Mogmurch gets an evil gleam in his eye. "How about I try to cut the wasp nest down. Very. Carefully. Then throw it inside the house."
He makes a throwing motion, playing out his fantasy. "A buzz bomb with a billion bites!"
Poog stares up at the wasp nest, when an idea strikes him. "Fire also very strong against wasps, Mogmurch. Maybe you cut down nest, and Poog uses flames to burn to ash!"
"Any idea always better with fire," Chuffy nods sagely as he wipes the blood off his borrowed dogslicer. "Sneaky sneak up there, cut down wasp nest, set on fire, *then* throw!"
The goblins stand and stare at the wad of mud, contemplating their next move. The nest is on the railing so with some care they could probably move past it without disrupting it.
A long range barrage could release the wasps, but what would happen next you never can quite tell.
Burning it (and anything in general) is always on the table.
Mogmurch gulps, swallowing his fear, then sneaks up the gangplank, climbs up the rickety handrail, and--very gingerly--loosens the wasp nest from its dried-mud anchor.
Returning to his friends, he asks, "Anybody got a sack?"
"I'm not gonna stick this in my pants.!"
Only the bravest and most hero of the goblins dares tackle the mud wasp nest: Mogmurch! Quiet as a mouse and with great care he ascends the step gangplank, one rung at a time, stepping through vines and overgrown vegetation to reach the top. Now that he's on the top rung and starts with his dogslicer to pry the nest from the railing....
The vines on the ladder snap tight and rip the nest right off the rail, hurtling it down to the bottom of the gangplank!
Sorry, your earlier perception check was just short of seeing this trap!
If you pass the save then you are able to snatch the nest from the air before it crashes to the ground below.
If you fail it lands and smashes open, releasing a very ANGRY swarm of wasps...
Feel free to describe your heroics, or lack there of as you see fit, or I can.
"Doh!" Mogmurch exclaims, when the vine tripwire he didn't notice on the gangplank heel-picks him.
Time seems to slow as he teeters on tiptoe, reaching up and out, lobbing the nest into the air. He twists as he falls, landing on his back with a squishy thud. The nest lands in his outstretched arms. The buzzing inside increases in volume for a few, tense moments, before it settles back to a low, constant thrum.
"Wow!" Mogmurch, covered in mud, gets back on his feet, a dung-eating grin on his face. "Did you see that!?"
Reta gives a quiet thumbs up. Looks like the plan is going well!
Poog applauds the display. "Cool! Should Poog burn nest now, or maybe leave alone? If fire doesn't kill all wasps, angrier wasps might escape burning nest and STING!"
As was Mogmurch's plan all along, he makes the spectacular look routine. Nestled in his arms like a sleeping whelp is the nest of wasps, ready to be used however he may desire.
The main deck of the shipwreck is cluttered with objects both natural and artificial. Thick swaths of leafy vines grow over the deck, and shiny green patches of algae and moss grow where the vines do not. The central cabin's roof has a wide edge, creating a canopied walkway along the ship's sides. A flight of steps up to the roof of the ship's main cabin, the entrance to which is blocked by a door decorated by a large number of rodent and bird skulls. A smoking stovepipe chimney extends up from the ship's highest point above.
Two rickety wooden platforms—crow’s nests—sit on the masts, ten feet above the ship’s deck below. Each is linked by a pair of thick ropes, and additional ropes hang down from the platform on the stern-most mast to the deck.
Reta quietly sneaks aboard the ship. She decides the climb right on, next to Mogmurch, and keeps her shortbow ready.
"Fine, this time, Poog be sneaky, even though hate being sneaky," Poog grumbles. "Dogfinder, you be quiet too. No croaking, or you get fried."
On his tip-toes, Poog quietly makes his way along the edge of the ship.
Mogmurch sneaks back up the gangplankladder, much more cautious this time.
"Watch out for trip-vines," he whispers.
He gets his friends' attention and points three fingers at his eyes and nose, the universal goblin signal for 'Look and you smell.' Then he moves around the south side of the deck, looking, listening, and stinking, er, smelling.
"Nice catch Moggy," is all Chuffy has to say on the matter as he quietly joins the others up on the main deck of the ship. He decides to follow in the same direction that Poog is headed, keeping his peepers and such peeled for trouble...and shinies.
The group quietly makes its way onto the ship, splitting up with a pair on each side of the covered walkway. As they creep along Poog steps on a hollow reed that blew onto the deck, and the crack and pop makes just enough noise to cause a brown poodle to cock its head around the corner, looking down towards Poog. It starts to let out a low growl, a well chewed bone between its teeth.
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Hah! Poog be great bait!
Hoping that the nasty, ugly poodle won't notice him, Chuffy tries to creep closer...
Oh wait...maybe Moggy will wanna throw the waspers at it! Better not get *too* close...yet.
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"... DOG!!!!" Poog yell-whispers, frantically waving his club around. "Can we kill it? We must, or we not really goblins, right?" He insists.
Crazy goblin eater likes dogs, too! Reta nocks an arrow.
Still looking around, Mogmurch wonders what he can see, hear, or smell on the south side of the ship's superstructure...
From his position Mogmurch hears the growling of a dog along with Poog whisper yelling DOG! The growling is growing louder...
Mogmurch creeps along the boat's deck, until he can peek around the cabin and see the giant, growling poodle.
He retrieves the juicy slug he'd kept in a small pot and tosses it to the dog. "You can have my snack, doggie," he whispers in encouragement.
That should distract him. The little goblin gulps. I hope.
The dog eyes Mogmurch warily as he tosses it what could be a treat, or just a gross slimy slug.
Once Moggy gets closer he can see the dog is chained to the stern's mast, but the chain is rusty.
I ain't no dog-handler, but maybe I can fake it. Mogmurch points at the slug, and gives the poodle an encouraging smile. Or at least it's what a goblin imagines is such an expression.
The dog gives Mogmurch a wary eye then stands and takes a few steps, sniffing the slug. The dog is pretty thin, and its fur in need of trimming. It daintily grabs the slug and swallows it down, gagging only slightly on the slime. It stands there waiting for more, never really understanding that the only reason people like poodles is they don't shed.
Surprise Round, 1 standard action ONLY! Bold is up!
Poog
Mogmurch
Reta
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Foo Foo
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Chuffy (Stealthed)
Party Buffs: Nil
Environmental Conditions:
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Mogmurch aims and squeezes the crossbow's trigger. *Twang*
Oh boy, this Chuffy's lucky day! Get to sneaky-stab ALL THE THINGS!
While the dog is focused now on Moggy Chuffy scuttles forward and down the stairs/ladder, trying to be quiet...
The Chuffster continues his sneaky sneaky up towards the distracted dog, as Mogmurch tries to put down the skinny Foo Foo with a bolt to the head. Unfortunately for him poodles have very small heads, most of it being fur. What he was sure was skull was actually just a fluffed up ear. The bolt flies through it and the dog gets angry!
Breaking Stealth: When you start your turn using Stealth, you can leave cover or concealment and remain unobserved as long as you succeed at a Stealth check and end your turn in cover or concealment. Your Stealth immediately ends after you make and attack roll, whether or not the attack is successful (except when sniping as noted below).
Round 1... Bold is up!
Poog
Mogmurch
Reta
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Foo Foo -1
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Chuffy (Stealthed)
Party Buffs: Nil
Environmental Conditions:
Poog waddles forth towards the menacing mongrel. "Stupid dog make stupid sound. Me hate!" He exclaims before throwing a fire bolt its way!
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"Reta. Hates. Dogs." She takes aim with her shortbow.
She hates dogs. It's on her nametag!
Nervous that the angry poodle might eat him, Mogmurch hands shake as he reloads the crossbow, and when he pulls the trigger, his shot flies wide right. *Twang*
Both Poog and Reta hit the now surrounded and chained Foo Foo. The scared and hungry dog rushes over to bite Mogmurch! Its chain tangles up a bit and throws off the attempt. On the level above another dog starts barking, rushing up to the edge of the roof, straining at its chain to get to Poog!
Round 1/2... Bold is up!
Poog
Mogmurch
Reta
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Foo Foo -4
Fee Fee
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Chuffy (Stealthed)
Party Buffs: Nil
Environmental Conditions: Red Dog (Fee Fee) is 10 feet up on the next level, chained... for now.
Mogmurch steps back, away from Foo Foo, reloads the crossbow, and after a steadying breath, squeezes the trigger at point-blank range. *Twang*
"Take that, Foo Foo!"
Foo Foo goes down with an acute case of a bolt to the chest. Up above Fee Fee continues to bark and strain at her chain. There is a ladder near her that goes up to that level.
Round 1/2... Bold is up!
Poog
Mogmurch
Reta
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Foo Foo -8
Fee Fee
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Chuffy (Stealthed)
Party Buffs: Nil
Environmental Conditions: Red Dog (Fee Fee) is 10 feet up on the next level, chained... for now.
Reta double moves until she can get a clear shot of the new dog. Then she grins.
Poog looks up at the dog. "Did Reta see? Two dog, not one. TWO DOG!" He screams, launching another welp of a fire bolt at it.
Chuffy sighs to himself as one dog falls and he realizes that he's probably not going to be able to sneaky-sneak his way up the ladder to the second.
"Fine! Chuffy take direct approach!"
The goblin emerges from the shadows near the mast and pushes past Poog to ascend the ladder to the next level of the deck, putting him right next to the second angry dog.
"Hi! Chuffy stab you now!"
Poog clips the ear of Fee Fee with his flaming booger bolt of doom, while Reta repositions herself for a better shot. Chuffy is fed up with all his inaction though and pushes his way past Poog on the ladder and climbs up and off of it, getting snapped at by the dog as he slices a bit of a dog leg. Lucky for him his armor keeps those teeth at bay, but not by much.
This one may be the size of a large cat, but damn its got a bark the size of a mack truck!
Round 2/3... Bold is up!
Poog
Mogmurch
Reta
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Foo Foo -8
Fee Fee -3
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Chuffy (Can make Acro vs the AOO)
Party Buffs: Nil
Environmental Conditions: Red Dog (Fee Fee) is 10 feet up on the next level, chained... for now.
Chuffy ignores the dog's snapping teeth and steps around to get a better stabbin' angle.
"Stupid dog! Chuffy shut you up!"
Reta sees Chuffy beat her to the punch. Er, stab. She takes a shot anyway before heading to the ladder.
"Yeah! Shut dog up, BFF Chuffy!" Poog cheers. Assuming the dog is still alive after Chuffy's attack, he'll launch another ball of boog fire.
Mogmurch hurries the rear of the boat. Behind the cover of the mast, he reloads his crossbow.
Fee Fee snaps out at Chuffy as he moves past, but its the last thing the doggy ever gets to do, as the Chief Stabber lives up to his title, making quick work of the already wounded animal.
A few different options for exploration lay before the goblins. From the other side of Mogmurch's mast, there is a door into the inner part of the ship.
There are dangling ropes leading up to a series of crow's nests.
Up on the level with Chuffy is a door that leads into the room with the smoke stack coming from the roof.
"Yeah! Chuffy #1 Critter-Stabber!"
Pleased with his track record Chuffy does a little gyrating victory dance before slowly lowering his dogslicer and looking around.
"Huh. Maybe no one home?"
He carefully tiptoes up to the nearby door and has a listen.
Reta finishes climbing up the ladder to clamber next to Chuffy. She nods sagely as another dead dog lies before her. She also moves up to the door with her dogslicer ready.
Chuffy, nor Reta hears anything from the door on the upper deck of the ship. Some light smoke rolls out of the tin chimney from its roof. All manner of dead critters are nailed to the door. Bones and feathers, skulls, etc. It resembles the door they saw on the other side when they first climbed onto the ship.
"Poog have genius idea. Drop firework into chimney and watch big BOOM! Sound good, friends?"
"Yeah! Chuffy like big booms and cannot lie," the sadistic little stabber nods eagerly. "Maybe even make boom so big they see it back home! We be even famouser!"
The goblins make some grand 'explosive' plans, staring at the ladder that goes to the roof of the small, smoking hut before them. The ladder however doesn't reach the top of the smoke stack, so someone will need to make the climb up the 15' tall metal stack.
Poog grabs the stack and attempts to climb up. Once he's up there, he lights the skyrocket, and drops it in, quickly retreating back down. "And now we wait for BOOM!"
Quick as a hiccup Poog makes the executive decision to scale the smoking tin mountain and flush out what lies beneath with his 'bunker buster 5000'. He makes his way up the pipe, moving quickly as the tin is pretty warm to the touch but not enough to burn. He lights the end of the foot long rocket, sending a shower of sparks flooding out the end. With a yelp he drops it down the pipe and high tails it down the pipe to the roof top below.
Before he can even get to the ladder a stream of fiery sparks shoot out of the top of the chimney and a loud VOOOMMP! announces the ignition of the propulsive charge. The metal stove pipe shakes and shimmies, announcing to the world that POOG is HERE!
An explosion rocks the hut, blasting the door wide open and almost knocking Chuffy upside the head.
Smoke and sparks pour out the door, along with what looks like a very confused, burned, and blinded dog of immense size that stands up just inside the door! Shards of bone stick out of the dogs skin like shrapnel, and hot embers singe his fur and eyes.
Round 1... Bold is up!
Mogmurch
Chuffy
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Cuddles -13 (Blinded)
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Reta
Poog
Party Buffs: Nil
Environmental Conditions: Smokey inside the hut, 20% concealment.
Poog is still on the roof and can't see inside the hut. He's not right next to the dog.