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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Taboo" data-source="post: 1102048" data-attributes="member: 5912">My apologies for such a long delay, it's been unavoidable, unfortunately.  I'm back and am going to try to post regularly now. Things are just now getting exciting!*********************************Lightening quick reflexes saved him from the pit trap, managing to jump back to safety just as it opened. He looked down, seeing fragments of bone and a layer of filth lining the bottom of the trap.Turk let out a sigh of relief, "Thank you Pelor, for looking over me and protecting me in my moment of need, and giving me the quickness of a cat to withstand such a ...."Thorin was talking about the filth at the bottom of the trap, and the others could hear him saying something about it being full of crap. The next thing anyone heard from him was, "Oh crap!"Suddenly, the door slammed open, surprising Turk and Thorin, and they heard goblin voices raised in anger and alarm. A nauseating wave of stench came flowing from the room, washing over the two heroes in the hallway. The goblins in the room were tripping over each other in their rush to get out of the room and to kill the outsiders in the hallway, but Thorin was in their way.The goblins were trying so hard to attack and get out through the doorway that they kept bumping each other, and wound up missing Thorin with their first wave of attacks. Turk pushed Thorin out of his way as he reached the goblin bottleneck, and attacked the goblin closest to working its way out the door. In his haste, and with the door blocking his best chance of attack, he narrowly missed his foe. The goblin took advantage of that miss by hitting back, nicking Turk as he stabbed it through the stomach. Turk twisted his blade as he pulled it back out of the goblin, aiming for the head of the creature next to it, but missing as the goblin quickly dodged to try to take its fallen partner's place.Thorin waited for an opening, and dodged past Turk into the room full of goblins. He quickly dispatched one near the door as he came through it, nearly severing its head from its neck with a well placed blow from his axe. Goblins flanked Thorin, four of them attacking at once, but hardly together.  In their haste to kill the dwarf, they attacked too quickly always missing. Thorin made quick work of the goblins surrounding him, with Turk stepping into the room once the doorway was cleared and shoving Thorin to the side in his haste to attack the foul creatures. Rek quickly joined the fray, quickly killing a goblin of his own, yelling for revenge against those who had held him captive for so long.  Between the three of them, Goblin heads went flying one direction, bodies and limbs flying another, with blood quickly painting the room red.Now that the goblins inhabiting the room were dead, the heroes could look around the foul smelling room. Thorin had been correct with his observation about the room's stench earlier when the goblins had surprised him. Aside from the foul smell and the filth that caused it, they saw half-eaten legs of animals, and battered cooking equipment around an obviously much used fire pit. The goblins had tattered hides lying around the room mixed in with garbage and rotten carrion and worn out armor.  Rek did find a couple of hand axes that were in fair condition. There were no exits in the room that they could find, disappointing Turk. They headed back to where Keirwin was guarding the only door they had not explored yet.They got back to the room where the others waited, Turk going immediately to Kierwin's side.  "Kierwin, we have been victorious! We have cleansed this area of the goblin threat.""You weren't hurt, were you?" She was looking him over, worriedly checking for wounds. "A tiny bit. This one punctured my armor, here, scratches here and here, and a small cut upon my thigh, but otherwise no, I am just slightly damaged. Pelor has filled me with his strength." Satisfied that he was ok, she remembered Thorin and Rek were also in the battle. Feeling guilty, she told Turk she should have asked if Thorin was ok. Turk replied, "Thorin? He's a tough little dwarf, he's fine.""Thorin, you didn't get hurt did you?""Nothing a couple of weeks topside with some beer wouldn't fix." Was Thorin's reply. "Lots of beer.""Kierwin, I hate to tell you this, but I think you're standing in the doorway we have to go through next. So my lady, if you'd be so kind as to take your gorgeous body and move five feet to the left, so the brute Thorin and I may stand here and bash it through, we would appreciate it. Come, Thorin!  Let us take your axe and my great sword and clear the way!"Thorin listened at the door and didn't hear anything coming from the other side. They checked the door and it wasn't locked, so they opened it, rather than bashing it down. They saw a square room that looked like a storage room. There were barrels and crates stacked to the ceiling along the walls with a clear path to the door on the other side.  "I wonder if any of these barrel have beer..." Thorin headed for a nearby barrel."Well, you check the barrels, I'm going straight to the door." Turk headed for the door on the other side of the room.Thorin opened one of the barrels, it had something funky in it. Other barrels were leaking some kind of nasty water on the floor. Some light was shining on one of the barrels, it was filled with oil. Thorin could see writing on another barrel, in goblin, it said "Elf Pudding." They didn't know what he read, but he exclaimed "Oh Yuck!" when he read it, the others decided not to ask what it was.Thorin joined Turk at the door, checking to see if there was any sound behind it. Not hearing anything, Turk opened the door. They immediately recognized the smoky room behind the door. It was the last room they'd gone into before heading back to town, the room where they'd faced so many goblins and hobgoblins. When they'd returned to the Sunless Citadel, they'd gone the other direction.Turk took the left, Thorin took the right and Reyk and Kierwin went up the middle of the room.  Geirmund stayed in the rear with Snap and Minx who were making a point of staying together away from the others. Thorin came to a door, listened briefly and opened it. Turk couldn't see what Thorin was up to and kept moving down the hallway. Rek and Kierwin followed Turk, but stayed toward the middle of the hall. The smoke was so thick that they couldn't tell if there were any enemies about, and none of them had any idea that Thorin had gone into a small room by himself.Kierwin realized that she'd lost Turk, he was off down the hall by himself, out of sight. She whispered to him with no response. She could barely tell what Thorin was doing, but she knew he was getting ready to go into a room or hallway alone and she didn't know what to do. Go follow Thorin or try to find Turk?Thorin saw a room adorned with stuffed and mounted animal heads on the walls, including cattle and rats and even Kobolds. A rather sick assortment and poorly done.  Smashed and broken cabinets were along the walls on the floor as though something had smashed through the room breaking everything in its way.  There was a rusted iron spike stood askew in the center of the room with a broken chain hanging from it.  This sections of ice coated the walls, the floor, and the debris in the room. Thorin closed the door and walked down the hallway, not realizing what he had just overlooked. They all reached the end of the hallway, where Turk stood guarding the door at the end."I saw more doors, back down the hall. Someone should guard this door, while we go check those." Turk whispered to the others.Kierwin stayed at the door at the end of the hall. Geirmund noticed something moving in the room that Thorin had briefly investigated and told Turk, who promptly went to the room in question. "Kierwin, stay here and guard the door, we don't want anything sneaking in behind us. Where is it, Geirmund? I'll find it, I'll kill whatever it is." With that, he was gone, in search of whatever quarry was hiding in the icy room.He walked into the room, surrounded by smashed furniture. Suddenly, he was surprised by a dragon that hopped up from behind the wreckage. "It's the white dragon! Thank you, Pelor!"Turk barely had time to register that the dragon wasn't exactly white. It had a mauve color to it, radiating throughout the white. As the odd coloring occurred to him, the dragon let him feel it's icy breath, but it burned, too. The dragon breathed ice, but there was acid in it too. Turk yelled as the ice and acid hit him. The dragon followed that up by biting Turk, pressing his advantage, refusing to back down.</blockquote>

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