Of Sound Mind III

Muttering something about small areas, Seraphina agitatedly pulls out her hand crossbow.

"This is going to be bad." She says, loading it. She then enters the dragon.
 

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Gholog

"C'mon little humans, this way," Gholog points with his chin toward the chamber with the dragon.

"There'll be some climbing to do, but we're going to get you back to your homes." Gholog will get behind the children and try to herd them toward where the rope and the climb out is.
 



One of the boys gladly runs out of the cage, hugging one of Gholog's legs tightly, now convinced that the burly half-orc means him no harm. The feral child carefully follows, but keeps his distance from Gholog. The girl still doesn't move however, lying curled in an awkward ball on the floor.

**********

With Jason leading the way, you start the crawl into the dragon. The flesh of the dead dragon's throat is cold, hard, and vaguely greasy. This combines with a faint but pervading smell of decay to make a experience that will be remembered in the dark of the night for many, many years to come.

The initial darkness starts to give way to a faint blue light coming from somewhere further inside the dragon. Your heads start to ache as you move deeper into the corpse, a wave of force pounding at your brains.

Despite what you feel, you know it can be no more that a few minutes of crawling before the blue light has increased to a level at which you can clearly see. Jason struggles along, emerging into the chamber that was once the dragon's belly, only to nearly have his own guts impaled as the blue-skinned goblin lunges at him with a spear. The cramped and low roofed chamber gives Jason little room to manoeuvre, and he fails to dodge entirely clear of the weapon's point. It grazes his side, before rebounding off the tough flesh of the dragon.


(Jason looses his Dexterity bonus to AC due to the cramped conditions. He takes 2 damage from the goblin's attack, and is free to act this round. Seraphina and Kerrick will be into the dragon's belly next round.)
 


"Agh!" Seraphina cries. "There's no way I'm going to be able to use my crossbow in here... Kerrick, get up there!" She hugs the inside of the dragon as closely as possible to allow the human to pass her by.
 

Gholog

"C'mon, children*, I'm missing out on a perfectly good fight..."

Gholog wedges the door open with his glaive and goes in to retrieve the catatonic child.

*I feel like Chef from South Park.
 

Kerrick Jonez

"I TULLL OOO IS WAS UH BAAAD IIA!" Kerrick yells around the dagger clenched in his teethas he struggles to getup behind Jason. Focusing his will into a coil of mental energy he lashes it outward at the Blue.

(OOC: Ego whip the goblin, DC= d20+3+mod IFIRC.)
 

Initiative:
Kerrick 15
Goblin 9
Jason 7


Kerrick's mental lash smashes through the goblin's hastily constructed mental defence, tearing deeply across the goblin's control. It staggers back clumsily, then the spear thrusts towards Jason again. He knocks the shaft of the spear aside, then steps forward. His fist slams into the goblin's face, and the goblin goes limp, hitting the floor of dragon's stomach and rolling over to one side.

Seraphina shuffles out of the dragon's throat, joining her companions in the stomach. As you look around, you spot the source of the blue light. A chunk of jagged and uneven sapphire blue crystal the size of a melon sits on to of a lump of congealed flesh. It pulses slightly as you 'hear' the voice in your head again.

Thankyou, thank you... You saved me from the bad man. You have saved me. The voice echoes gratefully. With each pulse of the light, another wave of force rolls painfully across your brains.

**********

Gholog steps into the cage and picks up the girl. She twitches slightly as he moves her, but remains unconscious. Stepping back out of the cage, Gholog feels a hand tugging at his trouser leg. Followed by what feels like a hammer blow to his head. Looking down, Gholog sees the feral child smiling at him, the ground around it covered in rapidly evaporating ectoplasm. Then he spots something, the tip of a fragment of crystal imbedded in the middle of the boy's forehead...


(Gholog takes 5 points of subdual damage from whatever the child did. Kerrick did 3 DEX damaged with his ego whip and Jason followed with a solid 7 hp damage, taking the goblin out of the fight.)
 

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