Tempe meditates upon his connection with nature and self then heads to the meeting and breakfast.

There appear to be more goblins active at night than during the day. And their overall energy is up and more active during the night (drinking, dicing, and all sort of debauchery).

The morning meeting is actually with an adjutant to General Teschar, one Colonel Planders. He is accompanied by a detachment of soldiers. "I understand you have information that could prove important to our cause. Once I have determined how relevant I will inform the General and see what he makes of it."

Although somewhat disappointed that the group are fobbed off to a lower functionary, Z tries to remain as polite as possible. "We thank you for your time. We have gathered important information on the Goblins' strategy. They intend to tunnel into the Sewers to bypass the city's fortifications!" Z goes on to explain all the details they know, and explain as well as possible using the maps etc.

Once the Adjutant has understood the situation and urgency, Z will also ask if there is anything in particular which a small strikeforce [party of adventurers] may be suited to help with?

Randall:

”I will bring the holy light of Lathander against the foe, a searing radiance to the goblins and a soothing balm to our allies,” says Randall, attempting to upon the functionary their potential usefulness.

Tempe nods to Colonel Planders "If we can somehow collapse or block parts of the tunnels in the sewers to funnel them into one passage. I have a spell called spike growth. I would draw a line where none of our people should pass for 40 feet beyond none can walk without harm. The spikes wont be seen. But we'll need a map of the sewers."

Petcan gauges the functionary. He's discerning if this might be a person with a lackadaisical attitude who sees us small, unimportant people, or if this is a well oiled machine. 

Insight 12 

@Zenodor

"General Teschar is inundated with lots of false reports daily, unfortunately, and it is my job to sift through them and find the ones that will matter. If you can meet back here at lunch in about 2 hours I will bring the General and we can discuss the matter in ernest?"

@Randall

"Yes, of course Brother Randall. A high ranking member of the Church of Lathander such as yourself is always a welcome addition to the cause and I'm sure your contributions will be most beneficial."

@Tempe

"I'll make sure to bring more detailed maps of the sewers and a few other extras to the meeting."

@Pepin

You determine that he does indeed take you seriously and was only sent to separate the serious petitioners from the multitude of 'red herrings.'

Randall:

Heading to the temple to pray and seek divine guidance in the intervening time, Randall hopes for a revelation of the key to defeating the goblin horde -- or at least a clue to the reason for their attack...He then returns for the meeting...

Religion:  16

(@Brian it was Petcan who did the insight;))

Pepin isn't sure what to do for the coming to hours and decides to take a walk towards the walls in the hopes of having a look on outside.

Petcan goes with Randal. He's not really a very good or faithful worshipper, but Randal makes it look good. So he'll join and try to imitate what Randal does. 

(ooc: apologies for mixing up the 2 characters whose names both begin with P... what I wrote for Pepin was meant for Petcan, thanks for the catch.)

@Randall

As you pray you slip into a light daydream where you are having a conversation with a higher ranked member of your church. In the daydream you are younger looking and the talk suddenly turns to the nature of different creatures. It quickly lands on goblins and suggests it is not usually in their nature to do what they are currently doing outside Laurentiis. If however, a singular leader was powerful enough they could command hundreds or even thousands of goblins. Such tyrants are not always goblins but the goblins will follow, organize, and obey under a powerful enough individual regardless.

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@Tempe

"I'll make sure to bring more detailed maps of the sewers and a few other extras to the meeting."

Tempe nods "Yes sir."

The General arrives with an appropriate honor guard and takes a seat at a long table. Planders begins laying out maps while the General grumbles under his breath, "Damn goblins coming out of the sewers, that's all we need!"

He then invites you to look over the maps and welcomes any advice/ideas you might have about the situation.

Randall:

Standing back and quietly observing, Randall sifts through the attitudes of everyone in the room.  Is someone despairing?  Is another reckless?  Perhaps most importantly, is someone hiding something—maybe a spy in their midst?

Insight with Expertise:  28

Zenodor explains to the General that there are no fixed proposals at this stage, but that we were broadly thinking along two lines:

The first option would be that if the town guards can cope with the Sewers, now that they are warned and prepared, then we could try to move behind enemy lines to disrupt their more long-term plans, find their leadership, etc.

The second line of thinking, is that if they would prefer for us to help, we could take at least one of the tunnel entrances (or perhaps even split our number to support two or three) to aid the defense. 

Zenodor also suggests that if the town mages and artificers can be gathered, perhaps enough water could be created or redirected to flood the sewers and Goblin tunnels (ideally after they break through into the sewers but before the army emerges to the surface), as it would likely be quicker and easier to drown them than to fight them.

Finally, Z would like to ask the General for any other information, or perhaps for secret intelligence, that may be useful, or if the General knows of anything else that a small competent force of adventurers might be able to attempt to help the city.

(Let us know if any rolls for Persuade etc required)

"I agree(I guess Zendor said something) with Z do you have miners in your employ? If we can some how funnel the enemy into a choke point they would be easier to disperse. Or flooding would work as well." Tempe says as he looks at the map. 

@Randall

All the guards, Planders, and General Teschar appear to be appropriately concerned and behaving within the limits of what you would expect.

@Zenodor & Tempe... and the rest really.

General Teschar points to the maps as he explains, "We can only cave in certain tunnels without either blocking the sewage until it floods the city streets and spreads disease or collapsing the whole city down around our ears but the flooding is a good idea."

"We could put together a few special teams along with the soldiers that will be reassigned to the sewers to hopefully contain them but there are a maze of tunnels and it will only be a matter of time before they find a way into the city. So this is what I propose, we'll contain the goblins and you lot, bolstered by one of the special teams, will make your way to the pumping station. When you're ready to flood the sewers signal us with one of these," he motions to Planders who produces a sending stone for you while holding the other one, "it will only take about 30 minutes to retreat out of the sewers. We will cover our retreat with strategic cave-ins to pin the goblins down long enough to be flooded."

"I know this is grisly business and a lot of goblins will die, but it will save thousands of citizens of Laurentiis."

"Will you agree to take this mission?"

Randall:

”Sounds like just the task for us!  We won’t let you down.  Let us plan our route using the maps,” responds Randall.

"Zenodor could your friend find out where the tunnels are? We could get miners to dig into these tunnels. Head them off. Keep them from the sewers." 

"Sounds like a plan, we will do everything in our power to help"

((When did we expect the goblins? Will we have a long rest before? I didn't apply my water infusions after this morning due to being on land, but m,ight want to have my cloak of the manta ray for the trip in the sewers after all^^))