Moffdust casts Protection from Evil on Raven. "You gots dis Birdie Girls."

She and Wolfie are ready for wand-off when Dregz moves.

Dregz too is poised for action, fully clenched.

When the plan is finally agreed it doesn't take long to put into action.

Bully heads a bit further south along the top of the cliff and as soon as he is in range he speaks the command word for his wand of magic missiles, sending a string of five green-glowing bolts of energy to skewer the orc guard (o2) on the southern ledge. That orc slumps silently back against the wall behind him and slides down to a seated position on the ledge with his head slumped forward. Even at that distance Bull can see there is no doubt the orc is dead.

Raven takes that as her cue and leaps off the clifftop with a dagger in each hand. She glides down silently, landing right beside the orc guard (o1) on the northern ledge and plunges a dagger straight into the base of his neck moments before her feet hit the ledge. She just manages to grab him as he collapses and tips him back from the edge of the ledge so he doesn't fall over the edge. He is clearly dead, too. Fortunately, the whole attack was quiet enough that it should not have alerted the other guard below. Raven waves to those above to signal all is clear.

OOC: Main Game Map updated. Everyone else is still back up on top of the cliff, 60 feet above the ledges.

Raven has Protection from Evil from Moffa for 9 minutes.

Minmorc pumps his fist and gleefully though quietly says "Def from above!" He will then step close to Dregz, ready for teleportation.

"You'se stay here Rog.  But be ready when I'se calls". He instructs the great Dire Bat, then he too steps forward and lays a hand on Dregz shoulder.

Bulldust hurries back to where Dregz waits.  He seems pleased with the wand.  "Yup, it kills orcs."  He peers down to where Raven stands on the ledge and whispers "Good job Birdie-Girl."  He's ready to move.

Dregz quickly and silently waves back to Raven, much enthused by the success of The Plan thus far.  Once everyone has gathered about him before asking Furyuz nicely to take them down to the ledge where she awaits them.

The team quickly gathers around Dregz at the edge of the cliff.

Wolfie + Moffa
  Jurz + Dregz
 Bully + Minmorc

Dregz whispers instructions to Forya en' i' Leitha and it simply tells him to "Say the word". He whispers the command word "Wyrd" and with just the familiar faint rush of wind and slight disorientation they all find themselves down on the ledge beside Raven. Almost the way Dregz intended.

Moffa, Dregz and Minmorc landed on the ledge but Jurz and Bully found themselves bumped sideways by the cliff that was suddenly crowding them for room. Jurz found himself on his backside at Dregz's feet while Bully was pushed into Minmorc and they both teetered perilously at the edge of the ledge before managing to regain their balance.

Wolfie, Moffa's summoned dire wolf, found itself squeezed into a narrow tunnel mouth, looking out at Moffa. The big wolf is able to squeeze along the tunnel, forward or backward, but is unable to turn around in that confined space and nobody else can squeeze past him unless they climb over or under him.

OOC: Main game map updated.
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Minmorc will give Bully a quick cuddle and will move down the ledge to D9. Axe in hand he will peer down the tunnel.
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After Min's progression to his next partner, Bulldust will stay where he is and peer over the edge to check whether the orc below noticed the dance party up here.  if anyone down thee looks up he'll shoot em dead wiv is orc killin wand.
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Surprised by the sudden meeting with the cliff wall, Jurz executes a prefect pratfall, then grumbles quietly as he clambers back to his feet, helped by his boots of levitation.

Taking in the position of everyone, including the summoned wolf, he rolls his eyes, and waits for the others to sort themselves out.
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Once they have sorted themselves out, Minmorc checks the southern tunnel mouth on this northern ledge and discovers there is a narrow tunnel that curves around to connect to the wolf-blocked northern tunnel mouth. Another narrow tunnel heads off to the west from that curved tunnel.

Bully peeks over the edge of the ledge to the bottom of the ravine 40 feet below. There is still no sign of the orc guard at the larger tunnel entrance at ground level.

Now that you are closer to the tunnel mouths you can faintly hear the noise of a crowd yelling and cheering, which was probably loud enough to cover the brief disturbance of your arrival on the ledge.

OOC: Main game map updated.

"Wese hafter watches outs fer dat!" Dregz mutters quietly as he surveys the damage, finishing up frowning at Wolfie blocking the tunnel entrance.

Bulldust gives a thumbs up to the gobbos to signal 'all good below' then joins Min for another swap-sides-cuddle.  "I'll av a look inside.  Did yer still wanna get dressed up as a orc?"  He sneaks down the south tunnel passage to have a look past the fork.

Minmorc will shrug. "Les ave a little look. If ders stuff ter find I can go in dis guys, if we jus gunna kill dem I won't bovver."

Moffdust shrugs and starts making use of what riches the Gods and Birdie Girl have provided. With help she pulls Raven's orc-kill  south past the opening where Wolfie is jammed in. Then she guides Wolfie out of the tunnel and installs him at the north end of the ledge facing south. "Youse stays heres Wolfie dears, an bites anyones who's not usses." She helps Raven search the dead orc and get the armour off in case its needed, and maybe some more bits off in case Wolfie gets hungry.

Dregz helps Moffa, on the basis that its always better to feed a hungry Wolfie.

Moffa, Raven and Dregz soon manage to drag the dead orc far enough along the ledge so Moffa can guide Wolfie out onto the northern end of the ledge. The orc is quickly stripped of his studded leather armour and weapons, and a leg is unceremoniously hacked off to give Wolfie something to gnaw on.

Meanwhile, Minmorc and Jurz wait outside the southern tunnel entrance while Bully goes in to explore. These tunnels are typically about 4 to 5 feet wide and 7 to 8 feet high, perfect for orcs and bugbears. There are no light sources in the tunnels.

The tunnel curves northwest for about 25 feet before it reaches a side tunnel heading deeper into the mountain to the west. About 5 feet inside that western tunnel there is a 7ft x 5ft wooden surface lying on the floor, almost like a door or tabletop flat on the floor, or a trapdoor, perhaps. There are two ropes from the northeast and southeast corners of that wooden floor, which loop through a pair of hooks set in a heavy wooden beam set at roof height in the tunnel above the western end of that wooden floor, then extending westwards another 10 feet to be anchored in a pair of iron hooks in the north and south walls of the tunnel. The ropes hang fairly loosely in this position.

Bully also quickly spots a solitary goblin (g1) hiding at the next bend in the tunnel. As soon as the goblin realises it has been spotted it steps a little further into view and Bully realises it is a green goblin girl, rather similar to Moffa. She seems very timid and her eyes are wide with fear or excitement but doesn't show any sign of yelling or fleeing at the moment.

OOC: Main game map updated.

Bulldust stays right where he is and waves his fingers at the goblin girl, grinning in a friendly way.  He whispers in goblin tongue,  "Hi.  I'm Bulldust.  You'se a nice colour.  Wot's yer name?"

OOC: I think most of us can understand goblin.
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The goblin girl waves back hesitantly then steps out into the middle of the tunnel.

"They call me Shroomza, cos that's my job. I look after the 'shroom room. You's a bugbears, isn't yous? That's like a big daddy goblins, isn't it? Is yous come to rescues us?" she asks, visibly trembling with excitement.

Turning his head to one side, Jurz bangs at one of his ears to try and get rid of the strange buzzing noise that has started in it.

08:51, Today: Jurz rolled 4 using 1d20+3.  listen.

"Yup!  I'm a bubgbear, but I'm turnin inta a draggin too.  An yup, dats why we'se ere, ter free de gobbos."  Bulldust grins back at Shroomza.  "Dere's a bunch ov us - my sister and two ovver gobbos, da birdie girl an a orc.  Da orc's a real scary nuffle-'ed but 'e's a friend ov gobbos.  Can I bring 'em along ere ter say hi?"
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Moffdust moves along the ledge towards Jurz and whispers to him, mostly concerned but a little hopeful. "Hey Jurzies, why is youse bangin yer headses? Can I does it fer youse?"

Shroomza looks excited and nervous at the same time but eventually she nods vigorously and says, ”Yes, brings them. We needs to makes a plans!”

"I'se gots de buzzies.  I was finking about de humbugs, at dat ovver place we didn't goes too.   And now's it soundz likes I'se got one in my ears."

Suddenly, he looks startled by the very thought, "Cans youse look and sees if dere is a humbugz in  dere?" he says, tilting his head sideways and pulling and ear upwards to show the inside.