Zaiden climbs with relative ease 15 feet up the fissure. He looks up uneasily as he realizes he's only half way up the climb. He can see now that the opening is wide enough to fit through, though how stealthily or quickly he isn't sure.
Zaiden, make another Athletics check and let me know if you continue climbing up the fissure or start climbing back down.
Tristan, you listen for sounds of goblins or any hostile creature approaching, and you're fairly confident no one is coming. For a moment, you hear goblin cackles get louder, but you realize it's not because they are approaching, but rather just getting loud over something that amuses them.
While the rest of you wait, Emrin whispers to Finn that he feels a bit helpless. He'd go ahead and scout with his darkvision, but he taps his armor to indicate a stealth problem similar to Tristan. "I'm happy to move ahead first, but I think we should stick together as best we can."
It has seemed like a tense hour in this cave, but it was only a few short minutes ago that you were dispatching of the goblin scouts in the woods.
Zaiden pays attention to the fissure and if it indeed still doesn’t look commonly used for movement he’ll just climb back down and suggest they explore elsewhere. “I didn’t want to leave a passage at our back but I think perhaps they just threw slip down for the wolves… we should still watch our backs but I think we are… well, no safe but…”
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We're doing one small murder-y thing for a bigger, better reason. The ends justify the means.
Zaiden make an Athletics check to see if you get down safely.
Emrin looks out of the entrance to this cavern. With his dark vision, he sees the next passage to the west. "It seems a clear path to the next cavern, but I don't know what is further up the bend. It's hard to hear anything with the echoing and flowing stream, but perhaps that'll provide us some cover. Should we continue with the torch so you all can see?"
If you decide to continue forward, let me know a marching order and a destination. Emrin will be wherever you tell him to be.
Tristan and Sig take the lead, followed by Finn, then Emrin, then Zaiden.
Tristan and Sig, as you step out into the main tunnel with the stream and head towards the passage to the west where Bengo said the goblins are holding your human friend, each of you make a perception check.
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Sig opens his eyes wide and grabs his sword tighter, now he's taking the fight to them, he thinks, and tries to pay extra attention to the environment in clues for any type of greenskin activity.
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As you approach the cave tunnel branching west, Sig spots a shadow move on the bridge's south side, as though retreating. He hears the sound of movement and goblin shouts.
You briefly see and hear the stream flow increase before a much louder flow of water catches your ear. The stream is being flooded.
You all rush forward to the tunnel passage to the west, as it's the best spot to hurry out of the way of the water. Sig and Tristan make it. The rest will need to make an Acrobatics or Athletics check. Because Sig noticed the goblin scout and warned you, you have advantage on the check.
As it washes past, you see that the surge in water was surprisingly mighty. That would have hurt you each if Sig hadn't have warned you. You are now in the passage to the west and suspect that at least some of the goblins in this cave may know that you are here.
Entering the western tunnel with the torch light, you see more of the shape of this cave. Both Tristan and Sig, being in front and with your passive perception, see a goblin scurry out of the light from the torch deeper into the cavern (see the red X on the map).
"Hey, hey! Over there"Sig whispers to Tristan and the rest of the group, moving his torch on that direction. "A stinky goblin just ran out of view, did you see it? Be careful, it could be a trap!" He points with his sword the way forward, and takes a few steps to light the way in the direction the goblin went.
Zaiden climbs with relative ease 15 feet up the fissure. He looks up uneasily as he realizes he's only half way up the climb. He can see now that the opening is wide enough to fit through, though how stealthily or quickly he isn't sure.
Zaiden, make another Athletics check and let me know if you continue climbing up the fissure or start climbing back down.
Tristan, you listen for sounds of goblins or any hostile creature approaching, and you're fairly confident no one is coming. For a moment, you hear goblin cackles get louder, but you realize it's not because they are approaching, but rather just getting loud over something that amuses them.
While the rest of you wait, Emrin whispers to Finn that he feels a bit helpless. He'd go ahead and scout with his darkvision, but he taps his armor to indicate a stealth problem similar to Tristan. "I'm happy to move ahead first, but I think we should stick together as best we can."
It has seemed like a tense hour in this cave, but it was only a few short minutes ago that you were dispatching of the goblin scouts in the woods.
Zaiden pays attention to the fissure and if it indeed still doesn’t look commonly used for movement he’ll just climb back down and suggest they explore elsewhere. “I didn’t want to leave a passage at our back but I think perhaps they just threw slip down for the wolves… we should still watch our backs but I think we are… well, no safe but…”
We're doing one small murder-y thing for a bigger, better reason. The ends justify the means.
-- Eleanor Shellstrop
Zaiden make an Athletics check to see if you get down safely.
Emrin looks out of the entrance to this cavern. With his dark vision, he sees the next passage to the west. "It seems a clear path to the next cavern, but I don't know what is further up the bend. It's hard to hear anything with the echoing and flowing stream, but perhaps that'll provide us some cover. Should we continue with the torch so you all can see?"
If you decide to continue forward, let me know a marching order and a destination. Emrin will be wherever you tell him to be.
15 athletics check….
Well we need to see so torches it is… Zaiden will take up the back, not being heavily armored.
We're doing one small murder-y thing for a bigger, better reason. The ends justify the means.
-- Eleanor Shellstrop
You make it back down the fissure without issue.
If they decide to continue further into the cave, Tristan will be close to the front.
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Finn moves ahead, staying near the front but behind tristan, trying to move as stealthily as he can while he does
Stealth: 15
Sig moves forward, raising his shield and moving next to Tristan.
Tristan and Sig take the lead, followed by Finn, then Emrin, then Zaiden.
Tristan and Sig, as you step out into the main tunnel with the stream and head towards the passage to the west where Bengo said the goblins are holding your human friend, each of you make a perception check.
Sig opens his eyes wide and grabs his sword tighter, now he's taking the fight to them, he thinks, and tries to pay extra attention to the environment in clues for any type of greenskin activity.
Perception: 11
As you approach the cave tunnel branching west, Sig spots a shadow move on the bridge's south side, as though retreating. He hears the sound of movement and goblin shouts.
You briefly see and hear the stream flow increase before a much louder flow of water catches your ear. The stream is being flooded.
You all rush forward to the tunnel passage to the west, as it's the best spot to hurry out of the way of the water. Sig and Tristan make it. The rest will need to make an Acrobatics or Athletics check. Because Sig noticed the goblin scout and warned you, you have advantage on the check.
Emrin athletics 21
Being warned, and hearing the suddenly loud sound of rushing water, Zaiden looks about and does his best to get up to high and dry ground!
20
We're doing one small murder-y thing for a bigger, better reason. The ends justify the means.
-- Eleanor Shellstrop
Seeing the goblin sig warned them about, Finn rushes to get away from the swell of the water as the river is unleashed
Acrobatics: 6
He did say with advantage?
We're doing one small murder-y thing for a bigger, better reason. The ends justify the means.
-- Eleanor Shellstrop
Yep! Additonal roll since I should have rolled with advantage
21
As it washes past, you see that the surge in water was surprisingly mighty. That would have hurt you each if Sig hadn't have warned you. You are now in the passage to the west and suspect that at least some of the goblins in this cave may know that you are here.
Entering the western tunnel with the torch light, you see more of the shape of this cave. Both Tristan and Sig, being in front and with your passive perception, see a goblin scurry out of the light from the torch deeper into the cavern (see the red X on the map).
Map:
What do you do next?
"Hey, hey! Over there" Sig whispers to Tristan and the rest of the group, moving his torch on that direction. "A stinky goblin just ran out of view, did you see it? Be careful, it could be a trap!" He points with his sword the way forward, and takes a few steps to light the way in the direction the goblin went.
“Don’t worry, I’ve got your back,” Zaiden assures, though he’s mainly trying to remember the quickest way out of this place.
We're doing one small murder-y thing for a bigger, better reason. The ends justify the means.
-- Eleanor Shellstrop