Koff, Koff. Bah this is nothing.
ugh!
current strength = 5!
The Gas is a 20 foot burst I assume you are all whitin range.
*cough cough cough*
"Gloin what'd ya do ye crazy hairy man!"
"Hatchoo!...Sorry. Hey, for what cause do you look so sleepy?"
A young red-haired woman suddenly runs into the room. "You! I heard you singing!"
The woman breathes heavy and places on hand on her chest as she tries to calm down. She wears a golden breastplate, and a mix of black and golden clothes. "They locked me up, those hobgoblins! You'll all help me get back my stuff!"
The woman then points at Min. "You carry me!"
Min's eyes make cartoony heart shapes as he sees this new and beautiful lady. Even though the strange gases have him feeling rather weak and sickly, he puffs out his chest and shoulders his sword.
"Well hey, get on over here and I'd be glad to carry you wherever you need to go, sweet thang"
"Damme, why'd ye haveta go an' do tha'? I feel weak as a kitten. Anyone got anythin' tha' might reverse th' effects?"
Firebeard was still caughing and retching as the woman burst into the room.
"Ain't nobody goin' t' be carryin' nobody here lass. Damn gas sapped the lot o' us. Though I ain't sayin Min ain't stupid enough t' try i'!"
Min casts a fearsome glance at Firebeard.
"Don't be trying to block my swagger again! The pretty lady clearly wants to be safe in my muscularly arms"
it will pass soon I hope ok lets see what we have here he completly ignors the new comer and looks inside the chest.
"Stay away from me!", Kirana yells panicked when Min is a bit too eager to hold her. "I have to get to the fortress, those hobgoblins took everything except my clothes and armor!"
Kirana turns to Lilly and Wags. "Girls, please help me convince your husbands to help me! The hobgoblins took almost everything I own!"
Wait... one... two...
After some counting Kirana concludes there are three men and two women, not counting herself. Or at least she assumes Wags is a woman, it depends from which angle you look at her.
No way! Could one be...? Single?!
A blush appears on the young girl's face, and she giggles as she hides behind the girls.
I let out a long low whistle
”Now that’s my kind of woman, you go Min! If I could, I’d carry her, if you know what I mean, rowr.”
After I wait for Min to solidify his options, I say to the newcomer, ”So, lady in gold, what’s your name, what do we call you? I’m called Waglinde, or Wags for short, and this big guy at your service is Min Maximus, the rest of these fellows are Firebreard, the dwarf with the hands like hammers, Lilly, our resident super woman of mystery and powerful magic, and Gloin, the man with the plan, who is currently counting our recent find of treasure. You say you were locked up, by hobgoblins! Wow, that must have been terrible and frightening. If you have trouble sleeping, I am always available for cuddling or spooning if you need it, that is, if you find that Min here is only half of what you need.”
Lilly looks around as a redhead suddenly barged in.
O.O'....??Who in the nightmares is that?
<Well, this looks like a balance of the sexes, get it, not battle...balance?. Heheh>
SHUT UP....
<A little bossy on the introduction though, the last people who were like that were trouble to all of us in the asylum. After all, look at where i ended up.>
Stalking me.....now SHUT UP!
"Pardon copperhead, why would either Wags or my person possess one of the others as a spouse?
Oh, and hello by the way."
at the mention of his name gloin just raise a hand and wave at the new comer, not really bothering to look up from the chest.
"My name's Kirana," the copperhead says. "and I'm on a quest for love. AH NO! I didn't say that!"
Kirana scrapes her throat and addresses Lilly. "Pardon, I didn't mean to offend anyone. I just escaped from a hoard of hobgoblins chasing me. I still felt the rush when I came here, following the sound of a catchy tune. But what did you say, they're not your husbands?"
No waaaaay!
"Eep! All single!", Kirana exclaims in a high voice. It takes Kirana some time to calm herself, again, but by taking a few deep breaths she manages to do so.
"Eep...commonly a sound used by surprised mice....."
The memory of poor mr jingles comes back to Lilly....., *sob*..., and she snaps out of it again.
"Correct.....why?", with eyes inspecting like a cat does at a small animal,"You would proud yourself to date Min here? He's very gropegrope..."
With a shudder Kirana walks up to Lilly, whispering in her ear. "He's a bit scary..."
Kirana looks at Wags. "Your voice did sound familiar... is it like... no way, HIS voice?! Please say something again, please do!"
"Why's half of you purple by the way?"
Poison gas trapped chest, and there is one more to go with a locked cabinet. he says still his head "inside" the chest looking at the stuff inside
Min dusts his shoulders off and does his best Elvis style pout.
"I ain't so bad, sugar. And I an strong, sensitive, and single... just so ya know"
Min winks.
"And I'm purple because my heart just don't seem to be working right at the moment. Thas all. Oh and I got poisoned bravely trying to do brave things. Yano."
"Uhuh, for all your muscles, fragile little 'i' is unaffected"., Lilly teased him with a smile.
Kirana frowns when she replies to Min, suddenly acting cold and indifferent. "Don't care about you and your heart."
Luckily I know first aid. If his heart stops I can... EEP!
Holding her hands flat against her cheeks, Kirana tries to hide her new blush.
I like you, Kirana, you're silly. Of course we will help you find your stuff, and deal with this fort above as soon as we can, but right now, we are all, well not all of us, some of us, are feeling the pain of an undiscovered trap of nefarious design. It has sapped our strength, In fact at times I feel as though I might faint from all this exertion..."
I swoon, but aim for Min. He can catch me, or maybe Red will step up and interfere.
It might take a while the fort above us if currently garrisoned by the goblinoid still his head in the chest
Min looks down, suddenly snapped out of his focusing on Kirana by a slight thump. He looks down to notice Wags has once again fallen into his arms.
*sigh*
"Wags, I feel like at least once a day you end up in my arms."
He looks at the new girl, apologetically.
"Does any of you have spare weapons on you, which I can borrow until I retrieve mine? I'm quite good with melee, but also bows. And I hate hobgoblins, I should add. They took my... my... my cookies!"
While listening to Wags Kirana's eyes grow large. "Your voice... unmistakably... you have to be David Bowie! Sign my armor please!" Kirana pulls Wags away from Min. "I'm your number one fan!"
"Damnit Wags! I keep telling you that you're Bowie and you keep denying it! What have you got to say for yerself now, eh??"
I can lend you a dagger if you want
Examining the chest Gloin finds it contains 532 gp and some jewelry (gold bracelets and necklaces mostly) (appraise for value)
K lily i found all these hands over the jewelry
Alright all of you back away i am going to open the second chest. Dwarven style ! Open Dwarven style...
Mins backs way up from the chest.
"If I can borrow your dagger, yes please." Kirana will take the dagger from Gloin.
Kirana claps her hands when Gloin starts singing again. "Open dwarven style!"
"I declare this jewelry to be shiny!"
Lilly looks at the jewelry and her eyes widen.
<Ooh look at the shinies.....pity i can't touch them.>
Shut up...
"Wait, i've glanced upon these sorts before...."
Lily take the cash and the stuff and back away please.
Lilly takes several steps back to give Gloin some space.
”Well, dang everything and gone, I keep telling you that I am not this David of the Big Knife that you speak of. I am Waglinde Howard Claire. My mother was Gondola Greeneyes, and my biological father, whom I never met, was a man named Robert Jones, or something like that. I was raised, for most of my life by my mother and her second husband, Malcolm Claire. And that’s the truth.”
As I explain, I try to gently suggest that Red moves back away, with the rest of us, far from the possible exploding box of death that Gloin is headed towards.
"You're his daauughteer?!?!" Kirana almost faints, but grabs hold of Wags' shoulders to keep her balance. "Please sing me a song."
Kirana backs away from Gloin and the chest when Wags gently suggests doing so.
The jewelry is mostly small pieces mostly ornamental stuff worth about 20-50 gold each for a total value of 250 gold with one rather impressive jeweled necklace worth a good 250gp on it's own. In total all the jewelry is worth 500 gold you estimate.
Gloin cracks open the second chest and this one is not trapped. It is filled with silver and copper coins.
6,750 cp and 3 500 sp
Yes, take the mace, I kind of prefer the Masterwork Bow I have, and if I get caught in a pinch I can fall back on the rapier
okay, this is a classic blues tune that blew up out of the southern states
From the bottom,
From the bottom,
From the bottom,
Oh, boys I’m Golarion bound,
From the bottom,
From the bottom,
From the bottom,
Oh boys I’m Golarion bound
She’s not a priest,
She’s got no guns,
I’m so crazy ‘bout my baby
I love the way she makes those puns
From the bottom,
From the bottom,
From the bottom
She’s not my race,
She’s just my size,
Hmmm boy’s, I’m just crazy ‘bout that lady
All of the Inner Sea’s gonna know she’s mine,
From the bottom
Kirana takes the mace from Wags and attackes it to her belt, together with Gloin's dagger. She then quietly listens to Wags' song.
"Beautiful!" Kirana claps her hands when Wags stops singing, and jumps up and down in excitement. "You're awesome! Please give me your autograph!"
<Psst, Lilly, could you ask the copperhead if she's dyed her hair?>
<Last time i saw one like that was "crazy blonde Beatrice" from cell #69>
Asking if she "dyes" her hair, that's outright rude Ib...
"Redlocks, is it your birth's haircolor? Or did you go oopsie with paint, switching say..blonde..to red?"
<Thought you weren't going to ask?>
I didn't, i asked if she made a booboo with red paint....
"It's my birth's haircolor", Kirana says proudly. "Only oopsie I ever had with my hair was when I fell from a bridge and ended up in the mud. That made me a temporary brunette."
"Open Dwarven style
Dwarven style
Open Dwarven style
Dwarven style "
Gloin will head over to the last thing that needs to be opened and will work on it
You open the cabinet and see nine large glass jars. Each jar holds the fully preserved head of a goblinoid (three goblins, two hobgoblins, three bugbears and one gnoll) floating eerily in a green liquid. The cabinet also contains a small strongbox with some tools; scalpels, razors, pincers, and other strange, cruel, and vaguely medical looking instruments.
trophies and tools of the trade. gloin will turn to lilly so any idea what we should do with all these in order for it not to come back?
"Pickled heads?? Ew....."
Lilly thinks deep on details relating ghosts, also if anything can relate to this find.
firebeard can youhandle the coin distribution while we figure this out?
"That's how I like hobgoblins best: head separated from the body."
They better not mess up my gear while they have it! Especially not my... no no no... not my precious book...
Lilly remembers something though, she looks up and summarizes the details.
"I remember not of a means by which the transparent goof cannot return.
Maybe, maybe not, taking his loot will suffice. Smashing the bones and pickled heads "Dwarven style" could work.
Wait, wait.....maybe collecting a priest to purify it of evil spirits could work."
<Whoa now missy! I'm no evil spirit..i might be messing with you...but that could seriously be a bother to me...>
Oh?....*snicker*....