"We'll be here making sure you don't go further than the Gremlin nest. Yes, you can tell the rest of your group," Sef says, sighing to herself a little.
Khoran pipes up "That sounds like it might be Jinkin Gremlins - dark fey who like wet caves. They can curse people when they're in a group." He asks Sef " How many of them gremlins do you figure y'all are dealing with?"
Grezzag listens in silence as the agreement is hashed out. He's got no objection to clearing out some pests.
Zelvin conveys the proposal to the others, and they discuss it amongst themselves in low voices. "It sounds okay to me," Zelvin says. "Leastwise they didn't attack us when we were separated. But they could be waiting for these gremlins to wear us down. Anyways, I'm convinced Mr. Khonnir went this way, so we've got to figure out how to get through that door they say he went through, and this seems like our best bet." He wrinkles his nose. "It's going to get loud in here with all our guns going off. Let's lock and load!"
"Well," Alyn starts, "things looked pretty rough for them here, and if anyone else is ever coming through these caves after us, it'd probably be easier to reach an agreement with these guys than the gremlins... I'm all for it. Ready when you are."
"This agreement sounds mutually beneficial. I support this course of action."
Zelvin nods. "Sounds like we're mostly in agreement. Let's go! I'll tell Sef we'll take the bounty."
He returns to Sef. "Looks like we're on board. You want to take us to where the gremlins are, and we'll clear 'em out?"
"Alright. I'm not going in there, but they're in the caverns to the east of here," Sef says with a tad bit of venom in her voice, pointing to what seemed to be a relatively-cramped network of caverns to your east.
These narrow tunnels and nondescript caves have little headroom, with ceilings reaching a height of only 5 feet, forcing most Medium creatures, i.e. the entire party, to stoop slightly in order to navigate them properly.
There are three entrances to the Jinkin nest, two from the south, and one from the west that the sectiion of the party talking to Sef is able to see through. Which of the entrances do you lot want to duck down and enter into?
Hekau takes his crossbow in hand, making sure it is loaded.
"I am ready to proceed."
Penka also has her crossbow ready.
"Feel free to head in and kill those things, then. Fair warning there may be traps. Those little nuisances keep setting them up. " Sef barks in Taldane.
"A'right then, let's go deal with these gremlins."
Grezzag heads up the western most passageway, axe in hand and alert for any creature.
Breathing prayer to the spirits for good fortune, Khoran follows Grezzag, longspear at the ready... His familiar circles his head alertly.
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Alyn draws her pistol and waits for all the others to go through, glancing around nervously as she follows after.
Zelvin enters behind Khoran, staying close to Penka and Hekau.
Hekau follows along, in the middle of the group.
Penka takes up the rear, following the others.
You hear a tiny, small shout in Undercommon come from in front of you:
"We surprised them-- they weren't expectin' six of us," Zelvin translates for the party, as he lines up a shot with his revolver and squeezes off a round at the tiny critter.
He grins with satisfaction when his aim is good. "Call us surface-dwellin' louses again," he suggests in Common.
With a suprised squeak Penka quickly jumps back away from the gremlin at her feet and shoots at it.
Zelvin's bullet manages to catch the creature, but Penka's bolt goes wide and strikes the cave wall, doing no damage to the nimble Gremlin in front of you. The gremlin you struck Zelvin, however, looks completely unfazed as the bullet merely plinks off of it.They don't seem to understand your threat, however.
The one closest to Grezzag, apparently Roig, goes up to strike at the half-orc. However, the Tiny shortsword merely plants itself into the ground as the creature miserably whiffs the attack.
Hekau stows his crossbow and draws his dagger, which happens to be Cold Iron.
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Grezzag snarls at the creature flailing in front of him and whirls his axe around to swipe at it with both blades.
Grezzag's double axe slashes at the jinkin gremlin, until it is lying motionless on the floor in front of him. "Jazv-!" you can hear him yelling as his body falls unconscious.
Hekau stows his crossbow and draws his dagger, which happens to be Cold Iron.
Alyn aims at the gremlin attacking Penka, trying her best not to miss or hit someone else.
The bullet from Alyn's pistol strikes the jinkin gremlin right in the forehead, but it seems unfazed as it calls for allies at the top of its lungs, shouting "VERRR!" as another Jinkin Gremlin suddenly appears at Khoran's feet, ready to stab him in his foot.
"Aacck!"; Khoran is startled by an enemy appearing where a longspear is just not going to be helpful...
A moment's concentration sees vines sprout to grab the tiny creature, meanwhile his familiar fakes a lunge at it as a distraction to set it up for Grezzag.
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"GROG!" the one by Zelvin's feet screams as he steps up to Zelvin's feet. It attempts to stab at Khoran's feet, although whether it can actually do any damage to the much larger creature is a different story.
Meanwhile, yet another one appears at Alyn's feat, screaming in a very heavily accented Taldane "LOUD WEAPONS," as they prepare to stab Alyn.
Zelvin squints at the tiny creatures.
He steps to the side, levels his magic revolver at the one that had appeared at his feet, and squeezes off another shot.
Grezzag frowns at the shouts behind him and he turns to face the gremlin that has popped in at Khoran's feet. With the creature ensnared and distracted by the wyrd, Grezzag easily hit it with a powerful swing of his axe - although the follow-up swipe with the back end swishes harmlessly in front of the gremlin.
Hekau will try a Dirty Trick to blind a gremlin (Purple), kicking sand in its face.
Tiny creatures often have poor CMD, and since they don't have any reach they can't take an AOO on Hekau for attempting it.
Hopefully that makes it easier for the others to hit.
Penka thinks a bomb, or maybe some acid, would be a good thing to try. But, it's crowded and she isn't confident she could use one without also injuring others who are close by. She reloads her cross bow and takes another shot even though she doubts it will make any difference.
Alyn bites back a yelp as the gremlin appears out of nowhere, reloading with an alchemical cartridge before firing again.
The pistol, instead of firing as it should, lets out nothing more than an anticlimactic click. "Oh, come on!"
In undercommon you hear a loud, "OW MY EYE," as the gremlin next to Hekau is blinded, and a resounding flood as the vines around the other go slack as the gremlin falls to the floor, unconscious.
Then Khoran calls on the spirits again, asking them to trap one of the gremlins. Then he squeezes past Grezzag to give him some space to work in, saying "Thanks Grezzag!" as he goes.
"MISSED GREYHAIR," the would-be-restrained Jinkin Gremlin screams in Undercommon as it deftly avoids being restrained by the silk. The unrestrained and unblinded Gremlin continues to stab and bite at Alyn, hoping to stab the Techslinger while gnawing at her legs as well. Of course, the tiny creatures can only manage a little pinpick at best.
Meanwhile the blinded moves to Alyn somehow, with his completely blurred vision by the dirty trick to his eyes, and atttempts to damage her.
The shortsword attack from the blinded Jinkin misses wildly, but the bite lands while Alyn is distracted by the other Jinkin at hertoes, causing it to sting a bit more.
Zelvin shoots at the blinded gremlin, carefully aiming to make sure he doesn't hit Alyn.
Grezzag turns around and repositions himself next to the remaining gremlines. He delivers a ferocious swing at the nearest enemy, but in his effort to avoid hitting Alyn, his strike veers of course and whizzes past the tiny gremlin.