Out Of The Abyss

"Well, my friend, that depends entirely on what you have to offer.  We require a guide to G town.  If you would be kind enough to escort us to her gates, we could reward you handsomely for your trouble.  And please believe me when I say that we can make it a VERY lucrative deal for you (persuasion check=21).  We also would be interested in any goods that you may have for trade.  Have you anything that we may be interested in?" 

Seeing  the  goblins, Gremryl walks forward 

"Greets, looks like its been a very busy few weeks for you and ye tribe ey? Most recently our friends may have came by... a master  halfing with a silver tongue  and invisible hands? And a Gray Dwarf, strong and carrying some pointy dwarven toothpicks? oh.. and you mayhap remember Captain Ulfgar of clan Ironfist and his  lads coming the other way eh? He also said ye may be helping us, we have some gold, but maybe a 'discounted' rate can be worked  out... ?

with benny casually leaning on his shoulder. persuasion check 8 plus guidance bonus 3

 

Leon puts his hand on Grems shoulder.

"Tymora's luck be with you. Help her out if you can"

Leon cast guidance on Grem

Psychically to the group:  "It's only 4 goblins and I have a full rack of spells prepared.  I say we save the gold by killing three of them and forcing the fourth to take us where we want to go.  What say ye?"

    The Large Goblin eyes the adventurers carefully before speaking.

Large Goblin - "Escort to G-Town?  Hahahahaha!"  He shakes his head while he laughs.  "Haven't seen ya friends.  Or maybe have seen ya friends.  Maybe they paid us gold and went that way.  Or maybe no pay gold and die." Then he makes a motion of dragging his index finger across his neck.

    The other goblins still maintain a battle-ready posture.

“Look here my goblin friends. All we desire if you are in not mood to be an escort is the directions to G town. We can pay you for it, play you for it, or some of us can die for it. I don’t think any of us want the latter though, do we? Let’s just make a deal. Make us an offer for directions to G town and we will counter offer until we reach an agreement.”

    The Large Goblin looks the Cleric up and down.  There's an unsettling silence that pervades the air as you suspect this Goblin leader is carefully weighing his innate desire to slaughter hapless adventurers with the experienced warrior in him cautioning against engaging what appears to be a well-armed group.

Large Goblin - "1,000 gold pieces for a map to G-Town." With that, he sneers almost in dissatisfaction of not being able to quench his bloodlust and instead resorting to barter.

I’m afraid that we don’t have that much gold, however, we do have this (she produces a regular old dagger and holds it out nonthreteningly).  U c, we r archeologists and have recently come across an ancient temple filled with valuable and ancient religious artifacts, such as this ceremonial sacrificial dagger.  Now, r religious convictions prevent us from selling it, but we r allowed to barter with it technically.  We could trade it 2 u and u could sell it for many thousand gold at any nearby religious temple, since the religiously inclined would instantly recognize its significance.  What say u?  The map for the very valuable artifact.  Want to trade?  (Insert deception check including bless here).

Morgana's Deception check (+7): 11

Gremryl lifts his bushy eye brow 

"Ah..yes..its extremely rare aye! The temples full of right treasures!"

Morgana's Deception check using Advantage from Gremryl (+7): 9

<damn...>

    The Large Goblin takes a few steps closer to inspect the dagger.  The shifty weight of his body makes the gear he's wearing clang around noisily.

Large Goblin - "Hmmm...rare ya say?"  He takes a good look at it. "Looks pretty common...you tryna fool me, child?!  Boys!  Get'em!"

Roll initiative!

Initiative 14

"Moradin be with me.. its right time to smite! " 20

12

As a free action, to Stool psychically:  "If we switch to psychic spores, can you help me mass suggest like you helped me mass charm before?"

Stool - "Oh yes, Ms Morgana!  Good idea!  I'll try to make them friendly!" it replies telepathically.

Seeing them gear up for a battle: 

"Aye, gobby, the cleric offered to do it the nice way,  the Lass offered to trade. Guess we'll have to do it moradins way then!" 

I'll move forward attack twice: 

Attack: 10 Damage: 10 

attack two: Attack: 19 Damage: 10 

divine  smite 1st attack 11   divine smite  2nd attack : 5

Leon says a prayer to Tymora

”The best luck is the luck you make yourself... and with the assistance of Tymora.”

Leon casts bless on morg Grem and himself. Leon casts shield of faith on Grem. 

Leon moves 10ft behind Stool and around the corner behind cover.

    When Gremryl charges forward and attacks the Goblin Boss, his strike is clean and lands with a sharp *CRACK*, splitting the side of the Goblin Boss' skull causing tremendous pain.  The second attack comes across just as fast, however, the Goblin Boss parries the strike with his scimitar and stumbles a bit as he does so.

    Leon's blessing takes effect over the group (sans Stool) and with a Cleric's divine flourish, a holy representation of 4 swirling shields with a couple of dice emblazoned on them briefly materialize around Gremryl, then fade away from sight.

    Morgana has had time to analyze the situation and has the perfect strategy prepared...