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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nail" data-source="post: 1244585" data-attributes="member: 224">An update!Session #19: "Short Secrets"RL evening of Oct 16, 2003The adventurers thought long and hard about what their goblin captives had told them.  These were the Bloody Skull tribe of goblins, driven out of their caves by the same strange light that had driven the kobolds out of Alderslook.  These goblins, lead by a goblin priest named Calebbleed, had fled to Alderslook and settled here, and had apparently begun some sort of trade between themselves and "some humans" nearby.  Thaile had seen a human and another (of one of the short races) leave Alderslook last night, and it had been agreed that these two were either the Warden’s men from Eaglesford, or perhaps the peddler Jungles and his bodyguard Grunt.  In either case, there would be much to discuss with Lord Aelric upon the party’s return to Eaglesford.Garret and Thaile pressed the goblin captives about the lay-out of the rest of the lair below.  The goblins said that past the stairs (on which they were now sitting), there were three large halls, with several side passages.  The final large hall was "Calebbleed’s Place", perhaps a throne-room of some kind.  Apparently the goblins had been busy digging through much of the rubble below, looking for great orcish treasures.  They hadn’t found much....just several areas of "bad magic" that the goblins had learned to stay away from.The adventurers got together to discuss their plans."This is likely to be a tough fight," Garret began, "We might loose someone.  This is their den, and there are lots of them.  The one person we can’t afford to loose is Kytum-up."  Garret nodded in the kobold’s direction.  "He’s the only one here that knows the way down further.  I think it’s best if we spread out that risk.  Kytum-up, could you tell us where we need to go once the goblins have been cleaned out?"The diminutive draconoid paused, digesting what Garret, translated for him by Thaile, had said.  He shook his head slowly."I was instructed," said Kytum-up in draconic, "by my leader, Mulu-kik-yip, not to tell you surface dwellers where the final door was.  Once we had secured it, I was to thank you all, then ask that you leave, and that I alone was to go on."Thaile paused translating for Garret, mid-sentence, a look of open astonishment on her face.  "You weren't supposed to tell us...." she began.Kytum-up continued quickly, "It is not that we do not trust you......You surface dwellers have shown us that like any others, there is good in your races.   You have earned our trust in more ways that we can count.  But there are others that we still do not trust, and we do not know how they might be able to worm the information from your minds."Garret was the first to respond, before Thaile had even finished translating the draconic into common.  "I can understand, but surely you can see the danger here?  We might not be able to find the entrance to your former lair if you fall in battle!  What will we do if you are gone?"The other party members murmured agreement.Garret went on, "Look: why don’t you pick one of us, and tell that one person the way to go?  I would be happy to volunteer for that duty."Thaile translated this for Kytum-up.  The kobold slowly looked around the group, looking into the eyes of each, as if trying to measure the depths of their souls.  At last his gaze rested on Garret."Your idea is a good one, Garret, Holy Warrior of the Merciful Goddess.  I would that I could share my secret with you, and you alone.  ...But you do not speak my language, nor do I speak yours, so I will have to choose another."The kobold’s piercing gaze traveled once again over the group.  As his gaze met Thaile’s, she blushed slightly; for just an instant her desire to hold the dragon idol flashed across her face.  The kobold’s gaze moved on, and rested on Rowan.  "I will tell Rowan," Kytum-up said softly.  "For now she alone will know the secret of entrance into my people’s kingdom."Kytum-up and the druid went off a short distance, and had a hushed conversation.  (And if Garret heard short snatches of what they spoke, what of it?)More of Session #19 to come!</blockquote>

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