Part 1: Goblin Arrows

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Oct 27, 2020 7:53 pm
Osvaldo leaves the torch near the chimney entrance, so Bug can have some light scurrying down. He sheathes his sword, readies his bow, and hurries toward the inside of the wolves entrance, opposite from where the cave tunnel continues. He peers into the darkness, bow taut, ready to let loose at the first sight of an enemy.
Oct 28, 2020 10:23 am
Hearing the voice boom out as he approaches the top, Bug silently curses himself for being so careless in the climb. He immediately begins to reverse his climb, favoring speed over care, putting faith that he will be caught in case of a fall.

Rolls

Athletics (disadvantage) - (1d20-1)

(14) - 1 = 13

Athletics (disadvantage) - (1d20-1)

(15) - 1 = 14

Oct 30, 2020 4:46 pm
As Bug begins his descent, pebbles and debris fall down on his head from above as the wolf comes to a skidding halt at the edge of the hole. Its sapping teeth narrowly misses the gnome's face and hot slobber drips down on him from above. Below, Severus and Osvaldo both hear the barking of another wolf above, and as Bug climbs safely down and appears back in the room before you, the three of you hear the booming voice again:

"YOU TWO HALF-WITTEDS! GET YOUR FILTHY HIDES DOWN THAT DIRTY-HOLE AND PUT DOWN KLARG'S DINNER OR KLARG'LL BE HAVING YOU INSTEAD!!!"
Oct 30, 2020 11:12 pm
"Klarg! You hear that Osvaldo? Klarg. So this must be the eating cave, the Goblin Glarkvak mentioned."

Severus' momentarily glances towards the debris at his feet hoping that none of Sildar's bones are to be found there.
Oct 31, 2020 4:07 pm
Continuing to look down the tunnel, he thinks of the bones too. "Aye, loud and clear. Hopefully Sildar is still breathing." He continues to peer into the darkness, bow at the ready.
Nov 2, 2020 10:50 am
After planting his feet firmly back on the ground, Bug turns back towards the hole with daggers at the ready. With a puzzled look, he glances between Severus and Osvaldo, "Klarg? You two know that thing up there?"
Nov 3, 2020 2:52 am
"No, but we knew someone who did. Are his two underlings coming down the shaft?"
Nov 3, 2020 6:47 pm
Before Osvaldo can even finish his question with the proper punctuation mark, dirt and small pebbles begin raining down the chimney, along with the sounds of grunting and scratching from above. The scratches suddenly become a pronounced scraping and sliding noise, followed by a half-second of silence, and completed with the body of a goblin crashing to the stone floor upside down. It gives a grunt in tandem with a sickening crunch, and lays prone on the ground, eyes glazed over, neck bent at an unnatural angle.

A moment later a second goblin climbs down through the chimney. Without even looking in the party's direction yet, it looks down at the dead goblin at its feet and spits a goblin curse at the corpse while drawing his shortsword. It takes a step forward before looking up and immediately the goblin halts in its tracks, eyes growing big as saucers as they gaze back and forth between Bug, Severus, Osvaldo, and the dead wolves. If you could read a goblin's mind you'd guess it probably came down the chimney expecting Bug to be pinched between three hungry wolves and two goblins. Instead it finds itself the one trapped between three wolfslayer adventurers and an angry Klarg above.

You can see its wheels turning as it tries to consider how it's ging to get itself out of this mess, and its eyes quickly look back at the chimney.

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OOC:
Round 1 of this extremely lopsided combat begins! Turn order is as follows:
-->1. Yewin (Undamaged with 10HP)
2. Severus (Undamaged with 14HP), Goblin
3. Osvaldo (Undamaged with 12+5HP)

Rolls

Goblin 1 Athletics roll - (1d20-1)

(7) - 1 = 6

Goblin 2 Climb roll - (1d20-1)

(19) - 1 = 18

Secret Roll

Secret Roll

Osvaldo Initiative roll - (1d20+3)

(12) + 3 = 15

Yewin "Bug" Initiative roll - (1d20+3)

(20) + 3 = 23

Severus Initiative roll - (1d20+2)

(14) + 2 = 16

Goblin 2 Initiative roll - (1d20+2)

(14) + 2 = 16

Nov 8, 2020 1:40 am
Seeing the goblins fall over themselves down the chute that he just scrambled down, Bug leaps forward to deal with the one still standing. If he had been this surprised at the current situation, hopefully he could be silenced early before calling back up to Klarg.

Rolls

Attack (main hand) - (1d20+5)

(8) + 5 = 13

Attack (off hand) - (1d20+5)

(7) + 5 = 12

Damage (main) - (1d4+3)

(4) + 3 = 7

Damage (off) - (1d4)

(2) = 2

Nov 8, 2020 11:30 am
Severus swings his great axe intent on removing the Goblin’s startled head from its shoulders.

Rolls

Attack with Great Axe - (1d20+5)

(19) + 5 = 24

Damage roll - (1d12+3)

(4) + 3 = 7

Nov 10, 2020 4:39 am
Osvaldo sees his companions take on the what looks to be a sole goblin. He trains his bow on it, waiting to see if they strike true and end it's miserable life.
OOC:
Osvaldo will go on hold. If Bug and Severus's attacks dont kill it, he'll let loose with an arrow. Otherwise, he'll continue to watch the front.
Nov 12, 2020 2:24 am
Bug slashes out at the goblin twice with hs daggers, but the goblin manages to duck and weave around the attacks, narrowly escaping harm from the blades. Just as a light of confidence sparkes in his eyes and he readies for a counterstrike a giant axe cleaves his head from his shoulders and it rolls to Yewin's feet.

From above, you no longer hear the bellowing of the one called Klaarg, but the wolf continues to bark down the hole the Bug escapes through.
Nov 12, 2020 10:52 am
"There must be another way to Klarg. Let's go deeper into the caves. What say you?"
Nov 16, 2020 3:03 am
"Agreed." Osvaldo puts away his bow, and readies his short sword and a new torch. "If everyone's ready, let's go talk to Klarg."
Nov 17, 2020 3:19 am
Not enthusiastic about being the first one to have your face eaten off by the wolf barking in the chimney above, you all decide that heading north is the best option to find Klarg. You walk past the dead wolves and into the main cave system and head fifteen feet north or so.

The main passage from the cave mouth climbs steeply upward, the stream plunging and splashing down its west side. In the shadows, a side passage leads west across the other side of the stream. From this point on, characters without Darkvision will need light to see the surroundings.

Meanwhile Bug looks north. In the shadows of the ceiling to the north, he can just make out the dim shape of a rickety bridge of wood and rope crossing over the passage ahead of your party. Another passage intersects this one, twenty feet above the floor.

https://i.imgur.com/CI8ghm4.png
Nov 18, 2020 12:25 pm
Severus flings off his backpack and rummages through it to recover his tinderbox and one his torches. He carefully lays down some dry cloth bathed in oil, and begins to strike flint against fire steel until the flashes of gold ignite the oil. Blowing gently upon the cloth to encourage the fire, Severus brings the torch to kiss the dancing flames and it roars into life, spreading light into the increasingly dark abyss.
Nov 18, 2020 12:27 pm
Quietly, Severus says to Bug and Osvaldo, "I say we cross the bridge and clear whatever may lie there. We don't want anything or anyone at our backs. Do you agree?"
Nov 18, 2020 1:40 pm
"Aye, agreed. Also, you know you didn't have to go through the whole tinderbox routine. I could've just used my torch flame to light yours. Think smarter, not harder, as my Pa used to say." with an amused smile on his face, he claps Severus's shoulder and continues on toward the bridge.
OOC:
nice description of lighting it though
Last edited November 18, 2020 1:41 pm
Nov 18, 2020 3:15 pm
Severus grunts, "You make a good point, my friend" and then strides after the Ranger
Nov 18, 2020 4:45 pm
I think moving ahead is our best option. I can run up ahead again, though we might have lost the element of surprise at this point. Bug warily eyes the bridge ahead, throwing the occasion glance back down the way they came.
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