Mikkitar moves into the stinking place next to Nocki, looking down at the sewer before heading up the ladder.
"This place is nasty-stinky. Must be in use quite frequently-often, to smell this ripe."
Nocki plants one foot onto a rung of the ladder, grabs it by two hands and starts up towards the attic.
As soon as he puts his weight on the rung, the wood breaks and the rung splits. The dwarfs heavy boot drops down a foot to the next rung, which splits as well, then this repeats and he breaks a third rung.
Struggling to believe he could have been so wrong about the ladder's craftsmanship, Nocki drops into the sludge and sewage below.
When he impacts, a splash of nasty brown liquid sprays out around him.
Fortunately the filth is only about three feet deep.
Unfortunately, Nocki needs to make a Fortitude saving throw.
Nocki and Bear are pretty filthy down in the pit of sewage.
He begins to climb up the wall when two goblins appear in the sewer outflows in the east wall.
"Yippee Yappie Yabahhhh!!!!" one of them screams out and they both throw filthy cloth bags at you.
(touch attack)
(touch attack, cover)
Both of the bags fly past to splatter against the far wall.
It seems that the goblins have improvised weapons by filling bags with sewage and bits of broken glass.
Order:
Olander
Goblins
Mikkitar, Sandu, Nocki
Olander is up!
Does anyone speak goblin? I really don't feel like going down there to fight...
Olander pulls a rope from his pack and tosses one end to Nocki. He then steps back from the edge to avoid bags of poop and prepares to help lift his friend.
"Yes-yes, goblin speech is easy. Many swears, much emphasis on flavor and mouth-feels."
The sewer outflows in the east wall are roughly 2 feet above the level of the muck, or 5 feet from the mushy bottom of the pool.
The the two goblins continue their poorly executed ambush.
(touch attack,cover)
(touch attack, cover)
[spoiler=Mikkitar/anyone who speaks goblin] At this point the two of them are arguing about who has the worse aim.[/ooc]
Then, there's a surprise as one of the goblins is booted in the rear by a third goblin looking to get in on the action!
The unfortunate greekskin tumbles down into the muck in a disgusting bellyflop that likely earned it a mouthful of foul waste.
As the nasty, guttural goblin speech flows quite naturally from Mikkitar, he hefts another vial from his belt and launches it at the newcomer to the fray.
for direct hit, DC 14 ref or catch fire, and 4 splash damage.
Mikkitar, I'm ruling that throwing over/through Olander and through the doorway down to the goblins will give them cover.
Your bomb just misses.
It flies a little high, impacting the wall above the newcomer.
It does splash damage to goblins 3 and 2.
The two burned goblins look significantly hurt.
Sandu focuses his faith towards Mikkitar "May Desna guide your aim my furred friend"
The goblin in the pit of sewage tries to climb up to the far side of the room, but his slips and slides back down to the pool below.
the other two launch more bags filled with waste and broken glass at Olander and Nocki.
(touch attack)
(touch attack)
Their aim continues to be terrible.
Mikkitar throws his next-to-last bomb at the goblin in the corner, hoping to aim better this time.
to hit, for direct damage, plus catch on fire (DC 14 ref negates), and 4 fire splash damage.
Mikkitar's bomb scatters and hits the wall above his target's head.
A rain of fire drops down on him and he dies screaming curses in the goblin tongue.
Olander has an action and then the goblins are up.
Refresher:
One goblin is trying to climb out of the pit. Another is standing on the sewer outflow with a supply of poo-filled bags, and the last is dead.
Olander total defenses after reeling the rope back from Nocki.
The goblin in the pit of sewage attempts to climb up to the far side again.
and fails, slipping back into the filthy liquid.
The remaining goblin at the sewage outflow throws a bag of nastiness at Nocki.
(touch attack)
and doesn't come anywhere close....
Party is up!
"Bah, these stupid poo goblins cant hit the broad side of a barn. Let's see them fight with-with crossbow bolts in their lungs."
to hit, for piercing damage
Nocki's crossbow bolt flashes through the goblin's throat, ending it's brief life of sewage and violence.
Only the goblin in the pit of sewage remains.
Sandu focuses his faith to create a protection around Nocki.
Olander is up before the goblin.
I really need to buy a crossbow
Olander once again total defenses, unwilling to go into the muck to fight the goblin.
The goblin finds a set of hand-holds and scampers up to the doorway on the the far side of the improvised pit.
He is indescribably filthy after falling in and splashing around in the muck.
Mikkitar also reloads and fires at the last goblin.
to hit, for damage
Nocki's bolt grazes the filthy little beast.
Mikkitar's bolt flies over his head.
Olander tries the plank, walking slowly across.
When he gets in range, he stabs the climbing goblin.
Olander nimbly crosses the plank to the other side and skewers the goblin through the heart.
It clutches at the wound as it falls lifeless into the pit of sewage.
Olander can see through the door into the next room in the dim light that filters through the cracks in the wall and ceiling.
The floor of this room has fallen away, leaving a narrow, charred ledge along the south and east walls. To the northwest, a ledge heaped with crates and barrels sits, while above the rafters of the attic lay bare to view.
As he surveys the room, a crossbow bolt slams into the doorframe next to his head.
He looks across the room to see a goblin with an oversized crossbow drop out of view behind the makeshift barricade.
Sandu fumbles for the crossbow at his back and loses a moment trying to remember how it works.
Olander once again moves up carefully.
He attempts to skewer another goblin, but winds up stabbing directly between the two instead of either one.
@Olander: It would be more of a climb check to shimmy along the wall over the pit of sewage in this room. It's obvious that the goblins must go through the closed door on the eastern end of the north wall and circle around through to ledge where they're bunkered in.
Mikkitar rests his crossbow against the jamb of the door, readying a shot if the goblin pokes its head above the barricade again.
A second goblin pops up behind the barricade with an oversized crossbow.
Mikkitar, take your readied shot before it fires.
to hit, for damage
for additional damage
The second goblin flies backwards, his arms flying out wide, with Mikkitar's crossbow bolt stuck through his forehead.
The other goblin is safely down behind his barricade, reloading his heavy crossbow.
The party is up!
Olander calls out You'll have to climb across. Best use the crossbow
"Yes-yes, another shot like that and I think our problem will be-be quite gone!"
Mikkitar reloads his own weapon and readies another shot at the same area.
Sando looks at his crossbow, then at the crowded firing path, after shaking his head. "Starsong's light upon you Mikkitar"