Burnt Offerings

Gerund attends to the party's wounds, handing the two looted healing potions to Sasha and Seoni, and using most of his own divine energy on himself and Yola. With the worst of their injuries treated, the group begins to explore the rest of the complex.

East of the battle site opens into a series of roughly hewn caverns. Most of the chambers seem to be given over to storage. Crates and barrels of basic food stuffs, and mounds of mouldering refuse looted from Sandpoint's town dump over the years fill most of the space. At one point a thick curtain of vines and nettles hangs down over a wide opening overlooking the Varisian Gulf.

Leaving these caverns brings the party back into the complex proper, and you find yourself in what was once the goblins' feast hall ( D1). A single lantern hangs from a hook on the wall next to where stairs lead back up to the main floor. Several rickety doors open into this room, and a few discarded dog pelt rugs lie forgotten in the northeast corner.

A cloying stench and the twang of a very badly tuned sting intrument issues from one of the doors. The party moves quietly towards it. Yola steps up, and sword gripped tightly, kicks in the door. . . Dozens of ratty cushions, lumpy pillows, and rumpled dogskin furs lie heaped in the south half of this chamber, which reeks of a nauseating mixture of vineagar and rotting flowers. The stink in the air brings tears to her eyes as Yola realizes to her horror that is the smell of perfume worn by the four hideously painted goblin harem girls lounging about the room.

They begin to shriek and squeal at the intrusion, and the object of their affections roars in anger. A hulking half naked bugbear explodes to his feet, cursing in heavily accented common as he fumbles for a huge metal studded flail leaning on the wall nearby.

oh the horror!

Gerund used 4 out of 5 of his lay on hand uses to heal him and Yola 6 hp each. The potions restored 7 HP to Sasha and 8 to Seoni.