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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lazybones" data-source="post: 9802197" data-attributes="member: 143">Chapter 24“Doors,” Ravani said. “That’s new. And lovely décor,” he added, nodding toward the bleached skulls set in niches to either side.“There’s writing on it,” Greghan said. He advanced closer to the double-doors that blocked the entrance of the cave, and peered at the bloodstained sign tacked onto the wood. “It says, ‘Come in! We’d like to have you for dinner.’”Ravani waved his hand in an elaborate gesture. “See! See! This is what I was talking about, before.”“Doesn’t scream ‘cult headquarters’ to me,” Folgar said. “Probably more hostile humanoids.”“Unless they’d doing it as a misdirection,” Ravani said. “Fortifications… that definitely seems like something our cult would be in for.”“Should we check another cave?” Greghan asked.“Why don’t we see whether it’s locked, first,” Leana said.“What kind of idiot builds a door and then doesn’t lock it?” Ravani said, but he blinked as Greghan pushed one of the heavy portals open. “Okay, I take it back,” he said. “Maybe it is the cult.”It was dark inside, and Leana was quick to invoke magical light again from her sigil. The bright glow revealed a corridor that forked to the left and continued straight ahead into the interior of the hillside. The surfaces here were worked stone, and clean, without even a speck of dust visible on the floor. Directly to their right as they entered was a nasty-looking barricade made out of bundled spears, their jagged points jutting out toward them. Behind the barricade, an armored woman with red-orange skin and tufted ears leapt into view. “Halt!” she yelled. “State your business or face the wrath of our battalion—thirty hobgoblins strong.”“Thirty?” Ravani and Greghan both said at the same time.“We are not intruders,” Leana said earnestly. “Your door was open.”“You come armed for war,” the sentry said.“We only use our weapons in self-defense,” Leana said.“Hobgoblins?” Greghan whispered to Folgar. The dwarf just nodded, saving explanations for later, his eyes scanning the barricade. Ravani was looking down the two passages, looking for any signs of an ambush. When he peered into the one behind them, the side fork that extended opposite the barricade, he paused, listening. The passage only went for about twenty feet before it turned sharply to the right, out of view of the entrance.“You will find ourselves better prepared to defend ourselves than the goblins,” the hobgoblin guard was saying. Thus far she’d made no move for her sword or the strung longbow slung across her back, but her demeanor had not gotten any friendlier as she continued to chat with Leana. The halfling was just starting to ask about whether they knew anything about the cult when the elf hissed, “She’s trying to delay us—what is that?”Greghan turned to see a massive, quivering blob come around the corner of the passage behind them. The thing almost completely filled the passage, and as the light from Leana’s sigil shone on it he could see things hovering inside its shimmering mass. As it squelched forward around the bend he could see what they were: humanoid bones, suspended inside it.“Jelly cube!” Ravani cried, as the thing began to lurch toward them.Game Notes:Leana:Wisdom (Insight): 6 (+2): 8 vs. DC 13 (Failure)Charisma (Persuasion): 9 (+2): 11 vs. DC 14 (Failure)</blockquote>

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