With the healers doing their job Kossoth started the slow job of policing the cave and readying everything with anyone else that will help to be loaded back on the cart to take back to town...

Storm searches the enemy.

OOC: When do we get xp DM?

"If there is any extra healing to go around, I'm still wounded from yesterday."

Korkas looked at his own wound from the goblin shortsword he mutters "Damn got stuck like a pig from those flea bags"


OOC: 5/10 HPs

After the battle Yaotl walks over to a less busy side of the room, kneels down on the floor and lowers her head to the jaguars. Reaching into her pouch she takes out two small cups, wider than then are deep, and pours an earthy mixture of green and vibrant blue hues into the cups with great care.
After a moment of lowering their heads to their perspective cups, Yaotl whispers in their ear and they begin the revert.  She stands up, leaving the cups on the floor, and takes time to examine in the area around them. Paying special attention to the small cove in area XY3.

Hollen shakes off the daze, and reaches into his cloak and pulls out a potion vial. He takes a drink of it as its magical powers start to heal his wounds. "I thought this was gonna be easy, these goblins ripped me a new." he stops and shakes his head. "The Ranger's are going to hear about this, I can't believe these things have accumulated so much. They've had to have been hear for years." he says.

Hollen gains 6 Hit Points.

Searching around the large cavern, there is stuff strewn about everywhere, cracking open crates you find barrels of stolen ale, and cache's of gemstones and even some fancy jewelry. The large goblin head statue with its two red ruby eyes glares at each of you from across the small pond of water.

Korkas nodded as the Witch headed to check the water and the statue Should look around a bit. These fleabags have been busy for awhile or paid by someone." Korkas remarks as he kicks one of the corpses and begins to look around for any signs that they are getting orders elsewhere

"Does anyone else want any of the rusted swords the goblins used?"

Korkas starts to look around. Althiof using his keen observation starts to notice something strange. Some of the crates are marked with the same graffiti image on the wall near the entrance, with the bloody axes, while some of the other crates are marked with a bloody shield. Upon searching the Hobgoblin, two wooden discs are found inside his shirt. Both about the size of a large coin. One of them has the bloody axes on it, while the other has a bloody shield. Virius  will recognize both of these symbols because of his knowledge of the Gnarley Forest. The Blood Axe, while being the symbol of Maglubiyet, is also a tribal symbol for the Broken Axe Tribe. The Bloody Shield is the tribal symbol of the Skull Crag Tribe, which are known to live in the nearby Kron Hills.

From the looks of it, two different Goblin Tribes have been in the area. Likely brought together for some nefarious purpose. The Hobgoblin doesn't seem to have a place here in the Cavern either. All the bedding is suitable for the goblins, but the Hobgoblin looks out of place. Maybe someone sent here to give the Goblins Orders.. None of it is making much sense.

In reply to Dungeon Master (msg # 195):

Ali sighs after helping stench the bleeding of his rescuers "Ah, this is the best I can do for the wounded today but umm, yes, lets see, ah ha found it, a salve to help bind the wounds over night.  Helps a little bit and any healing is better then none."  Shrugs, "though it will take time, and usually I charge a bit of coin for it but here "  chuckles, "I freely give it to my comrades? in arms - If I may be as so bold to join you all"  and smiles as he continues his searching. "Once I find all I can here, my lab is hidden not far from here I can be of better use."

After looking at the ruby eye'd goblin head across the water, she firmly nods to herself.
Reaching into her pouch and striding up to Virius with determination, she kneels down and examines the wounds thoroughly.
"You are have the luck of the day with you, I only have this much help to offer you but with your fortune it will be enough."
Yaotl quietly yet steadfastly wraps his wounds with a grey salve that smells worse than the worg that caused the injury.

"Take care not to undo those until two nights have watched over you. Now there must be more of use here than we think."

Yaotl rolled a 3 on total healing for the wounds and an 11 for finding helpful herbs inside the cave while the party regroups.

Before leaving Yaotl intends on casting detect magic on the statue with rubies in its eye sockets.

Kossoth used water to clean his wound and bind it in clean cloth before he began glancing around in the lantern light, "I suggest before we poke around things that don't look like they have been raided and brought here..." he glanced over to the statue, "...that we load the wagon up with what it can bear in treasure and goods.  Then if we find any hidden doorways or things that look ripe to be a trap that make things untenable we can leave hastily without ruing the day we didn't."

Yaotl, you are able to find a small batch of Calcena Mushrooms that are growing in one dark damp corner of the Cavern. You are able to forage them and stash them inside our pouch. As you go and use your magics, the rubies themselves and the carved rock are not magical. But you are able to detect that the armor the Hobgoblin is wearing is.

"Do no let your fears guide you too far, these gems aren't magical but the armor of the hobgoblin is. It holds the spirit of Abjuration within it's folds and swears to protect its wearer more than any other could.  That will be a great boon to whomever chooses to wear it."

Storm suggests splitting up the loot and restng here for the night before going back.

We are but an hour or two from town. I think we should load up everything after we have thoroughly searched this place and head back. Don't want more goblins coming in over night and stabbing us to death in our sleep " Korkas responds as he shakes his head... He looks to Althiof Yep, knew something didn't smell right with all this coin laying about. Should get back to town and see what the rangers may know Sounds like we may get kill some more goblin." Korkas says with a grin.

"I guess there are merits to each argument," Storm says.

He is worried that the little magicks he has left may not be suffcient to help hsi peers.

"I fear simple traps that are not magical.  They will kill you just as dead as a magical one will and be harder to spot..."remarked Kossoth.

Looking to Korkas he agreed, "If we were in better shape I'd say set traps for those that will inevitably show wondering why these trade goods haven't been delivered and ambush them with the goal of taking one alive to ferret out where each group is camped.  We should pack the wagon to full with as much of the treasure and trade goods as possible and return for the time being."

OOC: Althiof told the others about the goblin symbols, in case the information had not been spread yet.


"There are some giant spiders in the area.  One thing I haven't had time to offer, is that someone asked me if I could help with the spiders.  Might only be two of them, but that is unconfirmed.  This is not their lair area, but they are nearby, and have been above this location recently, possibly hunting goblins."

"I know the side road to take from the main one, if we want to hunt these spiders down."

Kossoth looked to the others before looking back to Althiof, "I see no reason to not go after the spiders...but not right now.  Let's get all of this stuff back to town and rest till tomorrow so these wounds can heal up and our herbalists collect some supplies to mitigate or neutralize the poison those creatures will inject if they get their fangs into one of us..."

"I, myself, do not have much more to give to a fight today. If we are retreating then let us do so properly without hunting spiders on the way.  Has anyone found the man's spellbook?"

"Yes, we have it."

Korkas nodded in agreement "Yeah the tall ones don't have enough dwarven blood in them. A day or two of rest will be needed. Let us quickly load everything. Finish searching it all. Someone able to swim to check the water?" Korkas looks to the others as he quickly moves to the walls and checks them over for any hidden caches or otherwise.

The rest of the Cavern has been picked over and cleared, the statue of the Goblin head although intimidating proved to have no traps or secrets areas. Nor did the rest of the cavern. You are able to load up all the crates and the barrels and everything else in the wagon that you brought along. It all takes a few hours to get it all transported to where you stashed the wagon. During this time, Ali goes and retrieves his laboratory, which is a wheelbarrow that looks to have been converted into a mobile Apothecary lab. Strange bits and bobs, glassware, containers.

You all travel along with the wagon back to Hommlet. Its about midday, the sun overhead and the weather is starting to clear a little. The road is hard to navigate from the mud and it takes extra time to get back to Hommlet but the group manages too without any encounters, or added issues.

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