Poppy offers to help with the door finding a place she can add her little kick
The group fifteeningly kick the door open, and it wasn't even locked! A large wooden worktable sits in the middle of this room, its surface cluttered with scrolls, books, stone tablets covered with dense, spiky runes, and fragments of carvings that appear to have been chipped off of statues or bas-reliefs. To the north, a floor-to-ceiling set of wooden shelves sags with picks, shovels, brushes, lanterns, and other equipment one might expect to see at an archaeological site.
At the far end of the room, what is clearly a secret door hangs open. It leads to a corridor that turns south after 5 feet.
There are two people and a cat in it. One is a familiar face. Ameiko's half brother Tsuto is talking with a slender dark skinned woman who looked worried at him until the door flies open. They both look like they're going to attack immediately. The cat is white and looks smart and relaxed.
Dolgrin peeks inside the room and remembers..
"Tsuto! We need to bring you in now. Give up!"
Then he murmurs some dwarven words towards Torag, , and his skin becomes slightly metallic.
He then tries to block the exit by tumbling out of the half-elf's reach.
You slew your own father..l such filial unpiety cannot go unpunished!
Casts divine favor
The woman immediately says "You tried to hurt him!", seemingly recognizing the group. She casts a spell which seems to form a magical armor around her. Tsuto, however, doesn't seem to care about Dolgrin's warning and feels he is safer in his own turf. He quickly steps up to Dolgrin and fires two quick jabs at him.
One of the jabs takes the dwarf by surprise and he can't help but puff out some air.
With all the heroes together, Rooke casts bless on the group, then takes a 5-ft. step out of the way so the ladies can enter the room.
"Lady, you're in deep doo-doo!"
Action was posted already
Poppy gets in a position to see what's what and who's who.
Dolgrin, you try and hammer things out with tsuto, I am sure this will be a shock to the lady
Poppy points her hammer at the lady and an arc of lightning shoots at her
Tsuto, Ameiko's evil half-brother, punches Dolgrin twice in quick succession while the woman casts another spell. It provokes a very strange effect where five versions of herself pop up and they move with her. It's really hard to tell where the real one is.
Tsuto's attacks only hit air.
Just before Tsuto tries to punch Dolgrin, the dwarf swings his hammer at the tall man.
The priestess slashes at Tsuto...
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After casting bless, Rooke enters the room and makes an attack on Tsuto.
Dolgrin watches his allies slash and swing after Tstuo and brings his hammer down on him again.
Poppy zaps Tsuto again.
Poppy shoots some lightning at Tsuto which he barely manages to dodge the worst part. He seems very hurt from all the punishment the others dealt on him. This time, however, he has nowhere to run. He looks to the sides feeling helpless but still jabs at Dolgrin, hoping for a miracle.
The woman, however, looks at Izumi enraged and screams "Don't hurt him!" and casts a spell aimed roughly at her. Her scream coming from 6 different versions of her sound a little spooky.
Tsuto lands one slap, but the woman is a little scared of being attacked by Rooke and fails to concentrate.
As Tsuto is heard and breaths harshly, he smirks as he thinks the invaders might be losing their momentum.
Lol... nice burn :D
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Like your father before you, I judge you as cast out from The Sun Emperess' light.
Rooke evaluates that Tsuto is very hurt . Izumi confirms that as her swing is too fast for him to dodge in his state, and he falls unconscious from his wounds.
The multi-woman doesn't seem to like this and looks angry.
Rooke takes a five-foot step toward the multiple women. "Ladies. We are bringing Tsuto in for his crimes. We don't want hurt him more than he already is. Cease this hostility and you can come with Tsudo when we bring him into the authorities. I'm sure he'll like that."
"no worries, lady, he's fine", Dolgrin adds and examines the body
and stabilizes any bleeding with a few semi-professional bandages.
Poppy waits to see what happens. Rooke's speech coupled with Dolgrin's sudden non aggression makes the woman pause. She takes a moment to check what the dwarf is doing.
The woman asks anxious "Is he alive?"
The woman looks at Dolgrin for confirmation and, after getting it, kneels next to him cradling his unconscious body. She starts fumbling her things looking for something. After a while she is glad as she finds what seems to be a potion.
"Miss, how do yo know Tsudo?" Rooke asks, trying to calm the female wizard down.
The woman ignores Rooke and pours the liquid into Tsuto's mouth.
Izumi stands over the woman, katana raised and at the ready.
If you or he make a single hostile move, it will be your last.
The woman ignores Rooke and Izumi and pours the liquid into Tsuto's mouth.
Tsuto opens his eyes slowly and she seems to calm down. Realizing that she is probably doing something she shouldn't, she tells the group "I have known him since he got here. You should leave now. Go away!"
You are our prisoners. Tsuto has crimes to answer for, and possibly you do to. Incant a spell, twitch your fingers or seek to rise without being bound, and this blade will fall.
Eyes fixed on the couple, she jerks her chin at Rooke.
Lets get them tied up. We can return to Sandpoint for trial.
Dolgrin begins taking out his rope and tieing them up. He is extremely thorough. "Let's see how many more Goblins they have gathered and incited. "
Rooke takes out his rope and assists Dolgrin in securing the prisoners.
Tsuto is too groggy to fight being tied up and the woman doesn't fight back.
The pair seems pacified in the corner. Looking around, the group realizes that there is a way back east and a supposedly secret semi-opened door to the west.
"that should hold." Dolgrin checks the restraints once more and smashes Tsuto into the room's corner.
"Let's see, where this passage leads." He continues and motions the party to follow him, as he enters.
"We shall return", the caydenite says in passing to the prisoners as they leave to explore.
It will go poorly for you if you come at us again. If you somehow get free? Take is as an opportunity to start a new life. A long long way from here.
She follows the dwarf, happy to have him back.
The woman nods and seems to tend to Tsuto for now. Dolgrin moves down. A stone door just around the corner from the steps hangs slightly ajar, the detailed carvings that once covered its surface defaced by chisel marks and hammer blows to the extent that only a few remnants of images (mostly of gemstones and crowns) remain. The floor here is slanted downward toward the west.
A door to the east opens to another room where two pillars support the ceiling. In many places the stone walls, floor, and ceiling are caked with ancient grime and soot. Alcoves in the north and south walls contain partially damaged statues of a man in robes clutching a book and a glaive. The entire room is canted toward the west, and whatever ancient upheaval caused the complex to tilt knocked the statues from their bases so that now they lean against the western walls of their alcoves.
The caydenite looks around to get his bearings. "What is this place?"
The statue's expression is somewhat reminiscent of the one below Sandpoint, of a woman holding a book and a ranseur. However, the woman was angry whilst this one seems more diplomatic. Neither Izumi nor Rooke can really remember anything about it.
The many levels of this goblin fort were clearly built in different times, this one being the oldest.
A door lies to closed to the east.
When the others look at the statues, Dolgrin halts and glances at it qui, too.
"What might wait behind this door? Probably another corridor..."
Dolgrin opens the door weapon ready.
This short hallway rises in a slope to the east. Five feet from the western door, the floor is polished and shiny, unlike the dusty floor elsewhere. A pair of stone statues depicting stern men wielding glaives stand in alcoves north and south of this section of the hallway. At the eastern end stand two stone doors, their faces carved with strange runes. Just past the doors is a third alcove in which a partially collapsed statue sits. The top half of the statue is missing, leaving behind a ragged stump of a torso.
"Well this looks like a 'magical puzzle' I've read about." Rooke says as he takes it all in.
Im not seeing a puzzle, just doors. You think we need to look at something more before opening those doors near the broken statue?