Act 1, Scene 3: "Against the Wetrocks" (Main Game Thread)

[Chris1234]

Linar steps outside the torchlight amd looks around for more foes or downed allies. Seeing none, under cover of darkness he holds up his weapons to clean them with an abjuration cantrip,"Weapons before, be clean of gore!"
Selecting the two goblins that he'd temporarily laid low with Colour Spray, the elf whacks them, one after the other, hard on their heads, sandwiched between the flats of his blades.
"That should keep them under," he mutters. "Anyone down? Anyone missing?"

Re-sheathing both blades, Linar sets about recovering his bow and any arrows. In a louder voice (in elven) he suggests, "Separate the live foes dead. Separate all from weapons. Can we tie up or imprison the live ones?"

Having has a bit of a look round, "Where's Katten?" and, if no positive answer, sets off to find her.

[Nocturno]

"I've no idea where she went off to, but we have a dozen of these green skinned thingsto deal with."

"We need to either dispose of them, or restrain them."

While having no problems with killing an enemy in battle, Nocturno's resolve is much less firm when confronted with that same enemy laying unconscious at his feet.
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"I speak their language, we could see what is going on down here" Elden will add in.

[TristenC]

Linar steps into the shadows, taking a moment for his eyes to adjust. As he does, the goblins driven unconscious by his spell slowly begin to stir.

Just as they begin to wake, Nocturno muses aloud about ‘disposing of them’. To which the pair of goblins take in all of the corpses of their allies and promptly surrender! Shaking, one of them walks on his knees towards the elf. His thin green hands empty before his own face in a gesture of pleading and shielding his eyes from the torchlight. No kill-ee, please no kill-ee! We no danger!

Linar confirms that no other goblins are approaching in the darkness and returns to the group.

[Nocturno]

Nocturno sighs. "Oh lord. I hate when they beg."

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"Where is leader?" Elden asks in Goblin.

[Squirrellord]

Jordek watches the two remaining goblins attempting to surrender to the elf and turns to pick up the torch glad he would not have to take on the moral baggage of killing these goblins in cold blood. Torch in hand he says in elvish "Get what information you can out of them before you kill them. You shouldn't waste a life.... even theirs."

[Chris1234]

Linar tries talking to the grovelling pair in orcish, "Attend me! Answer all of this one's questions. Skin can be peeled." He punctuates it by stabbing an unconscious goblin.

His bile rises at the gratuitous violence despite knowing that left to themselves the goblins will only breed like fruit flies to cause generations of misery and suffering.

[TristenC]

[these dont speak orcish, but at least one seems to understand common]

The goblins cringe pitifully at the implied threats; and especially as the drow exexutes one of their uncoscious tribesmen.

You promise no kill-ee? Big chief in his chambers! That way, he points off East in the direction Krok came from, then turn, he gestures to his left or South. Keep turn, dis way, dat, dis way, dat and you find him. The surviving guardsman glowers at him only an instant, but doesnt interrupt

[Basically he is saying go south and east whenever able and you'l get there]
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Linar stabs an unconscious goblin guard
Gr1 DIES

Awake/Begging:
Gr2, G26

unconscious goblins:
Krok,
Gr3, 4
G11, 12, 13

[Chris1234]

"What's kept in the cages?" asks Linar, pointing to the crude doors they's spooted to the west and SW. "Prisoners? And where are they send to?"

[TristenC]

[what language is Linar using, or is he having someone translate?]

[Squirrellord]

Standing with the torch in hand, anybody paying attention to Jordek can hear him muttering under his breath in a quite agitated manner. Abruptly he stops muttering and clearly says "Fine. I said fine!" He marchs over to one of the unconscious goblins and pulls out his rope and starts cutting a length from it. "I still say this is a waste of rope you stubborn squirrel but have it your way." Pulling his dagger, he flips it around and slams the hilt to the goblins temple and then flips the dirty creature to lay on its front. Trying the rope to the left wrist, he pulls it across the back of the goblin and ties it to the right ankle then pulls the right wrist in next and ties it up and finishes with the left ankle. Jordek surveys the result and gives a wry chuckle. "Looks like those fancy little pastry thingies that cook used to make" Jordek rips a piece of whatever fabric is on the goblin and gingerly fills its mouth before tying another piece of rope around the goblins head to keep the makeshift gag in place. Once finished he roughly searches the goblin for anything usefull. Finished he looks at the party and says "If your not going to kill them, truss them up. Lets put those cages to use."

[Chris1234]

Undercommon and then translation

[TristenC]

Jordek begins hog-tying goblins

Slaves kept there. Big-chief Mixeg move them away after elves come. Me ordered to hide there for ambush, but Krok call us out to attack you. he glares at Krock and spits in the unconscious goblin leader's direction.

[Chris1234]

After another question, "Is 'Big Chief' a goblin?" Linar then goes round recovering obvious arrows and quickly scanning the fallen for anything obvious that's either useful or valuable (such as keys, rings or coinage).
With his back to the party he also stabs the fallen, preferably two at a time, as he goes along to make sure they're dead and not pretending.

After an internal debate as to whether Korok's continued existence will guarantee future goblin vengeance, he returns to the others. "Done? We look for Katten?" If any of the still living goblins are not yet tied up the dark elf speeds things up by knocking the helpful one unconscious any dispatching any others. He cleans his swords on any nearby goblin clothing.

[Nocturno]

Nocturno does his best not to watch the restrained being cut, but also does not stop the dark elf.

He will start to help Jordek tie them up.
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Elden stands in a state of surprise, and shock.

With the effects of the Rage wearing off he now sees reality clearly, and starts to help dispatch untied goblins by snapping necks.

[TristenC]

[recap quick. i think linar only executed 1 unconscious goblin. after that it appeared he was simply poking dead ones to be sure they were dead while jordek began hog-tying the uncoscious.
Chris: is that correct?
Nocturno: do you still want Elden snapping necks?
otherwise it seems the party is half capturing half slaying the unconscious, and whoever gets to one first decides their fate, lol]