Rise of The Runelords: Chapter 4

Burnt Offerings Part 2

We started our latest session deep in the bowels of the Temple of Wrath beneath Sandpoint. Seeing as we had expended many of our spells and abilities on that stupid quasit fight from the last post, we elected to spike the door to the temple shut and attempt to rest. But as with all good plans, this one was destined for failure. Within merely an hour someone came knocking at our door.

"Open up!" said a voice in goblin, "I must see Mistress!"
Jinx was the only one in the party who spoke goblin, and he reacted on instinct. "What's the password?"
Jinx's bluff roll is bad, due to Charisma being a dump stat, but whomever is on the other side of the door is even worse.
"What password?" it asks.
"You need password to see Mistress. No see her without password."
"Oh ok, can you give her message? Tell Mistress there are intruders."
"Sure. I tell"
"Oh and what is password? For next time."
Jinx consults his die. "'Poodle' is password."
"Thank you."

Sadly it didn't work for long, as we didn't get a full rest period before the pounding on the door returned, this time with a shout of "POODLE!!" The mutant goblin owner of the voice, it turns out, was able to spit acid and ended up dissolving the door and coming to see what we had done with its mistress. Needless to say this mutant, three armed, low ph goblin was taken apart bit by green smelly bit.

The rest of the dungeon was actually pretty uneventful because there were many monsters left. There was a room full of zombies in holes which probably would've been more of a problem if there'd been... well... anything else in there as well, but there wasn't so we just dispatched the zombies and looked around a bit.

It's odd what players will fixate on sometimes. When we found a strange room on which a levitation spell had been made permanent. Inside floated some objects: a book, a scroll, a wand, and a dead raven with maggots floating around it. It look suspicious so we hesitated entry at first, but after a Detect Magic spell and a high spellcraft roll revealed it to not be dangerous, Jinx deftly flew in and retrieved what items seems valuable. Afterward Storm insisted on retrieving the raven's body, even after being told it wasn't magical, and seemed very disappointed that there wasn't more to it

After leaving the temple/caverns/tunnels/dungeon under the glassworks, we rested and recouperated in the local inn and then met with the town guard. Seeing as the bad dude we'd killed last time's journal said the goblins were planning on attacking the town, we decided to take the fight to them.

So we traveled out to Thistletop and broke in, fought some goblins and discovered a gobin shaman. Jinx did a Reckless Dweomer in hopes of triggering some sort of bad news wild surge against an annoying goblin druid, but it just succeeded to cast Burning Hands and did two damage. Which is where we decided to end the session.