Excitement at the camp, Surin goes walkabout, Noctis saves his bacon
Subject The camp
Salix will wait in semi-blissful ignorance.
From: Kevin
Subject The camp
Harp will keep watch until the activity to the west gets his attention. Once he does notice, he will draw his sword and rush over to help, yelling to Alatyr to keep an eye on thier flank.
From: Randy
Subject The camp
"We've got trouble" Ran calls out to the others. "Watch our backs!"
He will wait until Cai has fired her arrows before meeting the charging creature with his sword.
From: Kevin
Subject The camp
Harp, hearing Ran's shout, starts to turn toward the call. He start to head to Ran and Cai, but upon hearing Ran's second shout, stops, and turns back toward where he was watching, trying to see or hear if any other sounds or movement can be detected. He will also try to see if anything is coming Alatyr's way. He will not use his crossbow, but will use his sword.
From: Karl
Subject The camp
Salix, hearing Ran's call and trusting the others to man their posts on the flanks and rear, moves toward Ran to see what the trouble is. (Mark, does Salix see the creature? Can he recognize what it is? (Knowledge check)) Salix will draw his Scimitar as he does this.
From: Mark
Subject The creature
Not yet. Next turn he might have an idea, assuming he lives that long. :)
From: Mark
Subject Surin goes walkabout, Noctis saves his bacon
Figuring that all the excitement is over, Surin starts working his way back to where he had crawled under the shack. Knowing that it is better to take his time then to get caught, he moves with deliberate slowness. He works his way back to the corner of the shack where Rochelle is being kept. He sees another hole in the floor and briefly thinks about trying to get Rochelle's attention, letting her know that she has help on the outside, but figures that there is too much chance of Dargrak hearing her if she makes too much noise.
Slipping out from under the shack, Surin inspects the walls of the part of the building where Rochelle is being kept. It looks like each board is being held in place by just a couple of nails. The boards are about 18? across and about 10' high. Surin then uses the shadows created by all the cook fires to work his way to the front gate. There are two small watch towers on each side of the gate, each one with a goblin in it. The gate itself is only kept closed with a sliding log set about 2 feet off the ground. The guards do not seem to be paying a whole lot of attention to the inside of the encampment, only to the outside.
Having seen enough, Surin heads back to where he came in. Cursing that he did not bring any rope, he looks around the camp until he finds a small section of rope. He makes a quick noose out of it and heads over to the section of wall where he came in. Looking around for anyone who might be coming his way, he makes a quick toss of the rope over the top of the palisade. The rope catches and Surin starts to scurry up the side of the wall.(Climb DC15,14+4=18,success, 7+4=11, fail) Half way up his foot slips and he almost falls. He catches himself and looks around to see if anyone heard him. Not seeing anyone looking his way he makes his way up to the top of the wall.(Climb DC15, 15+4=19, success) He releases the rope and unties it and lets it fall back into the camp.
Now all he has to do is get down. He starts to lower himself down the face of the palisade when his fingers slip on the moss growing on the tree trunks.(Climb DC15, 8+2=10, fail by 5 or more, falls) As he falls, Surin remembers what he learned in the circus and twists himself to help break his fall.(Tumble check, DC15, 8+12=20, success, no damage.) Knowing that his tumble caused some noise, Surin tries to fade against the wall of the encampment. He hears the goblin in the nearest tower yell something to the goblin in the tower on the other side of him.(Spot check, DC15, 2-3, fail, 8-3=5 fail) For a few seconds the two goblins exchange shouts and the halfling is sure that he has been caught, when he hears a noise from a few yards away. It is the hooting of an owl in the trees.
The first goblin makes a guttural laugh and Surin hears a bow hum. A large shadowy form takes wing from the trees and flys off into the night. Surin sighs in relief, thankful for Noctis watching over him. Taking a few more minutes to make sure that the goblin guards have gone back to their usual routine, Surin makes his way back to camp. From the position of the moon, he figures it has been at least 4 hours since he left camp. If he moves right along, he should be able to get back with in the hour. He thinks to himself, ?Boy do I have a lot to tell everyone.?
OODM: Jake let me know if you want to do anything else on the way back.