Advanced Military Tactics

Our heroes, the workers of Griana's Meats and More, finally take on more than just their future meals!

Summary
The gang watches as Zil slices open their hand and places it on the sigil-covered door. It glows with a deep purple energy, accepting the blood and slowly beginning to open. Inside is an empty tunnel, curving to the right beyond where they can see. They make their way in, walking in a line into the darkness. At one end of the corridor is a stack of rocks, behind which are three goblins preparing to attack. Zil pauses mid-battle as the rest of the team is fighting to try another command word with the toy dog. They look up as a previously unnoticed door opens behind the team, goblins waiting behind it to attack. Seeing that both sides of the battle are scrambling to succeed, Griana tries to reason with the archers, although the sentiment is somewhat dampened by the rest of the team continuing to fight them. She explains their hunting trip, their encounter with Orund and the motivation to investigate the ruins, and even offers them a free steak and massage at the meats and more should they ever come into town. Kai and Zil continue on the offensive, while Phibi tries to leverage their weird situation as reason for the goblins to stand down (and give the team their money). The negotiating doesn’t seem to be working, so Griana submits to joining the fight against her better judgement.

One goblin tries to escape, with Zil sprinting after it and Kai close behind. The rest of the gang loots the tunnel, intending to follow them but soon realizing that the tunnel the goblin ran down just curves back in a circle, and they’re quickly reunited. They make their way to a sort of living room. It is filled with stone tables and broken nicer furnishings haht have been replaced with makeshift chairs like crates and barrels. There are more tunnels leading out of the other end of the room, and in the center there sits a large stone table typically used for sacrifices. Attached atop the commandeered table is a hodgepodge throne of wood and iron, upon which is a goblin king with his guards on either side.