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<blockquote data-quote="wsclark" data-source="post: 796" data-attributes="member: 97"><p><strong>Session IV - Captured!</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Harvest 27th, 744 YND</strong></p><p></p><p>The party gets up the next morning to continue their trek to the Dark Hills. Girion estimates that they will reach the beginning of the area by the end of the day. Other than Chin chasing another boar late in the day, the time traveling is uneventful.</p><p></p><p>They camp for the night just inside the Rokk Forest and spend a blissful evening.</p><p></p><p><strong>Harvest 28th, 744 YND</strong></p><p></p><p>The group gets up nicely refreshed and begins their searching of the Dark Hills. This section of the Vry Naasu Headlands is almost a small mountain range twenty miles long and half as wide. The hills are steep and treacherous, dangerous and dark. Crevasses and dark gullies, some of which are hidden by the deadfalls or accumulation of leaves or debris make the place even more hazardous. The trees that grow here are stunted and warped. After searching for half of the day, the group finds, in the very center of the hill, the crater of the meteor.</p><p></p><p>They survey the site of the crater, noticing movement in the center where a large rock is located. They look a little more closely and see a couple of goblins apparently working of the fallen star. They also see a hut off to the right of where they are, right at the lip of the crash site, as well as two cave entrances to the left, about 20 feet down into the crater. The group chats momentarily and then decides to investigate the hut first by moving to the back of it through the tree line around the crater. What a noise bunch this is!</p><p></p><p>A not to small amount of clanking is made as the group moves through the woods. The goblins by the meteor take notice and look in the general direction. They fail to notice anything significant, but one does go to one of the caves. The group makes it to the rear of the hut, sending Daloren off to check it out.</p><p></p><p>He sneaks over to the back end of the hut. It is built from what appears to be charred wood and stands unguarded. Poorly laid wooden shingles top the shack, though the chimney and exterior of an obvious fireplace of stone and mortar appear better constructed. There is smoke bellowing out of the chimney.</p><p></p><p>He finds a shuttered window in the rear of the shack, closed. Traveling around to the front, he sees another shuttered window as well as a single door, locked by a chain and lock on the outside, both of which are steel and very new. Moving back towards the rear of the shack, he finds a crack large enough to look in through.</p><p></p><p>Several candles and a fire in the fireplace illuminate this room. Standing in the center of the room is a short, fat man with curly gray hair on the sides of his balding head. He wears an odd cap that seems to be simply a bill strapped to his head. His rough clothing is covered by a leather apron out of the pockets of which jut several pieces of chalk, small tools, and a long piece of charcoal. A chain connects the manacle on his leg to the largest stone in the fireplace. A tiny silver piece glows in the coals of the furnace.</p><p></p><p>A large forge, bellows and two barrels full of a dark liquid stand near the fireplace. Three tables covered with lab equipment, papers, scrolls and books, almost fill the room. The stench of sulfur, chemicals, blood and smoke lay heavy upon the place. A tapestry hanging from a rod covers another room or closet across from the fireplace.</p><p></p><p>Daloren heads back to the woods and tells the others what he saw. Pug decides to take his crowbar to task on the shuttered window in the rear of the shack. Moving into position, he cannot help but make a little bit of noise. He gets to the window and tries to open it with his crowbar. Unbeknownst to him, the goblins in the center of the crater hear him and decide to investigate. They start walking towards the shack.</p><p></p><p>Pug continues to work on the window, trying to find a spot to get the crowbar in. He has had no success so far. All of a sudden, he hears a lion roar about 30 ft. to his left. The ghost sound cast by Lulla <em>(DM's note: innate spell ability due to being a gnome)</em> has caught him off guard for a moment until he sees the group behind him in the woods signaling that it is all right. He continues, unsuccessfully, to open the shuttered window.</p><p></p><p>The goblins heading for the shack pause momentarily and then move to the front of the shack. Two goblins move to each corner in the front of the hut while the other two start going towards the rear of the shack along each side. Neither Pug nor the goblins see each other. Pug moves to the corner of the shack, giving up on the window. The goblin heading down the side towards Pug spots Pug at the same moment as Pug spots him. Battle ensues.</p><p></p><p>Daloren heads out from the woods running up to attack the goblin in front of Pug. Pug swings at the goblin and misses. Girion, the guide they have hired, follows Daloren and takes the goblin down. The goblin at the corner of the shack that can see this yells something out, before moving forward to get in the way of the three. Chin then moves to the other end of the rear of the shack, shortly followed by Shaedra. Lulla also moves toward where Chin is, but stays in the woods. A goblin peeks his head around the corner and upon finding Chin there, turns around taking off. Chin is too startled to do anything about it. </p><p></p><p>Unknown to the group, the last goblin has already started running back to the cave on the other side of the crater to inform his leader that the sounds they heard earlier are a bunch of humanoids attacking them from the shack. He has gone for reinforcements....</p><p></p><p>Daloren overheard what the goblin yelled out and sees the goblin running across the crater, informing his compatriots that he is going to get help. Pug, Daloren and Girion continue their assault on the goblin who moved up in front of them, removing the threat. Chin takes off at a flat run after the goblin, unaware that two have actually started back toward the caves. He is able to catch up to the closer one, getting in front of him. The goblin attacks Chin, wounding him. Shaedra and Lulla move to the rear shuttered window.</p><p></p><p>Daloren heads to the front door, checking out the chain and lock in detail. Girion and Pug head over to the lip of the crater in front of the shack. Pug takes out a javelin, throwing it at the goblin standing by Chin. Pug is not having a good day, missing the goblin horribly and severely wounding Chin, who is now barely able to stand. The other goblin left runs into the cave. Meanwhile, Shaedra bashes the shutter to pieces.</p><p></p><p>Daloren, Pug and Girion make towards Chin to help him out, while Chin extracts himself from the goblin in order to find Lulla. The goblin attacks Daloren nicking him. Shaedra and Lulla climb in the now opened window at the rear of the shack.</p><p></p><p>Daloren finally finishes off the last goblin in sight, while Pug and Girion move back to the shack. Chin gets around the back of the shack to the window. Shaedra peeks around the curtain in the shack to see Arowain, chained to the fireplace. Lulla starts to heal Chin after which he climbs into the shack.</p><p></p><p>There is a short lull <em>(DM's note: really short, like about 18 seconds worth)</em> in the action, which allows everyone to get inside the shack, except for Girion who remains outside guarding the crater, when he sees at least a dozen goblins running out of the cave. Shaedra manages to find out that Arowain is here against his will and wants to be freed. But before that can happen, 17 goblins storm the shack.</p><p></p><p>Just as some of the goblins reach the front of the shack, Lulla opens the shutters on the other window to get a clear view. Goblins start trying to jump through the window, some succeeding. Others run around the back of the shack, some go straight to the front door and 3 confront Girion outside. The battle continues....</p><p></p><p>Three goblins have gotten inside from the front, with more on the way. Others are attacking the door. Chin has gone back out the rear to attack the goblins approaching there. He is pinned by three of them. Girion is holding his own for the moment. The door is splintering. Daloren heads to the front window inside the shack to help out Lulla, dropping a light mace at the feet of Arowain on the way. Pug and Shaedra move the combat the goblins entering through the window.</p><p></p><p>Shaedra has started to kill a couple of the beasties while they plink away at Lulla. Suddenly, the front door bursts into pieces and more goblins start to pour in. Pug is the first to go down, unconscious <em>(DM's note: subdual, barely.)</em> He is shortly followed by Lulla <em>(DM's note: subdual, barely.)</em> Chin climbs back inside while two goblins follow after him through the rear window. Three more are still outside trying to hit him.</p><p></p><p>Chin attacks one of the goblins that followed him inside, tripping himself, falling to the floor, stunned. The goblins whack him over the head, into unconsciousness <em>(DM's note: he still has some hit points left, the hits were subdual damage, again.)</em> Now only Daloren, Shaedra and Girion remain, as well as Arowain, who is strangely enough, not being attacked even though he is striking the goblins with the mace.</p><p></p><p>Daloren goes down next <em>(DM's note: subdual, barely.)</em> Now it's Shaedra inside, Girion outside and still 10 goblins between them. Girion takes out one more before being wounded and out of action <em>(DM's note: -2 hit points, stablized at -6.)</em> This leaves Shaedra alone. She valiantly stands surrounded taking out 2 more goblins before she succumbs to the blows <em>(DM's note: again, subdual, barely.)</em></p><p></p><p>The party has been captured.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wsclark, post: 796, member: 97"] [b]Session IV - Captured![/b] [b]Harvest 27th, 744 YND[/b] The party gets up the next morning to continue their trek to the Dark Hills. Girion estimates that they will reach the beginning of the area by the end of the day. Other than Chin chasing another boar late in the day, the time traveling is uneventful. They camp for the night just inside the Rokk Forest and spend a blissful evening. [b]Harvest 28th, 744 YND[/b] The group gets up nicely refreshed and begins their searching of the Dark Hills. This section of the Vry Naasu Headlands is almost a small mountain range twenty miles long and half as wide. The hills are steep and treacherous, dangerous and dark. Crevasses and dark gullies, some of which are hidden by the deadfalls or accumulation of leaves or debris make the place even more hazardous. The trees that grow here are stunted and warped. After searching for half of the day, the group finds, in the very center of the hill, the crater of the meteor. They survey the site of the crater, noticing movement in the center where a large rock is located. They look a little more closely and see a couple of goblins apparently working of the fallen star. They also see a hut off to the right of where they are, right at the lip of the crash site, as well as two cave entrances to the left, about 20 feet down into the crater. The group chats momentarily and then decides to investigate the hut first by moving to the back of it through the tree line around the crater. What a noise bunch this is! A not to small amount of clanking is made as the group moves through the woods. The goblins by the meteor take notice and look in the general direction. They fail to notice anything significant, but one does go to one of the caves. The group makes it to the rear of the hut, sending Daloren off to check it out. He sneaks over to the back end of the hut. It is built from what appears to be charred wood and stands unguarded. Poorly laid wooden shingles top the shack, though the chimney and exterior of an obvious fireplace of stone and mortar appear better constructed. There is smoke bellowing out of the chimney. He finds a shuttered window in the rear of the shack, closed. Traveling around to the front, he sees another shuttered window as well as a single door, locked by a chain and lock on the outside, both of which are steel and very new. Moving back towards the rear of the shack, he finds a crack large enough to look in through. Several candles and a fire in the fireplace illuminate this room. Standing in the center of the room is a short, fat man with curly gray hair on the sides of his balding head. He wears an odd cap that seems to be simply a bill strapped to his head. His rough clothing is covered by a leather apron out of the pockets of which jut several pieces of chalk, small tools, and a long piece of charcoal. A chain connects the manacle on his leg to the largest stone in the fireplace. A tiny silver piece glows in the coals of the furnace. A large forge, bellows and two barrels full of a dark liquid stand near the fireplace. Three tables covered with lab equipment, papers, scrolls and books, almost fill the room. The stench of sulfur, chemicals, blood and smoke lay heavy upon the place. A tapestry hanging from a rod covers another room or closet across from the fireplace. Daloren heads back to the woods and tells the others what he saw. Pug decides to take his crowbar to task on the shuttered window in the rear of the shack. Moving into position, he cannot help but make a little bit of noise. He gets to the window and tries to open it with his crowbar. Unbeknownst to him, the goblins in the center of the crater hear him and decide to investigate. They start walking towards the shack. Pug continues to work on the window, trying to find a spot to get the crowbar in. He has had no success so far. All of a sudden, he hears a lion roar about 30 ft. to his left. The ghost sound cast by Lulla [i](DM's note: innate spell ability due to being a gnome)[/i] has caught him off guard for a moment until he sees the group behind him in the woods signaling that it is all right. He continues, unsuccessfully, to open the shuttered window. The goblins heading for the shack pause momentarily and then move to the front of the shack. Two goblins move to each corner in the front of the hut while the other two start going towards the rear of the shack along each side. Neither Pug nor the goblins see each other. Pug moves to the corner of the shack, giving up on the window. The goblin heading down the side towards Pug spots Pug at the same moment as Pug spots him. Battle ensues. Daloren heads out from the woods running up to attack the goblin in front of Pug. Pug swings at the goblin and misses. Girion, the guide they have hired, follows Daloren and takes the goblin down. The goblin at the corner of the shack that can see this yells something out, before moving forward to get in the way of the three. Chin then moves to the other end of the rear of the shack, shortly followed by Shaedra. Lulla also moves toward where Chin is, but stays in the woods. A goblin peeks his head around the corner and upon finding Chin there, turns around taking off. Chin is too startled to do anything about it. Unknown to the group, the last goblin has already started running back to the cave on the other side of the crater to inform his leader that the sounds they heard earlier are a bunch of humanoids attacking them from the shack. He has gone for reinforcements.... Daloren overheard what the goblin yelled out and sees the goblin running across the crater, informing his compatriots that he is going to get help. Pug, Daloren and Girion continue their assault on the goblin who moved up in front of them, removing the threat. Chin takes off at a flat run after the goblin, unaware that two have actually started back toward the caves. He is able to catch up to the closer one, getting in front of him. The goblin attacks Chin, wounding him. Shaedra and Lulla move to the rear shuttered window. Daloren heads to the front door, checking out the chain and lock in detail. Girion and Pug head over to the lip of the crater in front of the shack. Pug takes out a javelin, throwing it at the goblin standing by Chin. Pug is not having a good day, missing the goblin horribly and severely wounding Chin, who is now barely able to stand. The other goblin left runs into the cave. Meanwhile, Shaedra bashes the shutter to pieces. Daloren, Pug and Girion make towards Chin to help him out, while Chin extracts himself from the goblin in order to find Lulla. The goblin attacks Daloren nicking him. Shaedra and Lulla climb in the now opened window at the rear of the shack. Daloren finally finishes off the last goblin in sight, while Pug and Girion move back to the shack. Chin gets around the back of the shack to the window. Shaedra peeks around the curtain in the shack to see Arowain, chained to the fireplace. Lulla starts to heal Chin after which he climbs into the shack. There is a short lull [i](DM's note: really short, like about 18 seconds worth)[/i] in the action, which allows everyone to get inside the shack, except for Girion who remains outside guarding the crater, when he sees at least a dozen goblins running out of the cave. Shaedra manages to find out that Arowain is here against his will and wants to be freed. But before that can happen, 17 goblins storm the shack. Just as some of the goblins reach the front of the shack, Lulla opens the shutters on the other window to get a clear view. Goblins start trying to jump through the window, some succeeding. Others run around the back of the shack, some go straight to the front door and 3 confront Girion outside. The battle continues.... Three goblins have gotten inside from the front, with more on the way. Others are attacking the door. Chin has gone back out the rear to attack the goblins approaching there. He is pinned by three of them. Girion is holding his own for the moment. The door is splintering. Daloren heads to the front window inside the shack to help out Lulla, dropping a light mace at the feet of Arowain on the way. Pug and Shaedra move the combat the goblins entering through the window. Shaedra has started to kill a couple of the beasties while they plink away at Lulla. Suddenly, the front door bursts into pieces and more goblins start to pour in. Pug is the first to go down, unconscious [i](DM's note: subdual, barely.)[/i] He is shortly followed by Lulla [i](DM's note: subdual, barely.)[/i] Chin climbs back inside while two goblins follow after him through the rear window. Three more are still outside trying to hit him. Chin attacks one of the goblins that followed him inside, tripping himself, falling to the floor, stunned. The goblins whack him over the head, into unconsciousness [i](DM's note: he still has some hit points left, the hits were subdual damage, again.)[/i] Now only Daloren, Shaedra and Girion remain, as well as Arowain, who is strangely enough, not being attacked even though he is striking the goblins with the mace. Daloren goes down next [i](DM's note: subdual, barely.)[/i] Now it's Shaedra inside, Girion outside and still 10 goblins between them. Girion takes out one more before being wounded and out of action [i](DM's note: -2 hit points, stablized at -6.)[/i] This leaves Shaedra alone. She valiantly stands surrounded taking out 2 more goblins before she succumbs to the blows [i](DM's note: again, subdual, barely.)[/i] The party has been captured. [/QUOTE]
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