Scales of War #1 Rescue at Rivenroar IC

Kali walks up to the goblin with a scowl, and hunkers down in front of him, nose-to-nose, looking him dead in the eye. He begins to make quiet grunting noises, growing louder until it becomes clear that he is chanting something in the goblin tongue. He will sing a goblin digging song, all about how the goblin way is to dig deep and hide from bigger folk, striking only when they are few and the goblins are many.

When the song is done, Kali will stare at Morrick angrily and say in goblin, "Remember goblin way as song tell us! Attacking human town is dumb, not goblin way! Tell us where Sinruth is so we can tell him he dumb!"

OOC: DM told me I should post. :) I think he'd still like to hear from everyone Thanee, I didn't mean to jump in front there.

It's like being at a variety show for Morrick, he hasn't had this much fun since cousin Eggbert fell in the fire and was burned to death...

He giggles and applauds until his manacles cut in to his wrists...

"Sinruth bak tew katykoombs... ere!"

Morrick thrusts a piece of paper at Kali, crude depiction of the route to the ruins of Castle Rivenroar, best guess it lies at least two days march away from Fallcrest.

"Maw! Maw! Maw!"

Morrick continues to frolic.

New Map-

039 Morrick's Map

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That's four successes and no failures, and Morrick is as happy as a sand boy.
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Just to reiterate, so far you have learnt-

1) The Goblins live in the 'katykoombs' of the ruins of Casle Rivenroar.
2) You have a map to show you the route to the place.
3) That 'Sinruth' had told the Goblins that they are related to the 'Red Hand', although the Goblins can't even get the badge the right way round.
4) That they took prisoners to feed to the 'undeadies' in the 'katykoombs'.

What else do you want to find out about?

Clue you have two Quests, rescue the people and...

Just waiting on a question to go with Kyalia's effort (success), if anyone can suggest anything then please don't hesitate to use the OOC.
 
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OOC: Other possible quests might be to retrieve the stolen items and to find out where Sinruth got his information. Didn't the goblin say something about Sinruth saying he had "red wot is in our destiny"? Then of course there's the potential quest for just offing Sinruth. If this were an MMO, the boss battle would definitely be a quest. :)
 

While Morrick is distracted from the weird singing, Kyalia vanishes to get behind him and sneak up on him, so she can shock the goblin when Kali is done and apparantly asking him questions, lending some support to the shifter this way.

“Tell him, what he wants to know! And while you are at it, why don't you describe your great leader 'Sinruth' to us? What is he, a goblin? An orc? Or something else? How does he look like?”

Morrick suddenly looks flustered, he wasn't expecting the Elf- he has nightmares about Elves- nasty pointy eared fiends that eat babies...

"Sinruth iz big boss ov goblins, 'e raze army- we carve kingdumb fur us-selves. 'E is right tall...", Morrick gestures- about four feet something, "an 'av wun ear bit off, and iz noze is bit too, an wid an eye missin... an he limps cos his leg got bit... an he's dead 'ansome. All der Gob-laydees say so..."

Morrick blinks hard at Kaylia, his best puppy-dog eyes, hoping the Elf will not 'eat 'im'.

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That's five successes and no failures, Morrick is a rabbit caught in the Elf-eyes.
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Next up Magnus... which I'll do.
 

Magnus

Magnus barges past the dancing, singing, sweet-talking members of the group- leans in and grabs the Goblin, clears a space, cocks his right- and WHAMMO!

"Why dja tek the treasures from the Hall of Glory, ya weasly barmpot?"

Magnus leans in- bristling beard in the now blubbing Morrick's face, he hisses-

"I don'tjer be lying ta me laddie, or I'll shuv dis where da sun don't shine!"

Magnus fetches out his Warhammer.

The guards move to break it up...

"Morrick don’t kna anyfing abart treshure fro' 'all ov Valourmajig. Must av bin Sinruth 'imself, s'pose, he din’t say nuffing abart it. Promise- promise... Pleeeeeease... I want my mummy!"

Morrick snivels and cries.

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That's six success and no failures, complete success- have 33 XP each, which should put you on- 325 XP in total.
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The guards rush in to the cell, Magnus is dragged back- grinning, and the rest of you are ushered out of the area and back in to the City Hall proper- where Eoffram awaits.

"I hope you have all the information you need. If there's anything I can do to help..." Eoffram lets the sentence hang in the air for a while.

"Well, when can you start for Castle Rivenroar? Tomorrow morning?" Eoffram asks.

Just to say it is now gone midnight in the City of Fallcrest.

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Next stage is to Castle Rivenroar, if you want anything before you go then now is the time to ask- be that equipment, information, whatever... You have until Friday GMT- I'm gaming tomorrow and wont finish till 1 AM to ask for whatever you need. Run errands, Find things out or whatever it is- Friday you hit the road.
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I don't think we can delay by the sounds of it. It would be great if we had our own horses to get there quicker. And I heard a bard once sing a song to aid travellers on a speedy journey.

I would also like to meet someone that can be our liason here. I will send a daily report to them if it is required.
 

I don't think we can delay by the sounds of it. It would be great if we had our own horses to get there quicker. And I heard a bard once sing a song to aid travellers on a speedy journey.

I would also like to meet someone that can be our liason here. I will send a daily report to them if it is required.

Eoffram warns against travel at night, it would be difficult to keep to the path, and besides it's dangerous out there.

He states that he's happy to get together food for the journey, have it ready at first light- rooms at the Nentir Inn (the best Inn in the City, although now a little smoke-damaged).

As to horses- they're generally reserved for farmers and nobles, there is a stables in Fallcrest, run by a jolly Halfling called Lannar Thistleton, however it was caught up in the attack- several horses were killed and most of the others stampeded and are yet to be recovered. Horses and fire generally don't mix well, particularly when hay/straw also gets involved.

GM: The cruel DM is not going to let you have mounts at this point.


Eoffram volunteers to be the liaison, but if you're not happy with him then Sgt. Thurmina salutes you and states that she is more than happy to serve, glad to in fact- collectively you saved her life. She's not going to forget that fact in a hurry.
 

I'm pretty good at taking care of people, but it's good to have options for emergencies. Can you procure a healing potion or two for us to take? As you say, it's dangerous out there....

OOC: How long do we want to give TSS to show up before looking for a replacement? We're about to pass a good place in the storyline for introducing a new character, and I'm not sure when the next decent option is.
 

I'm pretty good at taking care of people, but it's good to have options for emergencies. Can you procure a healing potion or two for us to take? As you say, it's dangerous out there....

OOC: How long do we want to give TSS to show up before looking for a replacement? We're about to pass a good place in the storyline for introducing a new character, and I'm not sure when the next decent option is.

Eoffram scratches his chin- "I will do what I can to secure said items, Sgt. Thurmina will be at the Inn in the morning to see you off, she will have any items you have requested ready for you."

"Is there anything else?"

OOC: As to TSS I will message him again, but if there's no joy I will look for someone new on Friday- hope this sounds okay with people. Actually now I think about it I have a couple of people I can ask... But first to message TSS one more time.
 

The goblin mentioned undead, sir. Do you have anything that would aid us against them? I heard that blessed water is anathema to them, is that true? Do you know of anything better?
 

The goblin mentioned undead, sir. Do you have anything that would aid us against them? I heard that blessed water is anathema to them, is that true? Do you know of anything better?

"I'm not a religious man myself, well I stop in at the temple of Erathis of course... but I'll see what I can do- whatever I can get will be ready for you tomorrow mornig, with the good Sgt."

Eoffram smailes, "anything else?"
 

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