Myrandya's bomb explodes onto the central goblin, who falls to the cavern floor writhing in flames. The other 4 goblins are also covered in sticky flame, but none of them quite drop to the ground as a result.
The front rank of the goblins drop into unconsciousness from Nempura's magical assault.
One goblin falls under a fiery assault, and three more fall under a rainbow barrage of light.
The two remaining goblin riflemen retreat into the cavern.
Pan Pan rushes ahead to engage the last two goblins, her blades in hand.
Her attack waves harmlessly through the air. She's not making a very good showing to her new companions.
As goblins fall in droves, Higgins moves forward and fires at the nearest goblin.
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Myrandya scampers ahead, following Wes and Pan-Pan, and throws another bomb at the ground between the fleeing goblins.
"Thank ya, darlin'" she remarks playfully as they fall into the power of her delusion. She is not gleeful, however, reminding herself she is killing living beings at the moment setting themselves on criminal behaviors.
If by this point, the two fleeing goblins are not dead, she will fire at one of them. If they are, she will turn to wage war on the unconscious/stunned goblins before they recover.
Higgins' shot goes wide, spanging off of a wall of stacked stones.
Myrandya's bomb lands in front of the two fleeing goblins, the blast knocking them backward onto their backs.
Isabella bends down, knife sinking into one goblin's head as Nempura takes aim at the other and puts a bullet into its skull.
Given Isabella's continued quick ruthlessness with the goblins, he's quite sure this lady has done this all before. Again, now wasn't the time to question it.
"Keep a move on," he says quietly.
From deeper in the cavern, you can hear quiet movements and the click of a pistol hammer being cocked.
There is no light other than what you carry, so the cavern is shrouded in darkness and shadow for most of you.
Pan Pan nods to Wes while wondering at the suicidal tendencies of the goblins to keep throwing themselves at this party of trained combatants.
As she moves forward with the light suspended ahead of her she hears the telltale sound of a weapon being readied.
She turns to whisper, "More are waiting just ahead."
Move and swift action to begin Snake Style.
Nempura continues keeping her Dancing Lights spell active by recasting it and moves it into the room beyond. Now, she can see clear as day throughout much of the cavern, and even into the dim light beyond it if it stretches that far.
With the clicking of a hammer heard in the distance, she keeps her composure and moves in line behind Pan Pan to see into the cavern's distance with her elf eyes. Perhaps she will be able to snipe one of these hidden goblins before they can even see her.
"You are brave and capable. Keep your eyes open, and guard up," she states to the human who bravely keeps moving out in advance each time.
Myrandya takes a moment to tremble slightly, then takes a deep breath and follows Pan Pan with another vial of explosive chemicals held ready to throw. She peers hesitantly into the gloom with her darkvision, her eyes glinting red.
Higgins moves up with Pan Pan, and watches with nervous anticipation to see if Nempura's conjured lights reveal any new foes.
Advancing with her lantern, Pan Pan fails to detect a hidden enemy.
Hidden within the rocks, a strange goblin faced snake bodied creature strikes at Pan Pan.
Seeing that combat is happening in the front, Nempura takes her big blue bonnet and places it on the end of a stick or if she must, Ruby, then raises it up over the ledge so that if there are other goblins, they will think she is popping up to peer over the edge and will take a shot.
A quartet of goblins rise from behind one of the barriers, the light of the strange glowing humanoid shape reflecting from their eyes like fire.
Three of them have the same rifles that the ones at the mouth of the lair had, while the fourth has a six shooter etched with runes that glow red. Is that a reflection, or magic?
The rifles bark, all focusing on your scout. Pan pan moves aside with snake-like speed, and two of the shots strike the wall behind her.
The one with the pistol is distracted by the hat peaking above the barrier. His toothy maw widens in a frightening grin, and you see that in addition to the typical goblin grin, he also has two tusks that protrude from his lower jaw.
His pistol fires, sending a line of fire across the room and into the hat.
Turning ever so imperceptibly to dodge the bullet, Pan Pan refocuses on the thing directly in front of her, a goblin that looks like a snake? Well, it's as foolish as the rest of it engages with this band of trained killers.
She feels meat against her first blade but another swipe and miss with the second.
A wave of fire crashes over her newly acquired hat, and Nempura quickly lowers it to pat out the blaze.
"That would have burned my hair, ya bastard!"
She rises up with vengeance over the berm and shoots at the mage with a 6-shooter with her own. A direct beam of oppressive sound streams into the large ears of the goblin with tusks in the form of a ray.
Upon rising, she also sees the tusks on a goblin and the snake-like form. She tries to understand what she's seeing.
Myrandya considers what she knows about these creatures, hoping to remember something useful from her studies.
She launches the chemical mixture she had prepared in her hand at the second goblin in the line behind the half-wall.
Higgins steps back and goes for the snake goblin creature if it still stands. Otherwise, he takes a shot toward one of the other foes.
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Pan Pan moves through the cave. As she comes through the gauntlet of stacked stones, clearly created to funnel opponents into vulnerable positions, something strikes from the shadows near a wall. It has a snakes body but the twisted head of a goblin. You have heard tell of such creatures in the East, but larger. Called nagis or some-like.
Pan Pan lashes out in her own way, mirroring the snakes movement in a an eerie humanoid mirror. One of her blades pierces the snakes body like a fang of her own.
Nempura rises from behind the wall to return fire at her own assailant, her own fire striking the goblin in the face, searing flesh and leaving his grin even more horrifying.
Isabella's shot follows, tearing the small creature's sizable ear from its skull.
Myrandya's fire adds to the chaos, burning deep into the flesh of one goblin and splashing into the flesh of the two beside it.
The cavern fills with the sulfurous smell of gunpowder and the acidic smell of burning goblin flesh. Burning humans may smell like pork, but burning goblins smell like burnt mustard and garlic.
Myrandya knows that this creature is a goblin snake, an odious and vaguely intelligent aberration. They have the ability to charm actual snakes and vomit violently when threatened.
The goblin snake moves like a sidewinder, retreating to its allies while keeping an eye on Pan Pan.
The two remaining rifle-goblins fire at Pan Pan, the two bullets striking the wall behind her.
Then the fire pistoled goblin fires at Isabella. You expect a bullet or ray of fire, perhaps, but a pellet of fire races across the cavern, striking Isabella before swelling into a massive explosion.
Pan Pan strikes out when the creature moves, and her blade strikes true.
"Aiieee!" she cries out, channeling her chi into the attack.
The waves of flame wash over her but she is spared the worst of the inferno. Seeing the greatest threat, Pan Pan advances on the fire pistol goblin and attacks!
Pan Pan kills the golbin snake, pinning it to the cave floor for a moment before tumbling into position to strike the goblin. She sinks her blade into the goblin's forhead. It quivers as it drops its firearm onto the floor.
"Ack..!" she cries out a bit louder than the others. For some reason, fire seemed to just hurt her a bit more than others when feeling its sting. Her hands curl up in pain as her clothing is burned and hair singed. A moment later, she is patting herself out of the magical fire and with shaky hand, rising to take another shot. Blood drips freely from her arms where she took the beast of that blast.
. Slow to dodge, Higgins finds himself enveloped in a powerful explosion. "Definitely kill that one!" he concludes, as he takes aim.
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Myrandya sees the bead coming their way and gasps audibly as it explodes. She throws up her hands and crouches slightly to try and avoid the blast.
Somehow, as the smoke clears, Myrandya is completely untouched. "Vhat vas zhat?!" she cries out.
"A fireball spell? Zhat is qvite enough of zhat." She chuckles to herself as she mixes another fiery concoction. "Zhat is like, how do you shay, zhe shnowman shayink he feels a chill? Fire in zhe hole!" She steps forward and lobs the mixture at the clump of goblins, aiming at what was formerly the third in their line.
The remaining goblins fall under the barrage of your gun fire and, well, actual fire.
The cavern falls silent.
With a moment now to take in your surroundings, you see that there are stairs that lead to a cave in and two rooms built of fitted stone. This stone work is much finer than that of the walls that the goblins were hiding behind. Ancient stonework of some sort.
There are doors fitted into these two rooms, and the doors are closed. To the west, there is a corridor leading away from this area.
Nempura reloads her gun once it grows silent for a few moments. Her eyes can still see in the looming light of her spell. She will move the light to the doorway and will cover it with her revolver.
"Alright. This is a good stopping point. Why don't some of you go back to the entrance and start searching these bodies for stuff we might be able to use? I doubt you'll find anything other than batwings and spiderwebs in their pockets, but you might find a random potion or two. Especially on those two."
They will need a light source, and hers will be there at the doorway.
Pan Pan stoops at the corpse of the goblin she killed and picks up the gun that shoots fireballs, proffering it to the party.
"I have no skill with these things but this is obviously a powerful weapon. Could one of you make use of it?"
"Sure." Nempura nods to answer Isabella. Having the unconscious goblin would be better than leaving him in the cave entrance.
The pistol that the extra-toothed goblin was using is a finely made officer's weapon plated in silver and with mother of pearl grips. It has been roughly etched with crude drawings of dogs paws, horses, and fire.
You spent a few minutes turning over the possession of the bodies. There don't appear to be any more threats here, though what lies in the closed rooms you can't be sure.
Higgins feels like he's so close to understanding what he's looking at, but then it just slips out of his grasp.
"So, anyone make heads or tails outta this fireball pistol?"
Myrandya shyly looks at the pistol when Wes asks about it. "I asshume it is magical," she says, "zhough I cannot confirm zhat vish my alchemy."
She makes a little grunt, as if impressed. "Zheshe runes say zhat it adds fire to all of its bullets, and zhat it magically improffes the vielder's aim. Alsho zhat it may be ushed by goblin-shized creatures vissout penalty. And zhese runes shay zhat if zhe wielder casts fire shpells, zhey do not haff to proffide shomatic components sree times per day, like a magical shtill rrod. A ffery ffaluable veapon!"
With the fire gun sorted, and out of her hands, Pan Pan advances to the next open room and peers inside.
Higgins is duly impressed. "That's a good weapon, alright. One of you ladies want it?"
Myrandya bites her scaly lip. "I haff a fine rifle zhat I haff rarely used on zhis expedition, but it is not enchanted like zhis veapon is. Shince I haff my fiery alchemical mixtures to srow, perhaps it vould be better for anozher of ush to wield it." She almost regretfully gives it back to Wes, her tiny hand lingering on the stock.
"Fire gun aside...I'm...quite injured here. We all are. Perhaps we should take a moment and render...some first aid." she winces as she continuously drips blood from her burned arms. "I can use the gun. Despite it's small size, I can probably do some damage with that. I am used to casting spells through a firearm. I mixed my knowledge of spellcasting and firearms when they came about. It appears I'm not alone."
If the fried goblinoid has a holster, she'll take that for it too and will place it on her belt.
If no one can heal her this time, she will take at least one of the potions of Cure Light Wounds.