A=Abighail
B=Gharuk
C=Ghorgath
D=Ghorza

The kobold nuzzles into the scritching sensation Abighail gifts him. For a second he looks like a pet... a filthy, quite dangerous one. He taps his left foot st the scritching reatches a particularly pleasant spot. "Ohhhh yes. So nice. I am Vrrtanai'sch. But others call me Squinty. The big Boss, out here? Nah, it's too bright. Perhaps if there is an offer. But you don't want that, no you don't. The others,  Icould tell them to come out, they would, yes they would. But not now. It's lunchtime, and they really want to eat, really hungry." Its stomach rumbles loudly. "Just like I am. Ever since the Boss stopped food shipments we've been starving, yes we were. And he seemed like such a nice guy." It shakes its head, what must be an expression of betrayal on its face. "A shadow man walking through walls? There are seven, I heard, yes I did. They hunt everyone for sport and for food. They are hungry, too, always hungry. Cold eyes. Their master is in the graveyard, I heard too."

It taps its feet. "So... what are your friends doing? I mean.. those are.. .and you are... you could instead just talk to the boss, you know? After all, anyone who worships Luthic will at least talk to anyone with orc blood." Its beady eyes shine.

The disjointed singing and the smells of almost ready foot from inside the house continue. The shanty's words turn to butchery, cooking and shipmates gorging on delicious food. Listening more closely, the voice seems almost female. There is some clanking sounds of earthen dishes and tapping of small feet.

(waiting just on Abi to decide what to do)

"I'll call you Vrrtanai'sh, because I'm not like the others."  Abighail's eyes twinkle.  "We'll see how many of the others want to come out, maybe even the boss will.  Follow me."  She walks toward the building hoping that they're too busy eating inside to notice her through the window, yet.  "Here we go" she sends to her brother and sister.  She couldn't see Gharuk, but hopefully he was ready.

Then she whispers to Squinty, "Okay, act like you're attacking me," and she picks him up and holds him at arms' length. "AIEEE!  MONSTERS!" she screams in her best damselly voice and staggers backward in front of the window, spins around once, and then staggers backward out of view.

Start position Q18, go nw-w-w-N17, pick up kobold & scream, stagger n, end at M15
AC 13 9hp

Nodding in silent acknowledgment back to her sister, Ghorza readies her axe for the inevitable conflict.

START: Ready Action in L13
Intent is to strike the 3rd Kobold that comes out of the building.  Unless I'm discovered then I will strike that one.
AC:  18  HP: 10
14:01, Today: Ghorza rolled 11 using 1d8+5.  damage.
14:01, Today: Ghorza rolled 12 using 1d20+5.  attack of opportunity.

With the plan now going into action, he moves closer to Ghorza and prepares for the fight. He climbs onto the pile of debris and to make himself look bigger just as Abighail comes dashing into the spot he just left.

Move: 18L-NE-N-N-N-14M
Readied action. Attack first enemy to enter my reach, hits AC 14 and does 15 slashing damage.
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With his family out of sight and unaware of any developments, Gharuk was taken aback by Abighails scream. Torn between sticking to the plan (such of it as he understood) and running to her aid, the burly half-orc decided that the others must know what they're doing and that they must still be relying on him to cover the rear exits. Abandoning his cautious approach, he broke into a dead sprint straight at the building, ensuring he stayed out of sight of the window he'd already passed. Once he was at the corner, he pressed himself against it and checked his weapons. He took a few deep breaths, hoping he'd not been seen or heard and readied himself for his next move.

Start Position: G28
Action: Dash
Move: W-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-N-F19

HP: 14/14, AC: 16, Conditions: None

GM: In case you think it relevant, I rolled Stealth with optional Disadvantage, but it turns out I got 11 either way. It's not a Hide Action, but rather a general indication of how much noise I'm making;
- 00:27, Today: Gharuk rolled 11,13 using 1d20+2,1d20+2.  Stealth (optional disadvantage).

A=Abighail&kobold
B=Gharuk
C=Ghorgath
D=Ghorza
k=starving kobold (AC12 HP5)
K=halforc woman (AC13 HP15)

The plan makes Squinty smile. It appeals to its crude sense of humor. So it plays along, feigning all sorts of scratching and biting and clawing against Abighail. It's a good actor, too.

Damselly... halforcish voice. That's a novelty for the kobolds inside the building. Sort of. There's some commotion from the inside; kobold heads visible on the windows, peering out to see what teh fuck is going on. A woman's voice from inside cusses; there's a thwap or two as kobolds are smacked with a ladle and pushed away from the window. A halforcish, dark-faced woman looks out, squinting because of the bright light outside.

"Squinty, you dumb git! What the frak are you doing with that lady?" she yells at the kobold.

Just as she yells the door opens and kobolds stream out. Right into the waiting Ghorgath and Ghorza. The first kobold out the door is neatly bisected. The second one notices this and tries to stop, but the half-dozen of his packmates squeeze him out of the door and right onto Ghorza's axe. he dies messily.  The third kobold that was about to scamper out of the house manages to stop and push back against all odds, yipping and chirping.

With a clear and loud voice, Ghorgath bellows out a single and direct command.

"KNEEL!"

Skill use: Intimidation 12.
Move: None

Abighail gasps and collapses to the ground.  After pushing Squinty off her, she crawls to the wall underneath the window, and presses herself up against it.  Looking up, she gets ready to grab the halforcish woman if she leans out of the window.

Start position: M15-drop prone-L16
Action: Ready grapple
13:55, Today: Abighail rolled 19 using 1d20+1.  grapple.
AC 13 9hp

With the commotion out front, Gharuk was champing at the bit for some action, but he knew the plan (or at least, what he thought the plan was). He crept around the corner, up to the door, but made no attempt to judge an opportune moment to pass the window; any of the occupants would likely see him clearly if they were facing the right way. Once he got to the door, he rolled his shoulders, readying himself for what he was about to do next...

Start Position: F19
Action: Hide
- 11:12, Today: Gharuk rolled 7 using 1d20+2.  Stealth.
Move: W-N-N-N-E15

HP: 14/14, AC: 16, Conditions: None

Her first kill! Waiting to strike the next Kobold out of the building.

OOC:
START: L13
FINISH: L13
ACTION:  Attack of opportunity
19:20, Today: Ghorza rolled 11 using 1d8+5.  Battle axe dmg.
12:46, Today: Ghorza rolled 9 using 1d20+3.  attack.
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A=Abighail B=Gharuk C=Ghorgath D=Ghorza
k=starving kobold (AC12 HP5)
K=halforc woman (AC13 HP15)
s=Squinty

The kobold in the doorway kneels, suddenly, as if Ghogath's commanding voice had suddenly hewn its legs from underneath it. It blinks with its beady black eyes, confused.

Abighail releases Squinty and rolls underneath a window. The sorceress on the other side doesn't offer her a chance to practice grappling, however. Instead, she barks orders at the little lizads. These shake their heads and obey, quickly. Wooden hatches are slammed on the windows, and the kneeling kobold pulled back into the building. Or at least he would be if Ghorgath woudl let the poor thig live- There s a splash of blood as his glaive reaches out and bisects the poor lizard-thing.

The kobolds inside aren't particularly shocked. Kobold life is cheap, after all - even if Squinty frowns a little bit. The entrance door is slammed shut and bolted.

"Damn," Abighail muttered and got to her feet.  She should've thrown Squinty at the woman when she had the chance.  She didn't want to burn the house down if she could avoid it.  Abighail ran south around the building hoping that they hadn't barred the doors on the other side yet.  "KICK THE DOORS DOWN!" she yelled as she ran.

Start position L16 Action: Dash stand up-s-s-s-sw-sw-w-sw-w-nw  End position F21
AC13 9hp

Gharuk was taken aback at the shutters all slamming shut, but didn't need his sisters order to do exactly what he was going to anyway. He took a step back, drew a few short breaths and threw his full weight at the door, his bloodlust already clouding his eyes as he cried forth a bloodcurdling battlecry "WAAAAAARGH!"

Bonus Action: Activate Rage
Action: "Kick in the door" (Strength w.Advantage from Rage)
- 22:10, Today: Gharuk rolled 22 using 2d20+4, dropping the lowest dice only.  Str w. Advantage.

HP: 14/14, AC: 16, Conditions: Rage (Round 1/10)

Smiling, Ghorgath approaches the door to kick it down.

"Ghorza, kick down the door together on three. One ... two ... three"

Waiting to synchronise their efforts together, Ghorgath does his best to kick the door in.

Move: M14-w-L14.
Skill use: Athletics test to kick in door, 20.

Nodding to her brother she comes off the wall and kicks at the door.


OOC:
18:23, Today: Ghorza rolled 19 using 1d20+3.  Athletics Chesk to bust door.

A=Abighail B=Gharuk C=Ghorgath D=Ghorza
k=starving kobold (AC12 HP5)
K=halforc woman (AC13 HP15)
s=Squinty
X=barred door
/=cracked door
~=kobold crushed under a door. counts as difficult terrain.

Abighail dashes south around the house. Beady eyes follow her movement, hidden behind the barred windows.

Some kind of horn blares from inside the house, the sound increasing in intensity for several seconds before dying away.

Gharuk gives an animalistic grunt and slams his foot into the door, forcing it off its hinges and onto the poor kobold trying to fix a bar across it. Squish. Kobold pancake. The two kobolds helping their poor fellow jump back and hiss, then hurl a dagger apiece at the halforc brute. Both of the blades hit and inflict a scratch. If that kind of wound in a raging halforc can be called that. Prhaps they're betting on him getting lockjaw from the rust on the blades? Who knows? (2 hits for 1 damage each, before adjustments and so on)

Ghorgath and Ghorza smash the door together. There's a loud cracking sound, and the door cracks down the middle, its halves still barely held in position by the hinges and cracked crossbar. Kobolds on the other side yip and chitter, trying to hold the door shut. (kobolds roll 10 on a str check with advantage to hold the door in place. Beat that with a strength/athletics roll to bust the door completely next round)
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Ghorgath thrusts his glaive through the door cracks, either attempting to skewer kobolds or knock the bar holding the door off.

Action: Attack vs door hit AC 17 doing 10 damage.

Gharuk practically rode the door as it fell into the room, his extra weight eliciting one final squeak of a death-rattle from the flattened kobold beneath it. He didn't even register the scratches the thrown daggers inflicted on him; maybe later he'd be mildly annoyed that they'd torn his new shirt. For the present, he cracked his whip with a terrifying roar, put his shoulder behind his shield and battered at one of the kobolds before him, attempting to drive the lizard-like creature back.

As he bulled his way into the room, the half-orc stared wild-eyed, snarled and bellowed at the occupants. "Weapons down cullies an' sit on yer hands and we'll think about not killing the lot of yer! Ye've 'til me brother gets through that door to decide!"

Note: No damage taken from Kobold daggers, due to Resistance!
Start Position: E15
Move: to F15
Action: Attack (Shove) vs. Kobold (G16)
- 16:34, Today: Gharuk rolled 21 using 2d20+6, dropping the lowest dice only.  Shove (Athletics) w. Advantage.
- Kobold needs to make Str (Athletics) or Dex (Acrobatics) to oppose, or be pushed back 5ft to H17.
- If Shove successful, Gharuk will Move into the space vacated (G16)
Reaction: Intimidate vs. the room
- 16:35, Today: Gharuk rolled 9 using 1d20+3.  Intimidate.
- 16:40, Today: Gharuk rolled 4 using 1d20+3.  Intimidate. (in case I had Advantage for anything...not that it mattered apparently; damned Dice Roller spoiling my plans!)

Abighail runs around the building to the door that Gharuk just broke down.  The horn's call for help worries her slightly; they must think that there's help within earshot, and that meant reinforcements would be there soon.  It's time to decide this fight quickly, she thought.  Abighail readies her crossbow, but Gharuk's massive body blocks the doorway.  "SURRENDER OR DIE!" she shouts in a deep voice into the house.

Start position F21 move ne-n-n-n-n-E15
Action: Intimidation
14:09, Today: Abighail rolled 18 using 1d20+4.  intimidate.
AC13 9hp

"Bah" Ghorza grunts at the failure to bust the door completely.  Watching her brother attack through the door, she takes swings at the remaining portions of the door trying to create a better hole.


16:42, Today: Ghorza rolled 6 using 1d8+5.  Battle axe dmg.
16:42, Today: Ghorza rolled 12 using 1d20+5.  Battle axe attack.

A=Abighail B=Gharuk C=Ghorgath D=Ghorza
k=starving kobold (AC12 HP5)
K=halforc woman (AC13 HP15)
s=Squinty
X=barred door
~=kobold crushed under a door. counts as difficult terrain.

Ghorgath's glaive cuts through the remaining crossbar of the door like hot knife through butter. The wooden halves of the door collaps to the sides, forcing the kobolds to jump back to avoid being crushed. They settle for tossing their rusty daggers at the huge half-ord in an attempt to stop him from coming any closer. One of the kobolds actually hits, the blade nicking Ghorgath's cheek. (2 damage)

Gharuk shoves one of the kobolds out of the way. To be honest, it was more like kicking the poor critter away. It holds its face where the imprint of Gahruk's boot is still quite visible and yips something in a pained voice, then spits out a few broken teeth. (Rules-wise, please check the rules thread again , particularly the part of moving around corners.) Gharuk tries laughing intimidatingly, but the closest few kobolds kind of stare at him, then chitter and laugh, pointing...

Then Abighail bursts in and ROARS! The previously so amused kobolds nearly fall over with fright and decide they'd rather not face her. They run, over and under the table in the middle of the room.

Ghorza makes short work of the remaining part of the door.

Once inside, the members of the party see half a dozen human and demihuman corpses hanging from hooks in the walls, some still being drained of blood, and some already having been mostly butchered and harvested.

In the south side of the room, next to a lazily bubbling cauldron, there is a quite shapely halforcish woman, sultry of skin and with childbearing hips. A large medallion of jet-black stone hangs on a simple cord around her neck, inscribed with an orcish rune. Ghorza could recognize this as a symbol of Luthic, the orcish goddess of fertility.

"STOP!" she yells at he party in the common tongue, her hands high up in a pleading gesture. "What you are doing is wrong!"

Gharuk paid little attention to the carnal decoration, his attention focused on the very pregnant woman standing near the cauldron. Almost idly, he held his shield ready against any kobolds that looked too aggressive, ready to batter them away should they prove meddlesome. With a practiced flick of his wrist, he looped his whip back upon itself and pointed the "sheathed" weapon at the half-orc. He snarled at her, low and animalistic, before speaking. "You in charge of these lizards? Tell 'em to drop their weapons or I turn loose my lash again"

Action: Ready Action
- Trigger: an adjacent Kobold makes an aggressive action against me or mine
- Readied Action: Shove to knock Prone
--13:03, Today: Gharuk rolled 26 using 1d20+6.  Shove (Athletics).

AC: 16, HP: 14/14, Conditions: None (Rage expires at end of my turn)

OOC: Sorry about the movement; it's an unusual interpretation of grid maps for me and it slipped my mind.

Do you want another Intimidate check for the above, or are we just going into "conversation mode" now? Well that depends upon the others
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"What we're doing is wrong?" Abighail responded skeptically in orcish, "I suppose these bodies were already hanging when you got here.  The council has posted a bounty on kobolds in the city since there's a threat of them gathering and overrunning the docks.  If you're concerned with their lives then it's pretty irresponsible of you to keep them here where their lives are in danger.  You know the humans are going to keep paying adventurers to kill everyone that don't pay taxes.  Why don't you take the kobolds out of the city where they can find food and a livelihood?"

Start position F15 move to G15
Ready to shoot crossbow at the woman
15:05, Today: Abighail rolled 3 using 1d8+2.  crossbow damage.
15:05, Today: Abighail rolled 19 using 1d20+4.  crossbow attack.
AC13 9hp

"Ghorza, it looks like the kobolds are bunching up in front of the door. Can you run around to where Abighail went and back her up? It looks like she has clear access into the room."

Move: None-L14.
Readied action: Attack kobold at J14 if any enemy attacks someone from our party, hit AC 16 and does 11 damage.
AC: 17 HP: 11
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Nodding toward Ghorgath, Ghorza takes off at a dead sprint to the south looking fro her little sister.

OOC:
ACTION: Run around the building, double action
START:  L13
FINISH:  H21