I'm still here but I'll be on vacation until 6/8. Just want to make sure you didn't count me out if this resumed in the next week. :)
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As I said in our other game, no worries here. I'll keep a lookout for your return. Best wishes for every resolution.
"Well, what the hells?" Zizou walks to the unexplored doors and puts his hand on it to make sure it's real, while they wait for Runk and Ethan to return.
Zizou closes the door behind Ethan and Runk. "If she's still here, her spell won't last much longer. Minutes, maybe."
Zizou jabs at the spot where the woman was a moment ago.
Unwilling to expend too much of his arcana while the woman still has a double confusing his aim, Zizou instead draws his dagger and tries to unease her defenses as Kesten jabs at her across the table.
Zizou performs a bit of arcana of his own, and then throws a small fiery orb at the version of the woman furthest to the left.
"I doubt Runk needs these, but it's possible they'll come in handy." Zizou holds up a set of keys he pulls out of the piles of implements on the table.
Zizou takes a look around the room, trying to tell if it's been in use recently.
Zizou nods in agreement as Blake describes the overwhelming challenges ahead of them, and then he follows his gaze to Runk pressing on. Under his breath, he offers his own feelings, "Gods, I don't even want to go to the Hagfish... I just want to put my feet up and do nothing for the rest of the day."
Ah, it was a 'weird cat'. I was thinking it was a 'big cat' and I think I was just envisioning a tiger.
Zizou breathes a sigh of relief when the second dog finally falls. He leans against the wall to catch his breath, and only vaguely recognizes the investigation going on. When Kesten identifies the magic, he keeps his place, satisfied that he's not needed to aid the investigation.
Zizou has one lvl-1 spell left. The wand could work in-combat, too, couldn't it, just it would take an action from Ethan or Zizou, who has +10 UMD. As for continuing, conceivably we could be fighting 2 other conspirators, one with a tiger if I recall correctly. Remember how much trouble we had with Gogmurt's panther, by the way. I think we should see if any of these passages offers a discreet path to return here, bypassing the goblin fort. Didn't Runk hear the ocean from one door?
Zizou tries again, swinging his dagger in an effort to distract the dog from its next attack against Ethan.
Zizou pulls out his dagger and joins the fray in the hallway. He takes a cue from Runk and looks for a chance to disrupt the dog's attack if it goes for Blake.
They've taken less damage from both fire and electrical attacks, too, though. I was just looking at my Chracter sheet an notice the ransuer I am using was collected from the dungeon under town. Did I ever get it appraised or checked for magic?
With little to do to damage the creature, and feeling the effects of the injury still, Zizou pulls out his potion of cure light wounds and drinks it.
Zizou steps forward enough to get an angle to see the dog. With little else to do, he thrusts his hands toward the dog, and a flare of light flashes in front of its face.
Zizou wakes up, and looks around quickly to see that everyone is back. Then he spots the flying dog still up. He crawls away from it before he stands up, trying to think of something he can do to damage it.
Yeah, thanks for your dedication! Hopefully we keep it interesting enough!
Zizou's head spins around as he watches Kesten and Blake flee in opposite directions, but the flying dog brings him back to the task at hand as he tears into his arm. "Ahhh!" He steps away and tries to cast another spell, but the pain in his arm combined with the weight of his studded leather causes him to falter as he makes his mystic gestures, and nothing happens. Only the slightest widening of his eyes belies the panic the gambler feels inside.
Ziz feels the hairs rise on the back of his neck, but fear fails to overtake him. With a grimace, he shakes his hand, letting the flame dissipate. He replaces it with a ball of lightning, hurling it at the flying creature that is still free. "Hunkigarriak eskura!"
"Blake!" Zizou runs into the room and targets one of the flying dogs. He holds out his hand and a ball of flame appears in his open palm. He throws the ball at the nearest dog and then the flaming ball reappears in his hand.
As the mercenary is being tied up, Zizou comes to the door to ask him about the others, "What can you tell us about what the two women or the cat are capable of?" Before leaving the man behind, the gnome suggests to the halfling scout, "Search his things for any healing potions?"
"Is Nualia the one with the big sword or the weird cat? Where is the other woman? What's down in the lower levels?" "Some of the goblins caught during the Sandpoint attack claimed they never saw you all enter and leave the goblin fort. Is there another way to access these rooms from outside the fort?"
Zizou eyes the man suspiciously as he faces questions. "Yeah. We know there are two women and another man among you. Where are they?"
Zizou stands back a bit in the narrow hallway.
Zizou's also leveled.
Zizou watches Ethan check on the bugbear as Blake and Runk discuss what's next. "More importantly, who gets to tell Hottie McGoblinHunter that we took care of her nemesis for her?"
Relieved to see the fearsome bugbear drop, Zizou steps aside to allow the others a chance to mop up or talk sense into the concubines. He does prepare to open fire in case they fail to surrender.
Zizou reaches for his bleeding throat, and mutters to test his voice, "Ahh... right, then. Not ready to cut my losses just yet." He answers Kesten, "I'm okay! Don't worry about the goblin whores!" He points his finger at the bugbear and matches his marksmanship with a fiery ray of his own.
Zizou curses under his breath when he sees the bugbear drink a potion that seems to repair the burns that he had just inflicted. He points a finger at him, and sends a fiery ray in his direction.
Zizou lets his mouth drop open when Blake falls, and he looks to Ethan as he casts his spell, reassured that he seems to be using his magic to aid his longtime friend. A grin forms at the corner of his lips as he closes his mouth. What Blake don't know won't hurt him! He lets loose with his fire powers, throwing a flaming bolt through the doorway at the bugbear. "Surezko eskura!"
Zizou allows a reaction to the scene inside the room to mar his delicate features, "Gross..." He tries to lob a ball of acid over Blake and onto the bugbear.
Zizou draws his dagger and prepares to follow the group into the door that Runk indicates.
"About an hour. If he is upset, hopefully he's too proud to let his troops know he was tricked."
"Thank you. It's wise of you to turn them in now that you have no more use for them. We will stop this retaliation this time, but if there are more goblin attacks on Sandpoint or its travelers, we won't be able to affect their response in the future." Zizou bows his head slightly to the chief before turning toward the door.
Damn. Bluff worked too well, Zizou thought, but like a good card player, his face showed nothing. "Yes, shoring up defenses here won't stop the troops from Magnimar, if they're determined to attack, but we could convince them that this clan poses no further threat to Sandpoint if we can bring in the longshanks."
Stepping into the throne room and taking a look around, Zizou puts his allies between himself and the goblin spellcaster before he begins his spell upon the presumed chief. "Errespetatzen giza..."
He finishes stepping around his allies to the front of the group. "We did not come to kill more of your kind. We only wish to find out the whereabouts of Tsuto's longshank allies. In return, as a gesture of goodwill, we offer information on the troops coming from Magnimar to retaliate against your clan. We hope you can use the information to avoid them as you relocate, but I guess you could, I don't know, ambush them instead, or something. It's not really up to us what you do with this valuable information..."
I thought we were walking in, ostensibly to chat. Hence, diplomats first.
Zizou stands near the door, waiting for someone else to take point. "Lemme stand behind y'all to try my charm spell on the chief first."
I see reference to us trying to trade in a bunch of goblin studded leather for a wand of CLW. Did we account for that? It looks like we couldn't modify the loot spreadsheet that Dak posted back then, and I think he was sucked into the real world around that time, so I'm not sure if that was addressed, either.
"Hm... we probably should have brought a scroll to understand what they're saying." Zizou starts across the bridge after Gogmurt, trusting his light weight won't strain the bridge.
"It appears we have no better idea than to waltz in on your heels and hope we can take out Ripnugget and whoever's with him before reinforcements arrive." Zizou addresses the party, "I'll try to charm Ripnugget or Bruthazmus. Let me try before we start swinging, if they don't start swinging as soon as we walk in."
Zizouket follows Runk's lead toward the clearing, only once chiming in with some advice at a fork in the path. "I think you scouted that direction a bit last time, but you took us this way instead."
Still here. I'm good with resuming before Xmas, if for no other reason than to refresh my memory. I'm a little fuzzy with what we've done. Did we check all the passages under the Glassworks? This one, I wouldn't mind if we recruited a tank for.
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