Mandraiv chuckles and says, "Well, you don't normally find that many women in this line of work."
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Mandraiv replies to Artius, "Do you know any women who don't pay attention to their appearance?"
Mandraiv aids Aredhel's attempts to improve the camp. He says to Aredhel, "My armor might not be as good as yours for protecting me from swords and arrows, but on the plus side I don't have to worry about it rusting and it provides partial protection from the rain."
Mandraiv replies, "I agree with you. We'll just have to build a fire and make do as best we can. After that it's just a question of who gets which watch."
Mandraiv scowls at the weather and says, "Well, so much for trying to track anything. Let's make the best camp we can here and see what develops."
Mandraiv leads the group to the last site the creature was spotted at and looks around.
Mandraiv says, "That's what we're going to try."
Mandraiv replies, "Borle sent us. He said that they are having problems with a beast of some kind attacking people. He thought you might be able to tell us something about it."
Mandraiv accompanies Imsh to see the hermit.
Mandraiv says, "The kobolds should not be a problem. They were only attacking you because Bargle and the dragon were ordering them to. Bargle and the dragon have left and the kobolds surrendered to us. We ordered them to leave you alone, and they knew we have could have killed them all if we had thought it was worth the effort." "As to your other problem, if my companions are willing we will check it out and take care of it."
Still here. :-)
Looking forward to Tuesday, or whenever you can start.
Mandraiv sighs. He says, "Well, we are fortunate that the only person we lost left of his own free will. But other than that this has been a disappointment. I see no need to go chasing kobolds in the hills. I also suspect that it will at the very least be months if not years before Bargle returns here, if he returns at all. I suggest we go back to the fishing village and get passage to the mainland. I'll see if I can get some word from my contacts about where Bargle may have gone. I suspect that will take a while though."
Mandraiv won't translate easily into PF if it could be done at all. The closest match I could think of would be a rogue/wizard gestalt and even that wouldn't quite do it. So I would prefer to stay with 5E.
I'll go for option 2 as well.
Mandraiv says, "If everybody's ready, let's move out." Mandraiv leads the group back to the tee intersection that they had left.
Mandraiv gets the group organized and they drag the bodies out of the room and secure the door. Mandraiv takes first watch and everybody gets a nice long rest.
Mandraiv says, "We could try locking ourselves in the room the ogre kin were using as a bedroom, or barricading ourselves back up in the kobolds' throne room. What do you guys want to do?"
Mandraiv says, "A long rest would do everybody good. Let's go back to where we rested last time."
Mandraiv will reconfigure his pact blade as a glaive so he can probe ahead of himself as he moves down the corridor. When he gets to the "t" he will stop and check out both directions.
Mandraiv will check out the door to the east.
Mandraiv breathes a sigh of relief and says, "I'm glad that's over. Looks like Bargle wanted to promote himself to godhood." Mandraiv summons his pact blade as a longsword and sheaths it. He looks the room and the altar over.
Mandraiv sits up and takes a deep breath. Struggling to his feet, he smiles at Imsh and says, "Thanks." Then he casts an Eldritch Blast at the tapestry creature.
Death Saving throw failures - 1
Mandraiv struggles to free himself from the creature's grip.
Mandraiv says, "Let's check out the passageway to the east."
Unless somebody wants to play with the amulets on the boar Mandraiv will proceed east down the main corridor and turn north at what looks like a "tee"
Mandraiv returns to the group, closing the doors to the rooms behind him as he does. He says, "If nothing else we now have food we should be able to eat without problems."
Mandraiv tries searching it more carefully.
Mandraiv will look into a couple of the sacks to see what sorts of things are stored there and then check out the room to the southeast.
Mandraiv will go to the second door and do his usual checks.
Works for me.
Mandraiv turns to the rest of the group and says, "We have loot! The chandelier might be a little too bulky to drag around though. Does somebody want to take the coins, or should I just lock everything back up in this room? We could make it our treasury as we clean the place out."
When Mandraiv gets the bag out from under the bed he looks inside it.
Mandraiv draws his longsword, reconfigures it to a glaive, and tries to use it to move the bag out from under the bed.
Mandraiv does a quick search of the room.
Assuming nothing of any great interest happens Mandraiv will then go to check around the table in the open area.
Mandraiv sheaths his longsword and pulls out his thieves' tools to try to open the lock.
Mandraiv will check the door for traps and check to see if it is unlocked. The pact blade gets reconfigured to a longsword.
Mandraiv reconfigures his pact blade as a glaive. Carefully probing ahead of himself as he goes, Mandraiv starts down the westernmost of the northern corridors.
After the kobolds depart Mandraiv invites the rest of the party up so they can look at the map. Mandraiv says: "That was disconcerting. Not only does Bargle know we are here, he has retreated deeper into the cave system to get support from a black dragon. So as opposed to a quick in and out raid we are now looking at something more like a major campaign." "We should establish some sort of base area here in the castle where we can safely rest and heal up. I wasn't too worried about the kobolds, but the other creatures we are starting to run into are too dangerous to leave behind us while we still have a dragon to face down. So we're looking at having to totally clean the place out as we proceed. While that will give Bargle and the dragon time to prepare against us, I think that's going to have to be a necessary evil to put up with. What do the rest of you think?"
Mandraiv replies, "Fair enough. We will deal with Bargle and discuss the matter of the village with your Mother. Go ahead and make me the map, then you can go."
Mandraiv replies, "In that case I will give you our last two demands now. The first is that given you will be leaving here I want you go through your area and make sure that none of your traps are set. While I can usually detect and disarm them there's always some luck involved and I'm not going to want to deal with that. The second is that I want your tribe to leave the people in the village on the coast alone. If they come here to attack you, you can defend yourselves. But do not go to their village and fields to cause problems." "For our part we will leave you alone and not follow your tribe into the hills. We will also try to make sure that you know when we have left. We would likely leave a small fire burning in front of the gate or some such thing."
Mandraiv replies, "That's what I said. We are here for Bargle, not kobolds. While I am pleased that you have offered yourselves as slaves, we do not actually need your services. So just leave us alone and we will leave you alone. Now, before we leave for good, we are going to want to talk to your Chief face to face. But that will likely not be for at least a couple of days yet. We will let you know when we want to talk. Other than that, you leave us alone, and we will leave you alone."
Mandraiv replies, "Ok, that will be all for now, unless you have more to tell me."
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