With Eden casting cure light wounds on Bunrum again (she has 17 wisdom and many bonus spells), Armogain draws his sword and shield and interposes himself between them and hobgoblin. He gets to his feet and strikes the remaining hobgoblin in melee down before the other two close, rolling high and dropping Bunrum and Eden both!Īrmogain, desperate to get their healer back up, runs out to tend to Eden while Hary drops one of the hobgoblins. Eden meanwhile manages to get a cure light wounds on Bunrum. Arrows drop another of those up close while two of the crossbow hobgoblins close for melee and the third runs back into the complex. He turns and swings, dropping one, but is struck down in return. The ambush fails to surprise them, but Bunrum almost makes it back to them before the three hobgoblins not firing crossbows catch him. He waits by the cave entrance and when they open taunts and moons the hobgoblins before fleeing up the hill. Hary, Armogain, and Eden climb back up the hill and hide in the copse of trees and Bunrum goes to knock on the door. They soon find a door inviting them to come in for dinner and decide to set an ambush. They make their way to a copse of trees above it and catch their breath for several minutes.īelieving the goblin’s claims that the hobgoblins have the merchant and believing that this is the entrance to their caves, they enter. With some verbal jabs and a couple of well-placed arrows (and a few ineffectual ones), they see it back down into a copse of trees and continue their flight up the hill toward the entrance most conceivably “above” the goblin caves.
They scramble up the bank of the ravine as an ogre emerges from the cave chasing them. He warns the others and they again flee the caves, leaving the helpful goblin alive. Succeeding on a Hear Noise check, Hary hears goblins behind the reinforcements negotiating a deal and loud steps approaching. These they quickly wipe out with very successful attacks. The goblin yelps that the hobgoblins have him above and cowers on the floor as four more goblins arrive. With Bunrum able to withstand their blows, the party quickly wipes out all but one of the goblins, which Hary asks where his merchant friend is in his most threatening goblin. The goblins are surprised for a segment and it costs them dearly. With Bunrum again leading, they proceed through an intersection and a band of 6 goblins runs smack into them. They don’t see any pressing reason to continue into the kobold caves and so proceed to a different cave. He sees they are in league with the rats and at least half a dozen of them and runs to catch the others as they hide among the trees at the mouth of the ravine. While the others run out into the ravine, Hary lingers and attempts to hide in the shadows to see how many there are. With Bunrum back up, they flee, pulling the plank with them. They see giant rats swarming on the other side of the pit and hear reinforcements arriving. More arrows drop both remaining kobolds and Hary leaps the pit as well, throwing the plank across it so Armogain can cross and tend to Bunrum. One of them runs back to bring a plank and Bunrum leaps the pit only to be struck down by the remaining kobold (luckily at exactly 0).
The kobold thrown spears find no targets, but Hary, Armogain, and Bunrum return fire, dropping two. The noise, however, attracts kobolds, who run to the pit side. When he fails and accidentally activates it, the others pull him back. He finds a pit trap at the T-intersection and Hary (after tying himself to a piton wedged in a crack) attempts to disarm it.
Bunrum leads the way and examines the way to the first intersection for pits with his dwarven stone sense (yes, ByW specifically asked to use it entering their first cavern).
Their plan is to find the merchant they have heard is imprisoned there and in that way establish their credibility to keep off any prying eyes when they start bringing in more treasure.Īrriving at the ravine full of caves, they see several cave openings and with Hary seeing tracks of all kinds all over the place, they pick a cave at random.