Olander looks at the far side, as, so long as he sees nothing worrysome, he jumps across.
Mikkitar also jumps across, after tossing the new crossbows over.
Mikkitar heads over and gives a few tugs on the lower rungs.
"Yes-yes, maybe one ladder will bear weight."
Perhaps this one works?
Mikkitar, there are two ladders, both appear to the structurally sound.
One descends from the level of the fireplace hearth down to the sewage below. Crusted filth on the rungs show that it has been used by creatures (probably goblins) that fell in and needed to climb back up.
The other is inside the large chimney, leading up into the dim light.
As you and Olander steady yourselves on the stone hearth before the chimney, you hear a sound from up inside.
A serpentine shape emerges from the space above to threaten you!
A gray, lipless goblin head with serpent’s fangs sits atop the sinuous black body of this greasy-scaled snake.
Olander, Nocki, and Mikkitar are up!
Olander pokes it, damned sewer snakes!
Mikkitar draws his morningstar and swings on the goblin face.
to hit, for damage
to hit, for additional damage
Mikkitar lays out a nasty strike, driving his spiked weapon into the goblin.
Olander stabs the snake, drawing blood.
The snake starts to shriek something in the goblin tongue
Then Mikkitar's morningstar ends its tirade in mid-sentence.
Nice swing! Olander praises Mikkitar from preventing the snake's counter attack.
"It said something about this being his-his chimney. I dont think anything else is gonna live-live where this thing does. I'd guess it's safe to go up. "
Mikkitar flicks most of the goblin creature goo off his weapon before reseating it on his belt.
"Ladder seems safe-haven. After you-you."
Sandu waits for the commotion to end, then waits a little longer before following the rest of the team.
Nocki climbs up the interior of the chimney. At the floor above he finds the crumbling, charred brick of the chimney has been chipped away to create a large hollow within, with a tangle of discarded planks and other rubbish now serving as a floor.
Peering out through the breach in the chimney wall he sees that most of the attic ceiling has collapsed into the room below, but most of the rafters have gone with it in this area, leaving large gaps of empty space over the drop.
In the dim light he sees three figures (2 small and 1 medium sized) standing out in the room, balancing on the beams of the remaining rafters.
"More goblins, Nocki-Nocki? Wont they learn from the others and just flee-scurry?"
As Mikkitar gets to the top, he readies his crossbow and prepares to fire at the figures if they prove hostile.
Mikkitar climbs up beside Nocki in the attic, emerging out of the hole in the broken chimney.
Nocki's vision starts to sharpen as he gets used to the hazy dusty air.
He sees a dark haired varisian woman with a red bandanna tied around her head with a drawn sword standing balanced on the rafters across the room.
The woman matches the description you have of Natalya Vancaskerkin.
Flanking her, on either side of her are a pair of sewer goblins.
"Who are you people that dare intrude in my home!" the woman demands imperiously.
"I am the great Vancaskerkin!" the woman responds haughtily.
"Who in the devil are you scum?"
"Uh...we're Pathfinders yes-yes. Sent to see what happened to you-you, and help you out if we can-can."
"Pathfinders...." she seems to think for a second.
The goblins shift uneasily, nervous about what might happen if their mistress gets angry.
"Minions of that fool Sheila Heidmarch I suppose."
"Well ... I have nothing for her. Go back to her and tell her to bother me no more!"
The Varisian rogue seems to be speaking very grandly for a fugitive on the run who's hanging out with goblins in a building that's more sewer than house.
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Nocki points and laughs at Natalya. He says "That's cute. Now you're coming with us." He says it nonthreatening, only stating what is for him a fact.
Olander decides its better to let Nocki do the talking.
She doesn’t know how many ladders Nocki faced to find her...
"You fools have no idea of the power I possess. "
"Leave this place and tell your mistress to bother me no more, lest she face my wrath....."
"Bwahahahahah!" she throws her head back and laughs maniacally.
The goblins look back and forth at each other, Natalya, and the party. They seem nervous, but haven't done anything overtly hostile. The each have one of those bags of sewage and broken glass in their hands.
Sandu is the last up popping his head just above the floor. "Not again, Lady Luck guide Olander across this obstacle."
"Please Ma'am we have been through quite a lot already today."
Olander looks down Pride cometh before the fall, and that is one place you don't want to fall. Olander geastures downward Lets go back to the lodge, talk about this over a nice drink. Do you drink tea? Or perhaps something stronger? We have no intention of doing anything untoward that would cause any mishaps that end with some of us down in the muck, but that said, Nocki speaks the truth, you need to come with us.
Natalya is completely unswayed by your words....
"You're not going to trick me with your honeyed words tiefling."
"Once upon a time I might have been foolish enough to believe your promises, but not now!"
"Now I am on the path to limitless power!!!!"
Seeing his words fall on deaf ears, Olander takes a step out onto a rafter towards Natalya.
Seeing Olander start to step forward, the goblins growl and both fling their bags of sewage at him.
(touch)
(touch)
One sack of filth falls short, splattering the rafters, the other strikes Olander in the chest.
Olander takes 1hp of damage from the glass shards in the sack and needs to make a DC12 Fortitude save or be sickened for rounds.
Mikkitar is up!
"Stupid-fool goblins! Now you burn with your leader-woman!"
Mikkitar draws out his last remaining bomb and chucks it at Goblin 2.
vs touch, for fire damage, DC 14 Ref or catch fire. 4 splash to everyone within 5'.
"Should have come=come along quietly, girl. Now you have to burn with these filthy-rotten gobbos!"
Olander throws up a bit in his mouth and hopes the bomb kills them all.
Mikkitar's bomb impacts on the wall to the left of the goblin, but catches it in the blast. The little humanoid has a gash in its right shoulder and looks weak.
Natalya steps backwards and chants an arcane phrase casts a spell.
A layer of grease covers a 10 foot square between her and the party.
After she finishes casting, she draws a hand crossbow from a holster on her hip.
Olander, Nocki, and Sandu are up!
"The Lady still guides your steps Olander, lets hope once her friends are dispatched she will listen to reason.
[ooc]I am not sure from the map, if there is a space for me to climb up off the ladder in my square I will, otherwise I wait on the ladder.
Olander gags on the noxious smell as he moves up and makes his attack.
Nocki's crossbow bolt flies wide, lodging itself in the rotten roof.
Olander wobbles out across the rafters. His erratic steps and non-stop heaving and gagging worries his comrades, but he reaches the wounded goblin and stabs at him.
Unfortunately, he chokes on the stab (literally and figuratively) and his rapier misses the goblin.
With Olander moving, Sandu has room to move up the ladder and into the attic.
With Olander threatening the wounded goblin, his partner cries out in alarm.
"JubJub!!!!" the little greenskin cries as he draws his dagger and hops across the rafters to help his friend.
It being too far for him to reach Olander by skirting around the Grease on the rafters, he instead cuts straight across the room with disastrous results.
Just before he reaches Olander with his upraised dagger, he slips on the rafters, falls, and disappears into the room below!
He impacts the sewage below, causing a nasty splash, and then fails to resurface.
The injured goblin, too distracted by Olander's attack to notice his friend's fall, steps backward from Olander and draws his blade.
Natalya see's her goblin minion's mistake and she curses.
"Worthless fool!!!! I will curse your entire line!!!" she screams down at the sewage pool below where her minion disappeared.
Mikitar is up!
"Dumb-stupid girl. Your poop-goblins are gone, and you have a tiny-small pistol bow to fight all of us-us. Heres a real bolt-bolt, you should quit and come now, before we bring you back in-in a bag."
Mikkitar lines up his crossbow and fires at the human mouthing off.
to hit, for damage
Natalya's free hand snakes down into a sack at her belt.
She pulls it out holding a tanglefoot bag that she throws at Nocki in the middle of your group.
The bag of sticky glue flies over his head and splatters into the stone chimney behind him, sticking in place.
Then she backs up, away from where Olander and the goblin are squared off to give herself more room.
Olander, Sandu, and Nocki are up!!!
Olander, rage filled and now knowing Nocki's pain, steps forward.
Olander kills the goblin.
It crumples and falls through the rafters to splash into the sewage below.
Natalya growls in irritation as another of her minions falls.
Sandu is up
"Try to only wound her if you can Mikkitar." The priest focuses hif faith at the Ratfolk.
Mikkitar is up!