Phulleigh Dotfive's Journal
Game date:  6 Mavis 1008
(Real world date:  April 16, 2022)
Day 43 of the Xterminators
With half our party half dying (and no healing spells), would we make the half mile to town?  Mielikki keep us half from harm and half from injury.
Hold on... we should probably go back to the big fat head (Which one is that you might say?  Go back and read the last paragraph of day 42).
6 Mavis
There's his big fat head... finally.  Thank Mielikki!  I swallowed the ball of phlem stuck in my throat and took a deep breath as my eyes started to tear up.  I just pretended to wipe sweat away from my brow while leaning over, fake searching the nearest goblin corpse.  I put off running over and hugging Grey with several swipes of my forehead, a couple of throat clearings and four or five big breaths.  I've really gotta get these emotions under control if I'm ever going to be a real druid.  Once we actually searched the bodies, WizRWe described the two failed catches of Garreck by herself and Tosha.  Just Vern, who was only ten feet up the ladder, somehow broke Grey's fall so that he wasn't hurt (at least not in body;  his pride?).  We did found a bag of magical powder, and a bag of teeth (14).
We moved into the goblin throne room and heard a scream.  Garreck saw a bat-like creature called a Night Hunter and shouted "Someone close the door on the north side!"  Spencer and I moved into the room and closed one of the doors as Tosha closed the other.  Trust cast Silence (At least that's what he said;  did you hear or see anything?  Spence shakes his head no).  The bat in the north opened the door and attacked Trust.  The southern bat tried to attack Sherlyn then swooped in on Trust.  WizRWe hit South and Kosha downed it.  Then North attacked Trust (again;  how is he still standing?), and Spencer bit it as it flew away.  WizRWe and Tosha ran after it and killed it.
We moved six more rooms in and found a child and a parent goblin.  Garreck said he's trying to get them to surrender and said something in Goblin.  The father and his daughter scampered into the corner and we passed on to the next room.  We asked if Sherlyn could sense her twin and she shook her head no.  We voted to check the remaining unsearched rooms versus leaving.  On our way we met Beebo and he told us that he found and ate the remains of a human fighter.  None who understood Goblin explained this to Sherlyn (Does she understand goblin?).  We make it to the entrance of the fortress at six in the mornng.
As soon as we saw the light of day, Trust set off a trap and fell in to a pit with a dire rat.  Phiny-ass and Sherlyn shot magic missles as Trust stuck it with his spear.  While he was down there he found four gold and twenty-three silver but left some blood.  Garreck enlarged and got in the ten by ten pit and raised his shield so we could all pass safely, but before we even got a single person across, we saw a goblin on the twenty by seventy foot ledge.  Garreck said, "Trust told someone to surrender in Goblin."  
Spence and I jumped across the five foot gap and attacked the goblin.  I also spotted two more goblins ten feet below;  ten feet from the ledge was a green curtain that moved aside and another goblin stepped out and shot an arrow.  Garreck yelled out something in Dwarven.  Vern stepped out next, twirling his sling as three more goblins came out from behind the "rock curtain."  Tosha exited next and sliced up the nearest goblin.  As two more came out Sherlyn stepped through the door and fired a magic missle.  We saw a new kind of goblin called a Decanter goblin.  It was bigger than a normal goblin and had a horn in the middle of it's head.  Garreck turned invisible as three more goblins came out below.  Spence and I and Sammy move down the steps as WizRWe started singing.  Trust ran down the stairs (sixty feet), across the small ravine (fifty feet) and up the stairs on the other side of the cavern (thirty-five feet) and kicked a ranger's shield over the edge.  As one of the ranger goblins shot his friend in the back of the head, Tosha stopped the claw of a Decanter with a wave of her not so long sword.  As another Decanter ran down the middle of the ravine, Garreck became visible and he swung at it.  Trust ran further up the stairs to do the same to the other ranger's shield but got hit by a small morning star and an arrow (He was looking a little woozy;  maybe from all that running).
Just as Vern shouted, "Tosha, withdrawl when you can!" Grey got downed by an arrow.  Instead of moving back, Tosha double cut across her goblin as WizRWe pierced another with her not so long bow.  As Spence and I crashed down another Decanter, Sir Brannard moved in between three goblins and started swinging.  Up above, WizRWe pierced the goblin two steps in front of our paladin as he cut through the one in back of him.  Both Sammy and I brought down another Decanter, but a few seconds later it opened it's eyes back up.  Vern shouted, "We need to get fire or sufficate the Decanters!" as he leaned down and checked it's pulse (He must have noticed it too;  the big sleeping goblins were self-healing).
Two female goblins came out of another secret door further down the ravine just as Phiny-ass cast color spray on four goblins;  they all played dead.  Spence and I moved to the only goblin left standing and tried to attack it, but it turned and upper cut me in the chin (Not sure I had a chin at that point...  lot of blood) and I almost fell over.  As I raised up my staff to counter, he sprouted an arrow from his throat.  Instead we pushed aside the curtain and moved into the cave.  As we waded through a sea of goblin children a warrior sprung up behind us.  My hands must have been slick with blood because when I tried to swing my staff, I threw it against the side of the rock wall, breaking off the sling.  Luckily someone came in and finished off the last of the them (thirteen Goblins, four Decanters and twelve "non-combatants");  I was still staring in disbelief at three hundred and one half gold worth of sling laying on the cave floor.
At seven in the morning, we climbed out of the cavern and walked towards town, using up the rest of our healing spells.  Unfortunately halfway, Trust spotted something around the corner called an Ankheg (some kind of large insect).  WizRWe said, "They can burrow as fast as we can walk;  they can grapple and can spit acid as far as you can walk"  (So much for running from them).  She went behind the five foot stone wall that ran about ninety feet (forty-five degree angle away from town).  Before she could get behind the fence, an Ankheg sufaced and ambushed her.  When the closest Ankheg (four total) moved towards us, Garreck turned visible and attacked (Was he still invisible from before?) as Spencer and I charged by and tore off an entire section with our lance.  A second Ankheg attacked Vern and started grappling (And clawing) him.  Sir Brannard smashed a bug all by himself and Tosha finished off the one fighting with Vern.  The fourth one was still burrowed underground.
With half our party half alive (and no healing spells), would we make the half mile back to town?  Mielikki keep us half from harm and half from injury.