[D&D] The Lost Mines of Phandelver

[Don't panic]

i think one light source is good enough for now (@ravenevii. can you confirm the illumination range/quality?)
light helps us see, but also makes us more visible.
if we needs be, or should we split, we can always light another one, or a torch.

Master Fletcher, I know you are an expert woodsman.
Do you reckon this stream's water is of drinkable quality, so we may replenish our waterskins?

 

[ravenvii]

I'll cast light on Claus' sword. "Anyboy else?"

You touch Claus' blade, and it lights up, illuminating the area brightly in a 20-feet radius. The party is suddenly able to see much further into the cavern, and sees what Syllin has seen. The light also reaches, albeit much more dim, 20 more feet before completely failing, making for approximately 40 feet of illumination.

>>> @twietee what color is your light?

 

[Scepticalscribe]

You peer into the mouth of the cave. You see a tunnel that runs into the cave and turns to the right. You see that the tunnel has a entrance on its right side approximately ten feet into the cave, as well as another hole on its left approximately 20 feet further inside. You see also that, once adjusted, normal eyes could see the surroundings approximately 30 feet into the tunnel, but beyond that, darkvision, or a light source, is required to navigate the tunnels.

Do either (or both) Master Frostbeard and I actually inform the others of this explicitly, or do we assume from the fact that you have given this description, that we have done so, quietly, to the members of our party? Until instructed otherwise, I'll assume the latter.

 

[twietee]

Do I have to enter the cave to make an intelligence check on the hole to the left? What kind of a hole is it? is it used by goblins to crawl through for example?

if i have to pass the entrance to the right first, i'll wait till the others sorted out their business first.

 

[Plutonius]

I'll cast light on Claus' sword. "Anyboy else?"

Thank You !!!

Orders: With my sword acting as a light source, I will enter the cave and peer down the tunnel on the right and hole on the left. How wide is everything so we can figure out marching order.

Say to group: Portia will be unable to scout ahead until we reach a lighted area. I'm going to look into the tunnel and hole. Once we decide which way we are going, perhaps Veit ands the Count (the two with the best armor and Veit has night vision) will walk in front.

 

[twietee]

light is rose-gold!

 

[Don't panic]

sounds like a plan!

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Well, as we stay alert for what may pour out from the entrance on the right, I recommend that one of us - perhaps myself - keep a watchful eye (from safe cover) on whatever may emerge from that dark hole on the left.

 

[twietee]

Thank You !!!

You're welcome!!

I'm off now, I'll follow Pluto's plan or whatever the party deems best.

 

[ravenvii]

Do I have to enter the cave to make an intelligence check on the hole to the left? What kind of a hole is it? is it used by goblins to crawl through for example?

if i have to pass the entrance to the right first, i'll wait till the others sorted out their business first.

>>> Bad wording on my part; the 'hole' is just another tunnel leading to the left. It looks like a big hole, you see

Thank You !!!

Orders: With my sword acting as a light source, I will enter the cave and peer down the tunnel on the right and hole on the left. How wide is everything so we can figure out marching order.

Say to group: Portia will be unable to scout ahead until we reach a lighted area. I'm going to look into the tunnel and hole. Once we decide which way we are going, perhaps Veit ands the Count (the two with the best armor and Veit has night vision) will walk in front.

You hold the greatsword as light bathes the blind and the cave mouth. You boldly walk into the cave, pausing at the first opening in the passage, approximately ten feet into the cave, and hold your sword up to illuminate the chamber with a rose-gold glow.

Just inside the cave mouth, a few uneven stone steps lead up to a small, dank chamber on the east side of the passage. The cave narrows to a steep fissure at the far end, and is filled with the stench of animals. Savage snarls and the sounds of rattling chains greet your ears where three wolves are chained up just inside the opening. Each wolf's chain leads to an iron rod driven into the base of a stalagmite.​

As soon as the wolves see your light, they start to strain against their chains, snarling and growling. They were only able to reach the top of the steps, so you are safe for the time being.

>>> @Plutonius @twietee @Scepticalscribe @Don't panic @Moyank24 what do you do?

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I keep a Darkvision eye on that opening to the left, further up.

Moreover, I wonder whether any of the 'Animal Handling' skills a few among us posses might be of any benefit in this situation.

I, myself, possess a small skill in this area, but two of my colleagues, Master Frostbeard, and the inestimable warrior, Claus Fletcher possess quite impressive skills in this field, especially Master Fletcher, whose skill appears to have been highlighted. In bolded black ink, no less.

Might we attempt to persuade those beasts to shut the (*muttered whisper which suggests that I take the name of a revered sage and Wizard - such as Merlin - in vain*) up?

 

[Plutonius]

Say to party: I bet the goblins have a way of releasing the chains. Unless any of you know a way of penning them in there, it might be best to shoot them at range.

Reply to Syllin: My animal handling skills are used with the horses / oxen. I doubt they would be much use against evil wild wolves trained to kill by goblins.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Say to party: I bet the goblins have a way of releasing the chains. Unless any of you know a way of penning them in there, it might be best to shoot them at range.

Reply to Syllin: My animal handling skills are used with the horses / oxen. I doubt they would be much use against evil wild wolves trained to kill by goblins.

Replies in low voice to Master Claus: Mayhap your skills also included mastery of hounds; these are but a wild, - and sometimes strangely fearful unless properly handled - ancestor of some types of hound…….

Can we not - perhaps - try something soothing first? Or a distraction? Failing that, perhaps arrows may be a regrettable but necessary solution...

 

[Don't panic]

> These beasts sound fiercely hungry!
would our rations perhaps becalm them a bit?
If only we had some easy source of flesh lying a round....
oh, wait!​

 

[Scepticalscribe]

And with my Darkvision enhanced vision, (exquisitely crafted Elven optics on the bridge of my nose notwithstanding) I am grimly keeping an eye that would not be out of place on the skull of a raptor on that ominous opening to our left, but further up the tunnel….

(And that means, @ravenvii, I can see what may spill or stumble or pour out from there…)

 

[Don't panic]

animal handling gone wrong.....

 

[Scepticalscribe]

animal handling gone wrong.....
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You mean those damned dice again?

 

[Don't panic]

nah, dice treated us well last time around!
so, what is the plan? should I fetch the wolf feed? it will take but a minute

 

[Scepticalscribe]

nah, dice treated us well last time around!
so, what is the plan? should I fetch the wolf feed? it will take but a minute

That or singing lullabies to them to consign them to the land of sweet lupine slumber.

Yes, in the circumstances, a feast of horse meat might be a far preferable option…..

 

[Don't panic]

That or singing lullabies to them to consign them to the land of sweet lupine slumber.

Yes, in the circumstances, a feast of horse meat might be a far preferable option…..

horse meat? that is over an hour away.
i was thinking goblins....

 

[Plutonius]

horse meat? that is over an hour away.
i was thinking goblins....

Say to Bart: Good idea. Go grab the goblins and throw them to the wolves.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

horse meat? that is over an hour away.
i was thinking goblins....

*To myself: Clearly, my prior sheltered scholarly existence has ensured that my mind is strangely……..unaware……..of some of the more dramatic and drastically challenging perspectives on life, and death, that may be held elsewhere….not least by my companions on this quest.

While I had steeled myself for the regrettable but necessary fact that my unfortunately slaughtered steed, my quite elegant palfrey, might have to serve our party as a source of sustenance, it comes as some considerable surprise to have to mentally re-arrange certain attitudes which might allow for my splendid stalwart palfrey to be served to……wolves.

But, it appears, that this is not at all what the noble Bartolomeus has had in mind. No. His casual aside is to offer those chained wolves a meal which comes in the form of meat derived from their former (that is, former, as in former, because deceased) owners……..

While the Elven deities do not approve of wanton waste, the whole idea of the cosmic circle and cycle and all that having some strange prominence in a few elven sects - one does wonder about such things……propriety and all that..*
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Say to Bart: Good idea. Go grab the goblins and throw them to the wolves.

*To myself: Suppresses internal shudder. Who are these people? What was my Grandsire thinking in dispatching me on this quest? Indeed, whatever possessed him to willingly partake of it in the first place? Perhaps there was more to those great gaps in his life - the ones that nobody knows about - than meets our Darkvision enhanced eyes?

And now, - my companions - they will merely think I am overly sensitive to the cold…..*

 

[Don't panic]

Say to Bart: Good idea. Go grab the goblins and throw them to the wolves.

> very well, Master Fletcher. Enough with the philosophical meditations!​

even allowing that these marauding goblin have souls, it is probably of the blackest persuasion.

*Count Bartholomeus, moves quickly back to the clearing just outside of the cave's entrance, and grabs each of the two small goblins by their ankles. Then unceremoniously drags them to where Master Fletcher is standing.

>who wants to do the honors?​

 

[Scepticalscribe]

> very well, Master Fletcher. Enough with the philosophical meditations!​

even allowing that these marauding goblin have souls, it is probably of the blackest persuasion.

*Count Bartholomeus, moves quickly back to the clearing just outside of the cave's entrance, and grabs each of the two small goblins by their ankles. Then unceremoniously drags them to where Master Fletcher is standing.

>who wants to do the honors?​

*I step aside - elegantly but nimbly and very discreetly - my thoughts an emphatic but fervent - "not I."*

 

[Huntn]

did you look at the PDF fillable file i posted for you a few posts back? that should be helpful for both you and twietee.
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i updated the wiki with some extra info and formatting, including the spells both you and twietee have at your disposal

Do you remember what post that was? I'd like to download the pdf fillable file. I've gone back several pages and don't see it. Thanks!