Minmorc will raise his hand ready to strike Moffa and with a visable effort will stop himself and will point at her instead. "Hrrmphf... Dunno what dat was about but it stops now, if anyone threatens Shelby I'm gonna hurt dem, bad." Minmorc will pull the wand of cure light wounds from his belt and will tap it against Shalby's ear then he'll shepherd Shelby back to the temple and will finish loading loot. He is clearly very annoyed and once everything is packed or carried he will hoist the captive red cap with one hand and will draw Helen with the other. "Kay, Shelby, you stays wid me, lex go has a look at dis door." Unless anyone has any further business Minmorc will head up the stairs and hopefully through the door above them.

As soon  as Minmorc threatens one of the 'tribe' to defend his new friend, Jurz takes a sharp intake of breath  "Charmed ...." he mutters as he flicks his flaming blade from side to side.

Riza looks to Jurz with her head to one side, "I doubt charmed Jurz, sounds like Minmorc talk anyway. Come on either way lets get the hell out of this stinking put and to the queen"

"Oooo Min Min, youse looks so delicious when youse cross, I could jus eats youse all up!" Moffdust laughs as she teases the orc then runs to hide behind Bully. "An I jus cant pass it up when Mr Wrights comes along."

She takes as much of the salvage as she can carry and goes upstairs to the iron gate. If she can't squeeze through herself she will unhook Cat from her cloak and set him flying through the bars to scout ahead.
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The stairs in the southwest room lead up to ground floor level but are closed off by a door (barred on this side) at the top of the stairs. Minmorc easily removes the bar from the door and is then able to push the door open.

Everyone who follows him upstairs finds themselves at the ground floor level of a ruined house. The roof has partially caved in but still provides shade over the part where this basement door is located.

Out of the front windows of the building you are able to see a group of six goblin guards gathered around a sewer grate in the middle of the street in front of this ruined house.

"Dats my sister."  Bulldust warns Minmorc.  "She can bite whoever she likes."

When Minmorc returns to gathering up the gear, Bulldust shoulders his share of the load.  He shoves Shelby towards the stairs and follows him up.  "Whyd ya need ta see da queen?"

Shelby looks Bully in the eye and replies, "Because that's part of the dream, too! She's going to love it, just like in the dream. Loving the dream, living the dream. Dream Queen, dream team!"

With a frown and a nod towards Riza, Jurz fades into the background as Minmorc lowers his fists and Moffa darts away, as sassy as ever.  Then, with his pockets full of teeth and red stones, he trails the others towards the surface and the return of his riding hound.

However, the troubled expression never leaves his face and he is on full alert for any unusual behaviour from Minmorc or trickery from ther teifling.

Minmorc will frown at Bully as they make their way back to the street "yer gotta be careful wots yer bite mate, bite der wrong flings an yer gets yer teeth broken." Minmorc will head out to the group of Goblins. "Oi, gobbos, dun killed der fellas wot been rippin yer up. Worts der best way ter get back ter der Queen?"

Dregz eyes narrow as the big Orc threatens his kinswoman and the priest's lips begin a litany of silent prayer ... but stops as Minmorc backs off. 

Hearing the druid's words, Dregz nods slowly in agreement. "Maybe," he mutters.  If push comes to stick-em-with-the-pointy-end, there's Bully, Jurz, himself ... and probably Oopses that'll stand by Moffa, though he's not sure which side Riza or Raven will choose.

Before he leaves, the goblin reopens the chest that Riza rifled through, looking for the magic that he could sense in there. 

"Don't forget dis !" he entreats the bigguns, even Minmorc.  Violent and bad-tempered the Orc may be, even charmed, but he's still the strongest of the group, and in his weakened state, the little goblin can barely manage to stagger around with his Holy Book. "Der's gold 'ere !"

Once assured that the gold has been pocketed, Dregz is content to follow the main group, though he keeps most of his attention upon Minmorc, and his hand near a magic stick at his side.

OOC: Riza had locked the chest again using the key she found on the dead drow priest. Dregz wants to open it again to find the magic item he could detect. So there are a couple of questions for both of you.

• Did Riza remove the key or just leave it in the lock?
• If she has the key, will she open the chest for Dregz?
• If not, what will Dregz do about it?

"Where's der key ..."

Riza looks over to dregs, "I gots the key, there is heaps of gold in there. Come on let's get it up top we can divy it out later on"

"Der chest is too heavy !" the priest bemoans, refusing to leave the treasure trove.  "Either we pockets der gold or der bigguns will 'ave to carry it."

Riza sighs and rolls her eyes. She will start to drag the chest herself and shout out " Oi bigguns! Need a bit of help down here"

"Youse is de best of gobbos." Moffdust grins at Jurz and Dregs, and winks at Oopses, happy knowing that the other gobbos understand the irresistible nature of ear biting and are ready to back her up. "Now lets go see de Queenses."

Bulldust shakes his head at Shelby.  "Wot?  No, sorry I asked, dont say anyfing more."

He turns back when Riza calls for help.  "Oo Oo.  Good finking, dont wanna leave dat behind."  He wraps up the chest of gold in some of the black curtain material to disguise its value, then shoulders the load and follows the others out.  He does glance back over his shoulder at the star shape inscribed on the floor around the altar, and wonders what would have happened if someone got pushed in there ... but he won't lose any sleep wondering.

"We turn up to der Queen with dis chest an' she will take all the gold," Dregz wisely prophesises, as the lizardwoman tries to drag it off and Bargrivyek inspires him to speak.  "We should fill our pockets now."

Raven suddenly looks rather agitated when Dregz suggests the Queen will take all the treasure.

"Wait, wait," she tells Bully. "Let me try to open it. I never get to practice with these."

She pulls out a finely crafted set of lock picks and sets to work on the lock as soon as she can. After her attempt fails she hands them to Dregz.

"Here, you try. They're good tools but I'm just out of practice. See what you can do. I don't wants the big bad Queenie to take all the shinies."

Hopefully the argument about treasure is happening in the temple and not in front of the Goblins up stairs. If this is the case Minmorc will comment "Hows about we goes ter der hidey spot on der way to der Queen and stash der loot, den go ter der palace and talk to der pretty Queen about Red caps an dirt elves an Shelby and not say nuffin bout wot we found."

"What?  Takes him to da hidey spot?" Jurz asks pointing at the tiefling.  "Dats crazy." he says looking at their prisoner. Jurz is clearly very unhappy about the tiefling.

"Yer don't seem ter gets it, I fink der same god dats givin me magic has givin im a message fer der Queen. I fink ees bin sent ter help us out. Soon as ee started talkin I gots dis fing in my ead sayin dat if team arda nuff had a feller wot talks good dey could talk folks inta payin us more and givin us stuff. An if he can't den we can kill an eat im."

Minmorc will stop when he notices the fear on the Goblins faces and will say "Pfffft, if youse is dat scared of Shelby an der Queenliness an all I can go ter der hidey spot, stash der stuff an den meets yer at der palace. Wid your little legs I reckon I'd get dere first."

"I trusts him about as far as I can frow him." Jurz responds, not really worried about Minmorc's god.  "Hez bads for us.  As soon as youse seed him, youse started to freaten us.  His head was glowing magic when he was talking bout youse god.  Hez bin in youse head an making all der stuff up to make youse his friend." the goblin says letting the words tumble out fast.

Minmorc laughs at this. "I bin threatenen yous since I met yer! All he wants is ter come wid us an Moffa done gone an bit im and yer reckon I'm der one actin crazy? I'm gonna take der red cap an Shelby ter der Queen, you Gobbos do wot yer want." With that Minmorc will resume the original plan of heading up the stair, opening the door and approaching the Goblins on the street.