Expedition - Fingers: The Kobold Tower - 05 June 2021

[Rusty Tincanne]

Ablesforth presents his idea of circumambulating the city before going in, checking on the rest of the wall, looking for further clues and signs of life* within the city.
* Or unlife, as the case may be with Marullus in the GM seat.

[Zhym]

"Oh, good idea!" says Fingers, enthusiastic for any plan that doesn't involve him going ahead into danger mostly alone. "Let's do that!"

[Rusty Tincanne]

Able will lead the way with Fingers (or Rhybek), leading by 100-200 yards as we travel in a counter-clockwise manner around the seige line.

[Marullus]

Rhybek inspects the shrubs and is pleased to find they are quarry bushes; clear sign of dwarven occupation, as their rock nuts are particularly resistant to the digestive process, but quite tasty. He collects a large sack full of quarry bush leaves (a nutritious salad) and several handfuls of rock nuts. (7man-days fresh rations, total)

The group sets out counter-clockwise around the city. They see encampment groupings (similar to where you just were) evenly spaced ahead. With 30 minutes walk, you've moved about an eighth of the way around the city, another encampment with tunnel entrances just ahead, but you see movement among the bushes. The lead group -Able and Fingers - spots seven large babboons picking the shrub nuts and hooting at each other. The babboons have not noticed you yet.

Date: 3:20pm, 06 June 2021
Light: Sun
Weather: 46F, 4-6mph winds
Distance travelled: ~12 miles
Injuries: None

[Dram]

Neegan- Seeing the movement. Lets move away from the animals. Best not to disturb them.

[Spearmint]

Idriss

"Baboons can be wild and untamed or trained as guards too. Pack creatures dominated by an alpha male I suspect. If we don't enter their territory we should be okay." Idriss the mage follows the dwarf Neegan

[Rusty Tincanne]

Having returned to the group to inform everyone of the baboons, Ableforth agrees that it would be best to avoid the creatures. We haven't seen anything in the city so far. Let's head in.

[Alethan]

Rhybek nods in agreement.

"Let's clear away from these animals - maybe to where we first approached - and make our way to the keep."

[Zhym]

"Okay," whispers Fingers. "Let's go in."

[Zorroroaster]

Silent nods.

[Alethan]

Rhybek

Rhybek nods as well. "Let's go."

If nobody else takes the first steps forward, then Rhybek does, battle axe ready and shield braced.

[Marullus]

The group shies away from the baboons, making their way back to the previous encampment site. From what they saw ahead, and what they see behind, it looks the dwarves set their siege camps at even cardinal points around the city, eight in all. You are now back at the Southeast encampment and the baboons are at the East encampment. You saw a Northeast and a due South encampment beyond your footsteps. The walls are utterly destroyed at these points where the sapping tunnels are, but they are only partially destroyed along the stretches between, still preventing free movement to the inward city.

Assumed Marching Order: (Please correct if necessary)
Rhybek - Fingers
Ableforth - Neegan
Silent - Idriss

You approach the rubble of the wall, wary for any danger or snare that might befall you coming into this strange and misbegotten place. The outer wall is indeed collapsed utterly, easy pathways here allowing clear access to the city that was beyond. Inside this outer wall are packed-dirt roadways wide enough for two wagons, lined on either side by the partially-standing remains of stone hovels, the remains of half-timber homes between them like gaps in teeth. Some wooden roofs remain partially intact, others utterly collapsed into the interiors. The roads wind organically, leading ahead to an inner bailey wall which is mostly still standing ahead of you, visible uphill on the motte. The keep, then, stands at the center of that inner ward.

Crossing from the wall foundation onto the roadway, the party is surprised as Neegan cries out in alarm and disappears from view! A camouflage pit trap opens beneath his feet, dropping him into a dark tunnel below (-4). The stout dwarf is bruised but conscious and about 20' down at the bottom of one of the sapper tunnels, the fallen wall-stone blocking his egress that way.

Date: 4:00pm, 06 June 2021
Light: Sun
Weather: 46F, 4-6mph winds
Distance travelled: ~13 miles
Injuries: None

Rolls:

Detect trap: Rhybeck [1d6] = 6 Neegan [1d6] = 3 Fingers [1d100] = 68
[url=http://www.unseenservant.com/default.as ... 92&macid=0]Trap: Rhybeck Fingers Neegan Able [1d4] = 3[/url

[Zhym]

Fingers lowers a rope into the pit. "We're gonna have to move slow and poke around anywhere we go. Probably a whole bunch of pits and traps around," he says.

Let's use this for the marching order from here forward:

Rhybek Neegan
Able Silent
Idriss Fingers

Dwarves in front, fighter and cleric (I think?) next, thieves (or thief and MU) pulling up the rear.

[Zorroroaster]

Silent offers a hand to Neegan when he hauls himself from the pit. He looks down into the pit and then at their surroundings. He looks around for some kind of stick that he can use to poke at the ground in front of him as they walk.

[Alethan]

Rhybek

"This ain't no ancient dwarven trap," Rhybek says, looking it over. "It's kobold-make."

He looks around to make sure their noise hasn't drawn any attention.

"I think we're on the right track to the kobold tower. We might consider looking for a different way of entering the tower aside from the front door. Maybe there are out buildings near the keep that had underground connections to the keep."

[Zhym]

"Oh crap," says Fingers. "You mean these are the smart kobolds, who build traps and stuff?"

"Maybe we can find a dragon to fight instead."

[Zorroroaster]

Tucker's Kobolds, even?

[Zhym]

Effin' Tucker. Now every DM would rather use sneaky-ass kobolds instead of cannon-fodder kobolds. Grump, grump, grump.

[Rusty Tincanne]

Able also assists Rhybek to the surface. When he grasps the dwarf's hand, the healing grace of Eruanna flows into the stoutly framed male. Kobolds. Must be true.



i was so excited to role, i forgot to ask for a truth! Oh well. 3 hp returned.
CLW [1d6+1] = 2+1 = 3

[Alethan]

Able also assists Rhybek to the surface. When he grasps the dwarf's hand, the healing grace of Eruanna flows into the stoutly framed male. Kobolds. Must be true.



i was so excited to role, i forgot to ask for a truth! Oh well. 3 hp returned.
CLW [1d6+1] = 2+1 = 3

Indeed! Also picked the wrong dwarf!

Crossing from the wall foundation onto the roadway, the party is surprised as Neegan cries out in alarm and disappears from view! A camouflage pit trap opens beneath his feet, dropping him into a dark tunnel below (-4).

You'll get no truths from Rhybek just yet!!!