Bulldust tells everyone what he saw.  "Dere was dis secret door an a low tunnel, den a room wiv free beds and free people sleepin.  Dey looked old an dey was each wearing a red cloff hat an dey was small like a gobbo.  On da floor dey had weapons and farmer sythes an a lantern.  Dere was anover door out from dere room.  Dont know if deys da gobbo killers - we could go back an ask em, or spy on em."  He waits for questions, then asks "What dis youse find?"

"Bunch a big rats. I reckon we goes in fast, kills two o der sleepers an ask der fird one sum questions. Mebbe takes im back ter der pretty Queenies as a present."

"Dey are wrinkled an' wizened," Dregz reports (while he's not seen them himself, he's perfectly happy to embellish Bully's first-hand account), "an' dey've got scythes which are notab ... assoc ... very popular with death priests.  Dey may even be undead, demselves !"

"We must be careful not to get bitten !"

"I's not thinkin o bitin dems, I gonna stab em wid Vera. If yer hungry eres sum pig jerky or yous can  go an gets a big rat. Good eatin on der big rats. Make a rat burger, or rat rotisserie style or makes swamp rat stew. Now I donts mean ter brag, but I make a mean swamp rat stew." Minmorc will pull a handful of jerky strips out of a belt pouch and offer them to the group.

Bulldust politely declines the offered jerky.  "Da ceilin is only half a spear high in dere passage, so ya wont get Vera in dere.  We could bundle dem up in dere blankies dem sit on dem - like you does wiv Oopses.  But youd have ta be quiet cos yd wake em up."

hmmm those scythes sound woth taking, lets kill them but leave one with no arms or legs then ask him questions... or gift for queenie sounds good too.... this way was it?

Riza prepares her spear and heads in the direction of the small old men with scythes

OOC: Just a quick note to clarify about large weapons in narrow corridors.

Bulldust's longspear and Minmorc's greatspear are about 10 feet long. At a 90 degree bend in a 5ft wide corridor the diagonal dimension across the bend is about 14 feet, so it is quite possible to carry those weapons around that bend in the tunnel. It just isn't possible to turn the spear around (i.e. to turn around and attack behind you) within a 5ft tunnel or 6ft sewer.

In the 6ft diameter sewers or 5ft square corridor two small-size characters can walk side by side but medium-size characters (Bulldust, Minmorc and Raven) will need to go single file. Bulldust and Minmorc are over 6ft tall and will have to stoop to walk about down here. They will suffer a -2 circumstance penalty on a lot of skill checks and attack rolls. Medium size characters will also suffer a -2 circumstance penalty (non-cumulative) on attack rolls with one-handed or two-handed blunt or slashing weapons (not light weapons). No penalty on attacks with stabbing weapons at opponents in front of you.

Moffdust screws up her little green face in disgust "We is in a sewer Minmorc!" She takes all the jerky from his hand, spits on the hand and gives it a rub to clean it then replaces the jerky and takes a strip for herself. "Wes don't want no tummy crummies!"

She waves her jerky strip around as she speaks through a mouthful. "Dey coulds be noisy until de heads is off, an wes dont knows what's behind de next door... Maybe elfses!" She suggests reasonably. "Can youse sneak in an haves a looksee?"

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Jurz takes a strip of the jerky and starts chewing on it reflectively.  "I don't tink it would be da elvses, dey live in da woodses." he says reflectively "But it might be someting else behinds de door." he sort of agrees with Moffa.  "But I tink we should just goes in an bash 'em.  If we's can kill dem quick, we's can check de door after.  Or we's can tell Oopses to watch it." he adds.

Then he looks up an Minmorc with a grin "Maybes deys is part of youse Red team?" he asks "Or maybe's dey is a different red team?"

Minmorcs eyes narrow. "Ders only one red team. Dese little buggers gotta go." Minmorc will head off after Riza, ready to introduce these wizened little goblins to Vera.

"But dese got de red hats. If dey ain't in da red team, youse should take der hats off of dem." Jurz adds as he follows along behind.  Just in case Dregz is right and they are undead, he makes sure that some of the O'Baddy holy water bottles are close to hand.

"Dey're our hats !" Dregz seems incensed that these probably undead creatures would impugn the honour of Team Arda-Nuff.

Bulldust splashes along behind Dregs and Jurz, happy that his friends have decided to kill the little people he found and that his longspear will make it around the bend after all.  Then he has a thought and stops to scratch his head under his conspicuously red hood.  "If deys undead den why would dey be in bed an snorin?  De dead dont snore, do dey?  I fink deyre somefing else - like nomes."

"Gnomes ! Gnomes is worse than der Ghouls !!"  Dregz is horrified at the mere thought.  "Kill dem quickly !"

Riza and Minmorc lead the way back down the western sewer with Minmorc still carrying Oopses around as lantern holder and Arlein riding on Oopses back. When they reach the secret door Bulldust, Moffdust and Dregz found, Minmorc gets them to open it for him then he leads the way into the 5ft square tunnel leading northward beyond the secret door. There is dim light coming from around a bend 30ft down this corridor. The corridor bends to the west for 5ft then ends at an another 3ft square secret door. However this door is wide open and the low light comes from inside a ten foot room beyond that door. Against the far wall of this room (i.e. only 8-10ft from the door) is a small bed with a small sleeping figure laid on it. The figure is about the same size as a goblin. There is a grubby blanket pulled up over its body and its face is covered by some sort of grubby red beret that muffles the snores emanating from the sleeper.

Bulldust has already seen and reported that the room extends further to the left (south) than he could see from the corridor. The room is 10ft wide (westward) and 20ft long (southward). There is another door in the southwest corner (closed) and a dim lantern sitting on the floor in the middle of the room. There are two more beds with two more red-hatted sleepers in them. One is covered but the other looks like a little old man, short like a halfling or goblin. There are several weapons lying around plus three large, agricultural scythes beside the beds.

OOC: Main game map updated. Characters can squeeze past each other in the 5ft corridor if they suddenly want to get to the front (or the back).

Seeing his foes before him Minmorc will act quickly to enact a complicated and ingenious plan - he'll take a five foot step into the room and stab one of the garden gnomes.

Bulldust leaves his longspear on the floor of the passageway.  He is a bit hunched over in the low passageway but he manages to squeeze past everyone "scuse me, sssh, oops, sorry, scuse" and into the room just after Minmorc.  He clamps a big hand over the mouth of the nearest sleeper (not the one Minnorc stabbed) and tries to lift it out of bed by its head.  Maybe this can be the one we keep alive for questioning.

Moffdust whispers "I wonders, did dey says dere prayerses before dey wents ta bed." She keeps a hand over her own mouth to stop herself from giggling as she weaves through the chaos and bloodshed of the bedroom to the far door.  She presses her ear against the door and listens. Cat peers out from inside her cloak and listens too.

Riza moves quickly to the final old man and spears him with her spear, determined to make this a quick encounter.

On the way to the Gnomes chamber, Jurz mutters a few words [Language unknown: Esmo pa t Oultr (reasil bleionbutred)] and then seems to change colour slightly and become just a little bit tree like.   He has a bad feeling about this.  Going into battle with something that has been terrorizing the town above without Rog at his side, just doesn't feel comfortable.

He continues to mumble in Druidic and his flaming scimitar appears in his hand just as the group charge into the Gnomes room.
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"Der blessed gods won't save dem now !" Dregz avows in a whisper to Moffa as the bigger humanoids wade in.

Minmorc's complicated and ingenious plan got a bit more complex as it went along. Seeing two more sleepers in the southern part of the room he weaved a bit further into the middle of the room before skewering the southernmost sleeper (r3) in its bed.  Incredibly, the sleeper wakes up and opens his mouth to scream in pain as the greatspear pins him in his bed. He looks like a little wizened old man, only about 3 feet tall and with a bright red cap on his head.

Riza is close behind Minmorc and actually slips past him to plunge her smaller spear into the same redcap when she realises it survived Minmorc's attack. Her spear also pierces its body but it still refuses to die.

Bulldust follows them in and simply grabs hold of the second sleeper (r2) by the head and hauls it up out of bed.

Moffdust weaves nimbly through the room to the southern door and presses her ear against the wood.

Jurz had cast a spell on the way and casts another spell as they enter the room. A flaming scimitar appears in his hand and he slashes it down at the northernmost sleeper (r1), searing through the blanket and scorching its flesh with a nasty burn. This sleeper instantly wakes up as well. It looks much the same as Minmorc's and Bulldust's foes, but perhaps even angrier.

Dregz whispers to Moffdust as she passes and he follows to the doorway to watch the fun but he is nearly bowled over by Raven as she hurries forward to join Jurz in attacking the closest redcap (r1). Her rapier pierces straight through its upper arm but doesn't seem to have injured it much at all. There are only a few drops of blood to mark the spot when she withdraws her blade.

The two wounded redcaps open their mouths and scream in pain and anger.

OOC: Main game map updated. r3 looks seriously wounded and r1 looks moderately wounded. Jurz's magical flaming scimitar seems to have done full damage but Minmorc, Riza and Raven's weapons were less effective (i.e. damage reduction 5 against those attacks).

Jurz screams back at the wizened old Gnome, but doesn't hesitate to slash at it again.

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16:55, Today: Jurz rolled 6 using 1d20+3. Hit it again (please).
16:56, Today: Jurz rolled 2 using 1d8+1. Dam -Just in case it is tangled in the bedsheets.

Bulldust will keep his spiked gauntlet clamped over the gnomes mouth (rolled 19 unarmed attack) while he shakes it for 5 hp. subdual damage (maybe 6 hp for two handed shake) as he tries to lift it up by its head to get a better look at it.   He doesnt know what language to use with little old gnomes so he just bares a mouthful of fangs.

"Cor, deys tough little buggers ain't dey!" Minmorc roars with laughter."Vera, hold im down, I's bringin Helen out ter play!" Leaving the greatspear to pin the tough little bugger in place Minmorc will draw the greatsword from the scabbard in his backpack and will try to stick it in it too.