Bulldust breathes a heavy sigh of relief seeing the grease is gone and the redcap is tied up.  He has been been completely useless against them, apart from grabbing them and taking the odd scythe cut for the team.  He pushes himself up off the floor and grabs his longspear as he stands.  "Can you finish im off Birdie Girl?  I cant hit none of em lil fings, probly not even wen deys all tied up.  I'll go try out da elf."  He moves through the door and pokes at the elf from a flanking position opposite Minmorc and Jurz.

"Robber !!!" Overcome with anguish Dregz stops worrying about stones and slings and stares at the Drow, his emotion swiftly turning to hate.  "Youse killed 'im !"

Raven takes one look at the tied up redcap and decides he can wait. Or maybe someone else will decide to finish him off with a coup-de-grace?

The drow priest is a bigger treat at the moment. She ducks and scuttles forward past Bully to put herself in a flanking position and stabs at the drow with her rapier. Unfortunately it is very difficult to find a weak spot in his full-plate armour! But at least now they have got him surrounded and flanked on all sides.

Riza recoils as the snake bites her, and quickly it is apparent that she has been more affected by the bite than just mere fang wounds. The beloved bow falls from her hands, her eyes glaze over and she lets out a surprisingly loud, hissing scream.

All thoughts are forgotten as the lizard puts all of her focus into the drow and steps in and tries to sink her teeth into the drow

At the back of the battle behind Oopses and Arlein Dregz fishes out a little fuzzy ball from his little grey bag. He hurls it into the next room where it unfolds into his little bat Robber. But poor Robber bat is struck from the air and killed by a single bite from one of the drow's snake arms, much to Dregz's dismay.

Jurz steps closer to the wall (south of the drow) to get out of Minmorc's way and slaps the drow quite effectively with his flaming scimitar, burning the dark flesh of one of the drow's  snake arms. Minmorc steps forward protectively in front of Riza clutching the wound in his leg. He chants as he reaches out to touch the drow but the dark elf manages to avoid his hand.

Moffdust steps up behind Riza to offer her a flask of antitoxin then recites the words of a spell at the drow. Unfortunately it has no effect on the drow at all.

Bulldust grabs his longspear and steps through the doorway to lunge at the drow from a safe distance where he is flanking with Minmorc. The tactic works and his longspear pierces its armour to seriously wound the drow priest. Raven follows Bully in then slips past him to move between the drow and his black stone altar, where she is flanking with Jurz. Unfortunately her rapier is unable to find a weakness in the drow's heavy armour this time.

Riza screams in pain as the effects of the snake's poison bite take hold and ignores Moffa's offered antitoxin.  Instead the fury in her drives her forward past Minmorc to try to bite back at the snake that bit her. She nearly succeeds too, but it narrowly evades her sharp little teeth.

The drow priest suddenly finds himself seriously wounded with enemies flanking him on three sides, so he steps a pace or two southeast, putting his back against the wall to bring all his enemies back in front of him again. Then he lashes out again with both of his snake-arms and manages to bite both Riza and Raven! 

The two tied up redcaps continue to struggle against their bonds but are unable to break free of their bonds.

OOC: Main game map updated.

Minmorc will jab himself with his wand of cure light wounds and will grin at the Drow. "Well dirt elf, look like yer gotta choice. Drop der plate an der snakes an come an meet der queen, or yer can keep fightin an see how long yer can last when Clever Riza gets all bitey. Hur, hur hur, my bet, not long."

With a growl, Dregz rushes forwards, Holy Book tucked under one arm as he snatches his flail from where it is tucked into his belt.  He pushes past Oopses and Arlein, snarls at the bound redcap, barely restraining himself from lashing out at it, then rounds the corner through the opened previously-known-as-secret doorway.  Eyes blazing with anger the little goblin priest lets his precious burden slide to the ground before wrapping both hands around the flail and hurling himself upon the Drow, swinging at it with all his inconsiderable might !

"Youse killed Robber !" he repeats his accusation with venom.
This message was last edited by the player at 05:02, Sat 10 Oct 2015.

In reply to Dregz (msg # 229):

Since everyone's back is turned the goblin.


whispers dm;

Bulldust glances through the door at the redcap struggling on the floor.  "Someone really should finish im off." he mutters as he steps forward 5' pushing the door shut as he goes to prevent the elf from escaping that way, and to give Oopses more privacy.  He plants his foot against the bottom of the door, then thrusts the longspear at the elf again but his aim is not as good this time.  He waves the spear tip menacingly at the elf ready to strike again should the elf give him the opportunity.

Moffdust creeps forward 5 feet and hides while she peers around the door. She readies a spell...

Still in a fit of rage but clearly under the effects of the snake bite Riza lashes out with everything she's got. However the second snake bite seems to have debilitated her even further, while her anger is still strong her attacks are about as effective as wet paper.

"You'se stop bitin dem" the small druid shouts as he reaches out to touch the nearest snakey arm with his flaming scimitar.

Raven turns and launches herself toward the corner of the room. She twists and weaves her way around behind Dregz until she is in the corner flanking the drow priest with Jurz, then she stabs again with her rapier. But once again the full-plate armour proves too tough for her blade to penetrate.

Bulldust will of course let Oopses and his cat come through the door before he blocks it, if they want to come that way.

Minmorc uses a wand to partially heal the wound in his leg and cheers himself up by taunting the drow priest and urging him to surrender. The drow priest responds with furious defiance.

"Never! You will all pay with your lives for this outrage! Bow down to the might of Erythnul and swear allegiance to him before he slays you all and feasts on your bloody corpses!"

Dregz bursts through the doorway from the east, drops his holy book and rushes in to attack the drow with his little flail. His attack is virtually hopeless, of course, but it draws the same response that met his Robber bat moments before.

Oopses follows Dregz as far as the doorway and peeks into the temple room.  Bulldust chooses that moment to step forward from just north of that door, slamming the door shut in Oopses' face as the bugbear lunges at the drow priest again with his longspear. His time the point fails to find a weak spot and is turned aside by the heavy armour.

Moffdust creeps forward to the doorway behind Jurz in time to witness Riza leap forward to claw and bite ferociously at the armoured drow priest. One of her claws actually manages to draw blood, too. Jurz slashes at the drow again with his flaming scimitar dealing another serious burn beneath the breastplate of the drow's heavy armour.

Raven twists and weaves her way around behind Dregz until she is in the corner flanking the drow priest with Jurz, then she stabs again with her rapier. But once again the full-plate armour proves too tough for her blade to penetrate.

By now the drow priest is grievously wounded but he laughs maniacally and shouts at everyone around him.

"Fools! You will never escape the vengeance of Erythnul! Surrender your souls to Him, join the Many and rejoice in the glorious slaughter to come!"

And that's when Moffdust points her arm from the doorway, recites a brief incantation and hurls a pair of brightly glowing magic missiles straight at his face. The drow priest collapses to the floor with blood gushing from numerous wounds.

OOC: Main game map updated.

Minmorc will burst out laughing and will point at the downed Drow "and the quarterback is toast, hur, hur, hur! Dat was pretty Moffa, dat was real pretty!" Still chuckling Minmorc will drop Helen and the wand of cure light wounds on the pile of red caps and will pull out the wand of lesser vigor. Crouching down he will scoop up Riza in a bear hug with one arm around her waist and will jab her with the wand. He'll then look around and start to try to piece together what's going on. "So... We came ter find wot was rippin up goblins an we found dis mob... I wanted ter give one ter der pretty Queen as a present... So... Is dey all dead? Is der dirt elf dead, cos if not I wanna give im to der queen, she'd ave fun wid im...might give us summin nice fer a prizner too... But we should keep his stuff so any of yer got a can opener?" While Minmorc waits for responses to his questions he will attempt to calm Riza by stroking her head and tunelessly singing about a soft kitty, or maybe a warm kitty.

In reply to Minmorc (msg # 238):

Arlein growls meanacingly at the red cap pair.

 Today: Arlein rolled 6 using 1d20 ((6)).

Riza initially struggles ineffectively in minmorcs grip before calming down, her rage subsiding she seems out of it and makes a few meowing noises as she comes round. Likely due to minmorcs song.

She shuffles over and collects and stows away her beloved bow once again "well that took more out of me than I expected...." Looking around she sees moffdust "well done on finishing off that dark elf" she also remembers her initial offer of antitoxin before she glazed over. "Sorry about before, would I be able to have that antitoxin, the snakes have definitely sent poison through me"

She will then search the dark elf for anything interesting taking her time, however if he wakes up again she will be sure to put a claw through its eye.

"Aww, dats nice."  Bulldust can't help but be impressed with the Minmorc's tenderness, and empathize with poor Riza with her meowing.  He offers her a set of manacles to chain the elf if she wants to keep it alive and claw its eyes every now and then until she feels better.  But it is the menacing cat growl from beyond the door that has him worried.  He flings open the door to see if Oopses and his cat are still OK.  He will step in and prepare to finish off the roped up redcap.

In reply to Bulldust (msg # 241):

"Eyzz been thinkin."

Once bitten, but not at all shy, Dregz snarls back defiance at the Drow and his threats ... then sits down suddenly clutching his wounded arm.

"Dat's not good ..."

Moffdust helps Riza drink the antitoxin. "Dat will helps youse a bit Lizzie Rizzie. Sorry Dregsie Is only gots de one". Praps Bargrivyeks will helps youse." She helps Riza search the drow body.

The little goblin shuffles slowly back over to his Holy Book, clutching both arms weakly around it, careless of his wound as he huddles in the corner, muttering prayers to his god.

Jurz sort of half growls in frustration as he goes to stab the snakey-drow again, but makes sure that he gets on last poke with his flaming scimitar, before he looks around the room.  Knowing there is  an altar  type thingy to look at, some curtains that could have more of the little redcap gnomes behind them, and a staircase in the other room to go down -  he doesn't want to discard the spell.

Instead he reaches into his pack with his free hand and fiddles about as he searches though a scroll case -  all the time keeping his flaming blade away from the precious magical papers.

"Ere it is." he says, as he finally pulls a spell out.  "Bargrivyek must has knowed dat youse would need dis." the  Kobold Druid says as he smacks Dregz over the head with the rolled up scroll that contains Neutralise Poison.

"I'se needs someone to help hold dis scroll out while I reads it." He says waving the said scroll about.  "I'se can't holds it and holds dis," he waves the flaming blade around "at the same time."

Dregz shakes his head firmly, "Bargrivyek will save me," the priest assures his kinsman, his voice weak but confident.