Poog wants bacon, and so throws a fire dart.
Mogmurch flings another bomb, the delightful aroma of roast pork and burnt hair filling his nostrils as the pig burns again.
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After attacks and hits from all around, the pig puts his snout into the mud and closed it's eyes. The goblins find a neclace with two vials of gourd of fire burping. The four goblins can continue their journey to the farm.
Surrounded by a rickety wooden fence and thick mud, Munchmeat Farm slumps in a soggy valley between two low tors. A slimy-looking creek winds through the farm, which is barely anything to look at. A house in the center of the fenced-in area leans against two hefty buttresses holding up three large beams. It's balanced on numerous thick log stilts that create a cage-like hollow in the mud below the building. North of the house are a few filthy chicken coops, and to the west an upturned boat, propped against the fence, has been built into an impromptu shelter. A shed sits to the south of the building, and south and east of this shed are a few tired stretches of garden that look like they're best at growing mud and weeds.
The denizens of the Munchmeat farm are the ogre druid Pa Munchmeat, his ogrekin daughter Guffy, and several of their frightening pets. As the site comes into view, the goblins can see that there's a single gate leading through the fence, but the fence itself looks poorly made and won't hold back a determined goblin for long.
Mogmurch hacks off a big piece of pig tongue for a snack, but is content with his fire power leaving the gourds to the others. When they are ready to move on he sneaks up to the fence and attempts to slip through it stealthily and begin heading towards the upturned boat.
Once he is past the fence he drinks his potion of barkskin, his skin becoming rough and hard.
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Since it seems everyone else already has fire of their own Chuffy grabs the necklace and slings it around his neck. He then very skillfully cuts a chunk of the roasted pigs and quickly scarfs it down.
Chuffy will follow Mogmurch into past the fence and pointing toward the boat he says "That make good cover for sneaky gobbos." and heads toward it.
Poog follows behind Mogmurch, after lopping off some of the pig's haunch for a snack.
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A single rickety farm gate allows passage through the wooden fence here, below an archway made of broken branches and bleached bones. A sign hangs from the arch, its words scrawled onto the wood with what looks like blood. Three severed, maggot-covered goblin heads sit on poles driven into the ground to the left of the gate. A second sign leans against these poles under the heads.
Both signs are written in Common. The one hanging from the arch says, "Trespsrs wil b eatn!" The one near the three goblin heads (which once belonged to the three Birdcruncher chieftains who came here before the goblin heroes) reads, "Yous gobluns taste YUM! Send moar gobluns!"
Mogmurch makes for the upside down boat, on the basis that the last boat he visited was stuffed with fireworks.
Greta follows mog to the overturned boat.
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An upturned boat, an old river barge by the look of it, sits in the mud here. The boat's stern has been built into the fence, and a large hole has been smashed in the southern side to provide entrance to the dark hollow created by the hull.
As Mogmurch and Greta come closer to the boat they can see that the upside-down barge is used as a pen for Pa Munchmeats pigs. The sty is occupied by two pigs: an enormous sow named Princess Crackling and a moody depressed and particularly filthy pig.
Princess Crackling is a very lazy pig. She spends her days eating and sleeping wedged against the only entrance to the sty.
Mogmurch sees prebacon.
Greta looks at the fat pig. "I will kill you and open your hide, crawl inside and EAT YOU
"More piggies. Too bad I not hungry no more. Hmm... piggie make too much noise, let ogre know we here!"
"It's Squealy Nord! We takes him back when we go! Or maybe eats him along way." Poog urges Squealy Nord to calm down, and gives the impression of freeing him.
"Hehe, is good sign, Squealy Nord for tests and beating dogs!" Mogmurch says grinning as he moves carefully across the bridge towards the structures on the other side of the stream.
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Three decrepit henhouses slump battered in the mud here. The nervous clucking of several chickens can be heard from within.
The henhouses are filthy, and accessed by narrow openings that only a Small or smaller creature can easily pass through. The walls of the henhouses are rotten (hardness 2, hp 5, break DC 13).
Greta looks around and one can see how much she would love to run havoc here. But she knows that would not help killing the ogre. Later you turds, later
Poog tries unsuccessfully to quiet the excited pig.
Poog lets go of Squealy Nord, and with a tear in his eye at the thought of lost bacon, shoos him away.
Leaving the coops for later Mogmurch makes his way down the western side of the river hiding behind plants where he can any trying to get a good look at the shed's front to see if he can spy anything.
"Sleeping dog! Everyone get ready and when Mogmurch throws fire make with the stabby hurty death pain!" Mogmurch whispers creeping to the edge of one of the coops.
When everyone is in position he hurls a bomb at the sleeping dog and steps back into cover.
We can do it together. And greta has the flaming dogslicer, chffy wanted the cloak.
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The goblins attacked the dog immiately, the dog had no chance to react. He was defeated before he could get up to his feet.
Greta ponders: "Sneaky sneaky we try to check the other spot and then make rope so if ogre comes he falls and we kill kill. Noise to make ogre come."
Mogmurch follows the stream around sneaking and trying to peer into the shed for signs of life when he comes adjacent with its door.
Poog follows Chuffy towards 2.
"Let's us try to be sneaky-sneaky. Make ogre dead easier if he no hear us coming."
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The four goblin heroes walk over to the other side of the farm. They stand now in front of a overgrown workshed.
This flimsy structure seems to have started out as a workshed, but its sagging walls have been almost entirely overtaken by rampant plantlife.
Looking carefully around Greta finds the gourds. Handing one to Mogmurch and one to Poog she nods to the main house. "Burn burn main house?"
Mogmurch grins, "You had me at burn!" He gulps down the contents of the gourd and his extract of shield and then fling a vial of alchemist fire onto the roof of the main house. It lands amongst the thatch and Mogmurch cackles.
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The roof catches fire and the goblins can hear some kind of birds screaming while they also seem to catch fire.
A large open area under the house has been filled with straw, branches, and uprooted underbrush-something big has made a nest of it. A trap door is set in the ceiling above.
The creature who made the nest in the large open area under the house hears the screaming and smells the fire. It sees the goblins and attacks them. It is a big owlbear.
Chuffy
Mogmurch
Owlbear
Greta
Poog