Castle Crawl

• It’s around midday and, at the foyer of the castle, the party decides to move.
  • But before they search the rooms they’ve been to.
• They enter a storage room with barrels and a find a bloody chainmail, a heavy crossbow, and a longsword.
  • Dwolf inspects the longsword and notices the symbol of the Haven’s Guard on it.
• Brannus listens to the door to the west, hears deep voices, but does not understand the words.
• Droop listens too and recognizes that it’s not the voice of goblins.
  • “It could be the more furry ones, or the less furry ones”, he says.
  • The party surmises that it’s bugbears or hobgoblins.
• The party discusses how to deal with the situation for a bit.
  • While they do this, Nori is walking around looking for trouble.
• While wandering around, the familiar cat makes a mistake and triggers a trap in the foyer.
  • It barely escapes falling rocks from the ceiling!
• The noise attracts the attention of the denizens of the room next to where the party is.
  • The door opens from the inside and the party is faced with a few hobgoblins.
• A fight breaks between the groups.
  • Kiara one-shots a hobgoblin into the arrow slit.
  • Sigmar, after charging into the room, hits a hobgoblin in the gut from below lifting it off the ground after which it slumps to the ground dead.
• The defeat the hobgoblins, and after the fight the they inspect the room.
  • It’s visibly much cleaner than previous ones and it looks like equal parts an armory and barracks.
  • A myriad of weapons are on the walls.
• After inspecting the weapon racks, Sigmar takes a finely carved quarterstaff.
• Meanwhile, Brannus tries to listen to the door on the east side of the storage room but he hears nothing.
• Dwolf opens the door slowly and sees a bloody altar on the room ahead.
  • Two very poorly hidden goblins are crouching behind it.
• Brannus casts prestidigitation on the far side of the room, causing a loud sound.
  • One of the goblins yelps!
• Dwolf calls out in goblinoid and one of the dumb goblins gets up and responds.
  • When he sees the dwarf he charges to attack, while the other goblin stays behind pelting arrows.
• A fight ensues.
  • After charging Dwolf, the first goblin blocks the way in for a few seconds.
  • He is defeated, and after that Sigmar rushes in but trips on the altar and almost falls flat on his face.
  • Brannus tries to attack the same goblin but fails horribly and hits Sigmar instead!
• After these mishaps, however, they easily defeat the goblin acolytes and find themselves in an old human chapel.
  • They see signs of four deities of the western pantheon: Istus, Boccob, Pelor, St. Cuthbert.
• The chapel was converted to be a place of worship of Maglubiyet, the Mighty One of goblinoids.
• At the sight of this, Droop just panics:
  • He just seems unable to function around this place out of fear.
  • The party tries to reassure him and fails.
  • Kiara offers to carry him, and he meekly accepts.
• They look at the altar closely and find layers of blood.
  • They try to understand if it’s human blood, but it’s hard to tell.
• South of the chapel, two large curtains block the way forward.
  • The dwarves each look from one and find a large room covered in darkness.
  • They see no one, but the ranger hears a noise.
• Sigmar boldly walks in, and finds a goblin in improvised clerical garbs hiding next to a unlit brazier.
  • The goblin insults him for defiling his chamber of worship and proclaims that his “pet” will exact his vengeance.
  • He calls for it.

• A monstrous snake like creature with a tentacles and a beak on its face drops from the ceiling and prepares to attack!
• The party is very quick to react and attacks the horrifying creature first.
  • Dwolf slices it with his magical longsword.
  • Kiara hits it with her eldritch blast.
  • After dispatching the goblin “priest” Sigmar rushes in, and with a bone-crushing blow kills the creature.
• It all happens in a surprisingly low amount of seconds and the party barely breaks a sweat.
• Looking at the corpse of the creature, Dwolf believes it to be a grick.