MiPS Lost Mine [IC]

[PierceSG]

Leonan:[sblock] Apparently tired of your hanging about, a pair of the goblins poke at you with their crude swords while the other two grab an arm and begin to drag you out of the river.[/sblock]

anyone looking into the the cavern can see a couple of the shapes grab onto the one in the river and begin to try to haul it out.

Seeing what was happening ahead, Garrett falls back to the party. "I see a something ahead. From the looks of it, it looks like the goblins might have a prisoner but I can't be sure of it. So, what should we do?"

 

[tuxgeo]

Keeping his voice as low as the halfling's report, Eddicus whispers back, "How many goblins? We didn't see them go past from outside. Was the non-goblin struggling, or a dwarf?"

He adds quietly to Vottr, "If they're coming this way, we might ambush them here."

 

[mips42]

Leonan [sblock] it's only a few feet later that you sense more than feel that there is a body lying in the cave and spot a faint glimmer of light in the cave where the animals are kept. Something is up. [/sblock]

The shapes a re coming towards you and you can tell at this point one of them is NOT a goblin. It's too tall and lean.

 

[Neurotic]

In elven language, light sing-song voice as if he's singing to himself:

"There is a light at the end of the tunnel,
dogs are not hungry anymore.

But the predator is visible,
little ones have sharp senses."

He then speaks in goblin:
"Go on into the cave guards, you know I cannot escape mighty goblin tribe. You would catch me again before I could get to the city. I'll feed the dogs and come back to you."

OOC: If needed, [MENTION=6746242]mips42[/MENTION], persuasion +3 and deception +5...

 

[PierceSG]

"!", an exclamation flashes in Garrett's mind. "A non-goblin is coming towards us. What should I do now?, thought Garrett as he slinks back into the shadows with his bow & arrow in hand, in case whoever approaching is hostile.

 

[tuxgeo]

OOC: Unfortunately for the captive, none of the PCs in the dog-den speak Elvish, so they don't understand his song. However, they can clearly tell that the song is not in Goblinish.

Seeing Garrett withdrawing cautiously back into the dog-den, Eddicus chooses that moment to provide a bit of sound-effects: he grumbles, "Rr-rr-rr-rr," trying as much as possible to sound like a quickly-awakening goblin-dog.

OOC: Charisma (Deception) check if needed: [roll0]

 

[Neurotic]

OOC: Yeah, I know, I've checked. Unfortunately, I don't speak anything else that goblins don't understand.

 

[tuxgeo]

OOC: Fortunately for some, the three PCs in the dog-den know better than to speak right now, because any words spoken in Common, Dwarven, or Halfling that could be heard by the goblins would instantly alert the goblins to the presence of intruders. Assuming Leonan heard Eddicus' sound effects, he has a few seconds available (?) to draw a conclusion about one intruder's capacity for mimicry -- and about whether he (Leonan) wants to pretend to the goblins that the dogs are waking up. (Presumably, Leonan knows what the dogs actually sound like when they wake up.)

 

[GameDoc]

Vottr, cranky from lack sleep and worrying about his uncle, has had his fill of goblins. He hefts his maul and makes ready to obliterate the next goblin he sees.

 

[mips42]

Leonan [sblock] 'You go, you feed the mongrels and we guard. We make double sure you not try to escape.' with that, two of the goblins move past you on the far side of the tunnel towards the main entrance while the other two stay behind you and continue to prod you on with swords. [/sblock]

you see two of the smaller shapes moving towards you while the taller one is in the middle.

OOC: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/651590/Hide3.png