Once he is close enough, hopefully, still hidden, Chuffy draws a dart with his free hand and hurls it at the same dog as Reta's arrow.
"So much for sneakin'"
When Mogmurch runs up the gangplank his foot gets stuck between the vines. Mogmurch frees his foot and continues to run up the gangplank. The ball of mud on the railing, attached to the vines, falls onto the gangplank and breaks open. A cloud of angry wasps comes out of the mud ball, which turns out to be a wasp nest. The goblins are lucky to have all arrived inside the ship, and most of them don't even notice the wasps outside as they fly off.
The dog Reta shot before drops to the ground when Chuffy's dart hits it in its throat. The other dog now barks louder, and also tries to break free from its chain.
Despite its effort to break free and attack the goblins, the other dog remains chained too.
Poog is annoyed by the dog and snarls back at it.
"Grr....barky shut up....grrr"
The dog stops barking and stares at Poog, then crawls behind the aft mast with its tail between its legs.
Chuffy licks his lips again and tries to slide into the shadows, following the dog, blade at the ready.
Mogmurch looks strangely at Poog as he stops himself from throwing one of his bombs and sees the dog slinking off. "Poog speak dog. Mebbee Poog part-dog?" Mogmurch commented absentmindedly as the goblins moved further onto the deck of the landlocked ship. Figuring that the cannibal would keep inside the ship to stay of of the outdoors, Mogmurch looks around for a way into the ship.
The dog sits behind the aft mast, unaware of the goblins approaching it.
Mogmurch looks around for a way into the ship. He notices the main cabin, and how the entrance to it is blocked by a door decorated by a large number of rodent and bird skulls. Moving to the aft will reveal another door, which leads to the ship's main deck.
"Me not part dog, you try bark too, maybe barky cower for you too."
The dog smells the goblins are still near. With renewed courage it tries to charge at Poog, but the chain holds it in place.
Reta looks out to see if there are any bad things, but only sees a few things she hadn't noticed before. Two rickety wooden platforms—crow’s nests—sit on the masts, ten feet above the ship’s deck below. Each is linked by a pair of thick ropes, and additional ropes hang down from the platform on the stern-most mast to the deck.
When Reta turns her head away from the crow's nests, she hears a growl coming from the main cabin.
Poog will growl at anything that dares to show itself.
The dog's again shaken by Poog's snarl and warily looks at Poog. Reta shoots the dog in its behind with an arrow and the dog yelps.
As soon as that happens, Chuffy charges from the shadows at the dog.
[dice=Sneak?] 1d6 [/dice
Chuffy finishes the dog by cutting off its head, silencing it permanently.
"Chuffy thinks if we drag back all this meat, we have feast to go with fireworks!"
"Hahaha, Chuffy make point good. Much meat, much feast."
"But not forget fireworks. Chief be pretty mad if we come back with no fireworks."
"Chuffy can't hear nothing..."
Tilting his head, Mogmurch strains to hear what Reta was talking about.
After a few minutes, Mogmurch comments, "I no hear either. Reta sure Reta no hearing things?" With that, Mogmurch grabs Reta's ear, pulling it so he can get a look inside to see if something was buzzing around in there.
Poog follows Reta's example....at least attempting.
Chuffy follows, not wishing to get on her bad side at thi spoint.
Reta and Chuffy end up in one of the crow’s nests. Poog also tries to climb up, but doesn't get higher than a foot. There are two crow's nests, and they're linked by a pair of thick ropes. Additional ropes hang down from the platform on the stern-most mast to the deck.
Poog looks up at his fellow goblins.
"I not go look up close. Reta, you strongest, you go open door.
It getting late and chief waits for us with fireworks."
Reta carefully opens the door after she's climbed down from the crow's nest. When Reta's opened the door she stares right into the huge mouth of Cuddles, a massive creature with many sharps teeth.
Cuddles lunges forward and tries to bite Reta, who can barely dodge the dog's gigantic fangs.
Turn progression:
Cuddles
Goblins
Poog looks in disbelief...
"What? You going wrong way! You is goblin warrior, you kill, run is my job since i is fixer of ouchies."
Poog will take a javelin and move to a safe distance.
Chuffy climbs down as quick as he can. {Double move}
Suddenly realizing that he was the closest one to the massive dog, Mogmurch screeched before lobbing one of his bombs at the creature. "Reta fierce warrior and run away, what chance do I have!" He made sure to add before backing away from his position and leaping behind the mast. Though he was one of the more intelligent goblins of the tribe, he was not very wise as he figured that if he couldn't see the dog, then the dog wouldn't know he was there.
While Chuffy quickly climbs down to face the enormous dog, something the other goblins are reluctant to do, Mogmurch throws a bomb at Cuddles. The bomb hits Cuddles in his face, but the big dog barely flinches.
Cuddles charges Chuffy, and attacks the goblin with his humongous teeth. Chuffy barely dodges the lethal attack.
Turn progression:
Cuddles -2 HP
Goblins
Reta moves over to the aft mast and climbs up as fast as she can. From the crow's nest Reta can clearly see the current positions of Cuddles and the other goblins.
Poog attempts a growl, as it had previously worked too.
The crazed goblin cackles as he slashes out with his blade once more, having so much courage from all the death he has caused to such hated animals as of late.
Chuffy attacks Cuddles in a cackling craze, but Cuddles dodges the attack.