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Sister Bomia’s Adventure Diary
Our Party Encounters The Unexpected
Dogsday1, Roc Month, Year 25 of the Golden Emperor
Dear Diary,
As I write this, we are hiding in a small side tunnel in hopes of avoiding getting eaten by several hundred zargoblins. I shall explain how we ended up here.
Late yesterday, we came to a point where the Road began to go uphill at rather a steep angle. This prevented us from seeing what lay ahead, but not from smelling the various smells of a settlement. Cooking, smoke, sewage…we could smell all of them faintly.
Halana, whose sense of smell is by far the most acute, said that she could detect the smell of goblinoids, though not the exact type. Since any form of goblin should be avoided, we now had to decide which of us would get to go see what we faced and, hopefully, how to get past it unseen.
After a bit, we decided that Olivia would cast an invisibility spell on herself and go have a look. If need be, she could defend herself with magic. Meanwhile, the rest of us would stand at the ready to help her or start running, as the case might be.
As we waited, Grettin said that the reason the Road probably went up at this point was due to the builders encountering something they couldn’t dig through, perhaps hard stone or a large iron deposit. Whatever the case, unless the goblin settlement was inside a desert mountain, it would be scarcely 100 feet below the surface. This made us wonder if the Road went back down or if it would continue to rise until returning to daylight. We were discussing that when Olivia returned.
She told us that these goblinoids were zargoblins, the largest and most savage of all the goblin races. They are also the goblins who spend the most time underground.
And they are cannibals.
Olivia said that the goblins had a fairly large town of several hundred. She told us that a large crack in the surface above the town allowed a slash of sunlight to illuminate things enough for a long narrow garden to grow. Their were pens, too, where the zargoblins held their weakest citizens before killing and eating them. Finally, she let us know that the only way through the town to the other side of the great cavern it was in was right through the middle.
After great discussion about what to do, we decided to wait until well after sunset, then all of us except Amella would get into a Bag of Huge Capacity, she would put it in her backpack, then sneak through the town.
And so we did get into the bag and Amella began her sneaking. It went well for the first two thirds of the way, until a zargoblin spotted her and began yelling. At that point, Amella took off running. She is quite fast and had a good lead on them, but she knew that they would catch her unless she found a place to hide.
She spotted a small side tunnel about 20 feet up one wall and rapidly climbed up into it. About a minute later, the zargoblin horde ran by below. Amella opened the bag enough for us to breathe a bit and told us we might be waiting a while.
It has been two hours now and zargoblins are heading back to their town. Hopefully, we’ll be on our way soon.
I’ll write more later, Diary.
Sister Bomia Evarain
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