Riza curses at her last attempt to shoot the ugly man and at the loss of one of her special arrows, she picks a normal one and let's fly hoping it will strike true... With no luck

Her arrow flys off course again

OOC rolled 12 to hit red cap. Curse these dice

This time Minmorc ignores the wounded redcap in front of him and hacks at the one (r6) attacking Bulldust instead. His red-glowing greatsword carves a fearsome gash in the redcap's chest but the grievously wounded redcap refuses to go down just yet.

Jurz swipes his flaming scimitar at the redcap (r5) in front of him but does little more than just scorching the ugly little creature's cheek. Bulldust, Riza and Raven try to hit him as well but they all miss.

Moffdust ducks behind the cover of the upturned bed barricade to cast a spell that creates a slippery layer of grease beneath the feet of the two wounded redcaps and the two closest to the door in the next room. The closest one (r5) immediately slips over and falls flat on his back but the others manage to keep their feet on the slippery surface.

The fallen redcap (r5) quickly manages to scramble back up onto his feet again and picks up his scythe once more. The grievously wounded one behind him (r6) snarls at Minmorc and swings his scythe at Minmorc in return. His swing is so wild that he completely misses, loses his grip on the scythe so it sails over Minmorc’s head, then the redcap finally passes out and collapses face down on the greasy floor.

The next redcap (r7) tries to leap forward through the doorway to take his place but slips on the grease and falls flat on his face as well. But the next redcap (r8) behind him uses the other fallen redcaps as stepping stones to move into the room and attack Bulldust. His scythe is swung with ferocious accuracy and cuts deep into Bulldust’s leg inflicting a serious wound.

But the other three redcaps behind them suddenly turn and hurry away out of sight toward the northern end of that second room. Moments later another secret door is thrown open in the northern wall of the narrow passageway right behind Raven, Oopses and Arlein. The three redcaps and a drow elf stand menacingly in the new northern room beyond that small door. The closest redcap (r11) readies his scythe although the small doorway (only 3ft square) will make it a bit difficult for him to attack.

Meanwhile Dregz is at the southern end of that narrow passageway delivering cryptic clues to the goblin guards above the sewer grate. Finally the boss of those goblin boyz shouts down to Dregz, "Alright, you liddle greasy monkey! What's goings on down dere?"

OOC: Main game map updated.

"Foul, foul! Red card fer you too yer cheeky little bugger!" Minmorc is now deeply enraged, spittle flying as her swears, curses, ducks flying scythes and swings Helen at the Red Cap that hit Bulldust.

Though the goblin priest can't see what's going on back in the room from his vantage point, listening carefully he's at least able to discern that some of the redcaps are fleeing.  That they've lasted as long as they have is amazing and speaks of bright and lawful magics assisting them - certainly the redcaps appear as able to resist all but the most fearsome blows of his compatriots as the heavily armoured yoomans he tried to avoid fighting in the recent war.

"Some o' dem is gettin' away," Dregz informs the guards above. "Two, uh, o' dose some're knights !"

Well-a, well-a, well-a, uh ! ;>

In reply to Dregz (msg # 151):

Once again Jurz reaches across tto hit the nearest redcap.  However this time the noises from behind, bring more urgency to his thrust.
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"Ow!  Dose syfes really hurt!"  Bulldust considers his options.

"Youz is fightin' knightses down dere? Where is dey? Which ways is dey going? How many is dey?" the goblin guards up above the sewer grate shout down at Dregz.

In reply to Goblin guards (msg # 154):

Arlein is quite annoyed  with Oopses stupidity and Dregz ignoring. Leaning around the corner she hisses at the red caps.

// Moves to Raven's square.

"Um, yup.  Makin dem fall over den hittin dem while deys down is da best option." Muses the contemplative bugbear.  "Good job Moffa!"  He swings his flail belatedly at r5 in an AoO as it tries to rise, giving it a solid thump.  Then he swings the flail awkwardly at the legs of r8 to trip it, but misses.
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Moffdust giggles as the redcaps fall over in the grease then gasps as more appear behind. Like greased lightnin she fires another grease spell through that secret door to slick the floor and trip some more. She hopes. "Grease!" she whispers to avoid confusing Dregz any more.

OOC: just realised r8 has been chopped to bits by Minmorc, so Bully just failed to trip r5 instead.  Can Minmorc and Jurz also have AoO against r5 for standing up from prone?

OOC: Yes, of course they can. Sorry, I missed that.

OOC: I hope they're at a serious negative to armour class standing up with a roll like this ; )

Still frothing and spitting Minmorc takes a swing at the Red Cap. "How dares yer try ter stand up from Prone!"

Jurz just keeps jabbing at the nearest redcap - first as it stand up, and then again once it is upright.

However, he lets Minmorc do the talking.  That might distract the enemy from the fact that Jurz is poking them as well.
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"Der's less of dem now," Dregz assures the guards above.  "But dey sure are tough !"

"We're gonna get der toughs before der toughs get goin' !"

Looking infuriated Riza reaches into her pouch and shouts "FIRE IN THE HOLE!" Before lobbing a flask of alchemist fire at redcap r5. "Burn in hell you little snots!" She screams

OOC rolled 13 to attack r5 with damage 3 :(

Bulldust hits the redcap (r5) in front of Minmorc as it scrambled up from the greasy floor. Jurz leans over the barricade to let his flaming scimitar tap the redcap on the head as it rose and Minmorc slashes his red-glowing greatsword through the ugly little man's chest before it even realised it was dead. (All three may well claim credit for that kill later on!)

Minmorc again targets the new redcap (r8) attacking Bulldust and slashes the red-glowing Helen down at it so hard that this redcap too is grievously wounded and barely able to stand. Bulldust swings and this time he misses with his flail.

Riza lobs a flask of alchemist's fire at the only redcap still standing in the south end of the room (r8). It smashes over that grievously wounded redcap and bursts into flames. He succumbs in seconds and collapses across the unconscious body of another of his comrades (r6) which also suffers from the flames.

The last redcap in the south (r7) slides back out of the grease before scrambling to his feet  in the southwest room, ready to slash with his scythe at the first creature to come through the southern doorway.

In the north Moffdust greats the sudden appearance for three more redcaps and a drow with another grease spell inside their northern room. The redcaps manage to keep their feet but the drow elf slips and falls on her face with a loud clatter as her black plate armour hits the stone floor.

Raven drops her bow, whips out her rapier and stabs the first redcap (r9) in the northern room, managing to draw blood from the ugly little man and Arlein the cat hisses at the redcaps around the edge of the doorway.

The first redcap (r9) swings his scythe at Raven through the narrow doorway and manages to hit her despite the awkward angle through the narrow opening. The long blade of the scythe slices deeply into Raven's belly and she is grievously wounded!

Arlein's hisses suddenly take on a more manacing tone and a great jet of steam shoots from her mouth to engulf the three redcaps in the northern room. All three of them duck aside to avoid the worst of it but they all still scream at the pain of their burns. The closest one belatedly swings his scythe at Arlein as the steam finishes gushing from her mouth but this time he is unable to hit his target. The second redcap manages to keep his feet in the grease as he rushes forward and slams the door shut again before they can be boiled alive by more steam from the magical cat. You just glimpse the drow slithering back out of the grease and struggling to stand up again as the door closes.

OOC: Main game map updated.

In reply to Wyrm of Wyrd (msg # 164):

"Bully dah big uns back here, it's a dark lord!" Oopses shuts as he backs down the hallway towards dregz, away from the door.

Minmorcs eyes gleam with mad glee at the chaos of the melee, framed by fire, splattered with blood the mad ork has fully embraced the moment. Noticing that one enemy still stands to challenge him Minmorc launches into motion. Performing a quick spin Minmorc lashes out with a heavy iron shod foot, kicking Bully's beddy barricade forward to bridge the grease and fire. As he comes round he wrenches Vera out of a red cap corpse and springs forward onto the smouldering mess in front of Bulldust, thrusting the great spear at the remaining red cap. Down on one knee Minmorc will call over his shoulder "get in der, Bullfrog style!"

Jurz sees Minmorc smash the bed barricade down and then go down onto one knee as he trusts with his spear - and somewhere in the heat of the battle  the Orc's rage seems to affect him.

"I'm coming Minmorc ..." the goblin screams, as he rushes around behind the battle  and scrambles up onto the large Orc's back.  Then he jumps over and tries to  touch the redcap with his flaming scimitar.
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Dark lords working with good knights ... Dregz shakes his head.  Something is very wrong with that picture.

Perhaps they've been holding the Drow hostage !  Not that she'll appreciate the rescue, but that's better than being flayed alive for not trying.

From the sounds of things there seems to be a concerted effort back there by his friends to get past the redcaps ... "whatever gets youse through der knights !" the little goblin priest calls back encouragement.

Raven clutches at the grievous wound in her belly with her left hand and slips her rapier back into its scabbard. She grabs her crossbow from where she dropped it then pushes past Oopses and Arlein as she staggers back down the narrow passageway to where Dregz is guarding the exit to the sewer.

At first Dregz backs away in terror, a-feared that the terrible cat is coming for him ... but once his Darksight reveals Raven staggering towards him, the little priest rushes to help her, his commentary on the battle and his helpful suggestions forgotten as he fetches his magic healing stick from his pocket, calling on Bargrivyek to help the Kenku.

"Make da grease go away now Moffa, we got dem.". Bulldust drinks a potion of CLW then moves to the closed door where the drow was seen, picking up his longspear as he goes.

Moffdust dismisses the grease in the room where Minmorc is standing but leaves the other one running. She pulls a scroll and casts Magic Weapon on Bullys spear as he passes, moving up towards the closed door with him. "Dat was a dark elfses in dere! Stick her wid de pointy endses Bully."