Chapter 02 - Into the Keep

[pringerbeam]

     As Riven and the imp fight, Alak takes advantage of the lingering effects of the bottled lightning on Calmont to try and knock the halfling down.  He succeeds at bowling the halfling over and then tries to bring a hammer blow down with the pommel of his greatsword but misses as the halfling manages to writhe out of the way.

Alak Trips Calmont

Alak uses Power Attack and misses

     Vondur follows up after Alak to try and bludgeon Calmont while he lies on the ground. He manages to club the halfling in the head, knocking him unconscious with the blow.

Vondur uses Power Attack and deal damage to Calmont

Calmont becomes Unconcious

Belsarus to take turn

Encounter Info

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Initiative Order: Riven, Alak, Vondur, Belsarus, Calmont, Melody, Spira, Imp 3

Log
Vondur deals damage and knocks out Calmont
Alak trips Calmont
Riven deals damage to Imp 3
Imp 3 deals damage to Spira and Riven
Spira throws bomb and deals damage
Melody casts Magic Weapon on Belsarus
Calmont deals damage to Alak
Belsarus deals damage to Calmon
Vondur misses Calmont
Alak Forces Open and deals damage to Calmont
Riven readies

[close]

[Oath]

Seeing their primary target fall, Belsarus falls back to deal with the trouble in back. He squeezes past his allies right up next to the imp and takes a couple of hefty swings with his enchanted sap.

Attacking twice with the sap that has magic weapon.

Rolled 1d20+8 : 20 + 8, total 28

This dice roll has been tampered with!
Rolled 2d6+4 : 4, 4 + 4, total 12

attack 2
This dice roll has been tampered with!
Rolled 1d20+4 : 2 + 4, total 6
This dice roll has been tampered with!
Rolled 2d6+4 : 2, 5 + 4, total 11

[pringerbeam]

     The sap strikes true and blindsides the imp with a hefty thud. The fiend falls from the air, plummeting down to the courtyard below with a crunch.

Encounter ended everyone gains 200 xp

     The threats dispatched, Alak takes the manacles he had hung from his belt and binds the unconscious Calmont. He looks to the rest of the party before checking his wound from the halfling's dagger. The goblins that had been watching the fight let out a cheer at seeing the halfling securely bound. Calmont's hostage approaches you all.  "Many thanks! I'm Helba. You came because of the fires right? We've been stuck up here for days."

[Mysticsage]

"Yes," Riven says as his muzzle slowly returns back to his normal orcish jawline. "The town asked us to look in on you all after they saw all the smoke. It seems like we made it just in time to find this little firebug causing issues." he says with a pained smirk.

"Are you alright Helba? Sorry that we could not get to you sooner," Stepping out and crouching down to try and be at eye level with the goblin he looked her over before looking over to Calmout.

"We should bind his hands and mouth to stop him from causing more trouble. We have no clue how many unseen friends he has around."

[pringerbeam]

     "Don't worry, Helba is alright!" Replied the goblin with a cheerful smile. "Before you got here he didn't do anything except keep asking about the elves! What elves? There are no elves here! Only Bumblebrashers! Oh and the cultists! Mean cultists! They have mean pets! Big pets! Bigger than big bumble almost! But you killed one! It looks tasty! Ooooooh so hungry! Can we eat it? Can we eat him too?" Continued the goblin, starting to pick up speed with every syllable before looking hungrily at the unconscious halfling.

     "Good idea. We should make sure he doesn't have any other weapons either." Agreed Alak as he set about gagging the bound halfling. He then pulled off Calmont's pack and the bow and quiver of arrows that had gone unused in the fight. Picking up the dagger that had fallen from Calmont's grasp, he turned the blade, looking at it. "Pretty good make. There's even a rune etched on the blade."

Items seized from Calmont

16 sp
1x Unidentified Dagger
1x Shortbow
20x Arrows
2x Lesser healing potions
1x Thieves tools

[Throndir]

"No no no miss Helba!" Melody said as she looked in shock at the goblin. "You shouldn't eat him. If you eat him, he won't be able to make reparations, you see? Right now Calmont is a bad halfling, but in the future, he might even be a really good helper to the rest of the Bumblebrashers, or serve the good of the community in some other way."

[pringerbeam]

     "Buuuut we're huuuuuuuungry!" Moaned the goblin. "We've already eaten all the food we had on us when the cultists came from below and the only fresh meat we've had was that one eagle that tried to carry off Skeeb."

[Asta]

"Hold on. Did you just say cultists?" Spira hadn't been paying much attention to the goblin's jabbering about eating Calmont, but cultists sounded like important information.

[Oath]

"Anyone mind if me giving that dagger a try?" He heard the conversation with the goblin as well, and found it curious. "When did the cultists show up?"

[pringerbeam]

     "Yeah cultists! They came from downdownstairs with the big lizards!  Wouldn't shut up about how they were the Cinderclaws and how they were going to roast and eat us! They chased us out of our home and all the way up the stairs to here! It sucks up here! So cold and windy! And we don't have any of our dogs or slicers! We lost those all in the cave in when we ran up here." Rambled Helba in reply.

[Mysticsage]

Riven sighed, while he wasn't overly familiar with the religious type of zealot he was familiar with the zeal of slavers. He had heard them be compared to cultists in the past and understood the meaning from the goblin's tone alone.

"Do they want something specific from you, Helba? And do you think they'll find it if we take some time to recover?" He asked as he spit the last bits of imp gristle from his throat.

[pringerbeam]

     "I don't know what they want! They came from downdownstairs, there's nothing down there so maybe they wanted the dragon treasures? Or the fancy statues and stuff? Maybe they just were tired of the downdownstairs and wanted to see the sunlight? Too bad the stairs caved in behind us, now they're stuck! Now there's no way out except the secret door. They didn't seem too smart, not like us Bumblebrashers! So it could take them days to find it!"  Replied the goblin. At mention of the statues Alak turned from keeping a keen eye on the bound and unconscious Calmont. "I don't know what you mean by the downdownstairs but... statues... maybe you mean the Vaults? There should be some place for our most honored dead to have been interred... I would like to see it. I don't know if there is anything any cultists would want left there after all these years but if the ring I'm looking for isn't up here it might be down there, not to mention I'd rather not have a bunch of cultists ransack the graves of my forebears. Fortunately, it sounds like we have some time before this cultist problem becomes more serious. Plenty of time to bring this guy back to to town to face justice and come back to finish searching the upper floor I would think."

[Asta]

"That might be a good idea" Spira commented. "My supplies are exhausted and I am certainly less useful in combat without them."

[pringerbeam]

     "Seems like a sound plan. I could use some more supplies myself. I didn't anticipate the citadel to be so overrun and if we are going to be in a prolonged engagement with a cult I would like to be a little better supplied." Replied Alak. "So if we're heading back to town... maybe we could wake the halfling? I'm not too keen on carrying them all the way back to town."

[Asta]

"Fair." Spira replied, then kicked Calmont's leg. "Hey. Wake up."