Expedition: Baxtaw - Seeking Scatha's Lair - 23 July 2021

[Marullus]

Baxtaw decides and he begins leading the group down the stairs with he and Bremen at the lead. Treading carefully, Baxtaw spies the first tripwire across the stair, then Bremen finds the second. Bremen is quickly able to trace them back to hidden mechanisms in the stone,detatching them. Within the hole, he can see the pointy end of darts, glistening with some fresh, viscous substance - one kid step and Stantz and Rowine might have suffered the worst.

The group is then able to proceed down without further impediment and peek around the corner to see goblins again arrayed at their barricade, whispering among themselves.

Baxtaw's sleep spell initiates combat. Everyone please post an action.

Date: 9:40am, 26 July 2021
Light: Crowgar's Torch (until 10:00am)
Effects: None
Injuries: Bremen (minor wound), Stantz (minor wound), Clouson (minor wound), Baxtaw (minor wound), Lug (superficial wound)

[Jernau35]

Piers looks around him at the group and tries to judge their intentions. If they are about to charge down the hallway at the goblin barricade, he will Bless their will to fight with the strength of the Sun Father. Then he too will follow them to join the battle.

If the group continues to shoot missiles and spells at the goblins, he will step aside and wait until they are ready to move ahead.

[Mister-Kent]

Walking up right behind Baxtaw, Osuna waves her hands and sends out another spell of sleep at the goblin forces. Her darts are ready for what comes next...

Sleep [2d8] = 7

[Rusty Tincanne]

Bremen waits to see the effects of the two spells.

[Marullus]

Baxtaw and Lug?

[Zhym]

Lug follows Bremen's lead and waits for the goblins to go sleepytime.

[Rusty Tincanne]

Baxtaw already cast a spell this round.

[Dram]

Baxtaw- Will wait to cast a second spell if all the archers go down he will target the spearmen goblins.

[Marullus]

Piers calls upon Baudh to bless the party and they feel the God's might flush through them. The party, however, remains hesitantly back, waiting to see the results of the spellcasters. Baxtaw and Osuna both call upon their enchantments and the majority of the goblins begin falling over near the barricade, including all of the archers who were targeted first. There are cries of alarm among the goblins and you see those who remain standing beginning to shake their slumbering companions.

(Round #2!)

Date: 9:41am, 26 July 2021
Light: Crowgar's Torch (until 10:00am)
Effects: None
Injuries: Bremen (minor wound), Stantz (minor wound), Clouson (minor wound), Baxtaw (minor wound), Lug (superficial wound)

[Rusty Tincanne]

Bremen charges down the hallway, warhammer in hand. But just behind the burlier members of the party.

If needed: Warhammer of Baudh (THACO 17): [1d20+2] = 12+2 = 14, [1d8+3] = 5+3 = 8
Initiative (modified for DEX) [1d6+1] = 6+1 = 7

[Jernau35]

Piers, concious that he doesn't have the best armor that money could buy, also lets a few of the warrior types take the lead in the charge. Then he too will draw his hammer and follow them. "Rowine! Crowager! With Me!" he urges.

[Zhym]

Lug, not giving a hoot that he doesn't have the best armor that money could buy, runs pell mell into the fray, shouting his battle cry: "Yeeeeeaaaaaaahhhh!"

"Reason" (2-handed sword) (THAC0 18): [1d20+2] = 20+2 = 22 [1d10+2] = 7+2 = 9

[Marullus]

Baxtaw and Osuna?

[Dram]

Baxtaw moves down the hall casting his second sleep spell at largest group goblins.

Sleep Spell[2d8] = 8hitdieofmonster

[Jernau35]

A roll for Piers, if necessary:

Light hammer (THACO 18) [1d20] = 14 Damage [1d6+1] = 4+1 = 5

Oops! Forgot to include my own Bless spell So that should be 15 To Hit and a 6 Damage.

[Marullus]

Lug leads the charge! Followed by Stantz, Rowine, Crowgar, Piers, Clouson, and Bremen.

The alarmed goblins are moving to shake their companions to consciousness when Baxtaw's second spell hits them - eight more of them collapse, often in piles on top of those already sleeping. Two goblins squeal and begin running full tilt away from the charging crowd, around the corner, and down the right-hand tunnel into the pitch darkness.

It takes another minute for the group to reach the end of the long, formerly-deadly tunnel, but it ends rather anti-climactically: the makeshift barricade is unmanned, 26 goblins fast asleep behind it. A stack of goblin corpses from yesterday's encounter, now stripped naked, are piled like cord-wood in the left-hand hallway. Two makeshift torches light the intersection, and one in each of the hallways to the left illuminates a door on the left side about 40' down and on the right side about 30' and 70' down. The hallway then stretches into darkness. The hallway stretches about 40' past the barricade to where it turns and makes the right-hand hallway. Also illuminated by a torch, you see a door on the right side about 20' down, then it, too, stretches into the darkness.

(Actions?)

Date: 9:43am, 26 July 2021
Light: Crowgar's Torch (until 10:00am)
Effects: None
Injuries: Bremen (minor wound), Stantz (minor wound), Clouson (minor wound), Baxtaw (minor wound), Lug (superficial wound)

[Rusty Tincanne]

any chance of getting a shot off at the fleeing pair?

[Marullus]

No, it was two rounds for you to make it to the barricade, so they got a free escape. You were charging with a Warhammer, not a bow (and everyone else specified melee as well.)

[Rusty Tincanne]

But Stantz has a bow. I thought maybe he could get a shot off.
Bremen asks if anyone has a good way to recruit the goblins. If not, he begins dispatching them with his dagger, then routing through their belongings, looking for valuables.

[Jernau35]

"I speak goblin" says Piers."And so does Osuna. Perhaps she has a means to magically charm them. I, sadly, do not."

He pauses, then adds:"We could offer them a bribe, like we did before. But I'm not sure I like the idea of wandering around with twenty-six of them surrounding us. They might just accept then decide to overwhelm us later on".