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<blockquote data-quote="Nebulous" data-source="post: 4579960" data-attributes="member: 31465"><p><span style="font-size: 15px">Adventure #6: Splug!</span></p><p></p><p><strong>PART TWO</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>They discuss their options and look over the hastily drawn map for Merp the Moneylender in Silverymoon. There are four places they have not searched, and they decide to backtrack to the top level and explore there first, rather than entering the large double doors. Leaving enemies behind them just doesn’t seem like a good idea and could compound their problems later.</p><p></p><p>So, back at the top level, they look under beds in the guard room and find some gold, and then it’s off to the north where they saw a light. Erevan runs upstairs to the surface first to check the status. It’s been raining and is cloudy now, but there is no indication of foes lurking outside. Good. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/keep/tor1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The hall to the north widens to reveal a wood door on the west, a wood door to the north, and black iron double doors on the east. All are closed. A lantern hangs on the wall, shedding wobbly light. Kerric and Brandis creep forward, weapons extended, their ears perked for the slightest sign of trouble. Kerric hears gruff voices behind the north door but can’t understand the language. Erevan presses an ear to the cold iron double doors and hears nothing. Likewise, the wood door to the west is silent. Brandis gets closer to the north doors and hears a strange conversation beyond, spoken in goblin between three individuals, and it concerns eating someone’s fingers and toes!</p><p></p><p>Kerric clearly hears a fourth voice wailing, “NO! No nononononononono!”</p><p></p><p>They discuss their options, and Irann picks the lock on the west door. There’s a storage room beyond filled with dry rations. Nothing of particular interest. However, they tie the handles on the iron doors together with rope so that if anyone tries to exit it will be very difficult, if not impossible.</p><p></p><p>The group clusters around the door where they heard voices. Helga touches the handle. It’s unlocked. Licking her lips, she gently pushes it open a sliver, revealing a few closed jail cells. She opens it a little wider, revealing more and more of the chamber, and then swings it all the way!</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.zikadik.com/shadowfell/tor2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>There’s a man-sized person in here, his face obscured by a black torturer’s mask, and wearing a black apron and leather armor. He’s bending over a flame pit with two burning hot pokers. There are also two small armed goblins immediately visible.</p><p></p><p>“Who are YOU?” the torturer grunts, but doesn’t wait for an answer. He launches toward the dwarf with a raucous battle cry even as the two goblins whip out bows and begin peppering the heroes with tiny – yet horribly accurate - arrows. Helga plants her feet and meets the torturer head on, but his poker thrusts into her shoulder and the cloth beneath immediately smolders and ignites. Brandis jabs through the doorway with his halberd, gouging the torturer in the ribcage. He howls in pain, but doesn’t stop twisting the poker in Helga’s shoulder. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.zikadik.com/shadowfell/tor3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Kerric and Brandis both try to help pat out the flames, but they’re unable to accomplish much in the chaos of the fight. <span style="color: red">[GM Note: Thinking back on it, using a minor to get out a canteen, and then a Standard to dump it on the small flames could A) Put them out, or B) Give an additional saving throw, or C) Give a bonus to the saving throw].</span> Vicious blows are exchanged in the doorway, and all the while two goblin sharpshooters are launching arrows with cruel accuracy. Helga is Bloodied and forced to back off. The torturer is hampered by numerous conditions himself, but as soon as he retreats from the door it slams shut in the hero’s faces. Someone was behind it the whole time waiting for him to move out of the way.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/keep/tor4.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/keep/tor5.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Not wanting that to happen again, Kerric retrieves a broom handle from the storage room and crams it into the door jamb so that it can’t be closed. Helga bursts in, a permanent scowl on her face, and nearly gets stabbed in the spleen by a waiting goblin beside the door. She deflects the blow and hammers the butt of her axe onto his head. Arrows whistle at her, and then Kerric and Brandis surge into the room, taking the fight to the archers. </p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, needless to say, the wizard has been throwing magic missiles through the open door while the warlock curses and eldritch blasts anyone she can see. They’re safely nestled out of melee combat reach.</p><p></p><p>The masked torturer leaps back into the fray, and Helga is dismayed when multiple attacks from she and her comrades seem to harmlessly bounce off his leather jerkin! Chuckling evilly, the torturer stabs down again and again, but fails to make a connection with Helga, who finally plants her axe deep into the crown of his head. Blood spurts out in a crimson shower and the man keels over backwards, dead. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/keep/tor6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/keep/tor7.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Kerric and Brandis find a third goblin archer inside a cage in the corner of the room, and as soon as they’re in sight he starts shooting. Kerric soon skewers an archer into the wall, and Helga charges the one in the cage. They try to intimidate the goblin into submission and surrender (and only fail by a single point) but the goblin is incensed and willing to fight to the death, so Helga obliges him. Snickety-snick.</p><p></p><p>Once the fight is over they search around the room. It’s obviously a torture chamber, replete with cruel instruments of pain, and even an iron maiden. Erevan detects magic on the armor the torturer wore and finds that it bears a minor Bloodcut enchantment. Despite the stink and the blood, he puts the armor on. They investigate the prisoner cells, and that’s where they find the creature who previously shrieked “NO nononono!”</p><p></p><p>There is a pathetic-looking goblin hunched in the back of the cell, a pot over his head and covering his eyes. There are curious burn marks adorning his face and arms. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/keep/splug.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p><img src="http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/keep/splug2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>“Who are you?” asks Kerric, “and why are you in here?”</p><p></p><p>“Me Splug, mm-hmmm,” the goblin answers, peeking out with one eye from under the kettle. “Don’t you eat me, mmhmmm!”</p><p></p><p><span style="color: red">[GM Note: Splug’s voice and mannerisms were liberally borrowed from Billy Bob Thornton in Slingblade]</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nebulous, post: 4579960, member: 31465"] [SIZE=4]Adventure #6: Splug![/SIZE] [B]PART TWO[/B] They discuss their options and look over the hastily drawn map for Merp the Moneylender in Silverymoon. There are four places they have not searched, and they decide to backtrack to the top level and explore there first, rather than entering the large double doors. Leaving enemies behind them just doesn’t seem like a good idea and could compound their problems later. So, back at the top level, they look under beds in the guard room and find some gold, and then it’s off to the north where they saw a light. Erevan runs upstairs to the surface first to check the status. It’s been raining and is cloudy now, but there is no indication of foes lurking outside. Good. [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/keep/tor1.jpg[/img] The hall to the north widens to reveal a wood door on the west, a wood door to the north, and black iron double doors on the east. All are closed. A lantern hangs on the wall, shedding wobbly light. Kerric and Brandis creep forward, weapons extended, their ears perked for the slightest sign of trouble. Kerric hears gruff voices behind the north door but can’t understand the language. Erevan presses an ear to the cold iron double doors and hears nothing. Likewise, the wood door to the west is silent. Brandis gets closer to the north doors and hears a strange conversation beyond, spoken in goblin between three individuals, and it concerns eating someone’s fingers and toes! Kerric clearly hears a fourth voice wailing, “NO! No nononononononono!” They discuss their options, and Irann picks the lock on the west door. There’s a storage room beyond filled with dry rations. Nothing of particular interest. However, they tie the handles on the iron doors together with rope so that if anyone tries to exit it will be very difficult, if not impossible. The group clusters around the door where they heard voices. Helga touches the handle. It’s unlocked. Licking her lips, she gently pushes it open a sliver, revealing a few closed jail cells. She opens it a little wider, revealing more and more of the chamber, and then swings it all the way! [img]http://www.zikadik.com/shadowfell/tor2.jpg[/img] There’s a man-sized person in here, his face obscured by a black torturer’s mask, and wearing a black apron and leather armor. He’s bending over a flame pit with two burning hot pokers. There are also two small armed goblins immediately visible. “Who are YOU?” the torturer grunts, but doesn’t wait for an answer. He launches toward the dwarf with a raucous battle cry even as the two goblins whip out bows and begin peppering the heroes with tiny – yet horribly accurate - arrows. Helga plants her feet and meets the torturer head on, but his poker thrusts into her shoulder and the cloth beneath immediately smolders and ignites. Brandis jabs through the doorway with his halberd, gouging the torturer in the ribcage. He howls in pain, but doesn’t stop twisting the poker in Helga’s shoulder. [img]http://www.zikadik.com/shadowfell/tor3.jpg[/img] Kerric and Brandis both try to help pat out the flames, but they’re unable to accomplish much in the chaos of the fight. [color=red][GM Note: Thinking back on it, using a minor to get out a canteen, and then a Standard to dump it on the small flames could A) Put them out, or B) Give an additional saving throw, or C) Give a bonus to the saving throw].[/color] Vicious blows are exchanged in the doorway, and all the while two goblin sharpshooters are launching arrows with cruel accuracy. Helga is Bloodied and forced to back off. The torturer is hampered by numerous conditions himself, but as soon as he retreats from the door it slams shut in the hero’s faces. Someone was behind it the whole time waiting for him to move out of the way. [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/keep/tor4.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/keep/tor5.jpg[/img] Not wanting that to happen again, Kerric retrieves a broom handle from the storage room and crams it into the door jamb so that it can’t be closed. Helga bursts in, a permanent scowl on her face, and nearly gets stabbed in the spleen by a waiting goblin beside the door. She deflects the blow and hammers the butt of her axe onto his head. Arrows whistle at her, and then Kerric and Brandis surge into the room, taking the fight to the archers. Meanwhile, needless to say, the wizard has been throwing magic missiles through the open door while the warlock curses and eldritch blasts anyone she can see. They’re safely nestled out of melee combat reach. The masked torturer leaps back into the fray, and Helga is dismayed when multiple attacks from she and her comrades seem to harmlessly bounce off his leather jerkin! Chuckling evilly, the torturer stabs down again and again, but fails to make a connection with Helga, who finally plants her axe deep into the crown of his head. Blood spurts out in a crimson shower and the man keels over backwards, dead. [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/keep/tor6.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/keep/tor7.jpg[/img] Kerric and Brandis find a third goblin archer inside a cage in the corner of the room, and as soon as they’re in sight he starts shooting. Kerric soon skewers an archer into the wall, and Helga charges the one in the cage. They try to intimidate the goblin into submission and surrender (and only fail by a single point) but the goblin is incensed and willing to fight to the death, so Helga obliges him. Snickety-snick. Once the fight is over they search around the room. It’s obviously a torture chamber, replete with cruel instruments of pain, and even an iron maiden. Erevan detects magic on the armor the torturer wore and finds that it bears a minor Bloodcut enchantment. Despite the stink and the blood, he puts the armor on. They investigate the prisoner cells, and that’s where they find the creature who previously shrieked “NO nononono!” There is a pathetic-looking goblin hunched in the back of the cell, a pot over his head and covering his eyes. There are curious burn marks adorning his face and arms. [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/keep/splug.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.med.unc.edu/~saasha/keep/splug2.jpg[/img] “Who are you?” asks Kerric, “and why are you in here?” “Me Splug, mm-hmmm,” the goblin answers, peeking out with one eye from under the kettle. “Don’t you eat me, mmhmmm!” [color=red][GM Note: Splug’s voice and mannerisms were liberally borrowed from Billy Bob Thornton in Slingblade][/color] [/QUOTE]
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