D&D Session 5

By Sudhir Sood
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First published 30th July 2025

The party proceeds further into the cave I take the left turning as it is dimly lit, the cave system seems to have numerous twists, turns & back tracks as we continue to explore deeper.

A female elf in a cave complex with some friendly wolves

Silanne with the wolves

I see Tharbin & Bluebell up ahead. Silanne continues to look after the wolves we found and helps to calm and feed them whilst slackening off their chains to make it easier for them to move around and reach the food and to lie down, meanwhile Bluebell joins us and casts Longstrider on Tremen, As Tharbin approaches a largish cavern he crouches to have a peek around the corner, and finds he is close to a Goblin to the west but the east appears to be clear, Cromagon shoots at the goblin standing on the bridge spotted by Tarqual earlier, dropping it. Tremen then moves into the western passage that Tharbin took but is immediately shooed away as he is carrying a lantern fouling up Tharbin's Dark Vision. We all hear the wolves that Silanne is with, calling out and get several responses from deeper into the cave, but she is making friends with them and keeping them relatively calm. I for the time being hold position just in case something attempts to sneak up on us. Bluebell moves into the cave system to back us up and heads into the western passage to help Tharbin, but before she does this she casts Goodberries and hands them out with instructions on how to use them. Silanne them signals Fiorana to pass on a message to whole team to Please not kill any wolves you encounter. Fiorana reminds me that the Wolves we encountered at the entrance are part of a bigger pack and are friendly to our needs.

Tremen moves further into the caves to the east passed the prone goblin on the bridge which has been bitten by another wolf that has appeared ahead of us and I move up to the rest of the group heading east. Silanne leaves more food for the wolves and rejoins the team in searching the caves. As we proceed further we encounter more goblins and begin to attack successfully taking most of them down in various ways and we also find that wolves are helping us. Bluebell moves in near Tharbin and casts Ice Knife and kills one Goblin and damages another. Tharbin also kills a Goblin and relays to those that can hear him that he has found a possible human prisoner and seven potential enemies, two of whom are now down, there is also a passageway possibly leading east to the bridge.

A large muscular goblin holding a male male prisoner

The begining of the negotiation

Fiorana manages to find a Goblin to target but struggles to take it down. As the fights continue, a wolf charges past Tharbin and almost bites the head of the next Goblin killing it. Crom is heard off in the distance, as Fiorana is heard shouting for assistance. As the clash and clangs of combat are heard, Tharbin narrowly misses getting hit. A large Goblin finally takes a hold of the human and demands that Tharbin stops fighting or he will kill the human, Tharbin is reluctant but the Goblin say Kill Klarg, let us go, we let him go pointing to the human. We stay here till job done, Tharbin agrees so they let the human go but Tharbin demands that he be fed, cleaned up and healed before we return, the Goblin agrees. So the four of them (Tharbin, Bluebell, Silanne and Tarqual) all back out of the room. I move up to the northeast tunnel and come up against a makeshift dam with water trickling out. I notice some wooden wedges placed in the dam, clearly key to holding the dam in place. Crom is head shouting some profanities at Klark. The rest of the party cross the bridge to join the up with those who encountered Klarg and his crew of Goblins, Cromagon took a bad hit from Klarg almost killing him but he made a last ditch effort and succeds with a killing blow, the rest of the Goblins drop their weapons and run away. Crom is heard shouting a warning Is there anybody who wants to be introduced to Skull Splitter, as he dispatches another goblin with his great axe. After the this the party reassembles & Trem tends to Crom's wounds.

Silanne tends to the wolf who came to our aid & takes the rest of the wolves back to the main area with the restrained wolves, and we find a lot of equipment everywhere and a small cage with a monkey in it.