Session 9 - Exploring Thistletop

Starday Rova 14 Around 4PM

Standing outside the doors leading into the stockade on Thistletop the group discovered it was barricaded from the inside. Xantumal cast a spell and touched the door causing the wooden door to change shape and allowing them to open the door. Waiting inside were a group of goblins. They dispatched them without a problem. The room was a trophy room filled with stuffed farm animals and some Harpy wings.

Heading left they found a store room and a in the western tower two more goblins. Past that they discovered a courtyard with some goblin dogs and decided to come back to them. Heading north from the trophy room they found the goblin Warchief Ripnugget. Budwar charged Ripnugget while eveyone else was surprised by hidden goblin commandos. Depsite being outnumbered, the party was successful in killing off their foes.

Heading back to the courtyard they killed off the goblin dogs and found a horse locked into a shed. Xantumal calmed the horse down and they fed it some food. Leaving it to wander the courtyard the continued on. They found another storeroom and a toilet area as well as a way down to a lower level.

Heading below, they found a goblin nursary and a second room with goblin women cavorting with a bugbear. They guessed this was the bugbear Ranger Bruthazmus. The bugbear put up a good fight for not having any armor on and not being prepared for a fight, but was no match for the party. They let the goblin women live, and they left the island right away.

Moving on, they found another room that looked like a work area. That room lead to another area open to the outside that contained a stange creature that looked like a squid. It had two tentacles that tried to grab people and throw them off the edge.

After killing it, they continued exploring the rooms. After going through a couple empty ones, Budwar opened a door and was greeted by a punch and a bolt of fire. They realized they had finally found Tsuto. Budwar was zapped with fire again by a woman in the room and was really hurting. Preacher stepped up and healed some of the burns. Quickly Tsuto went down, and the woman became really angry and threw another spell at the Paladin who suddenly lost alot of strength. Now that Tsuto wasn't blocking the door, everyone surrounded the wizard and killed her.

Searching the room, they found a secret door with some stairs heading down. Having run out of spells and feeling a little battered, the group decided they should find a place and rest before heading any farther.

To be continued....