Remnants of the Horde-Flight from Aruth

[Velenne]

Durgo pulls forth his map. Wrinkled as it is tucked into his belt, he attempts to smooth it out before showing it to the gobby. He indicates the same point found the night before -the forest edge halfway between the swamps and the sacked goblin stronghold.

"Elfies could be all over, but dem no go too close to hags. Need to go North, need to go North fast!"

 

[Mickerus]

As everybody rests, Sellanais sits off on her own, her back against rock, with her head resting on her arm which is propped up by a well-worn sword. As Valrack comes closer, her ears twitch and she opens one eye and watches him with much the same air of lazy contentment as a serpent basking in sunlight.

"Perhaps you found a key to fit this lock on the elf wizard corpse, yes?"

"Perhaps, yes, perhaps, no," she quietly muses. "Why would you need a key, anyways? No, never mind that..."

Quickly, she rolls forward onto her knees and looks the goblin eye-to-eye with a half-smirk and says "I'll make you a deal. You show me what you got from the wizard, and I'll show you what I got. We can trade whatever might be more useful to the other, and if I don't have your key, I can still attempt to open this lock that confounds you so. Does that sound fair?"

 

[Set Harth]

"Bah, tricksey little tiefling, Trying to take my spoils, Fine you give me key and I give you this." Valracks twisted hand reaches into his belt pouch and pull out a small sparkling ruby, shining blood red." "Silver key for blood-rock." Valrack stares at Midnight suspiciously.

 

[Capellan]

Wekerak hawks and spits,

"Bah, you two still be chattering when the elves flay your hides? Durgo: pick a route. I scout it, I get away from their flapping gums."

 

[Uriel]

Hurgar remounts his Umber Hulk, as do all of the other Goblins.
Looking at Durgo he points North saying 'Tunnels take us mos ofway there, we dig sometimes, but open tunnels for most.'
Without another word, the Hulk-Riders move off, the Umber Hulks loping along the tunnels like massive Apes, their Meat-Chains now wound about ther wastes, the Elves and horse devoured.


There is room enough for all <even Durgo> to move unhindered for the most part, although Durgo and Bargo often duck down for stretches <where the Umber Hulks go to all fours and contimue unaffected>.

Moving in this fashion <making relatively good time>, the Banfd passes along passages filled with glowing Lichens, Mushrooms the height of Orcs and the occassional large crystal formation.

Stopping amongst a cluster of large Crystals, you break for rest after a few hours of walking.Hurgar tells you all that he will resume after half an hour.

OoC:I still need spells for Valrack

 

[Jeremy]

Beatings and accusations not forthcoming, Bargo begins to resume his usual irritable self, cursing the surroundings, the low tunnels, the endless ground-pounding. In the mean time he listens for some clue of what happened after the Red took him.

As the company comes to a halt, he thunders down on his rump and slurps greedily at his water.

 

[Orochi]

Kurg immediately pulls out a hunk of meat and commences ripping into it, tearing it to pieces and swallowing them almost whole before drinking a bit as well.

 

[Uriel]

There is a pool of water,caused from a rivulet running out of a split in the wall. Fresh water is available to fill all of your watersacks.
The Goblins are looking about nervously, while the Umber Hulks keep on alert, their multiple eyes scanning the surrounding cavern.

 

[Capellan]

Wekerak slips off Frostbite to allow the wolf a rest from his weight, but he does not stray far from his mount's side.

"Guards are nervous." he observes, lips curling back over sharp and yellowed teeth.

 

[Mickerus]

"Bah, tricksey little tiefling, Trying to take my spoils, Fine you give me key and I give you this. Silver key for blood-rock."

Midnight Fang widens her smile at Valrack's apparent frustration. "Tiefling? Oh, I assure you, little wrinkled one, I'm far more... pure than some mere tiefling."

She looks at the ruby for a moment, and then says "I did not ask for payment, I asked to know what your wolf snatched from the wizard. If all you can show me is a pretty rock, then I have no pretty key."

When the group stops at the cavern, she quietly slinks over to the leader of the goblins and leans in close to whisper to him.

"What are you worried about? Something else lurks in these tunnels?"