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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Taboo" data-source="post: 1117690" data-attributes="member: 5912">The others stood back, expecting Turk to get a face full of acid. Turk couldn't see into the tunnel, it was dark. "Thorin, I'll push you up, you can see in the dark.""Alright." Thorin reluctantly looked in the hole, expecting to be attacked, but he knew that Turk  had looked through there and hadn't gotten himself killed. He couldn't see anything but an empty tunnel that curved around to where he couldn't see anymore. It looked like something had dug its way through there."So, it's probably not in there anymore. Let's go down the hall, let's don't let it get away." Turk took off down the hallway, with the others trailing behind him.They came to two doors. One at the end of the hall and one on the left side of the hall.Kierwin said "I don't see anymore holes anywhere and both doors are closed."Turk nodded. "So the dragon knows how to open up doors. Smart dragon."They heard voices behind one of the doors. Turk motioned for Kierwin to walk over to him. "I hear voices behind this door. I don't want to be surprised by anything coming through the other door. You stay here at that door and guard it while we open this one and deal with whatever's behind it."He quickly opened the door, heading in. It opened to a large, circular chamber with a large hole right in the middle of the floor.  There was a dim violet light shining up out of the shaft, revealing sickly white and gray vines coating the shaft's walls.Against the far wall, was a throne made out of stone upon which sat a very large goblin, next to the goblin chief, sat the white and mauve, young dragon. On the other side of the throne, there was a sapling growing in a wide stone pot, it looked more like a bundle of sticks than a tree. But just as noticeable, if not more so was the room full of goblins in front of them.Turk saw the dragon, and immediately yelled "He's mine, he's mine!"Snap had his eye on the dragon, too, it had escaped before and he had no intention of letting it escape again. Fire might just do the job. He inhaled deeply, exhaling a line of fire, aiming for dragon and hoping to take out a couple of goblins at the same time. The dragon was right in the path of flame, struck down, scorched, along with a goblin unlucky enough to be too close to it and in the flame's path. As the dragon fell, the group cheered.Several of the goblins surrounded Snap, yelling "Get him!" Suddenly, Snap was surrounded by goblins. Fortunately for Snap, only one drew blood, they were in too big of a rush to get too him.Turk stepped in, praising Snap (who ignored him) even as he attacked the goblins. "Good shot, Snap, you brought that evil beast to a burning death, like Pelor's sun bringing fire into this evil cavern. And now using the flame of the burning body, watch it twinkle off my sword as I hack and slash and cleave these evil ones." During his impassioned speech, Turk managed to dismember one of the goblins, twisting to take out another, but just missing the vile creature.Seeing the new threat posed by Turk, several goblins surrounded him, attacking before he could attack again. They tried to overwhelm him with sheer numbers, but in their haste and clambering over each other, not one of them managed to hit him."Ha ha! The light of Pelor's goodness has blinded you! If you all surrender now we shall spare your evil lives, for we have done what we came for, we have slain the evil dragon. I give you one chance to surrender."The chief spoke up, "If you have done what you seek, then leave...we will let you go.""I need the apple and then we will go.""In two days time, we shall come and sell it to you."Minx mumbled that she didn't trust them. Snap spoke up, determined. "Let's just kill them all."Turk sensed that the chief was telling the truth, he just wanted them to leave and he planned to sell them the apple. He asked the others if they could afford to buy the apple, and asked the chief how much."200 gold.""Have we got 200 gold?" Turk asked the others. "Temporary truce...nobody kill anybody!"The group argued about the funds and what they were willing to do. The fee would break them. Reyk just wanted to kill all the goblins, forget the nogotiations.While they were arguing, Reyk was standing in the back loudly voicing his opinion about his captors. " I say we kill the bastards! Let me at 'em. I'll split 'em in two! You can't trust the little bastards!  They're goblins! You can't trust the little weenies... Thorin..." he whispered, "Thorin, lets kill 'em,  we CAN'T be makin' deals with the goblins." He continued, but nobody was listening to him."We can't afford it, let's kill them."  Snap was busy arguing with the others, himself. He was determined not to strike a truce, the goblins all had to die. "We should kill them." He repeated while Turk was trying to make a deal with the chief after determining they couldn't afford the price the chief was asking.While they were standing there arguing, the chief got a very nice short bow out and strung it. Loading an arrow that he leveled at Turk. He didn't fire, just stood there looking at them waiting on the decision.Turk wanted to buy part of the apple, the chief wasn't going for it. They'd only sell the whole apple."I have one request, and your people can live, and we will avoid any wounds, which are painful to us. There are three people we are looking for, a brother and sister and a paladin. Release the prisoners that you have...""And Meepo!" Minx threw in."You mean Belak's three pink wood-stiffs." The chief corrected Turk. "Ha ha ha ha ha....you don't want them back, now.""Are they alive?" Turk asked, puzzled by the chief's answer."Yes"Then I want them back.""You'll have to go down the hole to get them." The chief informed him. "But, if I don't try to stop ya, Belak will have my hide.  I'll tell you what, 100 gold and I'll give you free passage IN.""But then I won't have the money to buy the apple.""You're going down where the apple is.""But you said the apple won't be ready for 2 days. Can we pick the apple before it's ready?""Actually, I don't know if the apple can be picked early or not. Belak gives us the apple.""If you give us free passage, and we can stay down there as long as we want and we'd have free passage back, and you shall not engage us in battle?""For 100 gold pieces, I'll let you down, and for 100 gold....maybe...I'll let you back out.""We have deal.""Alright! Clear a hole boys." The goblins scooted back out of the way. Kierwin gave the 100 gold to the chief.In Draconic, Snap and Minx were talking about Turk. "He sucks." Snap was really angry. Minx answered him, agreeing, "I've been telling you the whole time, he doesn't know what he's doing!" "I should have saved my fire...."Turk on the other hand, had no idea what they were saying about him. He was very proud of himself for negotiating the truce and the way down below.Reyk was still complaining, "Let's kill 'em, these are the bad things that locked me up!"Minx was yelling, "Did you ask him what happened to Meepo? Where's Meepo?""What's a Meepo?" The chief answered."We'll save Meepo, too." Turk was ready to move on. Not realizing just how much Snap was grumbling in Draconic and how angry he was about the negotiations with the goblins. "Reyk, we rescued you, and now you're an important member of our party.""Fine, I'm a lawful, upstanding citizen and I'll bow to your leadership, but if they cause any trouble I'll kill 'em!""If they break their promise, we'll then kill them." Turk agreed with Reyk."Meepo's my friend." Minx answered the chief when he asked what a Meepo was."As unique as that must appear, what does it look like?"Turk answered, knowing they weren't going to get anywhere at this rate, "It's a kobold.""Oh, down the hole....""Was he still alive when he went down the hole?" Minx asked."Tasted like it.""WHAT?!!!""Ha ha ha....I mean, he was still warm. He was moving and squirming a bit.""Did they eat him?"The chief answered her, "I didn't eat him. Belak wanted him, he took him down himself. Belak, he doesn't eat...most things.""Oh, well, that's reassuring." Minx didn't sound very reassured."Thorin, you be the last one that goes down, you be rear guard. I'll go down first."While Turk was planning their decent, the chief started speaking to Snap in orc."You want a cut of the gold, sonny? You stick around, we'll make a deal!"Snap told Minx, "We ought to join their party, it'd be a lot more fun."The chief continued, "What are you, a slave? What are doing with that human?"Turk climbed down the vines, watching for trouble and waiting for everyone else. But not everyone joined him.</blockquote>

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