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Goblin 4 swings at Muck with a 13 to hit.

 

That's a hit on Muck. How much damage?

 I was not expecting such a low AC. 4 Damage

Ha! I know right? I had to double-check it myself.

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Muck is going to try to force the grappled Goblin 3 to the ground and say, "Excuse me, mister goblin person... I'm really sorry to bother you while you're trying to put holes in my friends, but looks like you're losing this fight and I'd hate for you to stop breathing before I had a chance to ask you a few questions... On the other head, if you're not in the mood and would rather have my friends put a bunch of holes in you instead, that's okay too. Whatever's more convenient for you really. I'm a go with the flow sort of goo."

 Intimidation check, with advantage  (missed this one when I replied earlier)

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 Intimidation check, with advantage  (missed this one when I replied earlier)

The goblin goes still. Just the goblin with Penley that Muck and Bok'shir can see up at the top of the hill (about 50 ft away), Bridgette cannot see it without spending 15ft of movement (and will be 10ft away).

OOC: Is it my turn? I think it is.

Penley stares at the Goblin which was firing at him, and smiles to himself. With a gleaming grin, he pulls back his bow-string, and fires forth (hopefully) one last arrow

Eldritch Blast Attack VS. Goblin (#4?): 16 to hit, 8 Force damage

With his Bonus Action, the glowing sigil on his forehead flares, and a beam of celestial energy flies out towards Bok'Shir, who regains 5 HP

(OOC: Bok’Shir has not taken damage. A Quick look back shows Bridgette, Penley and Muck have. Thanks for thinking of the little Kobold though :-) )

The goblin (1) who had 1hp left, dies from the blast. Someone (tbc) regains 5hp. Combat is over. There is one submissive goblin, and one unconscious. 

OOC: I'll give the healing to Muck

Penley sheathes his bow, which disappears in a flash of golden light. Taking off his pack, he digs through it, until he finds the 50ft of hemp rope he brought on the journey. with agile fingers, he takes the rope and ties up both goblins, releaving the submissive goblin from Muck's grasp. 

Sleight of Hand check to tie the Goblins tightly: 11

Satisfied with his work, whether it's actually tight or not (he's very confident in his skills. Besides, if the Goblins try to run off, he can easily catch them with his cat-like speed), he stands back and looks at the rest of the Party. "What should we do with them? I vote scalping and roasting over an open fire" he says with a wicked grin at the Goblins

Intimidation check: 17

"Yes, yes. Roasted goblin much nice, me thinks", Bok'Shir says, and it really isn't clear if he is being serious. He stands watching over the two tied up goblins, his sword out and waving it around in front of the prisoners. He points it at the biggest one, "This more meat".

Seeing the mounting threats against the goblin, Muck tries to add its own spin. “Oh, are we doing the Good Guard, Bad Guard thing?”

“Here, I’ll be Good Guard,” Muck says before detaching a piece of itself which it shapes into the uncanny/grotesque form of a walking coin-shaped smiley face that dances creepily near the goblin’s head.

”Hi, don’t be afraid, mister goblin. We don’t have to be mean. We like to have fun and smile too. See? This little guy? I made him from a part of my body. Isn’t that fun? So, let’s keep having fun by you telling us what you know. Otherwise we’ll probably kill you.”

As Muck says this last part, the smiley face gets super close, pushing even closer if the goblin starts to recoil.

The goblin looks over at its unconscious friend, and its dead ones too and just starts spouting out information. "Well I know how to speak common, and I know how to count to 40, I can show you if you want. I know how to make traps, and I know...." (Assuming someone would interrupt and ask for specific relevant knowledge about this event) "Oh sorry. Yes. Our leader Klarg the bugbear, was given a message from King Grol a few days ago. Someone named "The Spider" was paying the Cragmaws, that is us, to capture a "Gundren Rockseeker" and send him and anything he was carrying to King Grol. So we did. The human he had with him has been taken to the eating cave for later. Also, recently, strange goblins have sometimes joined us in our roadside ambushes, though not today. These strange goblins have elongated skulls, and glowing green energy surrounds their weapons when they attack. I don’t know who these newcomers are; they simply cackle and leave after each attack. I am afraid of them and think you should be too."

"Yeah, yeah, we get it. You can do stuff. Now, tell me: why did you ambush us?" Penley asks, cutting of the Goblin's monologue

Penley ponders the information given, thinking for a second, after a few seconds, he speaks up, addressing the Goblin "Can you show us this 'eating cave'?"

The goblin nods. "You can't take the cart there though. The trail is too small. I can take you along the trail. And avoid the traps. Then you let me go?"

Penley looks at the rest of the party "We should try to rescue Sildar. The reward for saving him will be much greater than delivering these supplies. Plus, it's the right thing to do, if you care about that sort of stuff. I vote we hide the cart and go kick some Goblin *ss"

Bok'Shir has been listening to the goblin, and become lost in thought at the news of goblins whose weapons glow green.

"Master Gundren not be happy if let Sildar die", he says. "Help Sildar then Sildar help make sure Gundren not die", he adds, looking pleased that he thought of that by himself.

He then has another thought, "If Gundren die, then he not care about Sildar". Now he looks confused for moment, but does come to a decision, "Bok'Shir do right thing, for reward".

Bridgette nods along, not really following what the goblin is saying. But, eventually, when it's clear what's on the line, she concurs with Bo'Shir.

"Yeah... probably a good idea to help Sildar... we can finish our supply run after we save this guy from a horrible death," she says. "So... what do we do with the little guy? Not the scaly one with a tail, I mean the one that just ineptly tried to murder us..."

Muck re-abosbs the part of itself that it separated, then biefly restricts its form tighter around the goblin... not enough to do damage but enough to be cause alarm and be unintentionally threatening. "I can give him a real big hug for giving us that information." It suggests. "Would that be a nice idea? Or, ohh.... If we let him show us the way to the camp, who knows what other useful information we can discover! Maybe I should just stay covering him like this. That way I can give him a nice big hug anytime I want!"

Muck's gelatinous form vibrates with a momentary expression of enthusiasm before adding, "I'm not so sure about taking Sildar out of the eating cave though... Unless he really wants to, that is. I'm just saying, I'm sure he's been through quite an ordeal with these goblin murder-stealers and he's probably really hungry. We should at least give him time to finish whatever it is he's eating in there."

When Bridgette mentions the little guy with the scales and tail, Bok'Shir spins around expecting to see someone new that he hadn't realised was there. He looks back to Bridgette confused as he draws a blank, before it dawns on him and he looks down at his own scaly tail.

He simply chuckles at himself, waiting for the non-minions to make a decision.

"We don't normally fatten them up more first so he is probably not being fed anything. They are kept weak so they can't fight back"