Since priests often scare the common goblin more than even an orc, Dregz elects to bring up the rear and leave the talking to Bully.

Not the sort of plan that'd past muster on sober reflection, but to be fair he's still a little addled from all the teleporting around.

Minmorc will walk over to stand behind Bully and wave at Shroomza. "Allo."

"Dats Minmorc wot I woz telling youse about.  An back dere's Dregzie - he's got a book."  Bulldust nods solemnly.  "Can we come over dis bridge fing an see how its goin wiv youse back dere?"

Shroomza nods happily.

"Dat's a door-bridges. When it's down it's a bridges. When it's up it's a doors. Dere's a spiky pit unnerneath it to stops de baddies coming ins. Yous sees the gaps between the planks? Dat's wide enuff to shoots arrows through or poke de spears to kills de baddies or knocks dem inna spiky pit," she explains.

Seeing Minmorc go into the cave, Jurz follows, a short distance behind.

Moffdust scampers along after Jurz tiring to get a look in his ear. "Maybes its de orcs wid de eyes tryin ter get in yer headses, Jurzies. I's gonna has a lookses!" She looks and listens in the ear to see if she can see or hear any humbugs or orcs in dere.
16:25, Today: Moffdust rolled 24 using 1d20+12.  inspect Jurzies ear for magical anomalies.

Dreaz is poised with the other, healy Magic Stick, ready to poke and prod Jurz should Moffa advise he has need of it.

Bulldust grins back at Shroomza. "Dats real sneaky goblin tricks, wiv jus a few planks."  He crosses the bridge and offers a fist-bump to the goblin girl.  Looking back he sees Jurz and Moffa come around the bend.  "De red gobbo's Jurzie, an deres my sister, Moffa.  Lets go meet yer tribe, and tell us about de baddies."

Shroomza frowns and shakes her head at Bully’s words.

”Dat’s not a goblins tricks. Orcses made the door-bridges. Dese  caves is orc caves, not gobbo caves. We’s gobbo slaveses. We’s dis many gobbos,” she says, holding up two hands then two more fingers.

”All the orcses is down in the big cage listening to King Krulg. King angry again. King always angry. When King shouts, all orcses gotta listen! Us gobbos can listen or not. Me not listen. Heard it all before. Other gobbos is listening from up on the ledges around the big cave.”

Jurz grins broadly, "Dat sounds likes a good time to 'talk' to de orcses, when dey are alls togevver.  Which way is dey?"  He asks  Shroomza.

The hairy little priest might have some concerns about taking on a tribe of orcs and might not share Furyuz's hatred for their King controlling them ... but he doesn't care at all for the slavery of his own kin.

"Wese should talk to der goblins on der ledges," Dregz suggests to Moffa.  "Hows does wese get der ?" he asks Shroomza.

"OK, we'll follow yer quietly an take a look at da KK."  Bulldust follows Shroomza quietly.

Moffdust lets go of Jurzies ear and joins Bully and Shroomza. "Hey dere Shroomzies." She pats her shoulder encouragingly and grins toothily then follows on in her wake to peek at the orcs.

Shroomza nods eagerly and leads the way down the tunnel. It eventually opens out into a large cave with about 40 or 50 piles of sleeping furs scattered around the cave. The stench of orcs is strong here. There are two other tunnel openings leading out; one to the west and one to the south. The sound of orcs shouting and cheering comes loudly from the southern tunnel.

Shroomza explains, ”That noisy tunnels goes to the ledges where my gobbo friends is watching the King do his stuff. I takes yous to see real soon. Then if yous wants to talk to gobbos, we come back in here and goes down that quiet tunnel. Dat brings us into another cave like this one, but dat one is a orc girlz cave. Dis one is a orc boyz cave. From the orc girlz cave we can get closest to the gobbos and get them in to talks. Our shroom cave is on the other side of orc girlz cave, too. Dat’s where all us gobbos lives.”

Then she leads you out to the ledge so you can see what is happening.

This ledge runs along the northern side of a large cavern and there is a similar ledge opposite along the southern side. The western halves of the two ledges are about 30 feet above the floor of the cavern, but their eastern ends slope down to the cavern floor forming a ramp up to each ledge. 11 goblins are gathered near the western end of this northern ledge.

Over 200 orcs are crammed into the western half of that large cavern. It looks like there are at least twice as many females and young than male orc warriors, but they are all cheering enthusiastically. The object of their admiration is the orcish king, standing on a ten foot high stone platform at the top of a stone staircase at the western end of the cavern. That western platform is the only place in this whole complex where you have seen any light sources at all. Four torches at the corners of that platform illuminate the platform and ensure its occupant can be seen from anywhere in the cavern. At the back of the platform is a 10 foot tall statue of the one-eyed orc god Gruumsh, with a smaller stone altar in front of it.

Right in front of the altar stands the orc king himself, clad in the armour covered with bloodshot eyes, just as Dregz described from his vision.

OOC: See the game map for Group N.

I am currently away from home on holiday, so I prepared this map in advance. It doesn’t show the party’s location or the king, orcs and goblins, but I hope you can work those details out from the description above.

Moffdust has a good look then beckons the party and Shroomza back into the sleeping cavern where they can talk. "I tinks I'se can cuts off all de orcses from de kings wid a walls of fires. Mebbe Dregzies can gets us alls on de platforms wid de kings, or I'se can sends jus tree ov usses down dere and de udders stays up heres wid all dese gobbos." She grins at Shroomza. "Now youse gotta tells usses all we's needs ter knows. Is dere any shamans out dere wide de orcses? An tells us wheres all de kings treasures? An is dere guards behind de doors behind de statues?"

While the party discuss and plan she will start casting Protection from Evil on Bully then Min (already on Raven) then the 10'r version on herself.

"If'n there is still some grass seeds an stuff under the floor, I can ties up most of de orces in de hall." Jurz says thinking of his entangle spell.  "But, it'll get de ledges too ..."

Jurz casts Bark Skin on himself, while he waits.

Jurz considers the floor of the cavern briefly but soon realises there would not be any real potential for any significant plant growth in that rocky surface after decades of trampling by hundreds of orcs every day.

Shroomza is eager to answer Moffa’s questions as soon as everyone is back in the orc boyz cave.

”There’s no shamanses anymore. De kings killeded dem ‘cos they says Gruumsh was angry wid him. King say they woz liars. Gruumsh didn’t saves dem so the orcses agrees the king woz right. Now kings does all de talkin’ wid Gruumsh too. He took over de shamanses rooms behind the statue, too. Now nobody else can goes in there unless de kings says so. No guardses. King strong . Don’t need no guardses. Orc girlz sometimes, orc boss boyz sometimes, but no guardses. Dat’s where kings keeps his treasures too. Orc boss boyz got they’s own treasures but dey guards dem treasures demselves.”

Minmorc will cast bless on the party, he'll bless Shroomza too. He'll then tear a strip from a sack from his bag of holding and will wrap it around his head covering one eye. "If deys asks tell em I'm wunna Gruumsh boys an e's not happy."

Bulldust can't believe an orc could make up so many rules.  "So he has de boyz ere, an da girlz over dere, an he kills everyone dat don't like him ... what is 'e, a paladin or somefing?"

He nods appreciatively at Min's disguise.  "Youse good at looking like a angry orc!"  He volunteers to be one of the squad teleported to the stage with the orc king, but other than that he's not sure what the plan is.  "So... are we jus gonna kill 'im, or jus take da mask offa 'im?"

Just before its time to go he'll blow a little bugbear magic into his fist.

"Youse got ta makes dem strong in der head." he reminds Dregz and Moffa, as he indicates Min and Bully.  "We knows dat the big orc makes people do fings dey dont want."

Jurz considers for a moment, "I fink we kills him.  Den hes won't have any more of de gobbo slavses."  Then he ods firmly at his own summation of the situation.

Dregz doesn't look thrilled at the idea, but having seen the platform on which the king stands, he nods his head reluctantly to confirm that he can indeed use Furyuz to teleport everyone down there.

"Ifs wese can kills der king right quick, den Minmorc can tell 'em 'ow itz all der will uv Gruumsh soes der uvver orcses don' kills uz !"

"Den maybes I should be de big white bear an help de bigs batter him." Jurz comments as Dregz confirms the stick's ability to teleport them onto the platform.

"We shood gets all der magic ready now, when we jump over der I'm gonna use Nuffle power ter make im shut up. Dregz, can Forya take me big or do I have ter be me size?""

Bulldust listens and adds his own ideas and questions.  "I fink Shroomzie should get all de udder gobbos back off de ledge into de sleeping room when we start da attack.  Dere won't be room fer dem down dere, an dey might get hurt."

"Dere won't be room fer us all on da stage, especially if Min and Jurz an me get big. I'll try an move behind im straight off so de Birdie Girl can stab im good."

OOC: summarising what spells people have said they're casting...
Moffa: Protection from Evil on Bully, Min, Raven (already cast) duration 9 min I assume
Moffa: Protection from Evil 10'r on herself - stay close to her. Can she do another on Jurz?
Minmorc: Bless - affects us all, and Shroomza.
Bully: Fist of Stone (bugbear magic), duration 1 min.
Minmorc: Enlarge Person on himself
Bully: Enlarge Person on himself ... probably, not decided yet, can do this as a Swift Action.
Jurz: turn into a big white bear!
Moffa: Wall of Fire to start the attack, I assume duration is concentration +1r ... what if you need to cast another spell?


GM: how far back are the crowd of orcs from the 10' high platform in the great hall.

OOC There is just a 5 ft gap (row y) with no orcs between the platform and the mass of orcs, and no orcs on the stairs.

The Black Mace can teleport anyone with any body part within 5ft radius, so large size creatures are not a problem. The issue is that Dregz must have line of sight to the destination in an underground setting like this. So if you are teleporting from the 5ft wide ledge and tunnel mouth, it may be difficult to group the 6 of you in that constrained space. Might be time to play piggyback.