Session III
Sarah is back tonight, she takes care of the kids for the first part until she is able to rejoin the group.
The group finds it’s way back to the guest quarters to take a good rest, but first they explore the house a bit more and run into a patrol. They run into a patrol that get’s the drop on them. Borrow is knocked down and almost out before they even get a chance, Pathos soon follows to the floor. When they get a chance Aramil take a running shot and manages to hit a burly goblin who lead the charge. The goblin, taking offense to the attack turns around and cleaves its axe hard into Aramil. Borrow and Pathos start working on the two wolves as Aramil takes a vicious axe to the gut and falls to the floor bleeding. About that time Andreia returns, and seeing Aramil tries her best to stabilize his bleeding. Pathos is fallen by a grinding chomp to his leg. Borrow and Andreia work on the goblin and wolves then manage to take them down and carry their hurt comrades back to the guest quarters to help them rest and heal. After their rest, the sun has gone down and the Keep is covered in darkness, the sounds of goblins have diminished. They return to the place where they had encountered the patrol and find that someone or something has removed the bodies. As they explore the hall they find a door with a small trap that Andriea is able to take care of. The room they enter would have been a very nice study with two large portrait windows that look out over the small pond, but now they are boarded up and covered. There are a couple of skeletons in the room; a small wire is noticed on one and as they looked closer the wire is pulled by a hidden goblin causing a cloud of ash and dust to be pored out into the room. As they coughed the dust away they heard the laughter of a goblin and his padding feet running down the hall to the south. Borrow took off down the hall after the creature and almost got him with a shot of ice but the goblin skipped out of the way and ran on down the hall and away.
After coughing the rest of the dust away, they decided to check the rest of the Keep and see if they can catch the goblin that got away. They decided that they will take it slow and see if they can scout ahead, Andriea and Aramil managed to come across a group of goblins listening to one who seemed to be telling the humorous tell of how he scared the group in the Keep. They managed to set up a nice surprise on the patrol, taking out a couple of them before they could react to the attack. They make quick work with minimal damage. Working their way north on the east side of the keep they come across the dinning hall and find a servant kept prisoner in the fireplace. After freeing him, Pathos became a bit upset over a snide commit about how the servant sees all Warforged as looking the same. The servant, just wanted an escort out, was given some old cloths and a rusty sword and shown the window to get out and run to the town. He took off and the group continued on to see what else was in the Keep.
They came across the kitchen, the prepping room was dark but a light was coming through the door way to the other side of the room. Aramil and Andriea sneak over and check it out, seeing several goblins keeping the kitchen guarded, and watching the back door for any signs of someone coming in the back door. Andriea sneaks into the room and puts her short sword in the back of one of the goblins and Aramil shots the same one. They unfortunately did not expect such a quick retaliation from the goblins. Andriea was laid low before the rest of the party could catch up. Pathos seeing this calls upon his divine abilities and brings Andriea back up. Even though there is a pitched battle and Pathos bravely goes down defending two others and getting Aramil back to his feet the group was able to come out on top. They find some gold and a potion hidden in one of the goblin nests.
End Session III