Ranna circles around the back of the building, looking for a way in. As she comes around towards the workroom, all of the curtains are drawn tights, but she can hear highpitched shrieks and giggles mixed in with breaking glass.
"Hmm. I see! A little subterfuge would be necessary!", says Scipio unnecessarily loud, as he follows Ranna around the building.
"This doesn't sound like glassworkers! It must be criminals, or worse, goblins!", he whispers loudly, and waves at the others to move on with him. "Let's stop whatever is happening in there, my comrades! For Sandpoint!", he continues with the loud whispers, as he moves towards the entrance. , surprisingly lightly, considering his heavy shield and armor.
Ranna begins shoving at the door in front of her, trying to force it open.
Her efforts, however, don't seem to be working. "I need some help here, or we may need to go through a window! Things are breaking in there, and innocents may be getting hurt, and I will not let that happen again!"
Even with all three of them pushing on it, Sarvis, Cornelious, and Ranna can hardly get the door to squeak, much less give.
With a great amount of difficulty, effort, and noise, the group finally forces the door open to find what appears to be a display room. Bottles, glass work, and windowpanes line shelves and racks throughout the room. Across from you is another door.
Scipio walks in the glassworks, attempting to see any traps. "The little rats have probably set us a trap of some point! Ah! But, I wonder, why would Tsuto send Ameiko here? Is it because he knew that the goblins were in here, or because he's working alongside them? I don't believe the latter is possible, but we need to be careful.", he says, as he rummages through the room.
you see nothing out of the ordinary. This room has been largely untouched, and shows no signs of typical goblin destruction. To your knowledge, the door is not trapped.
Pacing around the room to get a better view of its contents, Ranna looks toward the door facing northeast. "We need to keep moving. Through there!" She strides to the door, but looks hesitantly over her shoulder at the others before pushing it open.
Ranna sees an empty hallway stretching before her, but the noise of destructive merrymaking increases.
Scipio moves in, right behind the big... eidolon. Walking down the way, he draws his trident, ready to pin a goblin to the wall with it. "I suggest we leave one of them alive, so we can ask about Tsuto!", he whispers to the others, as he walks onwards to combat.
As you pass down the hallway, you find one door to your right, and two doors on the left. These you find to be simple store rooms. One is full of finished glassware items, the other two are for storage and cleaning supplies. Finally, at the end of the hall is a door. You open it to find what looks like at one time it was a staff room of sorts. You find tables and chairs smashed and destroyed, and the entire place torn apart.
Sarvis opens the door to find a long, empty hallway that appears to run most of the length of the building. At the far end to the left, there is a door in an angle of the wall right before the hall turns. To the right, the hallway runs past the room that you are in for a short ways before ending at another door. The cacophony is louder here.
Cornelious opens the door to an anteroom of sorts. Really just an empty connecting hallway.
Ranna follows. "We need to hurry. If it's goblins, they'll be butchering anyone here even as we speak!"
Scipio looks at the door next to him, drawing a trident and kicking down the door, ready to impale a goblin to the wall in a spectacular fashion.
"Should we announce our presence? They might be frightened enough to be drawn out or run?", he says, looking at Sarvis.
"I think we should not. They don't seem like the kind of creatures to flee, and we already announced ourselves at the front door when we checked it. And it is not as if we've been trying to be quiet."
The room that Scipio kicks open turns out to be empty. It appears that the room was the servants quarters.. but now it is just a shambles of overturned and broken furniture liberally soaked with blood. The stench of blood and death lingers in the air. After a thorough search of the room, you find nothing of interest or any bodies to go with the blood.
At the corner, Cornelious and Sarvis find a Y intersection, with doors at either end of the small branches.
Ranna follows Sarvis and the eidolon, fingering the hilt of her dagger as she walks through the servant's quarters.
Scipio rushes forward, trying to be as sneaky as possible, a feat quite unachievable for someone with a heavy shield and armor. "Hurry! Time's wasting!", he hisses, as he continues forward, following the spry eidolon.
As Cornelious openns the door, Sarvis sees: a wheelbarrow sits against a wall here, and shelves on the walls contain additional reagents to create diff erent colors of glass (manganese for clear glass, cobalt for blue, and tin for white glass; untreated glass is green, while too much of any reagent makes black glass). A safe on the fl oor hangs open.
Ranna also ignores the safe, listening to see if the party seems to be getting closer to the intruding goblins.
A long furnace burns along the southeast wall of this equally long room. Marble tables sit throughout the chamber, used to work raw glass into usable shapes, with nearby wooden tables cluttered with various tools of the trade. The main furnace burns at the northeast end, a large chamber that utilizes alchemically treated wood that burns with a hot blue light. As the furnace’s stone pipes run to the southwest, they reach smaller and progressively cooler furnaces used to keep glass working projects at the proper temperature. There are eight bodies various stages of dismemberment; the goblins have been burning legs and arms in the furnace with glee, and pouring melted glass on the remains. You also see a body propped up in a chair in the central alcove and encased in thick runny sheets of hard glass. Throughout the room, eight goblins caper around in murderous glee.
Ranna:
Sarvis:
Scipio:
Gobbies:
Party up for surprise round
Gobbies
Party
Ranna moves forward, stopping when she sees the nearest couple of goblins instead of hearing them. Her heart sinks. If there are this many here, we're too late...
Scipio notices the goblins, and shouts at Sarvis and Cornelious, "Move to the edges, pincer movement!", as he moves forward.