Enrico sneaks toward the hidden door, blade in hand.
The goblin notices you, shouts something in goblin, and fires an arrow, hitting Thoril for a whole one point of damage. Initiative! Anyone with a an initiative higher than 7 may go.
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Karist realized too late that the goblin was not only too far away for his mental strike to reach, but also in mid shot with the arrow speeding at Thoril as fast as he could change his thoughts.
He whipped his sling into its accelerated twirl and let loose a rock at the goblin's hound.
Realizing he can't really do anything at this range and grimacing at the pain of the arrow, Thoril will duck for cover.
"We have any specific plan? I think it saw us."
"What was your first clue?" The half-orc asks as he ducks as well.
Karist's stone lands solidly, landing right in the goblin's face. The goblin shakes off the hit and fires at the dwarf again, hitting the ground a foot away or so.
Enrico charges into the fray, trying to cut down the goblin's mount.
When his turn rolls around, Thoril will follow Enrico's lead, charging the goblin.
Both attacks connect with the goblin and his mount, injuring them greatly. The goblin dog withdraws back into the darkness inside the ruins. As he retreats the goblin screams"We get you longshankses!"
Croats follows suit as well, swinging his sling in a tight circle before letting the stone fly towards the goblin.
The ruins are pitch dark inside. The goblin is inside them farther than Corath's darkvision reaches, so unless you want to fire randomly, you will have to go in there.
Blast! I don't want to chase after him in the dark. Let's take the other door and see if we can get then to think we were scared off.
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Karist watched as his stone went wide. Not good, he thought to himself. Enrico's suggestion of running to the side door made a lot of sense. But, it could also mean that they would have goblins ahead of them and goblins behind them.
"I don't think we have much of a choice, but to do what he said," Karist pointed at the half-elf. "We better hurry though before more appear.
If the goblin didn't do any stuff to prevent it, Thoril is making an attack of opportunity against the goblin.
Afterward/if the goblin didn't provoke:
"Aye, let's take the secret passage. At the least, they probably won't expect us to come from that direction."
The door leads to a rough tunnel which leads north to a smooth walled room with some half-melted chunks of green glass scattered about and a door in each direction. The door to the north is a pair of double doors. The entire ruins seems to be made out of the green glass. The most important, strange, and frightening aspect of the ruins, perhaps, is that all your light shrinks to a 5-foot radius. Darkvision still works fine.
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As they proceeded down the tunnel, Karist found it growing darker and darker. Soon he could only see a bit beyond his outstretched hand. The green glass was both attractive, but frightening as it was everywhere.
[b]"Guys, I hope you can see because at this point, I can't," he said aloud at the back of what he thought was Corath, or maybe it was Enrico. He wasn't sure, but he knew it wasn't Thoril, as whoever it was was taller than a dwarf.
I don't know what's going on in here, but we're going to be in serious trouble if we have to fight goblins in the dark. Luckily, I have an idea--everyone use your own light and let's travel single file. That should give us some room to work with.
Considering the matter settled, Enrico strikes a sunrod and tucks it into his belt.
Whispering, Thoril says, "Spooky in here, aint it? I don't envy you people's awful above-ground vision. Good plan, though. Should we head north, east, south, or west?"
He glances around the room, looking for traps, more secret passageways, or sounds goblins make.
Thoril hears footsteps from behind the double doors, but no other things of interest.
Corath holds his torch high to try and illuminate further. He was straining his senses to try and make sure he didn't miss anything. Goblin ambushes, he'd heard, were not pretty sights.
Thoril also hears some clanking noises from the north door.
Thoril, of course, relays what he hears to his allies.
The door leads to a rough tunnel which leads north to a smooth walled room with some half-melted chunks of green glass scattered about and a door in each direction. The door to the north is a pair of double doors. The entire ruins seems to be made out of the green glass. The most important, strange, and frightening aspect of the ruins, perhaps, is that all your light shrinks to a 5-foot radius. Darkvision still works fine.
Thoril hears footsteps from behind the double doors, but no other things of interest.
Thoril also hears some clanking noises from the north door.
Enrico motions to Thoril to open the double doors.
Opening the door, you see a goblin, two hobgoblins, and what appears to be a cat-person.
Link to chaos party
Does the door have anything we could block it with?
So...
We pass though the double doors. We don't see the chaos party, so what do we see?
The large emerald spire you saw from outside jutting high above the rest of the ruins appears to be before you. It looks about 20 feet in diameter. It glows with an intense green light and is obviously incredibly magical. Curving stairs circle around it, leading up.
Thoril shrugs. "I say we head up the stairs - after all, the spire only goes up so far, but we don't know how big the rest of the floor is.
Thoril leads the way cautiously up the stairs.
Master, huh? Has a nice ring to it, but what would that old wizard say... Enrico says, following Thoril.
The stairs wind around the spire two and a half times before ending in a sturdy-looking wooden door with an arrow slit.
The twang of a bowstring can be heard as an arrow springs out of theslit and over Thoril's head, barely missing.
"Someone's shooting at us!" Thoril shouts as he ducks his head reflexively.
The unseen archer continues to fire, and two more arrows fly out of the slit.Thoril ducks the first but the second hits.