Subject Surin Goes in

The party eats a quite dinner of cold food. They don't risk a fire this close to the goblin camp. Surin is uncharacteristically quiet. His normal playful self seems to have been replaced with someone else. Salix wanders over to where Surin is sitting by himself, sits down and ask ?Do you want to talk about it?? Surin glances up at the ? elf and decides to let his friend know what is on his mind.

?You know, I have never been in a life or death situation before. If I screw up in there, it will probably not be just my life that is forfeit, but Rochell's and maybe yours. I know I can do this. When the circus visited some of the larger towns I would practice following some mark through the town, making sure that he did not know he was being followed. I never got caught.?

?But this is different. I know in my head that I can do this. I have looked into the camp and there are plenty of places to hide, lots of shadows, lots of things to hide under or behind. But my heart is not so sure. What if I mess up? I can probably handle a few goblins but not 30 or more. And that brute that was leading them, he would take me apart in about 10 seconds, if that long. I tell you Salix, I am worried.?

In all the weeks that he has been traveling with Surin, Salix has never heard the halfling ever express any type of concern. ?Looking at his friend he says ?Don't take too much on your shoulders. You don't have to get her out yourself. Just find out where she is and how easy it would be to go in and get her. Just remember that the rest of us are out here and we will do whatever we can to help. In fact I will have Noctis take a place up in the trees and try and keep an eye out for you. If he sees you having any problems he will come tell me. At that point I am sure the Harp and Alatyr would love to do a frontal assault and that would probably distract them.? Salix smiles as he says this last statement.

About four hours after dark, when it is close to mid night, Surin stands up and tells Ran that he is ready to go. All the party members shake the little halfling's hand and wish him luck. Surin checks his gear one last time, making sure that everything is tied down and that nothing will make any noise or reflect any light. He slips into the woods.

Surin follows the same path as last time, towards the back of the encampment. Taking his time to make sure that he is quite, he slowly works his way to a spot midpoint between the two back watchtowers.(OODM:Surin is moving at half speed, 10feet, and taking 10 with both his Move Silent skill and his Hide. That gives him a Move Silent score of 23 and a Hide score of 26.) Looking up the rough trees, Surin makes a quick climb to the top of the tree trunk that makes up the wall.(Climb DC15 , 15+2=17, success. Makes it up the first 5 feet. Climb DC15, 15+2=17, success, makes it to the top.

As he sits at the top of the palisade,he takes a quick look around and sees that no one is looking his way. The ground is clear beneath him and he starts to work his way down the tree.(DC15, 14+2=16, success, down 5 feet). When he is half way down he looks and sees that one of the guards is starting to turn his way and he lets go and does a short drop to the ground behind one of the tents. He takes a second to catch his breath. The hardest part was over. A few minutes later Surin is back to work.

Figuring that the shack in the middle would be the likely place for the goblins to keep valuable captives, Surin slowly works his way over there. Sometimes crawling, sometimes dashing between shadows when no one was looking, sometimes hiding under a dirty blanket when goblins walked by, Surin is able to get to the shack. He thanks his gods that there is a small crawl space under the building, raising it about 6? off the ground. It might be a tight fit but he should be able to make it.

Surin figures that he has been in the camp for about an hour when he makes his move to get under the shack. He makes his move and slides under the building. He has to be careful not to let his armor scrape on the bottom of the building. He scoots under the building and starts to listen and look around. From his recon earlier, he knew that the door to the shack faced north, so he headed toward the north end of the building. As he gets there he notices a small piece of wood missing from the floor. Moving himself around he is able to get a view into the building.

The shack looks like it is divided into three rooms. There is a wall 10 feet from the front wall with 2 doors in it. The front room is 20 feet wide and 10 feet deep. Surin guesses that the back to room are 10' X 10'. Surin can see the ? orc over to one side, eating a leg of something. It looks cooked. ?Bastard has horrible table manners ?Surin thinks. At that moment Surin hears a commotion coming from the front gate. The ? orc yells out to someone in common,?Find out what the problem is.? Surin hears the patter of feet above him and a door slamming. A few minutes later he hears the stomp of some fairly heavy foot steps.

Surin twists a little bit and sees two men standing there. One has a shield with a picture of a hand holding a bunch of arrows. The taller says ?My Master got your message. You have the girl?? With a grunt the ? orc goes to one of the rooms and brings out a young woman. She is blindfolded and fairly disheveled, but otherwise seems to be unhurt. The first man smiles and says ?We will take her to the Master and he will come by in a few days with your payment.? He motions for the other man to get the girl. The second man moves towards her but the ? orc moves first. With blinding speed he grabs his axe that was laying against the back wall and swings at the second man. The second man's head is separated from his body, and it rolls over to a corner as the body falls lifeless on the floor..

?Dargrak is no fool. Agreement was gold for girl. You tell your boss that when he shows up with my gold, he will get his girl. No one else and not before.? With that he licks some of the blood off the axe blade. The first man looks in stunned silence. Finally he is able to talk. ?You will regret that. I will inform my Master. I will leave tonight and you can expect him in two days.? With that Dargrak grunts and pushes the girl back into her room. The man quickly leaves and Dargrak bellows for the goblins to get the body out of his house. He then sits back down to finish his meal.

OODM: Jake do you want to do anything else while you are under the building?

Subject Maps

I forgot to attach the map of the encampment.

The round red things are cooking fires. The square red thing in the middle is the shack.

I have also included a map of the general area around the encampment.

Subject Surin Goes in

How well constructed is this floor? If it looks like Surin could enlarge the hole quietly enough to not attract anyone's attention, I might wait until the room is clear and try popping up for a better look around, and maybe a rescue while I'm at it.

Also, what supplies does Surin have on his person? Can I assume that if it's listed in the equipment section of his character sheet (as opposed to his "on mount" section) he's got it?