”Aye, that be the way to do it. Goblin’s idea of a fair fight is three against your one, and then only if you’re caught unaware.” He spent many months training to fight this ancient enemy.
The fine people of Brindenford don’t seem to know they have goblins right on their doorstep thinks Kolgun . . .Or they don’t care. Either way, it could mean serious trouble.
He looks at Thel, "What do you have in mind?"
"My opinion would start with the first room on the left." She draws her small rapier, "That was the room I heard a mixture of common and goblin speak."
”Aye, that be the way to do it. Goblin’s idea of a fair fight is three against your one, and then only if you’re caught unaware.” He spent many months training to fight this ancient enemy.
The fine people of Brindenford don’t seem to know they have goblins right on their doorstep thinks Kolgun . . .Or they don’t care. Either way, it could mean serious trouble.
He looks at Thel, "What do you have in mind?"
"Let's surround the door, have Bengal here quietly open the door, and we get any ranged attacks in before they can react. Slip inside, lock the door behind us to make sure none of them can sneak around to our flanks, and be done with the little hellions."
Thel stands even more at attention, his training kicking in without a moments hesitation.
Aldrin spouts a few arcane words, performs an odd gesture, and a brief flash of blue in the form of armor surrounds him and quickly fades. (Casting Mage armor) "Well, I'm about as ready as I can be. Your plan sounds solid, so lets be rid of them as fast as we can."
Kolgun readies his shield, takes a firm grip on his hammer, and says
”Yes, let’s take the fight to them. I’m not one for throwing things at the foe, but when we rush in I’ll deal with them, by Torag's beard.”
Thel moves forward, being as quiet as possible 1d20+4=24 (stealth) [Yeah!! Natural 20].
Thel places the torch on the ground behind him, and pulls out a twin-set of daggers. Spinning the hilts in his palms, he stands ready, waiting for the door to open.
Initiative: 1d20+3=19
Kolgun steps up next to the door, preparing to open it once his friends are ready. After they've loosed their arrows he’ll dash in (if that’s what you can call it when a dwarf moves quickly) and engage one of the goblins.
Greetings,
I hate to be a pain in the rear-end but I have to bail on this game. Things just got really crazy in real life with having to take classes and job search while working a full time job. That of course doesn't leave me with much time on my hands so I won't be able to continue with the game. I'm really sorry about this.
Regards,
Aaron Whitley
P.S. I also posted this on the discussion thread too.
She goes up to stand next to Thel, waiting to attack what decides to come out.
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Initiative order:
Aldrin 21
Thel 19
Kolgun 19
Bengal 6
Enemies 3(they all have the same bonus, so I rolled once for the group)
Pulling open the door reveals a small room containing seven beds and littered with sacks of food. The air is foul there, stinking of sweat and filth.
Within the room are three goblins, two kobolds, and two degenerate humans. The humans look like what you would expect of a caveman, large and muscular but dim-witted. One of the goblins wears a necklace of animal claws across his chest and looks to be the leader.
The group is armed and looks ready for battle, but obviously were caught off guard by your sudden entrance.
Aldrin levels his heavy crossbow once the door is open and fires off a shot into the room within, missing wildly. Attack and damage1d20+3=4, 1d8=8 Assuming the room hasn't been cleared by his next turn and none of the group has been hurt, he'll spend his next turn reloading.
Thel steps into the room, attacking the first mongoloid human, spinning his daggers in a mad flurry. The first sinks into the degenerate's shoulder, blood spraying as the dagger is extracted from the wound with a violent twisting, to ensure blood loss. The second seems to only glance across it's chest, and Thel, unaccustomed to fighting more than a target dummy, is dumbfounded his attack didn't connect solidly.
Two Dagger Attacks: 1d20+3=21, 1d20+3=11
Two Damage Rolls: 1d6+1=6, 1d6+1=4
Round 2
Proposed tactic: Continue attacking the humanoids, leaving room for the rest of the party to gain entry into the room.
Kolgun sees his friends are ready, and shoulders the door open. He hears the “click – twang” of the heavy crossbow, as they’d planned. What he didn’t plan on was the ”whoooosh" as the bolt flew past his ear and connected violently on the far wall. Keep your head lower, he thinks.
He gets a firm grip on his shield and prepares to take the fight to the derelicts inside. . . . .
Tactic: If Thel's opponent is still standing when my turn comes up again in the next round (we're in the surprise round, yes?) I'll help finish him.
Bengal moves up next to Thel, attempting to strike at the same enemy as Thel, though missing widely. She lets out a growl in anger.
On her turn, Bengal will try to strike the same person if Thel does not bring him down. If that enemy is killed, she will then attack the human next to him.
Thel continues his assault on the degenerate human .
Burying his daggers in its chest, he rips them out in a crude X pattern, tearing the ribcage apart.
===== Attack Rolls =====
1d20+3=23, 1d20+3=19
Confirm Crit: (first attack roll) 1d20+3=15
===== Damage Rolls =====
1d4+1=3, 1d4+1=5
===== Extra Damage From Possible Crit
1d4+1=3
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Cutting easily through the already wounded Degenerate Human with his first dagger, Thel steps over the man, even as he falls, sinking his second dagger deep into the one just behind it.
Kolgun releases the door and rushes forward, sweeping high with his warhammer, but the caveman, surprised by the wound it has just suffered, stumbles back just enough to dodge.
Unfortunately it didn't count on Bengal having crept up beside Thel. The point of her rapier pierces the creature cleanly, collapsing him in a heap.
The remaining goblins and kobolds seem very warlike, even for their species however, and must have been on guard as they already have their weapons close at hand. The goblin leader shrieks out a command to the others
Goblin
And they press forward in a mass to attack, swinging wildly with their weapons, the goblins wielding morningstars while the kobolds hold spears. Two of the goblins and one of the kobolds make a strike against Thel, who nimbly dodges out of the way of two hits, but with so many attacks coming in at him it is only a matter of time before one of them lands, the goblin leader striking Thel painfully below the waist.
Finally the remaining kobold lashes out at the dwarf with his spear, narrowly missing, and the last goblin takes a swipe at Bengal, snarling angrily but missing widely.
She glares at the goblin in front of her, lunging with her rapier and hoping to pierce the foe with her blade.
Kolgun’s blood burns to reach the goblin a few steps from him, however there’s a kolbold in the way . . . .
He swings his warhammer
Fort Save: 1d20+3=10
Thel grunts with the pain of the strike, but shrugs it off, and without missing a beat, moves to make his next attack.
Next Round:
Noticing the blood trickling, Thel states to the humanoids, "That's just not playing nice at all, now is it?" and turns his attention to the kobold in front of him (j19), bringing his daggers up in a tight arc, the two blades opening twin gashes along the creature's torso.
===== Combat Rolls =====
Full Attack 1d20+3=23, 1d20+3=21
Confirm Crit First Attack 1d20+3=21
Damage Rolls 1d4+1=4, 1d4+1=3
Extra Damage For Crit 1d4+1=4
===== Alternate =====
Will target enemies in this order, starting with J19, and working on them in order (depending on what targets are left when init comes up this round)--J19 (primary), K18, K20, L20.
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Having finished reloading his heavy crossbow, Aldrin moves up a bit closer so he has a clear line of fire at the goblin leader who is flanking Thel. He squares up his crossbow as this will be a harder shot since the creature is already in close combat with the dual weilder, but his kind know well how to fight these beasts.
He squeezes the trigger and the shot sails wide again, the bolt between the two goblins directly in front of them and passing far too close to the rest of the group. Shooting goblin (1d20+0=6, 1d8+0=3)
Even as the bolt whizzes by, Thel seems to have gotten caught up in his training and moves with precision, driving his first dagger into the kobold before him, dropping the beast with a single blow and then plunging his second dagger into the shoulder of the kobold beside him, leaving the reptile looking as if its barely on its feet.
That the kobold is still standing is quickly remedied by the dwarf who brings down his warhammer in a crushing blow on its head, crumpling it into a heap on the floor.
In the chaos of the combat, Bengal thrusts forward with her rapier, nearly piercing through the goblin in her way, but his surprised jerk away from the bolt that flew by his head seconds before leaves the point of her blade simply scraping past his leather armor.
Seeing one of their hated foes, the goblin the the back advances on the dwarf, swinging forcefully with his morningstar. The blow is true and its fortunate that the dwarf is so well armored or it could have been a grave injury indeed(crit chance, didn't back).
Seeing their chances to strike at the one who is proving to be so skilled with his blades, the other two goblins move to once again surround Thel, each taking a chance to strike as they five foot step into place, but both clumbsy swings being parried away easily.
Kolgun grunts from the force of the blow, but welcomes the goblin’s advance to pay him back in kind . . . .
With a silent prayer to Torag he brings his hammer around, using a technique he learned in the proving grounds of the Five Kingdoms:
Thel sees the goblins trying to surround him, parrying their feeble attempts at striking him. With his training kicking in, he attacks the first humanoid (k18), and spins around to jab the second (k20).
===== Combat Rolls =====
Full Attack 1d20+3=6, 1d20+3=17
Damage Rolls 1d4+1=2, 1d4+1=3
===== Alternate =====
If k18 and k20 are already dead, will attack j19.
On her turn, Bengal will tumble over so that she is flanking with Thel and attack the goblin with her rapier.
Cursing under his breath "Why don't the filthy beasts ever hold still?" Alrin concentrates for a second, and points his finger at the creature he had been firing at, and a small glob of acid springs from his outstretched fingers and snakes out toward the creature. "Perhaps a little acid will be more to your liking, you little cur!"
Firing at the goblin at k20.
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Thel swings at the creature before him, his dagger scraping along its shield. In a heartbeat he whirls and drives his dagger into the goblin leaders arm just as Aldrin lets fly with his acid splash. Unfortunately this causes the goblin to skip back a step away from the blow, leaving the acid to fly and splatter against the far wall.
In the far corner of the room, given an opening by Thel's failed strike, the dwarf is able to get his warhammer past the goblins guard, bashing solidly into his collarbone, so that when the goblin turns to raise its morningstar in retalliation its arm gives out, the weight of its own weapon dropping it into a heap on the ground.
Taking advantage of the goblin leader's surprise, Bengal slides behind him, driving her rapier cleanly through his back so that its tip extends from his chest. He lets out a gurgling warcry even as he slides off the blade to the floor below.
The final goblin, seeing the carnage around him and the fall of his brethren does something surprising for one of his kind, he swipes out at thel again as if he were in a frenzy lunging forward fearlessly with a cry:
Goblin
His morningstar manages to glance off Thel's brow, doing superficial damage but enough to leave his ears ringing.
If the goblin has not been brought down by the time it's her turn, Bengal will once again move so that she is flanking with Thel and attack.
Aldrin steps up beside Thel and Kolgun, and lets loose another burst of acid. "It seems I need to spend a bit more time with target practice, and a little less time in the lab! Well, more time with target practice anyways. I could never leave the lab for too long."
Attacks the goblin at J19
Fort Save 1d20+3=22
Thel takes the attack full on, a wicked smile creeping across his lips. "Now it's my turn," and drives his first dagger into the goblin's shoulder, then crouching down and slashing at it's throat with the second.
===== Attack Rolls =====
Full Attack 1d20+3=11, 1d20+3=19 Edit: Ignore flanking
===== Damage Rolls =====
1d4+1=5, 1d4+1=4
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The goblin steps back slightly with a look of satisfaction in its rage filled eyes, then it lets out a screech as it is surprised by the glob of acid that strikes against its cheek, sizzling flesh. Raising its shield reflexively it manages to parry away Thel's first dagger, but the second pushes under the shield and between its ribs, silencing its screams as it drops lifeless to the floor.
LOOT
Falchion(medium) x2
Javelin(medium) x2
Studded Leather(medium) x2
Morningstar(small) x3
Spear(small) x2
Javelin(small) x3
Sling(small) x2
Leather Armor(small) x5
Light Wooden Shield(small) x3
Necklace made of animal claws
Thel looks over the weapons, and dismisses them. Cleaning off his daggers, he sheaths them, and proceeds to search the room for anything more valuable than a bone necklace..
Perception (sight) 1d20+1=18
"Someone keep an eye on that hallway. Combat rule #34: There's never only one group of filthy humanoids underground."
She nods, "Yes, that is good advice. We don't know if someone in one of the other rooms heard us fighting."
She goes over to stand in the doorway to keep watch.
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There doesn't appear to be much else in this room besides the crude beds and a couple of sacks of food that most in the party would find completely inedible. However as Thel pokes around a bit more he manages to uncover a small pouch buried beneath a pile of furs being used as filth encrusted covers. The pouch contains 34 silver pieces.
Thel looks over the grimy coins, and wipes them clean before dropping them into a pouch. "A slow start, but we've got something to show for my scratches."
Kolgun examines the armor and weapons. . .
"No dwarf worth his beard would be seen carrying such as that"
He considers the combat, and the vows of his goblin foes -
"Those goblins were obsessed by their blood thirsty god"
Don't worry, Aldrin. We're not much worse for the wear, and you didn't blow us up!
I think it would be a good idea to forge on before their ilk discover our presence.
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Kol's Knowledge Religion
The Beast God is Chaotic Evil. His domains are Chaos, Evil, and Destruction. His favored weapon is a battle axe.
Many people suspect that he is really just an avatar of Lamashtu or instead just a powerful follower of hers who revels in some of her specific aspects.
Disgusted by the squallor in this room, Thel goes back out into the hallway, and listens at the far door (room 1a).
If he hears anything, he'll signal the rest of the party.
Perception 1d20+1=20