Isabella comes around the corner to support the fighters with her huge falchion, swinging it over her head and trying her best not to hit her friends!
... better to not hit anything than to hit an ally...
Casts a force missile at the goblin dog attacking Camil.
Runt continues to hover in the background and gives more direction to Zandril (Zandril is hasted).
"Remember that goblins like to duck and those dogs are really rats and cowards at heart and tend to dart backwards!"
Round 1
Zherxikas 22 done
Goblin dog 21 done
Runt 19 done
Lavanor 18 <==
Isabella 15 done
Goblin 12 dazed
Zandril 9
Camil 8
Irritated that the dog bit him, Lavanor tries to steady himself in the mud and swing his sword at the mutt. The dog easily avoids his telegraphed attack.
Camil quickly sights along his bow, silently wishing to himself he had a better shot and fires off two arrows in quick succession, one into each goblin dog.
[ooc]The one on the left may have cover from where I'm standing?[/dice]
Zandril will run the Goblin through. Being dazed it makes barely a sound as it falls to the ground.
Round 2
Zherxikas 22 <==
Goblin dog 21
Runt 19
Lavanor 18
Isabella 15
Zandril 9
Camil 8
Zherxikas' force missile takes the goblin down. Then without a goblin to support them, the goblin dogs give up the fight. The very wounded one (0 hp) moves north along the wall and curls up in the corner. The other runs east into the rain and darkness.
Seeing the dogs flee, Camil straightens from his archer's stance, We should probably follow that 'dog' before it alerts the goblins in the fort...
Drawing another arrow, he adjusts his soaked hat and begins to follow the goblin dog to wherever it went.
"I wouldn't bother. Well be done here long before the rat returns. If it returns."
Zherxikas head's towards the gates using his darkvision to try and casting detect magic.
Pleased they followed his suggestion, Runt moves over to Isabella, grabs her arm, and gives her a tug in the direction of the gates.
There is no magic to be seen. The gates open onto some sort of antechamber into the stronghold. The floor of this room is hard-packed soil, as if the builders either ran out of lumber after building the walls and roof, or as if they simply never thought about building a floor. A number of poorly preserved horse and dog heads are mounted along the eastern wall, while along the southern wall hangs a pair of large (man-sized) batlike wings tacked to the wall with daggers. Oddly, the room is lit albeit by a single torch.
For those without map access: there are a number of doors leading out of this room. To the west are double doors, along the north wall are four different doors (west to east single door, double door, single door, single door), and at the end of a short hallway to the east is a single door. Goblin singing can be heard dully from behind the northern double door otherwise, all other doors are quiet.
"Not a good sign. But what would you expect. Probably littered with goblins like the glass factory. What do you say we start with the double doors?"
Camil glances to the north door and the sounds of singing, and the quiet door to the west. Motioning for the party to come closer, he whispersDo we want to upset the apple cart immediately?he asks as he points to the singing sounds, or should we scout around the area first? I prefer to make the entrance I believe first and see how bad it is.
He'll wait for the party to make their decision and head in whichever way they decide, motioning Zandril and Lavanor to sneak up with him.
Runt is anxious to smack a few gobs around. Besides, singing goblins is always a bad thing. Runt points at the door with the singers.
Once grabbed by Runt, Isabella follows along, stumbling slightly.
Whispering in response to Camil, "I'd rather avoid the large group for as long as possible. At least we know what's there. I say we wait as long as possible to announce our presence. I say we either check the quiet double doors to the west or the single door down the corridor to the east."
Though Runt is disappointed, she nods his head and defers to the wisdom of fighting them in smaller numbers.
"I would concur with the double doors to the west" he whispers.
You move through the west double doors to find more choices. A single door to the north and a set of double doors to the west. The door north has been nailed shut.
Shrugging at the nailed shut door, Camil will head over to the double doors, and see what's behind them!
Camil hears nothing and when he opens the door a crack he see a small room with a staircase headed up and another set of double doors on the north wall.
Camil silently enters the room, and begins to creep up the stairs to see what he can see from the top, even in the darkness...
Runt trails behind Camil, though he gives him plenty of room since she has a tendency to clank as she moves, even after the upgrade to a breastplate.
Camil climbs to a landing and switches back. At the top he finds two goblins sleeping off what appears to be a food bender as their little stomachs look pleasantly distended.
Camil will wave Zandril to come up the stairs and help him deal with the two sleeping goblins...
Zandril carefully and quietly makes his way up to Camil, sword in hand.
Zandril stands over one of the goblins and waits for Camil to give the signal for a simultaneous coupes de gras.
Seeing Zandril get his point, Camil withdraws a dagger and plunges it into the goblin's sleeping eye. Immediately clamping his hand over the goblin's mouth should the dagger not find its target quickly enough.
The two goblins are dispatched quickly. They are each armed with a dog slicer, wear piecemeal leather armor and a quick search of the top reveals a bag of pickles, mostly eaten.
Through the heavy rain and during lightning flashes you can tell there is an open courtyard win the fort (C16).
Runt waits patiently for the goblin slayers to return to ground level. the bloodthirsty little Runt asks quietly,
"Did you get them all?"
Zandril trys to look hard through the rain to see if there is any movement in the courtyard. Any sound coming from the courtyard?
Camil quickly moves down the stairs, nodding in assent to Runt before trying the next set of double doors. Camil looks a little green from having dispatched the sleeping goblins, but continues with his work.
Zandril does not see anything moving but he can just make out what he believes to be a dead goblin in the courtyard. From the base of the tower there are double doors leading north, you could go back the way you came and check the nailed door or back to the entryway and try a different door.
Camil will open the double doors to the north at the bottom of the stairs, Here goes nothing folks
The room beyond is merely a square hall with a double door on the north wall. It appears to have been used as a dump as broken items lie strewn to both sides of a walkway leading between doors.Strangely, there were torches in the front room but as you have moved further away you find no torchlight. What light sources are you using?
A note about goblin craftsmanship: it's pitiful, there are numerous leaks in the roof and the ground is hard packed dirt with a board or two covering pooling water. The gaps are large enough you can see the flashes of lightning. Note also that it is hard to hear since the rain is pounding on the ramshackle roof.
SOP for Runt is to cast light on her shield when it gets dark.
Runt positions herself right behind Camil and follows along.
Isabella sticks by Runt, who dragged her out into this.