Murg drags his feet as he is lead along by the rope around his neck, otherwise he keeps quiet.

"Hello?" a voice calls out from the back room. Then a mid-thirties woman steps through from behind a piece of cloth hanging from the rafters. "What can I do for you?"

She then stops mid pace, when she notices Murg lurking at the back of the group.

"Why have you brought a goblin here?"

Tagret shrugs off the question matter of factly "Murg here.....he and his friends sought to ambush us and came off second best and he has seen the error of his ways and has been most helpful about his tribe who also attacked Gundren on the trail and gave him over to King Grol of Castle Cragmawhas, and have his guard, Sildar, back to their caves.

Elmar told us Linene might know a bit more about the goblins hereabout, which is why we are here....are you she?"

"More like trying to get save me own neck," Murg mutters under his breath.

"Aye, I'm she.. her," Linene replies. "And Elmar said I knew more? Well, I am aware that have been goblin attacks in the area." Linene shoots a look at Murg. "And I also know that they have been raiding caravans arriving in Phandalin. In fact the last Lionshield caravan did not arrive at all. You wouldn't know anything about that would you?"

"No," Murg states.

A look of distrust crosses Linene's face, "At any rate with the goblins and ruffians causing trouble. I'm surprised that we have managed to receive any supplies at all.

That's all the information that I have for you. If you are looking for the goblins, he is the one that is most likely to lead you to them. However, if you manage to find my missing supplies I can provide you a reward. Other than that, all I can offer you is the chance to buy new weapons and armour. 

"Right, not much help to be had here it would seem....let's get back on the road, see if we can stumble across Gundren's brothers......" he looks back at Linene "Don't suppose you know where they headed out to?......" and then continues "and then head back to the trail leading up to the caves that Murg has told us about....any objections?"

And unless Linene pipes up with any more information, Tagret tugs at the rope secured to Murg "C'mon....lets go"

"Goblins attacking caravans I understand," Saravena comments trying her best to keep step with Tagret, "I still just can not wrap my head around why they would kidnap a dwarf or possibly a trio of dwarves. I want to find out what is going on so no objections from me."

Saravena turns to Murg, "You really have no idea why your boss, king, whatever you call your leader, wants with Gundren?" Saravena will watch the goblin carefully as he answers to be sure he is not lying.

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Murg shrugs his shoulders, "King Grol, probably wants whatever the stupid fat dwarf has. Which is probably something to do with whatever the brothers are looking for. Perhaps they are looking for that cave that human male mentioned earlier?

Anyway, how am I supposed to know what he wants?"

"All right, no need to be a smart ass." Damian will give Murg a lite tap on the back of his bead. "Well miss Linene if we find your supplies we will let you know, anything specific youre looking for?" 

"Well, that's the easy part," replies Linene. "If you see anything marked with the blue lion of Lionshield Coster, bring it to me."

"Right, well we'll be on our way. Let's go we still have limited time." Damian will head out "I think we should follow that trail and start looking for this cave entrance."

You all begin to make the journey back along Triboar Trail out of Pandalin. Murg mutters curses under his breath, but other than your travelling is uneventful. Eventually, you make it back to the site of the ambush as the sun begins to set. It might be risky to continue your search for the cave in the dark. On the other hand, the cover darkness might provide you a stealthy edge in getting close to the cave without being seen. Either way, it is uncertain whether Sildar would survive until morning.

"I think we should continue to on the cover night could help us in our own ambush."  Damiain will go through his bag pulling a torch though he doesn't lite it. 

"I agree, although goblins will have the advantage of darksight..lets tie Murg to a tree and then agree a plan out of earshot"  Once Murg has been secured and the party has moved away he conti ues in hushed tones. "Rather than stealth, why don't we use Murg here to our advantage....perbaps pretend that he has captured one or two of us, and have him march us up to the cave mouth where we can try to overwhelm the guards.  And then set an oil trap in the tunnel and try to lure a mass of the goblins into it and light them up.  Then face the rest of them at the cave mouth where we might be able to control the number that can come at us....thoughts?"

"I doubt the goblins are that dumb, but if anything perhaps Rashana or Eniwin could be the bait. What do you guys think?"  Damian will ask Rashana and Eniwin as they move away from Murg.

"No," Saravena interjects, "if anything I should be the bait. A single goblin would never be able to catch a martial artist like Rashana off guard, nor capture a goliath like Enwin, if I lose my armor and gear I could just be a elven girl who wandered too far away from the village while gathering herbs. It's the easiest to explain that than how he could capture Rashana or Enwin."

"Does anyone have any magic that would incapacite the guards at a distance?"

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"Does anyone have any magic that would incapacite the guards at a distance?"

 Eniwin replies, "I can try and put them to Sleep. I just need to get in range.

OOC: So should we keep the same plan to hopefully lure out the guards, but maybe it would be worth pushing Eniwin forward with a readied sleep spell.  Perhaps have Murg behind her, arms bound to his sides and hands bound to a spear but with the point placed at his gut (so that Eniwin just has to push back toward Murg to impale him), and have him gagged, to make it appear like he has her at spear point and is marching her in (presumably it we got that far without setting off traps they would be less suspicious), and as soon as she sees the guards, release the spell (20ft radius, 90ft range).

Sounds simple......

Plan B - rush the guards, if alarm raised, hold at the cave mouth in cover, and wait for mass of goblins to arrive, fire bomb and/or sleep spell (up to twice if needed) or just pick them off if they come in small numbers.....

OOC: Damian - with regards torches - you do have Light which is possible more effective (assuming firebombs have soak rag that can be lit with flint & steel??)

DM Note: Okay, I'm not sure what your plan is yet

OOC: Still throwing ideas around.....let's see how the others respond...