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I'm still here! I was just busy yesterday. I totally agree, Makena. Frequently introducing new people can kill the story. I'm enjoying this game, and it looks like a very interesting story. But if it's just going to keep starting and stopping, it is hard to attract new people and keep it interesting for the players who do stick around.
Vonk peers up into the darkness. He wouldn't mind killing this moving shadow, but how? "We look in shadows, see nothing. Shadow eats Kavous. How gobs can fight a invisible shadow?" He looks around to see if anything of Kavous remains - bones, blood, or a scrap of clothing, or listening for the creature that took him away. of course, he remains in the doorway of the room.
"Bad! Very bad! Gobs must find different way out." Vonk looks on wide-eyed as the shadows carry Kavous into the darkness. He points his torch at the shadowy room, as if its light might keep them away, while nervously following Makena into the next room.
Vonk holds up his torch, trying to light up the dark corners of the room and see if the unnatural darkness recedes.
Seeing the shadows, Vonk grins, his pointy goblin teeth gleaming in the light of his torch. He scurries into the room, attempting to use his torch to look into the dark corners of the ceiling. "Time for fire! Gobs not scared of dark!" Despite his bravado, Vonk shudders as a sense of dread creeps over him. "This place bad. Dark what no gobs can see in. Longshanks that be dead two times."
"More explore! Find more shinies!" Vonk says, thrilled at the idea of adding more coins and treasures to his collection. He waves the magic stick around again, hoping to heal up some of the damage from the dead longshanks.
You guys okay to keep going or do you want to go back to rest?
"And stay dead again, deadshanks!" Vonk spits on the dead longshanks. He scuffles through their things, looking for any stuff he can use in the formulas for his booms or any shinies that might have been missed.
"Maybe Makena should have shiny arm-ers. Then she not be dead like longshanks," Vonk says, pondering over the bracers.
"Oof." Vonk reels from the deadshank's blow. He steps away from it and takes yet another vial from his pack, this one filled with something dark green. He quaffs it and looks a bit better. "Yech, forgot to add the worms to that one," he mutters ,disappointed with the result.
Vonk's eyes light up as the fire burns the zombie. He waves his torch ineffectively in the zombie's face, delighted with the sight and smell of burning flesh. "Fire! Fire! Fire!"
Hey! Why no longshanks be staying dead?" Vonk is confused and frustrated by all of these things that should be dead coming back to life. He runs forward, taking a vial of oozy brown liquid out of his pocket and hurls it directly at the creature's face. It bursts into flames on contact.
"Maybe there more shinies this way? Gob sword be in here somewhere. If Chief say it, it here." Vonk says, forgetting that no one can hear him in this weird room. Seeing there is nothing else to be found here, Vonk wanders west to the next room.
"Ello? Why there no voices in here? No need for sneeks in here." Vonk says, his voice muted by the room. As Okki works on salvaging the shinies, Vonk searches the rest of the room for additional shinies and peers down the corridor to the west to make sure no one is sneaking up on the gobs.
Sorry to hear that! It's been fun.
"Yeah, really good stick." Vonk uses the magical stick on Farg Farg as he follows Okki to the next room. He isn't quite sure what to think of Lurgun patting him on the head. He probably wouldn't let most gobs do something like that, but he is a bit intimidated by the bigger hobgoblin.
"Wow Makena smart ko-bold. Okki thinks we can take shinies from here?" Vonk peers into the room, but not willing to venture in until Okki declares it safe.
Vonk investigates the shinies in the pool.
"Yeah! I poke all so you can fight good!" Vonk brandishes the wand, jabbing Lurgun, Okki, and Boorgub with it. "Hey Boorgub. That boomstick real great! Is it can shoot fires? Vonk can make fire come out or maybe a thing so it can shoot real fast." He admires the boomstick for a moment, daydreaming of all the wonderful explosions and fire it could cause.
"Yeah, get em Lur-gun!" Vonk pokes Lurgun with the stick again. He seems to be getting the hang of waving the wand around just right. Wow! Poke gobs with sticks and they fight! Then Vonk no get hurt by bad guys. Great idea!
Darn. Was hoping to heal Lurgun a bit more so he didn't just get knocked down again :/
"Big gob you get up an smash bones!" Vonk prods Lurgun with the poky heal stick.
"Wait for meeeeee!" Vonk stows the wand and dashes over towards the two skeletons on the left side of the room. His short legs don't get him very far. He looks between the skeletons and Lurgun, deciding that throwing a bomb might hurt Lurgun. Poking the big gob with the pokey stick would probably be better.
*looks up from eating bugs* Huh? Whoops sorry Chief.
Here Okki feel better!" Vonk prods Okki with the wand, hoping to heal some of his wounds.
"See Makena, like this!" Vonk waves the wand wildly and pokes Boorgub with it several times. Magically, a few of his wounds heal up. "Hey other gobs! You want magic what fixes blood and stuff you come here!"
I'm still here... you should share some of those good dice that roll 20s all the time!
"Here Makena! Let's take that stick out and put this stick in!" Vonk runs to Boorgub, pulling out the wand of cure light wounds on his way.
Makena's been keeping Moany in good health too, no wonder she's so good at this! Maybe Vonk will learn from Makena and poke Boorgub with the magic healy wand stick.
Vonk briefly admires the scenery, the pool reminding him of his drowning that morning. Then he notices the skeletons. "Hey! You suppose to be dead! Go back to dead!" Vonk dashes forward, waving his torch wildly in front of him.
"More traps? Must be a real good sword if so hard to get. Is gob that were get in trap or more longshanks?" Staying as far from the edge of the trap, Vonk takes a look at the tracks to see they were made by gobs or humans looking for the sword. Then he quietly follows the others to the next room.
"Magic stick? Vonk can poke gobs or longshanks with magic stick! This one... um... shoots fire at longshanks!" Vonk says confidently. He scuttles after Okki, Kazavous, and Lurgun, trying to be quiet.
"Those longshanks too dumb to open door. We gobs smart, we open sesame." Vonk examines the door, peering into the little holes. After Okki mentions traps, he is careful not to touch the door just in case.
"Why you longshanks in here?" Vonk demands of the badnit who yielded (if he is still alive). "Why you set traps for gobs? Where is shiny sword?"
I rolled two natural 1s on bomb attacks in a row. But managed to hit people with splash damage both times... Is that good luck or bad luck? XD
Vonk runs alongside Boorgub while he readies another bomb to throw at the remaining archer(s). Yes! More fire! More booms!" he shouts as Boorgub's gun fires.
"BOOM TIME!" Vonk cackles. He runs forward and lobs a bomb between the two pillars, attempting to hit one of the longshanks, even though he is still quite far away. The bomb hits the wall between the two pillars and explodes, fire lighting up the room for a moment.
Vonk pulls a bomb out of a pocket and quietly follows after Makena.
"But what if these the longshanks that take sword? Then Chief would want us kill them. Maybe sneak but be ready to fight?" Vonk whispers back to Makena and the gobs. Vonk quietly snuffs his torch and takes a look around the room to see if there is anything else that could help them sneak through, like good spots for hiding or anything that could create a distraction.
As the group enters the cavern, Vonk lights his trusty torch. As they descend, he doesn't even notice the pig. He is enchanted by the magical flame on the wall. He watches it for a minute, but sadly realizes there is no way he can take this ever-burning fire with him. He is startled as the other gobs speak. "Huh? Oh. No pig? Okay Okki." He follows after the other gobs and not-gobs, sadly looking back at the flame on the wall.
Sword quest!
Vonk swells visibly with the Chief's praise and grins a horrible goblin smile. Seeing the new gobs and new new gobs talking, he joins in. "Yea, let's go get that sword! Makena smart, know all about tunnels and digs and stuff. And now we have lots of gobs for smash and fight! Vonk burn anyone who try to take sword from gobs!" Vonk brandishes his lit torch as he speaks with Makena and the new gobs. Noticing Boorgub's boomstick, he whistles. "Wow. That shiny. But how it make booms? Vonk no have boom-stick, but good at making fire booms what for throw at longshanks and dogs."
While they walk back to the Brambles, Vonk says to Makena "Let's go back, get other gobs for carry, see if Growly okay, get the moo meat! Bring enough gobs maybe scare big-ants." Back at the Brambles, Vonk nods earnestly as Makena recounts their day. "Yep, maybe a few gobs can help and we can get a lot of meats," he adds. He digs through his pockets to find five gold pieces they'd taken from the half-shanks yesterday. "Here five shinies, chief." He looks curiously at the new goblins and the hobgoblin. As Boorgub sings his song, Vonk's ridiculously large ears perk up. Wow, wonder what kind of booms that gob can do, sounds real good. But how stick make booms work?
Vonk follows Makena and investigates the ant hive, followed by the cow while she summons Growly, particularly scavenging for choice bits of cow for his gluggadrinks and preparing to drag the cow back to town. "Huh? Yeah, you no eat Makena! And no eat our cow!" Vonk turns from dissecting the cow to notice the two new ants. He slowly moves towards the fence to cover Makena's retreat, lighting his trusty torch as he does so.
Vonk is certainly smart enough to read, but that's why he's no longer with his original goblin tribe, and why his formula book is full of pictures rather than actual formulas. He certainly wouldn't admit being able to read. I figure he's been in all kinds of weird places since his tribe kicked him out, and probably picked up some common speech. He will be able to translate if needed too. And like Makena said earlier, RP wise, some of us could probably teach the others common. Okki, I love the goblin names of your weapons and stuff... waki-saucy... pajama clan... making up stupid names for stuff is half the fun of this campaign.
A thought occurs to Vonk as he waits. He remembered playing with normal-sized ants as a young gob (before he decided to set them on fire). He had been fascinated that some of the ants would leave the nest and other ants could follow their scent trail to food. After boiling several dozen in water, he'd also found they made very good burny liquid. "Makena? What if we wait for ants to eat all cows and then we have farm of ants?"
Putting on his best smile (which just makes it look like he's baring his teeth), Vonk waddles towards to the woman on the porch and gestures out at the pasture. "Ello. You going to eat those?"
Vonk shakes like a dog to dry himself off, probably splattering Makena in the process and remembers why they left the Brambles that morning. "Don't need stupid Hamspur to build house tunnel for gobs and Makena. Lets find more stuffs."
Vonk struggles a little as the old lady pushes him headfirst into the water, but quickly relaxes in the cool water. Some of the dirt from his grimy face washes off into the pool. The last time he'd had a bath was a few weeks ago when he crossed a river. He squirms impatiently as he waits. This easy! Didn't know water was good lucks!
Drowning rules: If you are underwater, either because you failed a Swim check or because you are swimming underwater intentionally, you must hold your breath. You can hold your breath for a number of rounds equal to twice your Constitution score, but only if you do nothing other than take move actions or free actions. If you take a standard action or a full-round action (such as making an attack), the remainder of the duration for which you can hold your breath is reduced by 1 round. (Effectively, a character in combat can hold his breath only half as long as normal.) After that period of time, you must make a DC 10 Constitution check every round to continue holding your breath. Each round, the DC for that check increases by 1. If you fail the Constitution check, you begin to drown. The DC for the Swim check depends on the water, as given on the table below.
Sorry, been a bit busy. I *think* I can craft regular potions of cure light wounds, but they still have the material cost. As soon as I hit level 2, I can take a discovery that lets others drink my extracts, including cure light wounds.
Turning to Makena to look at her disguise again, he adds in a reassuring whisper "See your hat real good, they no know you not a gob!"
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