Road to Auer Session 3: Goblin Tower and the Underground

The Group consisted of eight, two heroes found adventure elsewhere. They made their way up the flight of stairs to find a chamber with a seated almost skeletal hobgoblin as well as three bound humanoid figures, a large bed, and other random furniture. The goblin from the previous room was here as well, sulking in the shadows. A possible and weird hostage situation was broken when the group murdered the goblin they had been following. They noticed the blood spray splashed all three of the figures, but only showed up on the center one. Realizing this meant there were illusions on the other two the group, and they were right. The fake hostages were hobgoblin monks that quickly began repositioning to start pummeling the party. Nonne charged in and with Longshot flanked one of the monks. 04 ran up to the skeletal hobgoblin wizard and was greeted with a burning hands spell, igniting many of the poorly built flyers on the ceiling as well as a strange book on the edge of the table.

The bound figure on the other side of the room started panicking, trying to tell the party to get his spellbook, but being bound and gagged made it hard to understand. Longshot was able to untie him while Halanthis used his control fire ability to remove the multiple fires in the room. Harvey used his mage hand to retrieve the book and extinguish a few of the lingering flames on it. Balziros ran up to use primal savagery, a pretty cool spell, on the hobgoblin wizard. He and 04 were hit with another blast of arcane fire while Gorg and Nonne tried to keep the monks away from their spell casters. Terror was able to kill off one of the monks with a spell and Gorg made paste from the other. 04 was able to eventually bring down the wizard, but slightly alarmed when the spirit of the now deceased floated through the wall cackling. The group rejoiced at their survival, there had been a few close moments.

Cervantes took his chance to introduce himself to the party. It seemed he was a wizard friend of their employer, Corsco Wightbane. Cervantes had been attacked on the road and brought before the wizard. His now extinguished spell book would allow him to help the party out. He made a dome of magical energy for the party to rest in and Nonne had to investigate a large wardrobe to make sure it did not lead anywhere else or have satyrs or fawns in it. The group did take a few fancy robes and cloaks. During the night they heard a sound outside and looked out the towers window to see multiple goblins riding on wolves, scores of pale humanoids with red glowing eyes, and large lumbering undead monstrosities. They were headed away and to the south. Knowing they were drastically outnumbered, they went back to sleep.

In the morning the group decided to look closer at the hole on the floor and Balziros dropped a magic illuminated coin down it. they figured it was maybe sixtyish feet deep. They looked around the tower and noticed their wolf friend was gone and there were no goblins anywhere. There was a strange fake shrub attached to a trap door behind the tower that lead into the basement. they saw multiple foot print leading out, many looked to belong to large creatures. Below they found first a magic glowing coin and a large cavern with random bits of devoured people littering the ground. The group found some rings, oddly enough for each player to have both a silver ring and a gold ring. After some giggles they found a long tunnel that was only about a two feet tall and something was jammed in the back of it. Harvey investigated and was attacked by a swarm of severed hands. The party quickly and painlessly dealt with the grasping chaos hand tornado, Halanthis and Nonne did a cool combo move of Nonne shooting out his fire breath and Halanthis using control flames to hook the fire over the party and into the swarm. Back in the tunnel they found a small chest and found a few oddities within. There was a cloak that was pristine even after all this time, and seemed to reject dirt, there was a silver longsword, a magic dagger that would glow around undead, old gold coins and the deed to the tower. The deed was odd that there was no family name attached to it, so with a little notary help from Cervantes they had the tower put into Harvey’s family name, so now the Baerdman estate.

They made their way back to Telas and went to report back to Corsco Wightbane about their successful mission as well as where the goblins seemed to be heading. They watched a moment of concern pass his face, he excused himself for a moment and pulled out a sending stone. He called an ally he had in Moco, the lighthouse city of elves and gave them a heads up about an army of goblins and the dead might be making their way to their fine city for a visit. Corsco thanked the party for all they did and Harvey offered to rent his tower to him. Corsco thanked him for the offer and told him he had a pan in every fire in this city, he did not need another money pit, mentioning the now shown deed was for an entire estate, not just the tower. Corsco paid the group, they bought more supplies and potions for the road and had any magical items identified. They stayed the night at the Brimsoaked Bottle, which was pretty much the employee club house for Corsco’s minions. The group figured Moco could handle the goblins and chose to head into Briar’s Woods to look into the sickness that had been taking over. They also hit level 3.