Just a couple of private notes to particular characters ...

"Da voices sound like more of dese little guys.  We best get ready ta fight em."  Bulldust leaves the door and hangs the gnome by his bound hands on the hook as Minmorc suggested.  He retrieves his longspear from the passage, then returns and pushes a couple of beds closer to the door and turns them on their sides to make a barricade that the gobbos can shelter behind.

GM: Which way does the door open?  Is it hinged on the left or the right?

The door opens into the room you are in. The hinges are on the left side (South side). There is no lock or bar on this side of the door.

"Perhaps it's der larder ?" Dregz offers his opinion on the locked door mystery.

For the time being, Jurz leaves the door to the bigs but goes and stands by the wizzened gnome that Bully has hung up.  He inspects it closely, just to check that it isn't up to anything and waves his flaming sword around a bit, just in case.
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Bulldust sets up his barricade 5' from the door.  He picks up another bed with his left hand like a tower shield and measures it for a fit through the door.  "If dey dont come fru soon Im goin in after em.  Get da door Moffa!"  He prepares to charge through the door with the bed.  Crazy maybe ... but there are props and he's determined to use them.

With all of the activity at the door Riza relaxes slightly, not much to do until the door is opened either way, instead she has a change of plan. She moves herself to the far end of the room furthest from the door and switches from her spear to hr trusted bow.

With a sly smile she pulls out one of her 'special' arrows as she doubts the bow will damage more of these ugly men if that is what's behind the door.

OOC prepped drow poison arrow

It doesn't take long to finish preparations in the first redcaps room. Two redcaps are dead (r1 and r3) and the third (r2) is tied up, gagged and suspended from a sturdy hook in the middle of the ceiling. The ceiling is ten feet high so he is 7 or 8 feet above the floor and safely out of the way for now.

Bulldust rigs a bit of a barricade across the middle of the room using two of the small beds turned on their sides then he takes up position in the south end of the room holding a bed in front of him, turned up on its end to act some sort of tower shield. It is only 5 feet long and 2.5 feet wide so he can see over the top of it and reach around it.

Riza readies her bow and heads up to the northern end of the room with the goblins behind the barricade of beds. Minmorc is alongside Bulldust on the south side of the barricade, shouting at whoever is making so much noise on the other side of the door.

Bulldust has to step back a pace to pull the door open into the room and as soon as he does so two more ugly little redcaps rush into the room with a third one close behind them. All three are armed with scythes bigger than they are but they seem to have no trouble wielding the awkward weapons.  The first one (r4) slashes at Minmorc with his scythe but doesn't quite penetrate his armour and the second (r5) tries to slash Bulldust around the upturned bed/shield but only manages to slash the bedframe.

OOC: Main game map updated. Riza and Raven can shoot their bows over the heads of the goblins in front of them if they wish to.

As the door opens and more of the redcaps burst through the door, Jurz turns his attention from the one hanging in the middle of the room towards the newcomers.

Trying to use the small bed as cover, he reaches across to touch the nearest enemy with his flaming scimitar.

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11:12, Today: Jurz rolled 6 using 1d20+3. To hit the new redcaps.
Damned dice roller.  *searches in dice-roller bag for another one*

Seeing as how there's a more than acceptable amount of mayhem about to erupt, Dregz puts his finger to his lips to warn Oopses, then sneaks back down the narrow passage to peek out up and down the main sewer tunnel.  Just to be sure there's no more of the dreadful redcaps (or anything else for that matter) creeping up from behind.

Most cos the little goblin wants fair warning if there's going to be something to entice one or more of the bigguns to charge back his way, weapons waving !  But also to protect both the tribe and himself, from either physical hurt or accusations of inattentiveness.

As the little buggers come rushing through the doors  Minmorc keeps up a steady stream of insults and takes a hasty swing with Helen. As the little Brutes lunge puts a scratch in his new paint job Minmorc let's loose a bellow of pure rage and puts everything he has into a savage downward swing.
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Bulldust considers charging in Dregz' direction waving a bedframe, but that will have to wait.  He lets go of the bedframe and longspear and readies his white-tipped flail, swinging it wildly at the redcap r5.

In reply to Bulldust (msg # 134):

 Arlein rolled 20,2 using 1d20+1,1d3-1. Claw Drez.

Riza focuses and takes aim at one of the ugly old men. (R5) gonna gets you ugly bugger
But she curses as her arrow flys off course

OOC rolled 10 to attack r5

Moffdust casts Magic Missile at redcap r5 then crouches down behind the bed. "Dose scytheses looks nasty." She hopes Bully doesn't get too badly cut up.
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Raven loads, aims and fires her light crossbow over Moffdust's head at the next ugly little redcap.

Jurz greets the first of the new redcaps with a wave of his flaming scimitar. It misses but perhaps is just sufficient distraction for Minmorc to hack that redcap (r4) apart with two mighty blows of his red-glowing greatsword.

Bulldust throws down the bed he was holding and swipes at the next redcap (r5) with his white-tipped flail. He misses, then Riza's arrow whizzes just past the redcap's ear too. But Moffdust's pair of magic missiles simply cannot miss and Raven manages to plant a crossbow bolt in its shoulder as well. That redcap is now moderately wounded but that only makes it even more angry and savage than before.

Meanwhile Dregz ducks back through the crowded room and squeezes past Raven, Oopses and Arlein in the narrow passageway. Arlein takes great offense at his rudeness and lashes out with her claws, drawing blood with two long scratches across Dregz's face.  Dregz reaches the exit to the sewer and peers both ways down the sewer.

The wounded redcap (r5) snarls and moves up over his fallen comrade's body to slash at Minmorc because he is too big a target to ignore. The wild swing of his scythe misses Minmorc completely and sails harmlessly over Moffdust's and Jurz's heads. The next redcap rushes in behind him and swings at Bulldust but the blade of his scythe is stopped safely by the blackened armour Bulldust wears.

But the noise in the next room rises again as even more redcap reinforcements rush into that next room and peer in through the doorway.

OOC: Main game map updated.

It seems the little feller in front of Minmorc is small enough to ignore as Minmorc pays no attention to its wild attempts to reap the bed sheets. Instead Minmorc fixates on the one in front of Bulldust. "Oi, oi, I saw dat! I saw you tries ter hit him, red card fer you, red card fer you!" The "red card" appears to be a rather large, rather bloody sword...

There is no bravado or threats from the Goblin druid -  that is the banter of big folks, where as he still half hopes that he won't be noticed.  Instead, eyes wide he reaches across the bed again to touch the closest redcap with his flaming scimitar.

Bulldust reciprocates Minmorc's foe swap and flails wildly at redcap r5, again missing hopelessly.  "Dere's one ... two ... five! more of em next door.  Plenty fer all of us, just hittin em is da bit I'm not good at."

Moffdust cannot resist the grouping so she casts Grease on the 10' section in front of Bully and Minmorc and out through the door. "Grease!" she yells to warn them. "C'mon Bully! Hits dem."

Dregz whimpers.

"Grease is der word !" he calls out.

From outside above the grate at the top of the sewer pit, goblin voices drift back down to Dregz.

"Grease is der word!"
"Grease is der word?"
"Is der word dat I heard."
<Whack>
"Yeah, we's heard it too but wot der cark does it means?"

"It means youse better shapes up Dregzie, cos I needs a plan." she whispers.

In reply to Moffdust (msg # 146):

 oday: Oopses rolled 15 using 1d20. int check.


"Grease lotsa grease! Down dat hole! We gonna have da puging ritual!"