MiPS Lost Mine [IC]

[mips42]

Brachnuss moves up to the Goblin, brandishing his Greatsword. Splashing through the stream, he approaches and swings. The Blade of the large sword bites deep into the goblin, nearly separating the creatures arm from its body and the Goblin falls limply into the stream.

 

[mips42]

After curing Vottr, Eddicus moves up next to the goblin and Brachnnuss. A nudge of the creature reveals it to be quite dead.

(ooc: Combat is done)

 

[PierceSG]

Right upon the moment where the last goblin falls towards the ground, Garrett shove the arrow in his hand back into his quiver before bounding towards the corpses.

He began to rummage through the corpses for things which might seem valuable as well as the arrows he has shot. "Waste not, want not.", thinks Garrett as he search through the dead.

 

[mips42]

Garrett bounds nimbly over the field and lands lightly in the shallow stream. Rummaging through the goblins reveals only a half-dozen copper pieces, a pair of necklaces that look like they might be ivory, and he is able to retrieve all but one of his arrows.
A brief inspection of the Goblins themselves reveals that their teeth look like they've been filed to sharp points.
Looking into the cave, he can see a opening about ten feet in on the right side of the cave but, beyond that, only darkness. You can hear sort of a whining / yapping sound coming from nearby, possibly from the area that the opening leads to. The cave positively reeks of sweaty goblin, it seems likely that there are several in there, somewhere.
Vottr, the healing you received cleared up the itchy rash.

(slightly updated map: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/651590/hideout2.png)

 

[tuxgeo]

With the outer sentries slain, the party has a chance to finish looting, and to regroup as a fighting unit. The extent to which they avail themselves of that opportunity depends, of course, on their respective dispositions -- variously brash, sneaky, cautious, vengeful, etc.

Eddicus pauses near the place where the second outside goblin fell and resheathes his dagger. He glances at Garrett and comments, "You seem to have the bow and arrow task sewn up. I'll leave mine strapped behind me during indoors work."

He stoops to pick up six likely-sized pebbles from a shelf-like area at the edge of the stream. He places five of the pebbles into his belt pouch, then casts Light on the sixth one. "For chucking at the gobbos," he explains, "because it's their home territory and I can't see in the dark."

He turns to Vottr when that worthy draws near, and says, "That was my last spell for the day. The only healing I have left now is my bandage kit. I'm not going to go charging in brashly, because I'm already hurt. You can expect me to be throwing things from behind cover, if it's available."

 

[GameDoc]

"Thanks for the healin'," Vottr says to Eddicus, adding with a crooked smile: "I guess we all better do our best not to be gettin' hurt from here on out."

 

[PierceSG]

"Hold up. I'll go and scout ahead before we head in.", says Garrett as he pulls his hood up and slinks into the darkness.

OOC: Ok, Garrett is as blind as a mice when it comes to dark places. So is the place like extremely dark or still visible to some extent? Might need to change his actions if he can't see enough to move about.

 

[tuxgeo]

Hearing Garrett's declaration, Eddicus thinks anew, then offers, "If you're going in first, do you want to carry the glowing stone?" He reaches out the stone to the halfling to hand it to him before Garrett gets fully out of sight.

"You could hide it in a pouch or pocket to suppress its light; then if discovered you could toss it toward whoever discovered you, revealing their position," he elaborates.

 

[mips42]

After the first ten feet or so, it's pretty much pitch black. You can see a bit into the side passage, can hear (and smell) some dog-noises (barking, whining, etc.) but, beyond that, you can't see a whole lot.

 

[PierceSG]

Hearing Garrett's declaration, Eddicus thinks anew, then offers, "If you're going in first, do you want to carry the glowing stone?" He reaches out the stone to the halfling to hand it to him before Garrett gets fully out of sight.

"You could hide it in a pouch or pocket to suppress its light; then if discovered you could toss it toward whoever discovered you, revealing their position," he elaborates.

Garrett turns around and accepted the offer from Eddicus, before putting the glowing stone into his pouch. He then carefully makes his way into the welcoming darkness.

Garrett moves in the dark slowly, towards where the barking noises came from, while still keeping a safe distance from it.