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<blockquote data-quote="Hairy Minotaur" data-source="post: 3135779" data-attributes="member: 11574"><p><strong>Despot Ruins continued</strong></p><p></p><p>"I need some light up here." Kessen called back to the others</p><p></p><p>Turgar went back and retrieved a good sized burning piece of wood from the goblin's cooking fire. The ogre held it aloft, allowing Kessen to check the stone floor for recent goblin tracks.</p><p></p><p>"Oh a tracker. Several of my elders are trackers, my father in fact was a tracker. While I was always much more in tune with the natural living world around me, I could always see the need to track ones enemies threw non-natural means." Xanthos spoke excitedly</p><p></p><p>Kessen crouched low to the floor, they didn't go this way I'm certain. The human spoke pointing to a southern passage. Kessen stood about thirty fee into a long passageway that ended beyond any of the group's sight. </p><p></p><p>"That leaves the stairs down over there, or down that long hallway there." Kessen said, pointing out the only other two remaining options.</p><p></p><p>"You sure he didn't passwall or teleport? Maybe he turned into a shadow? For all we know the was no third goblin." Menthos inquires</p><p></p><p>"Well, I think we should take the stairs, don't want things coming up behind us while we're fighting down that hallway." Haimish offers</p><p></p><p>"You don't take the stairs first! Everyone knows you take the stairs last, worse things are always found after you take the stairs." Menthos comments</p><p></p><p>"Doopa say we break stairs so goblins no use anymore." Doopa states</p><p></p><p>"What dungeoneering survival manual are you reading? They're goblins, there's no such thing as dire goblins, I could fling a booger at one and kill it." Kessen replies</p><p></p><p>"You should try that, you certainly can't do any worse than those arrows you fired as warning shots to the dead rabbits." Menthos counters</p><p></p><p>"Let's see you shoot a bow, here take mine if you think you're so good with one." Kessen argues</p><p></p><p>"People please, you guys fight like two ticks on a gray ooze. If you can't get along for your own greedy sake, then at least have the decency to get along so the rest of us can get paid." Haimish demands</p><p></p><p>This manages to calm the teifling and human down enough to discus tactics in a civilized manner. </p><p></p><p>"I agree, it's best not to let them surprise from behind, I like the human's suggestion that we take the stairs first." Turgar agrees</p><p></p><p>"It's suicide people, death awaits us down there. There's no way we're ready to take on any challenge the lower levels may present to us." Menthos counters</p><p></p><p>"Again with this knowledge as if you've been here before, what are you basing your fanatical fear of stairs on?" Kessen inquires</p><p></p><p>"I've read extensively on the subject." Menthos stoically replies </p><p></p><p>The group begins to head towards the stairs anyway.</p><p></p><p>"Wait I'll show you, see" Menthos digs in his backpack and pulls out a colorful book with leather string binding. The pages splayed out from repeated use.</p><p></p><p>"Let me see that." Kessen says snatching the book from the teifling's hands. "Wha...? A comic book? Order of the st.. ?" Menthos snatches the book back.</p><p></p><p>"You get all your knowledge of dungeoneering from a comic book? Look I like the comic too, but it's meant to be funny, not factual." Kessen states and then bursts into laughter</p><p></p><p>"May I?" Xanthos asks of Menthos</p><p></p><p>"No, it's mine, and after we all die down there, I'll be proven right." Menthos accuses</p><p></p><p>"Doopa think if we all die, goblins use book for wiping of rear." The ogre interjects</p><p></p><p>Down the stairs the party goes, when they reach the bottom, they are confronted with a "T" to the right the hallway goes ten feet and "T"'s again, to the left there is a room at a forty-five degree angle from where they stand at the bottom of the steps.</p><p></p><p>"Which way tracker?" Xanthos asks</p><p></p><p>Kessen kneels close to the floor and looks around for obvious sings of a goblin passing through recently.</p><p></p><p>"This way!" Kessen shouts as he points to the room</p><p></p><p>The party charges into the room and confronts a male and female goblin along with their two kids and pet badger. </p><p></p><p>"Where's the diabolical lust sacrifice altar?" Menthos asks aloud, the goblins stand back in confusion, Kessen however understood the question was more for him than the goblins.</p><p></p><p>"Obviously it's not in this room." Kessen shoots back at Menthos</p><p></p><p>"Doopa smash!" The ogre charges and gets hit with two arrows fired from the goblin children, they shots bring the charging ogre to his knees and then he collapses fast forward into the floor.</p><p></p><p>Kessen moves to the right of the doorway and along the wall, he fires a return shot but it again glances off the wall behind the goblins, some eight feet above and behind them.</p><p></p><p>Turgar charges forward and swings over the head of the female goblin. The goblin's badger pet advances and attaches itself to Turgar's leg.</p><p></p><p>"Ah! get it off me!" Turgar reaches down to pry the little beast off and opens his head up for a crashing blow from the male goblin's mace. Turgar crumples to the floor unconscious.</p><p></p><p>"See! You See that!" Menthos shouts as he fires a shoot into the chest of the male goblin. The sucking chest wound gurgles with escaping gas from it's lung, but he creature does not drop.</p><p></p><p>Xanthos advances to the downed Doopa and administers some bandages and a soothing herbal salve. *twang* *whoosh* *thunk* </p><p></p><p>"Ow! I've been shot! How rude of you, I was obviously not a threat!" Xanthos shouts in disbelief. *twang* *whoosh* *thunk* </p><p></p><p>"Hey! knock it off!" Xanthos covers his head and tries to maneuver around so Doopa's prone body can offer some defense against the goblin kid's toy bows.</p><p></p><p>Haimish rears into song:</p><p></p><p><em>K-I-L-L</em> </p><p><em>Kill the goblins dead</em></p><p><em>K-I-L-L</em></p><p><em>Kill the goblins dead</em></p><p></p><p><em>come on sing it with me!</em></p><p></p><p>The trueborn then rushes the female goblin and cuts deep with his longsword and then slams his shield into her head, breaking most if not all the bones in her face and she drops like a wet blanket.</p><p></p><p>Kessen finally gets his bearings and drops one of the goblin children, sensing the turning of the battle's tide, Xanthos charges the other goblin child and stomps a puddle of blood into it's chest with his hooves.</p><p></p><p>Menthos circles around the male goblin and using Haimish to flank him, takes out the goblin with a well placed blade between the shoulder blades. Haimish turns on the badger and unloads his frustration out on the little creature, killing it quickly.</p><p></p><p>"Why did you feel it necessary to kill the badger, he could have been released into the wild?" Xanthos asks</p><p></p><p>"Guilty by association." Menthos replies for the trueborn</p><p></p><p>The humans, load up the ogres on the back of Xanthos and they agree to exit the ruins and try again tomorrow.</p><p></p><p>After traveling for an hour, Menthos looks over to Haimish who's humming along as they walk. "If your songs are more like that, than like your first. I wouldn't mind more of them in the heat of battle." Menthos admits</p><p></p><p>"Certainly sir, like I said I do have the entire collection of... " Haimish starts</p><p></p><p>"Yes, yes. As you stated before." Menthos cuts him off</p><p></p><p>"Ha! another convert to the musical stylings of Haimish. In the morning I'll make you haggis, we'll bond like pipe smoke to a purple worm!" Haimish announces</p><p></p><p>"Uh, let's just stick with you singing while I'm chopping down some goblins." Menthos returns, then looks over at Kessen and holds up his book. "It was right" he mouths to the human. </p><p></p><p>Kessen rolls his eyes and continues on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hairy Minotaur, post: 3135779, member: 11574"] [b]Despot Ruins continued[/b] "I need some light up here." Kessen called back to the others Turgar went back and retrieved a good sized burning piece of wood from the goblin's cooking fire. The ogre held it aloft, allowing Kessen to check the stone floor for recent goblin tracks. "Oh a tracker. Several of my elders are trackers, my father in fact was a tracker. While I was always much more in tune with the natural living world around me, I could always see the need to track ones enemies threw non-natural means." Xanthos spoke excitedly Kessen crouched low to the floor, they didn't go this way I'm certain. The human spoke pointing to a southern passage. Kessen stood about thirty fee into a long passageway that ended beyond any of the group's sight. "That leaves the stairs down over there, or down that long hallway there." Kessen said, pointing out the only other two remaining options. "You sure he didn't passwall or teleport? Maybe he turned into a shadow? For all we know the was no third goblin." Menthos inquires "Well, I think we should take the stairs, don't want things coming up behind us while we're fighting down that hallway." Haimish offers "You don't take the stairs first! Everyone knows you take the stairs last, worse things are always found after you take the stairs." Menthos comments "Doopa say we break stairs so goblins no use anymore." Doopa states "What dungeoneering survival manual are you reading? They're goblins, there's no such thing as dire goblins, I could fling a booger at one and kill it." Kessen replies "You should try that, you certainly can't do any worse than those arrows you fired as warning shots to the dead rabbits." Menthos counters "Let's see you shoot a bow, here take mine if you think you're so good with one." Kessen argues "People please, you guys fight like two ticks on a gray ooze. If you can't get along for your own greedy sake, then at least have the decency to get along so the rest of us can get paid." Haimish demands This manages to calm the teifling and human down enough to discus tactics in a civilized manner. "I agree, it's best not to let them surprise from behind, I like the human's suggestion that we take the stairs first." Turgar agrees "It's suicide people, death awaits us down there. There's no way we're ready to take on any challenge the lower levels may present to us." Menthos counters "Again with this knowledge as if you've been here before, what are you basing your fanatical fear of stairs on?" Kessen inquires "I've read extensively on the subject." Menthos stoically replies The group begins to head towards the stairs anyway. "Wait I'll show you, see" Menthos digs in his backpack and pulls out a colorful book with leather string binding. The pages splayed out from repeated use. "Let me see that." Kessen says snatching the book from the teifling's hands. "Wha...? A comic book? Order of the st.. ?" Menthos snatches the book back. "You get all your knowledge of dungeoneering from a comic book? Look I like the comic too, but it's meant to be funny, not factual." Kessen states and then bursts into laughter "May I?" Xanthos asks of Menthos "No, it's mine, and after we all die down there, I'll be proven right." Menthos accuses "Doopa think if we all die, goblins use book for wiping of rear." The ogre interjects Down the stairs the party goes, when they reach the bottom, they are confronted with a "T" to the right the hallway goes ten feet and "T"'s again, to the left there is a room at a forty-five degree angle from where they stand at the bottom of the steps. "Which way tracker?" Xanthos asks Kessen kneels close to the floor and looks around for obvious sings of a goblin passing through recently. "This way!" Kessen shouts as he points to the room The party charges into the room and confronts a male and female goblin along with their two kids and pet badger. "Where's the diabolical lust sacrifice altar?" Menthos asks aloud, the goblins stand back in confusion, Kessen however understood the question was more for him than the goblins. "Obviously it's not in this room." Kessen shoots back at Menthos "Doopa smash!" The ogre charges and gets hit with two arrows fired from the goblin children, they shots bring the charging ogre to his knees and then he collapses fast forward into the floor. Kessen moves to the right of the doorway and along the wall, he fires a return shot but it again glances off the wall behind the goblins, some eight feet above and behind them. Turgar charges forward and swings over the head of the female goblin. The goblin's badger pet advances and attaches itself to Turgar's leg. "Ah! get it off me!" Turgar reaches down to pry the little beast off and opens his head up for a crashing blow from the male goblin's mace. Turgar crumples to the floor unconscious. "See! You See that!" Menthos shouts as he fires a shoot into the chest of the male goblin. The sucking chest wound gurgles with escaping gas from it's lung, but he creature does not drop. Xanthos advances to the downed Doopa and administers some bandages and a soothing herbal salve. *twang* *whoosh* *thunk* "Ow! I've been shot! How rude of you, I was obviously not a threat!" Xanthos shouts in disbelief. *twang* *whoosh* *thunk* "Hey! knock it off!" Xanthos covers his head and tries to maneuver around so Doopa's prone body can offer some defense against the goblin kid's toy bows. Haimish rears into song: [I]K-I-L-L[/I] [I]Kill the goblins dead[/I] [I]K-I-L-L[/I] [I]Kill the goblins dead[/I] [I]come on sing it with me![/I] The trueborn then rushes the female goblin and cuts deep with his longsword and then slams his shield into her head, breaking most if not all the bones in her face and she drops like a wet blanket. Kessen finally gets his bearings and drops one of the goblin children, sensing the turning of the battle's tide, Xanthos charges the other goblin child and stomps a puddle of blood into it's chest with his hooves. Menthos circles around the male goblin and using Haimish to flank him, takes out the goblin with a well placed blade between the shoulder blades. Haimish turns on the badger and unloads his frustration out on the little creature, killing it quickly. "Why did you feel it necessary to kill the badger, he could have been released into the wild?" Xanthos asks "Guilty by association." Menthos replies for the trueborn The humans, load up the ogres on the back of Xanthos and they agree to exit the ruins and try again tomorrow. After traveling for an hour, Menthos looks over to Haimish who's humming along as they walk. "If your songs are more like that, than like your first. I wouldn't mind more of them in the heat of battle." Menthos admits "Certainly sir, like I said I do have the entire collection of... " Haimish starts "Yes, yes. As you stated before." Menthos cuts him off "Ha! another convert to the musical stylings of Haimish. In the morning I'll make you haggis, we'll bond like pipe smoke to a purple worm!" Haimish announces "Uh, let's just stick with you singing while I'm chopping down some goblins." Menthos returns, then looks over at Kessen and holds up his book. "It was right" he mouths to the human. Kessen rolls his eyes and continues on. [/QUOTE]
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