Dungeon Raiders: The Wolf's Den

[wedgeski]

He also adds a side-comment to Rejik: "Were you saying you had experience in interrogation? I forget now."

Rejik looks at him in surprise. "Not if I can help it. Dirty work best left to people who aren't being judged from on high." He leans in and points one surreptitious thumb at the roof of the cave. "Know what I mean? Let's just ask the thing some straight questions and see what happens."

 

[Jimmy Disco T]

Tock nods in response to Rejik's suggestion. "Well then, shall we see if the creature wants to speak?"

He moves to where their captive is bound, and gently prods the Hobgoblin with the butt of his halberd. As it stirs and begins to wake, he speaks in what he hopes is a level but firm tone. The nuances and subtleties of conversation are often lost on him.

"Are you awake? Will you tell us what lies behind that rock?"

 

[Li Shenron]

"Are you awake? Will you tell us what lies behind that rock?"

The hobgoblin is alive but very badly beaten. He stirs a bit but prodding doesn't seem yet enough to wake him up.

[OoC: if you want, some of you can handle the interrogation while the others can focus on studying the blocking boulder in more detail]

 

[Kobold Stew]

[OOC: Bartleby will go where he's needed, either speaking goblinese or studying stonework.]

 

[tuxgeo]

. . . He leans in and points one surreptitious thumb at the roof of the cave. "Know what I mean? Let's just ask the thing some straight questions and see what happens."

Aeiyan nods affirmatively to Rejik and watches as the downed goblin fails to respond to the first straight question.

"He seems unable," Aeiyan observes aloud. "Mayhap he needs some sort of aid, first." The ranger steps aside to weigh his suitability to the tasks at hand. He shrugs expressively, likely from a sense of personal inadequacy. "I have picked up a casual smattering of herb-lore in my travels, but that may not serve, for there are no herbs here." He steps aside farther to allow the more intimidating members of the party to question the prisoner.

Aeiyan heads toward the boulder to find if he can learn more about it.
[OOC: any check needed? he has INT 11 and WIS 14; does Nature training help?]

 

[wedgeski]

"He seems unable," Aeiyan observes aloud. "Mayhap he needs some sort of aid, first."

[OOC: Does the hobgoblin simply require stabilising or something more significant? Could the Medicine skill be used to determine that, if necessary?]

 

[Shayuri]

Sulannus watches the dealings with the captive for a little while, but finally goes to look outside, where she can call Sunbolt down and just have a nice quiet moment to herself. Finally she comes back in; the falcon perched on her wrist...clearly nervous at being in such a confined space, but sufficiently well trained not to fuss about it.

 

[Kobold Stew]

No one seems particularly interested in speaking to the hobgoblin, and it's not clear to Bartleby that anyone but him can even speak the language. (Bunch of squeaks and 33 words for carrion, but not a single word for beer, he thinks rolling his eyes to himself. Call that a language?)

Last time Bartleby attempted to negotiate with a hobgoblin, it stabbed him in the side.We gotta move, he thinks.

"Let's take a look at the doorway, everyone. Tock, can you give me a hand shifting it? Maybe someone else too?"

 

[tuxgeo]

"If we're not going to get answers out of the enemy, a quick death for it would be a mercy," Aeiyan announces to nobody in particular.

He gives up on scrutinizing the rock. Positioning himself next to it to help move it, he adds, "Ready as ever will be."

 

[wedgeski]

"If we're not going to get answers out of the enemy, a quick death for it would be a mercy," Aeiyan announces to nobody in particular.

He gives up on scrutinizing the rock. Positioning himself next to it to help move it, he adds, "Ready as ever will be."

[OOC: Rejik will of course help with this if there are no non-magical means to bring the hobgoblin around. He certainly doesn't want to use a healing potion on it.]