Not With a Bang, I: Its Own Reward

[Toric_Arthendain]

OOC: Sorry for my absence for the last few days. I was off for the last five days and have been busy. Back now.

IC:
Brevin sticks close to Baril, since he has the only light source. Upon seeing the sleeping goblins, he grips his mace tighter, knowing that trouble was potentially very close.

He watched Tuli work with the pressure plate with a mixture of apprehension and confidence...apprehension that she would get hurt or worse and confidence that she had done things like this before.

As she worked, he kept one eye on her and the other on the sleeping goblins...

 

[Toric_Arthendain]

Edit: Double posted deleted

 

[Manzanita]

Arkan

"OK. I think we need to do a couple things while Tuli tries to disable this trap. First, I think we should drag the bodies outside into the bushes, to make our presence less obvious to anyone coming from the outside. Second, we need to get those two dwarves to return to the main group. I'll get started hiding the bodies. Grunlor, perhaps you could catch your brethren."

Arkan will take the flasks, but offer them to anyone else who wants them, let her know.

OOC: So the 'big' goblins are still 'small?' They're not hobgoblins, are they?

 

[LazarusLong42]

OOC: The 'large' goblins are not hobgoblins, no. Just beefier specimens of the goblin race. Likely more dangerous, too, although that could simply be a trick of the DM...

Let me know when y'all have stuff settled and are, in fact, ready to spring the trap. Assuming, of course, that it's a trap at all. Muahaha...

 

[Manzanita]

Arkan

"Actually, Tuli, don't trigger that yet. Triggering it will almost certainly alert the sleeping goblins. That's probably why its there. Is there a way to get around it? Perhaps by hugging the walls or jumping?"

 

[Casar Couer De' Lion]

Grumbling after being dragged back to the main group Nojin smiles when he sees easy pray sleeping down the other hall. "Forget the blasted rock lets just go a bashin them."

 

[Rybaer]

Grateful that Nojin was agreeable to coming back to the rest of the party, Grinder watches the exchange regarding the pressure plate with interest. His crossbow is at the ready, in case the goblins should wake abruptly.

"Nojin," he mutters quietly to the dwarf, "this might be one of those times when subtlety is better than bashing. We don't know how many theives and goblins are in this place. The more we can take out quietly without alerting the rest of the place, the better off we'll be."

Recognizing the abrasive dwarf's look of disagreement, Grinder quickly says, "I'm sure there'll be plenty more goblins to be taken out in your less-than-subtle manner. The vermin always live in large numbers."

 

[Manzanita]

Arkan

"Well, it appears we probably can't very well jump over it or edge around it. Tuli, do you think you could disable it without setting it off? & quietly. Those goblins could awake at any moment."

 

[Shalimar]

"Well, er...ok, I'll give it a try, but I still think it would be more fun to set it off." the tiny girl says shrugging, but she pull out her pick to try and disarm the trap, and set off to work on the pressure plate, wondering if she could wedge something underneath it to prevent it from sinking.

 

[LazarusLong42]

Peering under the pressure plate, Tuli notices a linkage--a slightly loose linkage--connecting the plate to whatever it triggers. The linkage seems to require positive force--that is, diengaging the linkage won't set off the trap alone. Tuli hooks the linkage with her tools; it slips out on the first try, but on her second try she catches the linkage, and is able to remove the hook from the eyelet to which it connects.

Though you've made some noise, it's been mostly whispering, and it seems the goblins in the small room have not yet awakened.