Navior's We Be Goblins / Jade Regent OOC

[Wander Weir]

Oh boy, we're in trouble now. The goblin heroes have come out of the woodwork. Keep a look out for a rabid wolverine, because that thing will mess you up.

[Nazard]

Wander Weir wrote:

Oh boy, we're in trouble now. The goblin heroes have come out of the woodwork. Keep a look out for a rabid wolverine, because that thing will mess you up.

Also, make sure you watch the ground, because any second, you might find an unconscious and bleeding goblin lying in front of you as a tripping hazard. There may or may not be a female goblin lying on top of him and calling him "STOOPIDS".

[Wander Weir]

Wander Weir wrote:

All this hush hush talk is awfully suspicious...I think Malan is conspiring to kill us all!

I only just now read the spoiler text that Navior gave us permission to read. It amuses me to no end to see just how close to being correct I was, particularly given that it was Aago who got hit with a crit.

[Nazard]

Wander Weir wrote:

Wander Weir wrote:

All this hush hush talk is awfully suspicious...I think Malan is conspiring to kill us all!

I only just now read the spoiler text that Navior gave us permission to read. It amuses me to no end to see just how close to being correct I was, particularly given that it was Aago who got hit with a crit.

Hey!! After the "gnome" were we!? Watch yourself, bud, or Awgin might find himself in a compromising position with some level-draining undead...

[Dax Thura]

That little tuft of blue hair draws the attention. Chuffy thinks it would make a great toupee.

[Joana]

I believe the Rajah's Combat Medic ability from the Merciful Healer archetype means he doesn't take AoOs for healing in battle.

[Navior]

Joana wrote:

I believe the Rajah's Combat Medic ability from the Merciful Healer archetype means he doesn't take AoOs for healing in battle.

Ah yes, you're right! I was wondering why he did that, and I double-checked the rebuke death ability, thinking maybe it didn't attract AoOs. I completely failed to check his other abilities. Thanks for pointing it out! :)

[Javell DeLeon]

Sorry about that Navior. I knew I should have threw that on my post as an fyi. That's my bad.

Regarding Chuffy: Hey, maybe Poog's around and he will heal you. :)

Probably not, though, seeing how he never used that WAND OF CURE LIGHT WOUNDS with 9 charges left on it for us. ;)

[Joana]

Yeah, unless Reta's around, no one's getting healed. And I'm sure Old Foofelah took Reta with her to go hole up and be sneaksy in the swamp until the danger has passed, at which point she will emerge and declare victory. (And Reta took Chuggo with her to pass the time.)

[Joana]

Gilfroy Fezziwig wrote:

Gil takes a 5-foot step to M64, reloads, and fires his crossbow at Goblin 8.

Attack: 1d20-4
On a one it lodges in a building, a two it sails after its friend into the swamp. 1d2

"Dammit! If I lit them on fire, at least it would look like fireworks!! Stupid, worthless, piece of junk crossbow!!"

Ha! I have an oracle with a crossbow like that in a RotRL game. She'd do just as much good just taking the bolts out and breaking them over her knee one by one, and she wouldn't have to carry the weight of the crossbow. :)

[Wander Weir]

Navior wrote:

Aago Belwas wrote:

Actually, Navior, with his Snapping Turtle style, Aago would be able to deflect that first hit, though still taking the greater damage from the other.

Ah right, it would. Although technically, I don't think you ever stated you were activating Snapping Turtle Style (which takes a swift action). However, we'll let that go. The first hit misses and I'll add Snapping Turtle to the active effects. :)

Actually, I did activate it but I did it as part of descriptive active text rather than OOC text, and that was over a week ago now. So I don't blame you for missing it.

For space:

Aago Belwas wrote:

Aago Belwas, Wed, Oct 12, 2011, 09:21 PM

Aago almost stumbles to his knees as the foul goblin comes out of nowhere and stabs him in the leg. Acting on instinct, he spins around with a whirl, sweeping his injured leg out to catch the goblin in the head.

Unarmed Attack: 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (17) + 3 = 20
Damage: 1d6 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 7

Turned to face the goblin now, he drops into his snapping turtle stance, one hand extended to ward off any blows.

"You filthy bugger," he growls.

[Navior]

Whoops, you're right. Such are the limitations of pbp. It's very easy to miss and/or forget things that were posted ages ago. :)

[Joana]

I missed it too just going through your old posts and looking for blue writing. :)

[Wander Weir]

Yeah, I suspect I wrote that post while multitasking with something else since I completely forgot to outline actions more clearly with the OOC code. Oh well, live and learn, etc. etc.

I was sort of astonished that it's been a week already. I know pbp combat moves slow but it doesn't seem to move that slow. I must be getting old.

[Wander Weir]

Sorry for disappearing the last few days. There's been an unexpected death and the funeral was today. Flying home later and will try to be back to my normal posting by tomorrow.

In other news, I've really had it with 2011. Bring on the new year and better times.

[Joana]

Noticed your absence, Wander, and very sorry to hear about your loss. Have a safe flight.

[Navior]

Sorry about your loss, Wander. Here's hoping next year is a better year!

I'll go ahead and post an action for Aago.

[Navior]

Joana:

Old Foofelah is in the building that Walthus has just opened the door to (in U 61). Due to her hearing difficulties, she has been completely oblivious to the combat going on outside. She will act at the beginning of next round, before Melon's turn. I'm hoping, however, that the group will try talking to her rather than attack her outright (although some are kind of bloodthirsty, so who knows?). If they do talk to her, I'll fill you in with some more information that she might be able to provide them with (if they can convince her to, your choice). In short, the skeletons attacked. Chief Gutwad ordered the goblin heroes to fight them off, but there were too many, and the village was soon overwhelmed. Many goblins, including Old Foofelah, fled and hid in the swamp. After the skeletons left, Old Foofelah returned. Apparently, they left because Chief Gutwad gave them what they wanted (whether Old Foofelah approves of this is up to you).

[Joana]

Navior:

Question that never came up in We Be Goblins: Do goblin PCs get Common for free? Doesn't seem like they should, even though HeroLab included it. So Old Foofelah will be dependent on someone understanding Goblin if she's trying to talk her way out of getting killed.

[Navior]

Joana:

Good question. According to Goblins of Golarion, goblins begin play knowing Goblin. Common is listed as a choice for those with high Intelligence, so they don't get it automatically. As it happens, Gilfroy speaks Goblin, so there is the potential for communication, so long as Malan doesn't decide to kill her first. :)

[Joana]

Navior:

Is there any other way out of that hut by the way, or are Walthus and Malan at the only doors?

[Navior]

Joana:

There is a door in the west wall at T 59. It leads to a walkway running north-south from S 58 to U 58. There is a door at both the north and south ends of the walkway. The north door is the door that Malan is currently on the other side of. The south door leads to another walkway (it's an oddly placed door, but then, these are goblins, so...) which continues south. It also gives access to a ladder to the ground at V 58.

[Navior]

Joana:

Oh, with Rajah continuing to delay, Old Foofelah can act now.

[Joana]

Hey, Navior, is there a way for DMs to move a character from "current" to "previous" in the campaign tools? I posted as Joana in the game thread, and even though I went back and edited it to my PC, "Joana" is still listed as a character.

[Navior]

Done. "Joana" is now a previous character. I actually wish there was a way to completely remove such things. Any time someone accidentally posts with the wrong alias, or a lurker peeks in, they get listed as a character in the game. I can move them to "previous" characters, but I can't get rid of them completely.

[Joana]

Navior:

Does Old Foofelah know why the dogs were taken? I'm sure it will come up in the interrogation since that's why we're all here.

[Navior]

Joana:

Yes, the dogs were taken to be used as sacrifices to Zarongel. The goblins hoped that sacrificing them and then staking them up at the gate would keep the skeletons, which still roam the swamps, from returning.

After the goblin heroes recovered the fireworks, Chief Gutwad sent them out to explore more areas on Scribbleface's map. There was another shipwreck and a cave. They found nothing at the shipwreck, but in the cave, they found a huge pile of treasure and fireworks. It was after bringing that treasure back to the village that the skeletons attacked the town, seemingly in retribution for the treasure being taken. After most of the goblins fled, Chief Gutwad gave up the treasure and the skeletons took it back and left. However, since some of the fireworks were used in the battle, the goblins remain fearful that the skeletons will realize that they are missing some of the treasure and will return to look for it.

[Wander Weir]

Man, I wish Aago had Melon's teleport ability. He'd be right there to protest the notion of leaving the old biddy free.

[Joana]

Goblins just can't win with you people, can they? If they fight for their chief against you, you kill them for it; if they help you against their chief, you kill them for being disloyal traitors. No wonder there are no good goblins: Adventurers just kill them as soon as they don't attack them. ;)

[Navior]

Walthus was just following Malan's directions, so blame the elf. ;)

[Dax Thura]

Malan never suggested she be killed. And everyone except the goblin crone and the bleeding heart priest thought it was a good idea to tie her up. Left to her own devices, she might do something that would require her death. Tieing her up is for her own safety.

[Wander Weir]

Hey man, Aago completely agrees with Malan on this one. Or at least, he would, if he were actually near enough to hear what was going on.

[Joana]

Wander Weir wrote:

Hey man, Aago completely agrees with Malan on this one. Or at least, he would, if he were actually near enough to hear what was going on.

I thought he agreed with Melon that she should be killed, rather than with Malan that she should merely be restrained. :)

[Wander Weir]

Joana wrote:

Wander Weir wrote:

Hey man, Aago completely agrees with Malan on this one. Or at least, he would, if he were actually near enough to hear what was going on.

I thought he agreed with Melon that she should be killed, rather than with Malan that she should merely be restrained. :)

He's conflicted about whether or not to kill her, but he definitely doesn't believe she should be free. He's not all that thrilled about killing a harmless looking old beastie, given that there's no real honor in it. On the other hand, he wouldn't put it past her to try eating them if she had the chance.

[Joana]

She didn't get to be the oldest goblin in the Licktoad tribe ever by not realizing when she's outmatched. Now, if you were to leave Corinna alone to guard her, as Malan suggested, we might be back in the Chuffy/Malan situation where one alias tries to kill another. :)

(Eh, Foofelah wouldn't kill her on purpose; just try to disable her and get the heck away to hide.* It'd be a pretty even fight between them; Corinna's AC is 1 better, and she has 1 more hit point. Probably come down to who rolled better.)

*:

Not out of any kind of not-evilness, just because her main priority is to get away.

[Dax Thura]

I'd pay to see that fight. They'd both be taking tentative strikes that don't come within a foot of connecting because they were afraid of a counterstrike. We'd eventually have to push them closer to one another. The fight would be over as soon as one of them actually struck the other. It wouldn't even have to cause much damage, jsut 1 point would do it.

[Joana]

Right, what are our options? I think Melon's the only one advocating for killing her outright; if she's not killed, our options are: 1) take her with us to fight the chief; 2) let her go; 3) tie her up and leave her behind; 4) tie her up and leave her behind with a guard; ... what else? any other ideas?

[Wander Weir]

Tie her, gag her, and bring her with us? Let her go free and follow her? Knock her unconscious and bring her? Knock her unconscious, tie her and leave her? Tie her and kill her?

Okay, maybe not the last one. I think Aago favors the first one.

[Joana]

Corinna and I will recuse ourselves. :)

(Old Foofelah votes you let her go. And give her some treasure for being so helpful.)

[Nazard]

Wander Weir wrote:

Tie her, gag her, and bring her with us? Let her go free and follow her? Knock her unconscious and bring her? Knock her unconscious, tie her and leave her? Tie her and kill her?

Okay, maybe not the last one. I think Aago favors the first one.

Arranged marriage with a dwarf, or are we not trying to be unnecessarily cruel?

[Joana]

Nazard wrote:

Arranged marriage with a dwarf, or are we not trying to be unnecessarily cruel?

To the goblin, or to the dwarf?

[Nazard]

Joana wrote:

Nazard wrote:

Arranged marriage with a dwarf, or are we not trying to be unnecessarily cruel?

To the goblin, or to the dwarf?

Are the really that many differences between the two?

[Wander Weir]

I think even suggesting such a thing to a dwarf would earn you a blood feud from the dwarf's entire family.

[Joana]

Navior:

Any info on Gutwad or Slorb's class levels she'd be aware of?

[Navior]

Joana:

While she wouldn't no specifics like exact level, she would know that Slorb isn't a standard warrior goblin. He has more knowledge and skills, i.e. he's an expert, but still probably very low level.

Gutwad is a more accomplished combatant than most goblins. He's said to be particularly proficient at killing humans, able to shoot them dead with a bow from a mile away. Of course, that's probably hyperbole. In close combat, he likes to use a spear instead of a dogslicer.

[Navior]

Javell and Nazard:

Reta and Chiggo are inside the Moot House with Chief Gutwad and goblin #7, who ran from the battle with the party earlier. Chiggo is currently at Y71, Reta at Y72, #7 at Y73, and Chief Gutwad in the teeter chair at Z72. The doors to the Moot House have been barred from the inside. Reta and Chiggo are both at full normal strength with all their equipment, except fireworks. All the fireworks were either used or returned to the skeletons.

They don't know much more than Old Foofelah has already said, other than Slorb is dead. When Chief Gutwad ordered them and Chuffy to throw all the treasures out of the Moot House so the skeletons could collect them, Chuffy also threw Slorb out and the skeletons killed him. (Actually, they're pretty sure Chuffy killed Slorb first and then threw him out, but Chuffy claimed the skeletons killed him.) They don't know where Chuffy's got to (or that he's now dead).

[Navior]

Nazard:

I guess you missed in the above spoiler that the goblins had barred the door. And I was so busy yesterday, I didn't have a chance to respond to your post. Oh well, we'll say they unbarred it. :)

[Javell DeLeon]

Navior:

Is there another exit besides the front door?

[Navior]

Javell and Nazard:

There is a door in the east wall (square Y 73). It goes into Chief Gutwad's private bedroom. There is also a secret door in the south wall (at square Z 71). It leads to a small 5x5 chamber with two more secret doors in it: one in the east wall going into the treasure chamber (which is mostly empty since most of what used to be there went to the skeletons) and one in the south wall which goes outside to a ladder leading to the ground. Chiggo and Reta only recently learned of the secret doors when helping to move all the treasure outside; however, it did explain the presence of the ladder at the back of the Moot House. The Licktoad goblins have always been told that that ladder is just a stupid ladder that isn't smart enough to know that it doesn't go anywhere. :)

There is also a door between the treasury and Gutwad's bedroom.

[Joana]

Navior, on the map it looks like Corinna, Rajah and Gilfroy are in a hut, rather than on an outside walkway. Is that correct?