drawn the attention of a creature that's hiding in the treetops. Lotslegs eyes the goblins and waits for them to get in range. While the other goblins are too distracted by incredibly interesting things like mushrooms and frogs, Reta looks up and sees the spider.
"Lotslegs!" Reta yells, and points out the spider in the tree. Lotslegs apparently realizes it's been discovered and lowers itself to the ground, 20 feet from the party.
Turn Progression:
Reta
Lotslegs
Chuffy, Mogmurch & Poof
Reta hits Lotslegs in one of its many legs. The spider closes the distance and attacks her with its fangs, but Reta easily dodges the spider's attack.
Turn Progression:
Reta
Lotslegs -3 HP
Poog
Chuffy
Mogmurch
"You move close first. I fall, no fixies for anyone."
Poog stays at a distance, not wanting to get close unless needed.
He takes one of his javelins in hand and throws it.
Chuffy moves quick and gets behind Lotsalegs, if he can, to flank.
+2 for flanking +2 if counts as animal
+ +
"Outta da way!" Mogmurch shouts as he moves to within throwing distance and violently shakes a vial he pulled from his pouch, Launching it through the air, the goblin aimed at the spider, hoping to hit is squarely in the body.
fire damage
Poog keeps his distance and throws a javelin at Lotslegs. The javelin doesn't do much damage, but distracts the spider enough for the sneaky Chuffy to land a solid hit.
Mogmurch throws a bomb at Lotslegs, but misses. The splash damage from the bomb damages Lotslegs, but isn't enough to bring the giant spider down. Unfortunately Chuffy and Reta also receive the splash damage.
Turn Progression:
Reta -1 HP
Lotslegs -14 HP
Poog
Chuffy -1 HP
Mogmurch
Lotslegs turns to Chuffy and attempts to bite him, but Chuffy dodges the bite.
Chuffy then tries to drive his blade into the spider again, but the attack's too weak to penetrate Lotslegs' natural armor.
Turn Progression:
Reta -1 HP
Lotslegs -14 HP
Poog
Chuffy -1 HP
Mogmurch
Looking confused that his bomb did so little, he instead pulls a vial of red liquid from his pouch and shouts again "Let see if this work!" as he lobs the vial at the large spider.
Reta attacks Lotlegs with her dogslicer, but misses again. Lotslegs seems to be intimidated by the goblins and turns to run away. The goblins run after it, and Mogmurch takes it down with a bomb when Lotslegs is just in front of her lair.
The lair itself consists of a deadfall of several old trees. Scattered amid the trees are dozens of bodies, some of which are goblins, but a few of which are humans.
"Woo weee! Fire burn strong and hard! Lotslegs no match for it!" Mogmurch shouted as the creature fell.
Once inside the spider's lair Mogmurch takes a look around.
"Looks here! I find treasure that make mission easier"
Pulling out the items to show the others, Mogmurch continues with, "I take thingie that shoot sticks and bag of sticks, also take some of the shiny things. I no care about rest."
"That was nice fire tossing. Lotslegs not eat goblin babies many no more.", Poog says with a wide smile, baring his goblin teeth.
"Reta and Chuffy still look good, no serious ouchies no?"
"You grow wings, Chuffy give you pokey!"
The point indicated on Scribbleface’s map isn’t quite on the coast, but it’s close enough to hear the faint susurrus of waves crashing on an unseen swampy shoreline. The site itself is obvious once it is approached.
A two-masted ship lies mired in the mud in this clearing, its rigging thick with moss and decorated with lanterns and windchimes made from goblin skulls and bones. Strange writing is faintly visible along the ship’s prow, while the soggy, swampy “yard” that surrounds the wreck is encircled by a rickety wooden fence. A thin curl of smoke wafts up from a chimney that protrudes from an unusual box-like structure near the ship's bow.
Although much of the Kaijitsu Star’s decor has faded, and most of her truly valuable supplies were taken by her surviving crew after the wreck many years ago, there remain here and there faint and subtle hints that the ship may have once been a work of beauty. The primary thing that should concern the goblins, however, is the fact that the wreck is now the lair of the goblin cannibal Vorka.
The horror surrounding Vorka goes beyond her dietary preference, for she also keeps a dog and even a horse as pets and guardians—creatures traditionally feared and hated by goblins. As you approach, the sinister neighing of a large, frightening horse coming from the direction of the wreck.
As they follow the map directions, Poog suddenly halts, making his fellow goblins bump into him.
"Hold! This be point Scribbleface's map says we must be?"
He remembers the tales about something like that.
"Bad, great boat is home to Vorka, goblin-who-eat-goblin-many.
We must be careful, unless she traps us in cookpot."
"Rita can take bite out of Vorka...and while she does...Chuffy will put pointy in her back!" With that, Chuffy takes the role of brave goblin and moves forward.
Unsure of himself, he stops in fear at hearing the horse, "I no know...that horse sound very angry. Vorka is dangerous like longshanks if she is horse friend." Mogmurch said this as he absently gripped one of his bombs. "Make sure Reta and Chuffy take one of those healie brews that we found before we go ahead." With that, his other hand holds the loaded crossbow out and ready to be used.
While the goblins approach the entrance to the "yard", they see a vine-choked gangplank with a mossy handrail descends sharply from the ship’s bow to the muddy ground below. One handrail seems to be encrusted with a large ball of dried mud.
The goblins also see Stomp, Vorka's horse. Stomp's removed some distance from the gangplank. About as far as the goblins themselves are removed from it.
Whispering, he looks over to Mog. "Can you shoot that thing so that Reta and Chuffy can shank it? Horse never see it coming!"
The excited goblin has his animal killing chopper ready as he hides as best he can behind the fence.
"Horse maybe make good lunch too. Lots of meat."
Stomp moves closer to the gangplank when it turns it's head into the direction of the goblins. The horse whinnies and moves up to the fence, where it sees the goblins. Stomp then moves up Chuffy, and attacks Chuffy with its hooves. Both of Stomp's hooves miss horribly.
When Stomp appears in front of Chuffy, the goblin lashes out with his readied animal killing chopper.
Turn progression:
Poog
Stomp
Mogmurch
Chuffy
Reta
Growling as the horse approaches, the little malicious creature slashes out as quick as he can.
Poog moves up and ha a javalin ready.
Chuffy nearly shreds Stomp into several pieces, but somehow the horse manages to cling onto life. Poog tosses a javelin at Stomp, but misses.
Stomp raises his legs again, and kicks his hooves at Chuffy. Neither of the hooves hits the agile Chuffy.
Turn progression:
Poog
Stomp -12HP
Mogmurch
Chuffy
Reta
"Ah...this no work. Chuff good at killing horse."
Poog will refrain from attacking, seeing his fellow goblin very adequate at doing so.
Chuffy grins hearing those words and makes his next strike.
Cackling with glee, Chuffy makes a quick slash at the horse once more!
Chuffy's attack finishes the horse with a quick slash. The horse nearly crashes on him, but Chuffy's able to avoid being crushed by the dead horse.
The goblins enter the yard. A vine-choked gangplank with a mossy handrail descends sharply from the ship’s bow to the muddy ground below. One handrail seems to be encrusted with a large ball of dried mud.
Following suit. Chuffy licks some of the blood off his blade before moving forward.
With their incredible stealth Reta, Poog and Chuffy arrive on the other end of the gangplank. Mogmurch is still standing in the yard, looking at mushrooms, but is likely to join the others soon.
The main deck of the shipwreck is cluttered with objects both natural and artificial. Thick swaths of leafy vines grow over the deck, and shiny green patches of algae and moss grow where the vines do not. The central cabin's roof has a wide edge, creating a canopied walkway along the ship's sides. A flight of steps up to the roof of the ship's main cabin, the entrance to which is blocked by a door decorated by a large number of rodent and bird skulls. A smoking stovepipe chimney extends up from the ship's highest point above.
Two of Vorka’s feral dogs live on this upper deck—one a mangy hound with one blue eye and one brown eye and the other a scruffy mongrel with a crooked tail. Both are quite feral and half-starved, chained to different masts via 20-foot-long rusty chains. The mangy hound is chained to the central mast on the upper deck, while the scruffy mongrel is chained to the aft mast below. It doesn't take long before the dog that's closest to the goblins smells them and starts barking, and the other dog soon joins in the barking.
Reta's arrow hits the dog in its back, and barks even louder. It tries to break free of its chain and run at Reta, but the chain keeps it in place.
Running after his goblin allies, Mogmurch attempts to scale up to the gangplank
Once up on deck and spotting the dogs, he is startled by the sound of dogs, the most fierce of enemies. Seeing the dogs' chained situation however, his rigidness turns to relief as a toothy smile spreads across his face. Pulling a bomb from his satchel, he prepared to throw it at one of the mangy hounds.