Good plan, we'll send help as soon as possible... be careful please, all of you
Okay then, but if something like a big group comes, get yer butts in gear and out of here.
While the main group escorts Ameiko back to the Rusty Dragon, it doesn't take long for Vandra, Jeaux, and Maria to feel uneasy. While the furnaces make a low hum that reverberates along the stone basement rooms, the cold stone floors nip away at your skin. Echoes of various sorts emanate from the strange tunnel, always at regular intervals. Like the breathing of a great beast, its low pitched sounds funnel around you in the otherwise dead silent stone basement.
Earrings: 25gp for the pair
Obsidian Unholy Symbol: 100gp (depending on who you sell it to. Good aligned churches are reliable buyers, but don't offer high prices. Worshipers would pay a small fortune, but would be very difficult to find.)
Arriving at the Rusty Dragon, Helgarr addresses Ameiko - "How are you feeling? Better?" - she moves closer - "I am sorry you had to go through all this. And your brother... Why would he do such a thing?"
Once Ameiko takes a seat and stops being swarmed by happy halflings, happy townsfolk, happy everyone, she says "Yes... Well, Tsuto never had it good here in Sandpoint, but to burn down the entire village." She shakes her head in disbelief. "My darling father disowned him at birth, you see. Since my father is human, and my mother was human. You know... Half Elf... He was raised in the orphanage here. I would visit him a few times a week, bringing him all sorts of sweets. He was always a troubled kid. Five years ago, my mother died during the... well. The Late Unpleasantness, as it's called. Tsuto went to his mother's funeral, but ended up in a fist fight with my father who ran Tsuto out of town. Tsuto wanted me to join him..."
Cleo wants to listen but rushes out to find the sheriff to get someone to guard the tunnel.
I'll go and get the sheriff. Furnok does so. *swoosh*
As Helgarr, Ali, and Azeri try to comfort Ameiko, Furnok and Cleo race off (at about even pace) to the garrison to get some guards. Sheriff Hemlock is devastated to hear the news, but he pulls two of his guards to stand watch for activity in the basement. The two men are quite green, and find the place very spooky.
Meanwhile, he puts a handful of volunteers on the gate to continue watch for goblin activity. He gets another group of volunteers to clean up the massacre within the glassworks, which is a grueling task. Among them is the druid Hannah, who most of you have met before.
"We need to take care of business before you do much else. I'm leaving town tomorrow morning, and we need to register the group before that in case the Scarnettis try to make things even more difficult." Hemlock comments to Furnok and Cleo. "Also, you might want to visit father Zantus for some healing, you look pretty beat up."
Indeed, we are all rather torn up, those goblins loved hurlign flaming oil all over the place. Furnok heads off with Cleo to see the good father and fill him in on what happened.
As Furnok and Cleo visit the good father, they see him rushing over to the Rusty Dragon. When they meet up with him and explain the situation, he gasps in near horror. "By the gods, this is terrible! Well at least Ameiko and all of you are alive. When you get the chance, please bring all your wounded to me. I can't offer much, but it will be enough to help you be well for your continued journeys. Furnok, there is no doubt in my mind that you and the rest of the group are now crucial to Sandpoint's survival. Something of great evil seems to haunt us.
Within the basement down below, Maria, Vandra, and Jeaux have just noticed that their goblin captive is free. Slowly and cautiously, she approaches you in a non-hostile manner. "Aggah... go, yes?" She says as she points down the tunnel.
Helgarr triple checks the ropes with a snarl - "This is your last warning" - and brings the goblin along with her and Cleo - "Shall we rejoin the others?"
Ali takes up a spot beside Amieko and refuses to move, no matter what, staring down Councilmen, Mayors and Sheriffs alike. He eventually relents when Azeri points out that Ameikos wounds need to be tended (And that she is a fully grown woman and not some child that he needs to stand guard over).
Ali takes a table in a dark corner of the room and sits there sullenly nursing a mug of ale, tracing the tabletop over and over again in the same pattern.
Essentially a bound goblin on a child leash, Helgarr walks into the Rusty Dragon with her captive. The goblin doesn't have a gag or leg bindings, but she's surprisingly docile. She doesn't make any noise, nor struggles against the binding around her arms and torso. If someone looks at her directly, she smiles brightly.
She knows that she's as good as dead, but she'll take an opportunity if she finds one.
Most religion classes have a small number abilities that can be cast without a holy symbol, although they are fairly minor.
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For a moment Vandra thought he saw a goblin walking towards them before he shook his head with a ruefull grin. "Great, now I'm seeing things," he muttered.
As the guards appeared, Vandra explained what happened, along with their suspicions about the tunnel. "Have the others made it back to the inn safely?" he asked one of the guards.
"Can't say for certain, sir, but I recon so. Sheriff Hemlock didn't say anythin bout other missin folk. He ordered us to relieve ya, an give ya a chance to rest up. Seen anythin hostile from the tunnel yet? I can't say I'm itchin for somethin to turn up."
Our favorite halfling runs back up the stairs to find that her captive is about half ways through her bonds. The goblin seems to have been chewing through the rope at an astounding pace. When she sees you, she simply tilts her head to the side and grins devilishly.
Whenever Helgarr brings the female goblin to the garrison, she says "Bye bye" with a wide smile as she is put into a cell. The cell is built to secure small creatures, such as halflings, so imprisoning a goblin should have the same efficiency. The lone guard stationed there assures that the female goblin will remain for later interrogation.
Back at the basement, the sound of a chain brings the two guards to attention. "Who - who goes there!?" one of them nervously shouts.
The two guards swing around to see whatever the heavy breathing was. Seeing only Maria, they say "Easy miss Maria, w - well t - take care of anything that comes through that t - tunnel." They turn back to face the tunnel and take up a defensive stance.
After dropping the goblin off, Helgarr meets up with Furnok and Cleo.
Furnok is back at the tavern, looking rather paranoid that goblins might attacka gain.
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Another tug and the sound of wind rushing surrounds the group. Maria feels a pounding in her head as the tugs come faster, outside her the sound of a beating heart fills the room. She grabs her head, and begins to plead Stop, stop, please stop, please please stop, STOP! As she yells out her final protest the sounds end.