Session 8

After such a successful murder spree in the front rooms of the castle the team press on seeking the same successes elsewhere, exploring the castle they discover a trapped doorway heading to the interior and surmise that another door to the west must be one that leads to the same room. 

The coordinate an attack using the connected bags of holding with Barlumin dropping in 2 copper pieces to signal its time to charge into the room. The doors open and they see darkness, Jamorin who cant see in there falls back while the rest of the party can see a huge snake with tentacles and a beak in the room. Moving in the crew attack except for Gnarvick who sneaks his way around the room to light the brazier. They all hack away at the Grick and manage to take it down with minimal damage to the party.

to the north of the hall there are two curtained exits, as the party explores the room more these are opened enough for a ranged attack from the shadows hitting Snowball, and Gnarvick and provoking Selmak to extend his range slam open the curtain and decimate the Goblin who was standing on the other side. 

There were three in that room and the team as they have proven quite effective at were able to end the lives of all of them before they had much of a chance to respond. They discover an alter with some golden ritualistic implements on it, and pocket those.

Barlumin and Selmak, decide that they really wanted the goblins to die more than once they decide to drop one on the tripwire they found earlier to see what happens. this causes a significant amount of noise, and attracts 5 hobgoblins and two more goblins.

Two of the hobgoblins move to check the hall to be greeted by Pallas using burning hands to reduce them to ashes as soon as they opened the door. Barlumin, Selmak and Snowballs Owl slice their way through the remaining Hobgoblins, and one of the goblins. The remaining Goblin surrenders seeing what has happened to all of his clan mates. 

The team interrogate the goblin to find out that the king is in the east tower, and they decide to bind him and bring him with them renaming him to Madblitz Cannonfodder. 

Heading to the east tower, they find a couple of doors that Madblitz tells them lead to the guard barracks and then on to the kings room which is to the south. They storm the barracks and there are two Hobgoblins, one is completely decimated in a matter of seconds, and the other runs off to the doorway to the north avoiding any imminent death. 

The party see there is indeed a door to the south that is barred closed and decide to seek out the hobgoblin that got away, as they approach the door they see that it is open a crack and can see the room contains a Wolf, Elf and the traumatized Hobgoblin. 

Snowball steps up and casts sleep in there which puts the hobgoblin and the wolf to sleep but has little to no effect on the elf. A gruff voice calls out from an unseen part of the room. I have the dwarf and I will kill him if you dont leave now. They party are not ones to negotiate and return any threats of violence by King Grol with threats of violence of their own. 

Storming the room the party engage in a split battle with the elf and King Grol neither of which stood much of a chance for survival, Grol went down first, and the  after threats of what the black spider would do to them when he catches them the elf drank a potion that turned him to mist and allowed him to escape, Barlumin looking out the arrow slit sees a wolf disappear into the dark forest.

They release Gundren and discover some treasure in the room, they find that the map to Wave Echo Cave is still in its hiding spot under the Kings mattress, and Gundren offers to pay them to escort him back to Phandalin. 

They wake up the king and decide to ask him some questions, slaughter the wolf and hogbolin and the remaining goblin before taking his head, Barlumin makes a mess of the head removal but Snowball shows him why a rapier is considered a finesse weapon and finishes the job.

Barlumin decides to check out the door to the south, and removes the bar, he is able to sneak in and discovers a very large creature snoring away. The creature looks like a hybrid between an owl and a bear, and appears to be extremely dangerous. Barlumin decides to sneak away but two of his swords clash and the beast awakens letting out an almighty roar. Barlumin starts to move away and............Thats the end of the session.Tune in next week to see if Barlumin survives the Owlbear.