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<blockquote data-quote="zoroaster100" data-source="post: 4588280" data-attributes="member: 8538"><p><strong>Down with the Goblin Chief</strong></p><p></p><p>After a long hiatus due to intervention by the real world lives of the DM and players, we finally resumed playing about a month ago. Here is a brief entry for the last session before the hiatus. Soon I'll post the journal entry from the first new post-hiatus session:</p><p></p><p>The heroes once more ventured into the Keep on the Shadowfell. </p><p>This time they used strategy and caught the goblin sentries by surprise, and Rafanel and Tlaloc quietly got rid of the sentries before they could provide a warning to others. </p><p></p><p>Then the group followed the sounds of distant screaming down a twisting corridor and behind a door to a goblin torture chamber. There, a deformed hobgoblin in a leather mask and his goblin assistants plied their horrid art of inflicting pain on a hapless kobold. </p><p></p><p>A terrible fight ensued, and the torturer used a red-hot poker to stab at Lozol, the paladin. The dragonborn used his new skill to inspire the paladin to shake off the pain long enough to remove the blistering remnants of the poker from his wound, to stop the burning. Then, while the paladin, rogue, wizard, ranger and warlock chased down the goblin assistants and slew them, the hobgoblin drew a bright, gleaming shuriken to use against the heroes. But he was felled by a series of mighty blows and spells from the group before he could even hurl the weapon. Xandir the wizard used his arcane sense to identify the weapon as a magical shuriken, capable of returning to the wielder’s hand when thrown. Tlaloc claimed it as his reward from the battle.</p><p></p><p>Upon further exploration of the torture chamber, the heroes found a series of cages, including one containing a goblin prisoner. Splug the goblin proved relatively sociable, for a goblin, and convinced the heroes to let him out of his cage in exchange for leading them to the goblin chief’s chamber and revealing anything else he knew about the Keep. Splug did indeed lead the group to the chief. There the heroes faced a small horde of goblins making up the chief’s bodyguard. They encountered Balgron the Fat himself hiding behind his guards, but Balgron and his goblins proved no match for the increased skills and powers of the party of adventurers. Off in a side room, while the others finished off the chief, and out of sight of her allies, Lilith used her favorite vampiric power to siphon off the life energy of one goblin who was foolish enough to surrender to her.</p><p></p><p>After defeating the chief, the group searched the chief’s room and located his treasure chest, where a beautiful bow marked with blue gems was found. The bow, clearly of exquisite fey craftsmanship, was claimed by Rafanel, after Xandir identified it as a storm bow, a magical bow with the power to ensorcell arrows fired from it with the power of lighting.</p><p>Splug the goblin offered himself as slave to the victorious heroes, who promptly commanded the goblin to reveal what else he knew about the Keep’s lay out. Splug said that to the east there are caverns filled with rats, terrible bugs, and even worse creatures. But to the west there is something even worse, undead things guarding the way to Kalarel, new master of the Shadow Keep.</p><p></p><p>The heroes decided to go back to town to rest and re-equip, and then they must decide in which direction to try their fate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zoroaster100, post: 4588280, member: 8538"] [b]Down with the Goblin Chief[/b] After a long hiatus due to intervention by the real world lives of the DM and players, we finally resumed playing about a month ago. Here is a brief entry for the last session before the hiatus. Soon I'll post the journal entry from the first new post-hiatus session: The heroes once more ventured into the Keep on the Shadowfell. This time they used strategy and caught the goblin sentries by surprise, and Rafanel and Tlaloc quietly got rid of the sentries before they could provide a warning to others. Then the group followed the sounds of distant screaming down a twisting corridor and behind a door to a goblin torture chamber. There, a deformed hobgoblin in a leather mask and his goblin assistants plied their horrid art of inflicting pain on a hapless kobold. A terrible fight ensued, and the torturer used a red-hot poker to stab at Lozol, the paladin. The dragonborn used his new skill to inspire the paladin to shake off the pain long enough to remove the blistering remnants of the poker from his wound, to stop the burning. Then, while the paladin, rogue, wizard, ranger and warlock chased down the goblin assistants and slew them, the hobgoblin drew a bright, gleaming shuriken to use against the heroes. But he was felled by a series of mighty blows and spells from the group before he could even hurl the weapon. Xandir the wizard used his arcane sense to identify the weapon as a magical shuriken, capable of returning to the wielder’s hand when thrown. Tlaloc claimed it as his reward from the battle. Upon further exploration of the torture chamber, the heroes found a series of cages, including one containing a goblin prisoner. Splug the goblin proved relatively sociable, for a goblin, and convinced the heroes to let him out of his cage in exchange for leading them to the goblin chief’s chamber and revealing anything else he knew about the Keep. Splug did indeed lead the group to the chief. There the heroes faced a small horde of goblins making up the chief’s bodyguard. They encountered Balgron the Fat himself hiding behind his guards, but Balgron and his goblins proved no match for the increased skills and powers of the party of adventurers. Off in a side room, while the others finished off the chief, and out of sight of her allies, Lilith used her favorite vampiric power to siphon off the life energy of one goblin who was foolish enough to surrender to her. After defeating the chief, the group searched the chief’s room and located his treasure chest, where a beautiful bow marked with blue gems was found. The bow, clearly of exquisite fey craftsmanship, was claimed by Rafanel, after Xandir identified it as a storm bow, a magical bow with the power to ensorcell arrows fired from it with the power of lighting. Splug the goblin offered himself as slave to the victorious heroes, who promptly commanded the goblin to reveal what else he knew about the Keep’s lay out. Splug said that to the east there are caverns filled with rats, terrible bugs, and even worse creatures. But to the west there is something even worse, undead things guarding the way to Kalarel, new master of the Shadow Keep. The heroes decided to go back to town to rest and re-equip, and then they must decide in which direction to try their fate. [/QUOTE]
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