Before Granny gets back, Horatio rushes over to the molten metal area and recovers several ingots of iron from whatever stockpile they are using. He would literally grab two hundred pounds worth if available, and just dump them into his back pack. "We might be able to make our own weapons and armor now."
A twinge of guilt immediately hits him though. He had been essentially homeless for years, and stealing never settled with him. But his friends lives were in the balance. The freedom of so many children. The fight against real evil...
Matilda strikes the doll head on the table with her candy axe. It is crushed and cloven in two, revealing a hollow core of painted, layered paper. As she examines it, a ball bounces suddenly out of a dark corner, striking her gently on her knee.
Horatio examines the stove; a saucepan of smelting metal – what looks like tin? – sits upon it. Fancy iron metalworking tongs shaped like the jaws of a snapping dragon sit nearby, together with some toy molds. There's a bucket of tin cans nearby – probably the source of the molten metal. Perhaps five pounds of tin in total, including what's currently in the pan.
"You gonna kill Granny?" asks the drow boy.
"What about Oink?" asks the halfling girl to the boy.
"My piglet! She's in the pigpen..." says the halfling girl. She points out the open door toward the garden and begins to tear up. "I'm not going anywhere without Oink!"
"Boggles," answers the boy. "Maybe we should just go with them, Philomena," he says, looking nervously between the halfling girl and the open door to the garden.
"Boggles!" pipes up Squirt, the oil can nestled in Ben's hood. "Time to oil up!" he squeaks excitedly, and perhaps a bit loudly.
Moving over to grab the doll's head, Ben offers it to squirt so he can oil up as he nods to Matilda and says, "Go rescue Oink."
Answering the drow boy, he says, "First off we'd like to free you from here, then perhaps get you to Will. Eventually we want to get everyone back to there true homes, wherever they may be. As far as Granny Nightshade is concerned, I'd rather not kill her if we can avoid it, but she definitely needs to be defeated so we can free the kids here, save the unicorn, and restore Grandfather Oak's health. Prismeer will not truly be healed until all three hags are defeated and Zybilna is once more on the throne. Speaking of such things, do you know where the unicorn prisoner is? His name is Elidon and he may be missing his horn."
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Gerrard Feldren - Human Noble in Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Kerric Brightblade - Elven Warrior in "Apocalypse"
Horatio grabs the fancy tongs, several toy molds, and an extra iron pan. He also finds a jar of iridescent glass eyes.
Matilda sneaks out completely unobserved. She finds herself in a woodland basin filled with plants and fungi which stretches out along one side of the fallen tree. A pumpkin patch is at the far end of the garden, next to a steaming compost heap, with ramshackle pens for pigs and goats at the near end. Five bedraggled scarecrows hang from tall wooden stakes in the basin’s wooded slope, all of which are screaming shrillly. Six small metallic infantry soldiers walk stiffly in circles in the shrubbery to the west of the scarecrows, as a stout-legged drum follows them, banging out a monotonous beat on itself. Two ground-level doors and several balconies provide entry to the hag’s lair.
Matilda sneaks by a wide garden bed containing at least five different kinds of cultivated mushrooms. She can see five pigs – and a single piglet she assumes is "oink" – lazing in the mud in the far pen. Skabatha is standing barely 20 feet from the entrance to the pigpen, although she is turned away from it. Matilda will need to make a second (high DC) stealth check to get by her and get the piglet out unseen, unless she can create a new distraction, wait for her to move, or find a way to draw the hag further away from the pen entrance. At the moment Granny is on high alert, scanning the brush to the west for intruders, and studying her scarecrows and tin soldiers.
Meanwhile, inside the workshop, the drow boy climbs down off the table and looks at Ben blankly. "I don't know what yer talkin' about," he says, flatly. "Granny sometimes keeps her really hated prisoners in her kitchen pit, but there ain't no unicorns there." He turns to the girls. "You guys comin'? We should go with them." He puts the odd-shaped bar of soap he was holding into his shirt pocket.
The human girl looks at him uncertainly, but Philomena looks defiant. "Not without Oink." She crosses her arms and scowls sadly.
Titaani looks around the dimly-lit workshop. She sees no boggles, whatever they are. Some of the toys unsettle her, though. A stuffed lion with needles for teeth and real bloodstains around its jaws sits nearby, next to a set of playing cards depicting weeping children.
Titaani finds that the tin soldiers are well out of thrown-tooth-range. The large rotten, glyph-etched tooth thumps quietly in the grass between Granny and the tin soldiers. The bumbling tin soldiers continue to cluelessly rush around without noticing, but sharp-eyed Granny notices. She walks forward to examine the strange missile.
Tiny gets the idea, and walking invisibly toward the balcony, chucks a stone to clatter upon it. (Stealth: 26)
Matilda manages to expertly coax the piglet into following her (pretending the whistle is a tasty treat), and races back toward the door. (Make one last stealth check, with advantage thanks to Tiny.)
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Meanwhile, inside the workshop, Titaani pokes the creepy doll without response. On the table on her other side, she finds four finger puppets depicting an arguing family, and a 1-foot-tall wooden guillotine.
Gerrard looks around for any signs of "boggle oil", not really sure what to look for: Perception: 9
...And he spots them. Three of them, lurking in the shadowy corners of the workshop. Oily little nightmarish creatures like bogeys from fairy tales. They are studying you all carefully, grins on their faces. Boggle perception: 8
Matilda narrowly makes it back to the workshop with the piglet in tow, without notice. (Between the screaming scarecrows, invisible Tiny's clattering stones, and whatever the kids were doing to attract the tin soldiers' attention, Matilda's heist goes unnoticed by Granny's keen senses.) Invisible Tiny subsequently and stealthily returns as well.
The owlbear, who has been obediently following Matilda up until now (but stayed in the workshop during her recent mission) is suddenly keenly interested in the piglet. (The owlbear has not eaten in some time.)
The halfling girl grabs Oink protectively and stares with deep concern at the owlbear. The drow boy, who introduces himself as "Naal", perks up. "Is that it? Are we going? Where should we go?" he asks excitedly.
Before Granny gets back, Horatio rushes over to the molten metal area and recovers several ingots of iron from whatever stockpile they are using. He would literally grab two hundred pounds worth if available, and just dump them into his back pack. "We might be able to make our own weapons and armor now."
A twinge of guilt immediately hits him though. He had been essentially homeless for years, and stealing never settled with him. But his friends lives were in the balance. The freedom of so many children. The fight against real evil...
He takes whatever he can.
Matilda strikes the doll head on the table with her candy axe. It is crushed and cloven in two, revealing a hollow core of painted, layered paper. As she examines it, a ball bounces suddenly out of a dark corner, striking her gently on her knee.
Horatio examines the stove; a saucepan of smelting metal – what looks like tin? – sits upon it. Fancy iron metalworking tongs shaped like the jaws of a snapping dragon sit nearby, together with some toy molds. There's a bucket of tin cans nearby – probably the source of the molten metal. Perhaps five pounds of tin in total, including what's currently in the pan.
"You gonna kill Granny?" asks the drow boy.
"What about Oink?" asks the halfling girl to the boy.
" Who's Oink."
" More likely Grannys going to kill us if we take much longer...."
" And whats with the doll and the ball?"
Matilda was right on the edge of just running out of there, kids be damned...
"My piglet! She's in the pigpen..." says the halfling girl. She points out the open door toward the garden and begins to tear up. "I'm not going anywhere without Oink!"
"Boggles," answers the boy. "Maybe we should just go with them, Philomena," he says, looking nervously between the halfling girl and the open door to the garden.
"Boggles!" pipes up Squirt, the oil can nestled in Ben's hood. "Time to oil up!" he squeaks excitedly, and perhaps a bit loudly.
" Take the kids, I'll get the pig. I live on a farm."
Ben:
Moving over to grab the doll's head, Ben offers it to squirt so he can oil up as he nods to Matilda and says, "Go rescue Oink."
Answering the drow boy, he says, "First off we'd like to free you from here, then perhaps get you to Will. Eventually we want to get everyone back to there true homes, wherever they may be. As far as Granny Nightshade is concerned, I'd rather not kill her if we can avoid it, but she definitely needs to be defeated so we can free the kids here, save the unicorn, and restore Grandfather Oak's health. Prismeer will not truly be healed until all three hags are defeated and Zybilna is once more on the throne. Speaking of such things, do you know where the unicorn prisoner is? His name is Elidon and he may be missing his horn."
Gerrard Feldren - Human Noble in Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Kerric Brightblade - Elven Warrior in "Apocalypse"
Horatio takes the tongs, pans, molds - anything not tin or currently heated.
Matilda slips out to retrieve the pig.
Stealth: 26
Perception: 9
Animal Handling: 21
Matilda feels something furry brush against her palm - an invisible Tiny is there beside her, and there to help. (reroll with advantage :))
"What else is a boggle?" Titaani asks, looking around the room. Perception: 10
Pronouns: She/her/her's
Currently playing as Titaani Leelathae in The Wild beyond the Witchlight
Horatio grabs the fancy tongs, several toy molds, and an extra iron pan. He also finds a jar of iridescent glass eyes.
Matilda sneaks out completely unobserved. She finds herself in a woodland basin filled with plants and fungi which stretches out along one side of the fallen tree. A pumpkin patch is at the far end of the garden, next to a steaming compost heap, with ramshackle pens for pigs and goats at the near end. Five bedraggled scarecrows hang from tall wooden stakes in the basin’s wooded slope, all of which are screaming shrillly. Six small metallic infantry soldiers walk stiffly in circles in the shrubbery to the west of the scarecrows, as a stout-legged drum follows them, banging out a monotonous beat on itself. Two ground-level doors and several balconies provide entry to the hag’s lair.
Matilda sneaks by a wide garden bed containing at least five different kinds of cultivated mushrooms. She can see five pigs – and a single piglet she assumes is "oink" – lazing in the mud in the far pen. Skabatha is standing barely 20 feet from the entrance to the pigpen, although she is turned away from it. Matilda will need to make a second (high DC) stealth check to get by her and get the piglet out unseen, unless she can create a new distraction, wait for her to move, or find a way to draw the hag further away from the pen entrance. At the moment Granny is on high alert, scanning the brush to the west for intruders, and studying her scarecrows and tin soldiers.
Meanwhile, inside the workshop, the drow boy climbs down off the table and looks at Ben blankly. "I don't know what yer talkin' about," he says, flatly. "Granny sometimes keeps her really hated prisoners in her kitchen pit, but there ain't no unicorns there." He turns to the girls. "You guys comin'? We should go with them." He puts the odd-shaped bar of soap he was holding into his shirt pocket.
The human girl looks at him uncertainly, but Philomena looks defiant. "Not without Oink." She crosses her arms and scowls sadly.
Titaani looks around the dimly-lit workshop. She sees no boggles, whatever they are. Some of the toys unsettle her, though. A stuffed lion with needles for teeth and real bloodstains around its jaws sits nearby, next to a set of playing cards depicting weeping children.
Ben:
(Did Squirt manage to extract oil from the boggle in the doll’s head?)
”A kitchen pit with more prisoners? Let us hope they can be rescued as well,” says Ben, still working to get some boggle oil for Squirt.
Gerrard Feldren - Human Noble in Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Kerric Brightblade - Elven Warrior in "Apocalypse"
Matilda did a quick check of her pockets for knick knacks she had picked up that might be useful-
- Crystal Orb
- Whistle
- Glyph Tooth
The whistle was the most obvious but she needed something else to blow it...
" Are you magic?", she whispered to the tooth.
She threw the tooth as hard as she could at one of the tin soldiers....
Attack: 17 Damage: 0
Then snuck towards the piglet...
24 ( Advantage from Titaani)
Titaani pokes the stuffed lion with her boomerang. Meanwhile, Tiny follows Matilda, continuing to creep forward silently.
Pronouns: She/her/her's
Currently playing as Titaani Leelathae in The Wild beyond the Witchlight
Titaani finds that the tin soldiers are well out of thrown-tooth-range. The large rotten, glyph-etched tooth thumps quietly in the grass between Granny and the tin soldiers. The bumbling tin soldiers continue to cluelessly rush around without noticing, but sharp-eyed Granny notices. She walks forward to examine the strange missile.
Tiny gets the idea, and walking invisibly toward the balcony, chucks a stone to clatter upon it. (Stealth: 26)
Matilda manages to expertly coax the piglet into following her (pretending the whistle is a tasty treat), and races back toward the door.
(Make one last stealth check, with advantage thanks to Tiny.)
Meanwhile, inside the workshop, Titaani pokes the creepy doll without response. On the table on her other side, she finds four finger puppets depicting an arguing family, and a 1-foot-tall wooden guillotine.
Gerrard looks around for any signs of "boggle oil", not really sure what to look for: Perception: 9
...And he spots them. Three of them, lurking in the shadowy corners of the workshop. Oily little nightmarish creatures like bogeys from fairy tales. They are studying you all carefully, grins on their faces. Boggle perception: 8
Matilda Stealth:- 18
Matilda narrowly makes it back to the workshop with the piglet in tow, without notice. (Between the screaming scarecrows, invisible Tiny's clattering stones, and whatever the kids were doing to attract the tin soldiers' attention, Matilda's heist goes unnoticed by Granny's keen senses.) Invisible Tiny subsequently and stealthily returns as well.
The owlbear, who has been obediently following Matilda up until now (but stayed in the workshop during her recent mission) is suddenly keenly interested in the piglet. (The owlbear has not eaten in some time.)
The halfling girl grabs Oink protectively and stares with deep concern at the owlbear. The drow boy, who introduces himself as "Naal", perks up. "Is that it? Are we going? Where should we go?" he asks excitedly.
" Ben! Lead the way."
" No Mr Snuggles. No piggie for you."
" I'll get you something once we're out of here."
Ben:
(While Matilda is still outside)
Seeing the boggles, Ben says, “Right, then, let’s help Squirt—who wants to help me catch a boggle and squeeze out some oil?”
Athletics to catch a boggle: 18
(Once that is done and Matilda gets back, Ben will lead the way back out that they came (across the bridge and away).
Gerrard Feldren - Human Noble in Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Kerric Brightblade - Elven Warrior in "Apocalypse"