"Yes, we'se should burns him!" Moffdust replies. She summons a hell hound snd sends it forth to do the burning. [Language unknown: "Te ughorters ic atiri, ll ast io riceho himiur."] She sits on the edge of the stage and swings her legs over the edge. "Youse gets a good shots from up heres Dregzies, so sticks im goods!"

Bulldust can still hear the black dog howling out there somewhere so he stays put.  He elbows the orc  "Budge over Min, gotta make room fer Jurzie."

Jurz, who had been looking around for somewhere to hide, sees Bully and Min head into the back room, so follows them in, then dives under the bed between them.  "Room for a small one ...." he croaks, not sure whether to shout or whisper.

First round: Howler bit the orc leader inflicting a serious wound. The orc leader attacked twice with his greataxe, lightly wounding the howler with his second blow.

Second round: Howler bit the orc leader again and one of its neck quills lodged in the orc's flesh as well, leaving him grievously wounded. The orc leader fought on desperately, striking the howler once more and leaving it moderately wounded. Then the hell hound arrives with a blast of flame to cauterise the orc's wounds. Somehow the orc leader survives the roasting but from the way he is staggering it looks like he is on his last legs.

OOC: Main Game Map updated.
Bully was panicked for 4 rounds (2 remaining), Minmorc was panicked for 3 rounds (1 remaining), Jurz was panicked for 2 rounds (now recovered).
The first orc that fled (o4) dropped a masterwork greataxe.

Moffdust claps her hands and cackles in glee. "Youse finishes im off Dregzies!" She waits for Dregz to take his shot before darting down the steps towards the battle. Move 60'.

Having dived in between the two 'bigs' seems to have worked for Jurz.  He isn't sure if it is the 'perfume' of hot sweaty orc and bugbear bodies, or the fact that he is getting squashed by his two much larger allies.  What ever it is, the thing that is out there can't be any worse ...

"Phew.  It stinks in here ...." he mutters as he crawls back out from under the bed, and makes his way, carefully, back to Moffa and Dregz
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Minmorc starts sniffing and shrugs "smells like home ter me..." then another panicked thought dances on his little brain "errr... you don't smell nuffin else in eer wid us do you?"

"Waaahh!"  Bulldust screams.  "Its da black dog!  Its in ere!"  He starts ripping straw out of the mattress...

Still with his tongue sticking out as he concentrates, Dregz levels his crossbow at the offending Orc and pulls the trigger, watching excitedly as the bolt flies across the cave ...

As Moffa races forwards across the cavern in anticipation of victory, Dregz aims his little crossbow and shoots at the staggering orc leader. Incredibly, Dregz's bolt flies true and hits the orc in the neck. The orc staggers once more then collapses backwards onto the floor of the cavern. The howler and hell hound both pounce on the body and start tearing it apart.

OOC: Main Game Map updated. Combat is over, so you can get on with plans for departure. Most of the orcs outside will stay at least 300 feet away for at least the next ten minutes or so, even though the panic from the shadow mastiff’s baying wears off after 2-8 rounds.
Bully was panicked for 4 rounds (1 remaining), Minmorc was panicked for 3 rounds (now recovered), Jurz was panicked for 2 rounds (now recovered).
The first orc that fled (o4) dropped a masterwork greataxe.
The orc leader had a +1 greataxe and was wearing a +1 breastplate.

Once the path is clear, Jurz starts rounding up the other goblins and herding them towards the exit, so that everyone is ready to leave when Dregz, and his magic stick, do the business.

Minmorc will shake his head, crawl out from under the bed and wander out into the great hall. He'll give the orcs corpse a good kick then he'll strip it of the breastplate and stash that and the two greataxes away in loot storage.

Bulldust crawls out sheepishly too, tossing away handfuls of straw he doesn't know what to do with.  "Lets go outside."  He tells Shroomza its safe out there now (he believes this to be true).

Catching up with Moffa he asks "What was dat Moffa?!"

"Youse hasn't seen nuttin yets." Moffdust grins at Bully. She helps encourage the other goblins to gather their belongings and come outside.

Having stood his ground and dispensed the killing shot, the hairy little priest is inordinately pleased with himself, smiling happily as he shoulders his crossbow and joins the general exodus, ready with his Magic Stick.

Moffdust smiles back sweetly at Dregz as he swaggers past. "Teamworks makes de dreamworkses."

Now that's a dogma that Dregz would pat on the head and throw a bone to !

The goblin smiles and grins back at Moffa. [Language unknown: "Tedou be itis aclin intss thakorthe nghaic !  Rut presansta urere he nce ho he !"  :I]

Once everyone has recovered from their fright, with the dozen female goblins helping it doesn't take long to strip the dead orc leader and carry the three chests of loot out of the orc lair into the 40-foot wide open pass through the mountains outside the orc lair.

It takes a little bit longer to gather everyone close enough to Dregz so he will be able to teleport the whole group using the Black Mace.

Furtunately the remaining orcs all keep their distance (most are at least 300 feet north or south along the pass) and just watch this extraordinary performance.

Finally, everything is ready and all that remains is for the destination to be agreed and for Dregz to say the magic word.

OOC: Main game map updated.

There is also a map of the temple in Gorna uploaded as the Game Map for Group M. Let me know exactly where you want Dregz to teleport to. Just specify the map coordinates for Dregz and everyone else will be in the same formation around him as shown on the main game map.

OOC: love the stacked goblin montage on the game map ... that could be a team logo!  :-)

"Inside da temple, right in da middle.  What d'ya fink Dregzie?"

If nobody else has a better suggestion or a compelling reason not to do so, Dregz will cheerfully comply with Bully's plan, screwing up his eyes in concentration (though what with his long hair and his jaunty Gloom Mask, that might be a little hard to tell) before intoning the magic word ...

<Green"I tinks we's can't jumps insides de temples."</Green> Moffdust scratches her head. "But deres de lanes outside de walls. An Slipknotz showed us how ter gets across de graveyards using de ladders." She describes a courtyard in the lane behind the temple compound, P12, and the large mausoleum where a ladder is left on the roof and hopping across the gravestones but keeping off the grass. She remembers it was fun, and the ghouls guarded the temple and kept it private.
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"Not if der roof 'asn' fallened ines yet !" Dregz admits, remembering the blackened ceiling of their home away from home, though he nods his agreement as Moffa reminds him off the courtyard.  "Dat shood be bigses enuff."

"An I can fly der littles over, ones at a time ..." Jurz add to the conversation..

"Ooo, dat's right Moffa."  Bulldust agrees with Moffa.

"Dats better dan Minmorc flinging em over da wall!"  Bulldust agrees with Jurz.

With everyone gathered tightly around Dregz and the destination finally agreed, Dregz speaks the magic word "Wyrd!" and with the faint sound of a rush of air Team Arda-Nuff vanishes from the pass in the Barrier Peaks.

OOC: Continued in new thread – Night 25: Back to Gorna