Last Stand of the Dorinthians (Chapter 2 - Illusions)

Silas follows after Alexander and quickly secures his weapon. "Alexander, your rope..." He motions towards the edge of the balcony and the dog-headed creature below. "We need to get that body up here to hide it. And quickly!" He looks back to the room to see if the sounds of their combat attracted other attention.
 

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"Search for something tha could be the Shaman's Staff" adds Alexander as he lodges the grapple into the balcony to descend for the corpse.

When he gets to the floor, he ties the body with the extreme of the rope and climbs up again, so as to haul it up. If nothing has interrupted him at this point, he brings it into the room and closes the balcony's doors before picking up the discarded scimitar and axe.
 
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Alexander climbs down into the courtyard and ties the body quickly to the end of the rope. Before climbing back up, he tosses the creature's club to the balcony, which is caught by Silas. He climbs up, and with the help of Silas, begins to haul up the corpse with the creaking cord. The corpse is almost to the top when a small group of goblins in leather armor and carrying swords begins to walk underneath the balcony. Silas and Alexander silently hold the rope, sweat beading on their foreheads from the exertion of holding the body steady and quiet. Finally, the group continues on and around the building, causing the duo to breathe easier and pull the body the rest of the way up.

Silas and Alexander check the new room to the east while Rix checks the west room once more. The eastern room is 30 feet north to south, and 20 feet east to west. Three floor mats lie close to the southern wall. A small desk is in the southwest corner, but holds nothing of interest except for some parchment and writing utensils. Silas does notice a letter written in a foreign language and pockets it for later study. Kel checks on Lira, and bandages her wounds.

On searching the western room again, Rix discovers a large sack underneath the bed, which wasn't explored before. A quick search of the cabinet reveals mostly old clothes, but Rix also finds a plain amber stone (worth about 10 gp). Rix moves to check on Alexander and Silas, a smile on his face as he happily notices that he can hear coins clinking inside the sack, when his ears detect someone talking and approaching from outside the southern door.
 

Silas sighs with relief at avoiding detection by the goblins, quickly searches the creature's body, and then moves to search the eastern room. Upon discovery of the letter Silas tucks it away but his thoughts keep returning to it. If only I had a moment to examine it with my magics it may reveal some important information. He sighs wistfully then glances over at Alexander. "Find anything?"

OOC: Assuming Silas has not heard what Rix is hearing...
 

As he wipes a drop of sweat from his forehead the tall half orc comments "That was a close one..." then he proceeds to clean and sheath his scimitar, secures his longbow on his back, and sets down to search for anything of interest...

"Found nothing, What about you?
If the dogs were searching for the staff we should have waited for them to face the goblins and cover us... too late for that."
 
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Silas tugs the letter from where he had tucked it. "A letter. I should be able to decipher it when I have a few minutes in a safe place. Unless you can read it...? Silas holds the letter out for Alexander's inspection. At Alexander's comments Silas shrugs. "Maybe they were working with the goblins. The shaman may have used them the hold onto his position and power." He shrugs again.

OOC: Silas speaks/reads Common, Dwarven, Giant, and Gnome.
 

Rix freezes, "silence!" His whisper a command. He draws his crossbow pointing it towards the southern door. "Someone is coming, Alexander, flank the door," he whispers again. He falls back to a concealed location, his crossbow ready to fire.

OOC: Was away for the weekend.
 

Silas quickly stuffs the letter into his tunic and grasps his quarterstaff with both hands preparing for battle. Silas will move to the side of the door opposite of Alexander.
 

Kel and Lira hide in the room with the bed, while Silas and Alexander flank either side of the door. Rix hides underneath the table, and watches as the door opens and five goblins enter ahead of a sixth wearing shamanic clothing and carrying a primitively decorated staff.

As the first two goblins enter Alexander yells "Now!" Unfortunately, the half-orc loses his grip on his scimitar, which takes off like a thrown projectile and nearly slashes Silas. The abjurer is unaffected, and promptly smashes in the head of the closest goblin.

Rix fires at a startled goblin and catches him just under the jaw, felling him. From his prone position he loads another bolt.

The shamanic goblin takes a step back and order his three remaining guards to push forward as he raises his staff and points it towards the party.
 

Loading another bolt, Rix aims at the shaman, hoping that his companions can deal with the lead goblins easily enough. He'll loose the bolt, hoping to disrupt whatever the shaman is planning.
 

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