First thing in the morning, Rallos listens intently at the pile of furniture and debris, trying to find out if there is a trap/ambush waiting.
Yasmin listens patiently during her watch for sounds of goblins or other things that might be waiting in ambush.
In the morning, Ea gives a small silent prayer to Pharasma
I had one more day to live.. it's more than those who died yesterday. Thank you for your blessing, Pharasma. I'll try to do my best to honor and worship you, as I should do for every last day of my life.
She rises with a grim and cold determination, then looks at the dead goblin dogs. She walks to one, and puts her hand on the cold body
Grayface awakens refreshed and healed, and ready for more killing. He had a job to do, and vengeance was fresh in his memory.
If Yasmin or Rallos notice an ambush/trap waiting for us, I suggest someone opening the door and Grayface will fling a goblin dog corpse out the door to absorb the first wave of attacks.
If they notice nothing, then Grayface will volunteer to step out of the room first, sword and board ready. (an accompanying Dancing Lights spell would be very helpful.)
The sounds you hear throughout the night are goblinoid...vicious, mean-spirited, petty, quarrelsome...and utterly disorganised. There is no sign of anything sneaky or ambush related happening...
Exploring further, it seems that you have three options for heading southwards into the ruins...
- To the west, through the barricade of rubble and destroyed furniture...there are small gaps which would enable a small creature (such as a goblin!!!) to squeeze through but anything larger will have to either squeeze through or attempt to shove it out of the way.
- To the east, a sturdy set of double doors block the way...there is a smattering of rubble, dust and cobwebs around this doorway.
- Examining the north-east Tower, there is a very poorly disguised entrance to a small tunnel...hidden behind a vaguely green curtain. The tunnel curves such that, without entering, you are unable to see much farther than ten feet in...
I think the small tunnel might be the best bet...the doors are too obvious....at least to me...
"Sure, small tunnel sounds as good as anything." Yasmin lights a torch, which she keeps in hand.
"Ok with me."
The tunnel, roughly hewn at the entrance, is no more than 4 feet high...if you were to meet anything within the tunnel, anything unfriendly, you wouldn't have much room to manoeuvre or to swing a weapon...
"Hmmm. Maybe we should...explore elsewhere. I can't swing my sword in that rat hole."
So lets see what hides behind that rubble, if you can smash our way through, Grayface.
After some small prayer to the Lady of the Graves, a pale, ghostly white light appears on the tip of Sister Zalinsel's morningstar. She looks at Emerald for a few seconds, keeping silent.
You guess you could get the same came of patient, dispassionate look from a vulture.
"I have no need of light, if you like I can send Quartz to take a look down the narrow passage? He is tougher than he looks and should at least be able to let us know if there's anything worth the effort down there?"
"That's a fine idea Em. While your little scout is scouting, I'll try to get through this barrier as Ea suggested."
Grayface will set upon the barrier by tugging, pushing, tearing, and removing whatever debris is possible for him to move, in order to make a passageway large enough for the party to get through.
"Keep a sharp look out while I work. I don't want to get caught with my pants down."
Rallos guards Grayface's back as he clears the debris, ready to pounce on anyone who tries to come through the hole in the wall.
I shall watch this way, the rest get the other side.
Rallos tries to meld into the shadows.
Emerald looks the little lizard in the eyes, "Go, any trouble - straight back"
Yasmin hangs out with Emerald.
Emerald's companion is gone for a few moments, during which Gray continues to take the barricade apart, and, when it returns, it skitters up to the Oread and perches on her shoulder.
With Gray's effort it will take about five minutes to dismantle the barricade such that you can pass through...and, with the amount of junk interlaced into the barricade, it is unlikely that you will be able to be quiet in your endeavours...
it is unlikely that you will be able to be quiet in your endeavours...
Once Quartz comes back and reports in, Yasmin suggests taking the passage. She will head to Grayface. "There's only a couple of goblins at the end of the other tunnel. I think we can go there and take them by surprise."
Take them by surprise? I can do that....
Rallos has a very unsettling smile on his face as he says that.
From beyond the barricade, you can hear a voice idly singing to itself...
"Bazzle Stinkears is always snoring...
...goblins do as we please...
...keeping watch is boring...
...so I building tower out of cheese"
So? Do you want to lead the way, Rallos?
Grayface looks to Yasmin and Rallos when they suddenly hear the silly song, but by then the group had already encouraged us to come back to the tunnel.
[b] Sure....be right back.....[/ b]
Rallos heads down the tunnel....ad stealthily as he can...
"We'll give you a head start, Quartz can come with you, but he isn't much in a fight, I'm afraid."
Moving through the tunnel the space doesn't open up...if anything it is tighter in places...fortunately, Rallos doesn't encounter anything along the fifty foot length of the tunnel - if he had, there would have been precious little space in which to fight.
The tunnel curves and turns until it opens up into a moderately sized room; from this curving room, doors lead north and south (the northwards door almost certainly leads back into the entrance hallway...and is barred from the inside) whilst a passage leads west. 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.
At this table, is a fairly comic sight...two goblins are sat, one of whom is sound asleep...whilst the other, singing to herself, is filling the sleeping goblin's ears with an increasingly large pile of cheese...
Rallos comes up behind the singing gobbo....and tries to run her through with his rapier.
"What?!?!?! Hey?!?!?! Where'd you come from?"
and then..."You broke my cheese tower Longshanks!!!!"
The sound of falling furniture and unmistakeably angry goblins echoes up the tunnel as combat is joined...
"That doesn't sound good." Yasmin double moves, but makes sure the fighters can get ahead of her.
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"Sonuva..." Gray gets down and crawls at full speed.
Jumping up on to her chair, the goblin shouts "Wake Up Bazzle...Longshanks be here!!!"... Her slumbering companion shakes his head groggily, dislodging cheese from his ears, "What?!? Hey! What's in my ears"...
With her companion waking, the goblin listlessly slashes at Rallos with her sword.
...whilst the other goblin groggily gets to his feet and draws his sword...
Ea engages herself in the tunnel as soon as possible
Rallos movesahead one space and tries to stab the gobbo that is just waking u
Yasmin moves some more!
Same as Yasmin, I will continue my crawl, hopefully reaching the end of the tunnel this round, or as close as movement allows.
Turning a corner in the tunnel, Yasmin and Gray are just in time to see Rallos futilely swipe at an increasingly taunting goblin...
"Is that the best you can do Longshanks? No need to fetch Grulk....we'll stick you, skewer you and feed your bones to the dogs..."
"Shouldn't have come here alone Longshanks...", the goblin taunts Rallos whilst it tries to move around him...slashing and stabbing while she goes...
"Yeah...We're going to slice you up...use that lovely knife of yours", her companion moves around to a flanking position...and slashes at Rallos with his sword.
The warrior emerges from the crawlway with hatred in his eyes, malice in his intent. He engages the nearest goblin, but fails to connect.
Yasmin attempts to daze the goblin that Grayface did not attack.
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Emerald continues to squeeze down the tunnel.
"Can someone smell cheese?"
Rallos moves NW one square and tries to stab the dazed gobbo.
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When Ea get out of the tunnel, she enters the fray besides Grayface, with no regard for her safety, no emotion, no hate
Let Fate be.
Rallos, seeing his opportunity as the goblin is distracted by the apparent smell of cheese, plunges his blade through the chest of the creature...killing it in an instant...
"Hey....You killed Bazzle....I'm going to kill you for...ERK!!!", the other goblin's threat hangs in the air as a morning star crashes down upon it's skull. Whatever harm it had in mind for Rallos going unspoken as it slumps forward...dead
A short passageway leads from the room where you are to a similarly sized room. Rubble and sharpened sticks barricade the northern entrance to this curved room (peering through, you can confirm that it is the same barricade that you explored in the entrance hall), and a thin wall runs down the room’s middle. A door leads to the south of this room whilst there are also doors in both walls of the passageway.
Of more pressing concern maybe, are the increasingly argumentative voices coming through the door to the south of your position.
”Mine!!!!”
”No…Mine…I Killed It so I gets to Eat it!!!!
”You never killed it….you found it…is rotten!!!! Anyway, is mine!!!!!”
”Fight you for it?”
Yasmin points to the door to the south, encouraging the party to go there when ready.
Ea whispers.
Let's wait and hear if they truly fight between themselves. Then we will enter and surprise them.
She listens intensly, trying to discern the number of voices, staying motionless as a corpse
Grayface blushes in frustrated embarrassment. He was supposed to be the killer here, not the spindly armed cleric of death!
Don't be foolish, he thought to himself. You've seen enough in your days to know it is best to never underestimate someone.
In a tiny whisper the warrior addresses his friends, "Best not forget these rooms here," He points to the doors flanking the passageway where we entered this room, "But first let us drop in on this conversation." He points south to the arguing voices.
Grayface clutches his sword and shield, but looks to Rallos.