While Tagret and Rashana question the goblin Saravena separates the coins into five equal piles, keeping the potions and the statue off to the side. Saravena's ears perk up at mention of an owlbear as her mind begins forming formulas that could use a sample from such a beast. A smile begins to form on her face but it quickly fades as Saravena is brought back to the now at the sound of Sildar coming to.

"Same cave just different area," Saravena answers turning to him. "Now with less goblins. I am Saravena by the way, the man laying next to you is Damian, beside him is Eniwin, over talking with the goblin are Tagret and Rashana."

Rashana smiles and nods to Sildar, then turns back to the goblin. "Owlbear? Big like a bear and its face looks like an owl?"

"Aye," replies the goblin. "That would be the beastie."

"You all managed to kill off most of these goblins?" replies Sildar. "That's impressive, you must be some mighty warriors!  Could you help me to my feet?"

A few moments later, Damian wakes up.

Coming to Damian coughs “Am I dead? It feels like I am dead.” Trying to get up a pain still resides on his side “ I think that bugbear creaked a few of my ribs...”  “So what’s the plan? I did it tell us where Gundren is? Are we staying here?”

Damian will Chants a prayer quietly as he cast Healing Word on himself.

Healing Word: 4

Damian sighing in relief “That’s better still bruised and sore but at least it doesn’t hurt to breath.”

"Good to see you are concious blacksmith, and you are welcome Sildar" Tagret says to Damian as he comes to "You have both taken a beating, rest should be the immediate plan, then the goods back to town for a reward, then we consider whether we go after Gundren"

"Anyone have a problem with resting up here....we can stay in the cave or just set camp in the same spot as the goblins sentries"

Tagret eyes the chests contents, then settles on the potion and grabs one "I think I might need this......others can take my share of coin"  

If there is agreement, Tagret continues "Murg should be brought up here if we are staying, I'll get him, anyone care for a walk?"

"I am fine making camp here," Saravena says with a shrug as she goes about redistributing the coins so that there is now four equal piles of 150 cp and 27 sp, putting the extra silver piece off to the side with the other potion and the statue. She then picks up the statue and gives it a once over, "If there is nothing special about this should we just sell it and split the profit?"

"We're going to rest here?" asks Sildar. "Well if you we're planning on that, then I might as well not have bothered standing up. But in the morning I am planning on heading to Phanadlin, I can pay you fifty gold pieces if you would to escort me there. As for this stuff, it would take far too long to move without a wagon. You don't happen to be the ones that Gundren hired to escort his wagon are you?"

"The very same....although we thought it best to deliver the wagon to Phanadlin and then double back to take care of the goblins, so we are on foot for now.  As for the escort services, consider us hired....and we will either have to come back for the goods or the lady trader will arrange for their pickup..we will just have to see"

OOC: Tagret would actually be fine making the journey back to Phanadlin with one other to discuss getting a wagon and returning whilst the other recouperate...what sort of time would it take to make double time back to town and then return with a wagon?  From an earlier post it took us 4 hours on the wagon to reach town, so at a jog on the way back and then pushing the wagon to return would be a 7-8 hour round trip??  How does that sound, apart from the danger of splitting the party.....it might expedite our adventuring to allow it....thoughts?

DM Note: Technically you were only asked by Linene Graywind to let her know if you find her missing shipment.

“Shit, you don’t have to tell me twice I’m good for a rest here.” Damian quickly picks a spot free of goblin blood and guts and sleeps.

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DM Note: Technically you were only asked by Linene Graywind to let her know if you find her missing shipment.

 Belay Tagret heading back to Phandalin then....he will instead make the trek down the path, avoiding the traps and see if Murg remains bound...if so he will bring him back up to the caves for the night as well.....after which he says to the group "A watch will be needed, I will take the first - Damian, you can rest, but can you use your magic to make a coin a light source" flipping him a copper piece to enchant before the cleric settles down to sleep off his wounds.

Assuming we are going to stay in the cavern, Tagret takes some time to drag some of the crates and the bodies to make a makeshift barricade for the northern passage into the room, and then takes up a position near the fissure leading down to the wolves for the night, after asking Eniwin (?) to make the camp safe against intruders (whoever cast Alarm last time we rested outdoors, with Murg and the other captured goblin to be positioned outside of the Alarm area just to be sure)

When Tagret makes it to the location where Murg was left, he discovers that the goblin has lone gone. All that's left is the remains of the ropes that had bound him.

Einiwin begins to perform the ritual around the area to protect it with alarm.

DM Note: You each receive 275 xp

OOC: The additional 275xp will put Tagret and I assume everyone else up a level.  Do we adjust characters to L2 over the long rest that we are taking?

Tagret curses as he sees that Murg had managed to escape.  After scanning the surrounds quickly in case he is hiding nearby (Perception 15), Tagret gathers up the rope if is usable and heads back up the path to the cave to report back to the others before settling down for a rest, taking his turn at watch if required. 

DM Note: Yeah, you should all be advancing to level 2 now. So just adjust your characters over the long rest.

Tagret finds no signs to which direction Murg could have gone.

You all take turns keeping watch throughout the night, but you also make sure that everyone gets plenty of rest after an eventful day. The rest of the night is uneventful. Though you can still hear the rushing of the waterfall in the next cavern, and the occasional fight between the wolves in the other cavern. After all of you have rested you, you decide it is time to move on from the hideout.

Rashana wakes up pretty early in the morning. She finds a spot in the corner of the cavern and meditates while waiting for the rest to wake up. 

Tagret yawns as he awakens, refreshed from the rest and sits up "Right....shall we get Sildar back to town...??  And blacksmith.....how are the ribs feeling - feeling ready for a fight if it comes to that?"

"All we need to figure out is what to do with our new goblin friend.....do you happen to know anything useful about Cragmaw Castle....if so, it might just earn you your freedom with some coin to boot"

"Do I know anything about Cragmaw Castle?" says the goblin. "I thought I just explained everything to you! What else could you possibly want to know!"

Stretching his sides Damian will pray for a few minutes as he get his spells in order “I feeling a lot better after the rest, but should we really be taking another goblin? At least let’s walk and talk...” Damian seems eager to hit the road, perhaps his near death experience has put him in better terms with Mordain.

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"Do I know anything about Cragmaw Castle?" says the goblin. "I thought I just explained everything to you! What else could you possibly want to know!"

"Things that you would now if you had spent any time there....it seems sparing you was not worth the effort"

And with that, Tagret pulls his greatax out and spins into a swing at the helpless goblin (Reckless Attack)

Great Axe Attack: 21 Damage: 11 ....oh my lord, these dice are not working for me

....and Tagret will keep attacking recklessly until he connects....

Great Axe Attack: 24 Damage: 5

Great Axe Attack: 18 Damage: 13

Great Axe Attack: 23 Damage: 14

Great Axe Attack: 24 Damage: Unable to parse dice roll.

Great Axe Attack: 20 Damage: 4

"Right....let's go...." and by way of explanation for his actions, he merely points at the body "Murg is already on the loose....we do not need another goblin that might get it in its head to run to Cragmaw Castle to warn of our approach"

The goblin screams as he sees the axe swing towards him, and is momentarily relieved as the axe blade misses him. The goblin is permanently silenced when the axe swings into his skull. Tagret then leads you all out of the cave.

After stepping out into the fresh air outside the cave you feel a cool breeze moving through the air. The warm sun shines down on you and its position shows that it is just before midday.

Then suddenly a flock of birds are seen bursting out of the trees in fright. A moment later, a white dragon soars of your heads towards the south. It does not notice you as it flies.