MiPS Lost Mine [IC]

[mips42]

Leonan[sblock] It's been a rough week. The rough cage that they've keep you in since catching you in a net is none too comfortable (being goblin sized) and none too clean. It's hard to remember the last time you had a good bath or clean clothes. The goblins seem to delight in kicking you awake or poking you with a stick at any time of the day or night and (at sword point) asking for colorful light shows and cheap parlor tricks. Lately, they've also taken to forcing you to clean up after their mange-ridden dogs.
As you sit, huddled in your cramped cell, you feel a sharp poke in the ribs. 'Up!' The goblin barks. 'dog time. maybe I let them eat you this time', the leader, Yeemik says then chuckles, just as he does every time.
Across the chamber you can barely make out the slumped form of another prisoner, laying in a similar cage. He's been more severely beaten than you, perhaps because the goblins find it more entertaining than your tricks, and barely moves.[/sblock]
The voices fade and echo, apparently entering another chamber, deeper in the cave.

OOC: Neurotic, give Leonan the Goblin language but as he has not mastered it, he'll have a dc 13 to understand it and dc 15 to speak it.

 

[tuxgeo]

OOC: Did Eddicus, Garret, and/or Vottr just hear the goblin voices pass in front of the entrance to the dog-den, starting from somewhere outside the cave, and going in the direction of someplace farther up the stream? Also, are we just ignoring Ivan and Brachnuss from now on? They didn't figure in the fight against the dogs.

 

[Neurotic]

OOC: Maybe they went out to rest / scout / guard the retreat?

 

[mips42]

The goblin voices would have come from deeper in the cave, gotten closer, and then faded away again.

 

[tuxgeo]

Eddicus waits for the voices to fade away into the distance, then opens his right hand enough to let enough light out so he can see where Vottr is. (If the dwarf is still sleeping, Eddicus nudges him awake.)

Eddicus whispers, "Sounded like more goblins. I think we're not going to get a good night's sleep here. It sounds as though the goblins came from inside, talked to somebody, then went back inside."

OOC: From the description, I take it that they spoke to Leonan in Common, which I deduce from the statement that L.'s not really fluent in Goblin yet. I'll use that for Eddicus; if that's wrong, say so and I'll edit this.

"I thought I caught the words, 'dog time.' If that means the goblins are coming back soon, I think we should beat them to it and go find whoever they alerted first. You can see in the dark, right? Is there a way farther into the cave from this room, or do we need to go to the stream first?"

Edit: correcting Eddicus' understanding of what the goblins were saying to Leonan.

 

[mips42]

OOC: The voices were speaking goblin.

 

[GameDoc]

Vottr nods to Eddicus and scans the room for signs of another exit. He grips a hammer in his throwing hand just in case, and keeps his other hand on his maul.

 

[mips42]

A quick scan of the cave shows only the main exit. However, with some work and some effort you might be able to squeeze into the space where all the debris is.

Leonan[sblock] the goblins cautiously open the cage and prod you out. 'Out!' Yeemik declares. 'You go feed, maybe we let you jump in river.'[/sblock]

 

[Neurotic]

"You're so very kind, Yeemik, maybe some of my taste is rubbing off on you." the bard says with a smile as he steps out.

The smile disappears as he makes a bee line for the stream and plunges into it his clothes melting from well groomed and mended to dirty and threadbare garment that comes from living with goblins.

"Ahhh, clean water." He drinks some and then casts an illusion on his hand, wiggling the finger trying to lure the fish close enough to catch it.

He cleans up as well as he's able in the short time and returns back to his guards.

OOC: feel free to roll acting, he feels less then happy with his position, but the appearances matter.

 

[tuxgeo]

The party members in the dog-den all hear the talking and the splashing nearby. If the bard spoke his comment about the water in Common instead of in Goblin, then that one speaker can be recognized by his voice as not being a goblin.

While the splashing in the creek is still going on, Eddicus stands and moves as quietly as he can to the north wall of the den, and stands there with his back to the wall, hoping to achieve surprise if any more goblins arrive.

Dex (Stealth) to move quietly: [roll0]