Ch. 18: The Party Continues to Fight Their Way into the Cragmag Goblin Tribe Cave and Find Sildar!

Opening Scene: Day 11: May 11 th ; 2:00 pm Things start off after dealing with more goblins on the bridge and in the the passage that went under and around it northward then east then south east up two more flights of stairs into an area north of the path that had a portion walled up to contain the flowing water. Ravoprax having climbed a part of the wall to have a look at what was beyond to find that 2 sections were broken down deliberately, to let the dammed up water rush out. This was obviously how the goblins were able to flush out the cave passage twice. Now the party splits up, as Willie, Roqar and Kaiser, move up the chute in the fissure from the wolf den while, Ravoprax, Murtle and Flint went  south towards ao flight of stairs going up to confront more of the goblins within the eastern side of the cavern complex.    Initiative Rolls are made and Combat Round #01 begins: Goblin #01, fires an arrow with his short bow, hitting Willie for 8+3 damage from a critical hit roll of 24, dropping him to 6 hit points!   Roqar, stays put. Kaiser, also waits.   Goblin #02, waits for an opportunity to attack.   Willie, scrambles out of the fissure chute as fast as he can.   Boss Klarg the bugbear, tosses his javelin at Ravoprax but it goes wide!   Ravoprax says, “We are here to clean this tunnel out!”   Boss Klarg says, “I like it just the way it is!”   Ravoprax says, “We don’t like you bothering travelers on the road!”   Murtle, stays back for now. Ripper the wolf, stays back.   Flint, runs up the stairs and swings his battle axe, two-handed at Klarg hit for 13 damage!     Round #02 of Combat:   Goblin #01, attacks Willie with his scimitar but missed!   Roqar, then Kaiser, climbs out of the fissure chute.   Goblin #02, swings his scimitar at Roqar but missed!   Willie, fires an arrow with the long bow but missed Goblin #01!   Boss Klarg, swings his Morningstar at Flint but missed!   Ravoprax, swings and hits Boss Klarg with his Talon long sword for 10 damage!   Murtle, moves over to Flint and prays to Istishia, to cast a Cure Wounds spell upon him, healing back 11 hit points!   Ripper the wolf, tries to bite Ravoprax but missed!   Flint, hits Boss Klarg for 10 slashing damage, using his battle axe two-handed, defeating him!     Round #03 of Combat:   Gobin #01, hits Kaiser for 8 slashing damage with his scimitar, Kaiser is down to 4 hit points!   Roqar, missed Goblin #02 with the short sword!   Kaiser, cast the Fire Bolt cantrip at Goblin #01, hit for 2 damage!   Goblin #02, missed Roqar with the scimitar!   Willie, hits Goblin #01 for 6 piercing damage with an arrow from the long bow, defeating the goblin!   Ravoprax, hits Ripper the wolf for 5 damage with his Talon long sword!   Murtle, hits Ripper the wolf for 6 damage with his spear, defeating the wolf!   Flint, hits Goblin #02 for 6 slashing damage with his battle axe, two-handed!     Round #04 of Combat:   Roqar, hits Goblin #02 for 4 piercing damage with the short sword, defeating him!   End of Combat!   Area Description: Sacks and crates of looted provisions are piled up in the south end of this large cave, some are marked clearly with the image of a blue lion. To the west, the floor slopes toward a narrow opening that descends into darkness. A larger opening leads north down a set of natural stone steps, the roar of falling water echoing from beyond. In the middle of the cavern, the coals of a large fire smolder.   The party finds nothing of value upon the bodies unless someone wants a morningstar, scimitar, short bow or javelin.   Roqar, first thinks about trying to flood out the cave, but sees that the water level is now even with the floor of the cave anyways.   Roqar says, “Guess our work here is done then, Darn Gobs won’t be bothering anyone anymore.”   The party decides to try and cross the bridge as the other north west passage has an escarpment that looks hard to climb, plus they expect more goblins on the west side of the cavern complex now.   Roqar, checks for a trap just before the bridge and did not find one, and as she steps onto the bridge an arrow comes flying at her and strikes for 8 piercing damage!   Initiative rolls are made and combat round #01 begins:   Ravoprax, fires an arrow with the long bow at Goblin #06 hitting for 7 damage, defeating the goblin!   End of combat!   Ravoprax, now in the lead, is now way in the passage on the other side of the bridge, which curved north west then south west, when a arrow comes flying at him from a side passage but it missed!   Area Description: This large cave is divided in half by a ten-foot-high escarpment. A steep natural staircase leads from the lower portion to the upper ledge. The air is hazy with the smoke of a cooking fire, and pungent from the smell of poorly cured hides and unwashed goblins.   Initiative Rolls are made and Combat Round #01 begins:   Goblin #01, fires an arrow at Willie, but missed!   Rogar, moves closer to the fight.   Willie, fires an arrow at Goblin #02 for 6 piercing damage!   Ravoprax, using the Talon long sword, missed Goblin #05!   Kaiser, stays back for now.   Goblin #04, fires and arrow with the short bow and hits Ravoprax for 4 piercing damage! Goblin #02, fires and arrow but missed Willie!   Gobin #05, missed Ravoprax with his scimitar!   Murtle, stays back from the fighting. Flint, moves closer to the fight.   Goblin #03, and Yeemik the goblin boss, stays put.     Round #02 of Combat:   Goblin #01, fires an arrow with the short bow, hitting Willie for 5 piercing damage!   Roqar, stays put.   Willie, fires an arrow with the long bow, hitting Goblin #02 for 11 piercing damage, defeating him!   Ravoprax, missed Goblin #05, with his Talon long sword!   Kaiser, cast a Fire Bolt cantrip at Goblin #04 for 8 fire damage, defeating him!   Goblin #05, hits Ravoprax for 7 slashing damage with his scimitar!   Murtle, stays put.   Flint, runs over, swinging at Goblin #01 with his battle axe, two-handed but missed!

Round #03 of Combat:   Goblin #01, strikes Flint with his scimitar for 8+4 slashing damage with a critical hit! Flint has 5 hit points left!   Roqar, tries to sneak, up on Goblin #01, but the Goblin sees her, though she still managed to hit for 2 piercing damage with the short sword!   Willie, hits Goblin #01 for 11 damage with an arrow shot from the long bow, defeating him!   Ravoprax, strikes Goblin #05, with the Talon long sword for 8 slashing damage, defeating him!   Yeemik, the goblin leader is seen to drag a bound and beat up, human male to the edge of the southern ledge he is on 10 ft up, with stairs going up to it, on the west side of the cavern.   Yeemik the goblin leader says, “Truce or this human dies!”   Roqar says, “What do you want? Do you want to leave here?”   Yeemik says, “Give me the head of Klarg the bugbear and I will let the human go free!”   Sildar Hallwinter groggily warns, “No, Don’t listen to him.”   Roqar says, “He’s dead already, but we can bring it to you!”   Yeemik says, “Good, good, show me!”   Roqar says, “Be back with his head, rest of you, watch him. Kill him if he kills the human. Ravoprax, come on let’s cut the head off.” Murtle, follows them.   Those three go and actually decide to just drag back Klarg’s body to show Yeemik.   Yeemik, sees Klarg’s body and has a look of glee on his face, but now he’s obviously reluctant to release Sildar.   Rogar, “What do you want now?, We will let you go free, if you let the human go.”   Yeemik says, “I will let Sildar go if you pay 1,000 gold coins and let me and 1 other go free, what say you?”   Roqar says, “Well now, first, I don’t think there’s anyone else left, second, it’s going to take a while to bring that much money.”   Yeemik says, “500 gold then?”   Roqar says, “We can give you 400 gold coins.”   Yeemik, then simply shoves Sildar Hallwinter, over the ledge and he tumbles down with a thump and does not move where he lands!   Yeemik then backs off a bit to fire his short bow.   Kaiser continues the fight during Round #03 of combat, casting a Fire Bolt cantrip at Yeemik and hitting for 8 fire damage!   Murtle, moves over to Sildar to try and stabilize him, he uses his medicinal knowledge to do so and was successful!   Fearing that there could be one more goblin like Yeemik said, he runs up the stairs and spots the goblin slightly behind a stalagmite, of two big ones up on the ledge, with a successful wisdom perception check.   Flint swings his battle axe two-handed but missed Goblin #03! Goblin #03 backs off a bit and fires the short bow, hitting Flint with an arrow for 8 damage, dropping him!   Yeemik, fires an arrow with the short bow at Willie and hits for 5+2 piercing damage, dropping Willie!     Round #04 of Combat:   Roqar tries to climb the ledge and does so with a successful acrobatics check, then takes a swing at Yeemik with the short sword but missed!   Willie makes the 1 st  of 3 Death Saves, rolling a 12!   Ravoprax, moves closer to the fight so he can attack, so me goes up the stairs.   Kaiser, cast the Fire Bolt cantrip at Yeemik, hitting for 4 fire damage and defeating him!   Murtle, using his last Cure Wounds spell of the day, prays to Istishia, healing back 11 hit points to Willie!   Flint makes 1 of 3 successful death saves, rolling a 13.   Goblin #03, fires an arrow at Ravoprax, hitting for 3 piercing damage! Ravoprax is down to 4 hit points!     Round #05 of Combat:   Roqar, swings and missed Goblin #03 with her short sword!   Willie recovers from his wounds.   Ravoprax,  fires an arrow with the long bow, hitting Goblin #03 for 9 piercing damage, defeating the goblin!   End of Combat!   Murtle, praying to Istishia, cast the Spare the Dying cantrip upon Flint, and stabilized him   Searching the goblins, finds a pouch on Yeemik, of which Willie opens to find 3 gold teeth (1 gp each) and 15 silver pieces.   Sildar Hallwinter says, “Thank you guys for finding me, I am Sildar Hallwinter.”   Roqar says, “How did you end up here, Sildar?”   Willie says, “Sildar, do you want to smoke some of my green tobacco?”   Sildar says, “I was traveling from Neverwinter City to Phandalin, with a friend, a fellow named Gundren Rockseeker. A group that Gundren hired was to bring down a wagon load the next day behind us. Gundren and I, were ambushed on the Triboar trail, and the goblins killed the horses.   Roqar, notes that Sildar referred to the now missing first group of adventurers, she heard about.   Sildar says, “Gundren and I, were brought here, but they took gundren somewhere else along with his gear and mine. Are you folks heading to Phandalin? I must return there.”   Willie says, “I think so, I must ask my team.”   Roqar says, “I’m afraid your friend Gudren may be gone now, Sildar, don’t think anyone else is here.”   Sildar says, “Let’s pray then that Gundren was moved elsewhere outside of this cave.”   Roqar says, “I think we can return to Phandalin, before going off somewhere else.”   Willie says, “I agree Roqar.”   The group gathers themselves up and start heading out the cave, when they encounter the 3 chained up wolves barking and snarling from the top of the stairs in their cavern area.   Roqar says, “Maybe we can calm them and let them go?”   Willie rolls an Animal Handling Check of 14 which was successful, indicating he calmed the wolves down. The party was able to break the collars off the wolves and they run out of the cave one by one to freedom.   The group makes the roughly 30 mile trip, to Phandalin without incident, having camped when it was about 9 pm, then heading the rest of the way to Phandalin, arriving around 10 am, and stop right away at Elmar Barthen’s Provisions shop.   Elmar Barthen says, “Greeting folks what can I do for you? Oh Sildar!!! You are alive my friend!”   Sildar says, “Greetings Elmar! Yes, I am fortunate to be alive! Gundren and I were ambushed on the Triboar trail. They took Gundren elsewhere, so we do not know if he is still alive or not, Elmar. How long has it been since you were expecting us, Elmar?”   Roqar says, “No one’s going to be ambushed again for a while.”   Elmar Barthen says, “I’d say it’s been about 6 weeks now, since you both were expected in town. The party you hired, did get the wagon supplies here, however, they are considered missing now as well. They went with a paladin to find Orcs, ambushing folks on the Triboar to the east between Phandalin and Conyberry.”   Roqar says, “Guess that’s where we go next.”   Sildar says, “Oh Dear.”   Elmar Barthen says, “Yes, it would be best to stop in Conyberry, while dealing with them, as they trouble the town as well. It’s become more frequent, since you last left Phandalin and now a dragon is rumored to be sighted, flying around near Conyberry.”   Roqar silently curses, guessing where the dragon came from.   Elmar Barthen says, “I believe Harbin, has a posting on the job board at town hall, he’s offering some coin for dealing with the orcs, but since the dragon rumor, he’s been afraid to leave the building.”   Roqar says, “Guess we head to Conyberry, after a night’s rest and some good food and drink.”   Sildar says, “I for one, can use some relaxing sleep in a soft bed for a night. I may come along with you all to Conyberry, we’ll see in the morning after I catch up on things.”   The group heads to the Stonehill Inn.   Adventure Time is now May 12 th  at 10:30 am.