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Lug whips his head around to give Bremen an offended and bewildered look. "Pay!?" he says. "The Lord Commander of the White Tower wants to pay goblins? All that magic you got, all those men you command, and you need to beg a bunch of goblins to let us by, pretty please?"

"Guess they let anyone be a 'Lord Commander' these days," he snorts.

"Someone remind me why we're going this way instead of walking in the front door? S'not like we're gonna surprise anyone now."

In her most diplomatic shout, Osuna repeats Bremen's words while Lug argues at Bremen.

Bremen looks deadpan at Lug. I'm here to fight a dragon, not kill every damned goblin in these mountains. I won't risk the lives of me or my men if I can find a smarter way. And the necklace is charmed, in it's way. If the goblins insist on blocking the path, he is ready to try going through the main entrance.

Don't any of the magic users have a sleep spell? Or a ton of magic missiles?

"BRAVE AND WISE GOBLINS!" bellows Piers, hoping his goblin vocabulary can stretch to cover what he wants to say. "We are not here to fight you! If we fight, many of you will die! We want to kill the dragon, not you! Let us do that and we shall leave you in peace! Or we shall die and never bother you again! Either way, you will be masters of these halls once more!"

Bremen grimaces at Piers' outburst. The halls were promised to the Blackhelm Clan. I don't think they'll live well together. He tries to think of anything they passed that might make a good barricade they can walk forward with. Maybe that roll-the-barrel trick used by the last group in here.

"I just said we wouldn't bother them. I'm not responsible for what the Blackhelm dwarves decide to do". retorts Piers. "And I don't think they'll be moving in anytime soon until we do something about Scatha"

Baxtaw- Let us search for a another entrance into the dragons lair. The dwarves would have a secret entrance or exit.



Search roll
d6 roll [1d6] = 1

Bremen looks around again. I thought this was the secret entrance...

The goblins chant and the party remains hidden around the corner out of sight from them, knowing the portcullis above is again closed and the goblin's barricade is ahead. Bremen suggests offering his filigreed necklace as a gift to distract the goblins and facilitate passage; Lug takes offense at this sign of weakness. Bremen considers rolling a barrel into the goblins, but there are no barrels in the barren section of hallway. Baxtaw considers searching for a secret door, feeling the walls and examining with his keen elven senses, but he finds no secret doors in their current hiding place.

Osana shouts Bremen's offer to pay them with the necklace for passage down to face the dragon. Piers flatters the goblins and offers that the group will kill the dragon or die trying, if the goblins let them through. The goblin chanting becomes more excited and exuberant with these offers, echoing around the corner.

Date: 8:40pm, 25 July 2021
Light: Bremen's torch (until 9:00pm)
Effects: None
Injuries: Clouson (minor wound), Lug (minor wound), Bremen (minor wound), Stantz (minor wound), Baxtaw (superficial wound)

Once you round the corner, it is a long, straight hallway designed to allow them to get two shots on you before you reach them if you try to charge. (They get one free shot, you engage melee on round 2.)

"I can bestow the blessing of Baudh upon us, if we must charge the barricade" offers Piers, "though sadly it won't make us run any faster".

"It may be better for us to fall back and raise that portcullis again. Who knows what may come down behind us while we are fighting at the barricade? And whoever dropped presumably came through a door that we missed on the way down."

Zhym wrote:Is that two shots with longbows, shortbows, or what? Based on what rate of movement?

I'm trying to figure out what our options are. Knowing the range would help.

You can move 1/3 of your movement rate in a round in LL Basic. So that's 40' unencumbered (less than 40lbs) or 30' at 3/4 encumbered (40-60lbs) or 20' at 1/2 encumbered (60-80lbs). If we're moving to tactical movement, I need you to check your encumbrance.

If you're running full speed (towards or away), I usually give you double that movement and the -4 AC penalty.

Longbow/shortbow doesn't matter - that determines when they get a +1 to hit you, not how far you can run. In this case, the goblins use shortbows so they get a +1 to hit you when you're within 50'.

So, I was abstracting to avoid this painful math. Now that we're moving to tactical movement we'll say the hallway is 80' long. If you choose to charge down it towards the barricade and goblin archers with your sword drawn, please post your encumbrance level and we'll roll the appropriate amount of shots you take before you engage in melee.

They can't all fit behind it, and it is makeshift, so I'll call it "partial cover" overall for +2 AC bonus.

"Dragon Food! Dragon Food!" continues the goblin chant in their own tongue.

Date: 8:40pm, 25 July 2021
Light: Bremen's torch (until 9:00pm)
Effects: None
Injuries: Clouson (minor wound), Lug (minor wound), Bremen (minor wound), Stantz (minor wound), Baxtaw (superficial wound)

"So, can we fight these little snits, or what?" asks Lug, holding up his boring ordinary bow.