Today, I almost got killed by a tentacle monster... fml.

So after the battle yesterday we found a bedroom and all of us went to sleep. In what seemed like no time at all the drunken dwarf was yelling at everyone to wake up because something was coming toward us. I peeked outside to see what was the matter. Guess what, tentacle monsters, really fucking horrible. Ugh how could anyone worship that thing? So while the clerics were armoring up Ru and I rushed out to help Karkanna and the others. I hit it with a few arrows and that was good, then I flanked it and it stabbed me. With its horrible tentacle weapons of death.

What the fuck.

After two hits I passed out. I don't really remember what happened but Urijah says I woke up for a bit when she healed me.... right before the monster knocked me out again. After that the house d'Sivis gnomes came and cleaned everything up. Which was nice of them. I got some new boots and gloves that we pulled off the rogue down there. But most of the money and scrolls went to the gnomes. The warforged 6709 looked quite sad when she handed over them but we managed to convince her it would be easier this way. Most importantly we found out today that the warmage was not, in fact, a human. Instead it turns out she was a daelkyr half-blood. She showed us her carapace. Ru is not cool with having a passer in the group. Hopefully this won't start anything up. We still haven't learned much about her yet.

So after the cleaning out of the creepy goblin lair, we all rode the elevator back up to Evanwroat's house. Gimble went to see if he was okay, because he was looking kind of broken up. Turns out he and Jasson had a thing going. Apparently his wife was a political thing and his real love was Jasson. Bummer for him, but I think talking to Gimble helped. Also we were introduced to a new fighter who is I guess going to help us on our next errand. I don't think it is a good omen that we are going to need another fighter hired by the house to help on our next quest.

I wanted to thank Urijah for healing me down in the cogs so I went to talk to her after dinner. We got to talking and she told me about how she got to be a half-orc. Basically her dad is a bastard who goes around raping innocent women. So she was raised by her order and now is on a quest to find and kill him. It is a very admirable cause. Pretty much if we ever encounter him I'm advocating the absolute destruction of his being. On a less violent note she is generally pretty cool and I always admire those on the path of vengeance.

After that we finally got to sleep on nice beds and I could attempt to heal from the beating that I took. Hopefully we just won't have to deal with anything else really bizarre until everyone is done resting. On a separate note, I really need to get a better stabbing weapon. I love my dagger and everything but as shown by the tentacle fight, it is not doing enough damage. Basically if I am killing something I want it to be really fucking dead. A dagger just isn't doing enough to accomplish that. I'll see about getting someone to buy one for me tomorrow. After sleep.

But at least we have normal size beds now...

So today we embarked on a magical journey to the center of the earth. There we encountered wondrous animal creatures and fascinating scenery. Except by center of the earth I mean an angry smelly pit with Goblins in it. And wondrous creatures involve Orcs that may or may not be involved in questionable liaisons with many tentacled monsters. All in all, ew. But on the bright and shiny side I killed a sneaky motherfucker (bottlecap) and got to steal the most amazingly beautiful set of master thieves tools. Also it had a bow designed to kill elves which means clearly we had to stab the shit out of him, Kerowyn and Skeael wore a very close expression to mine upon finding said bow. I mean really what kind of horrible person targets an elf.

So mostly today was just a lot of fighting with some yelling in between. On the plus I shot someone in the neck and made it bleed like woah, on the minus I didn't tiptoe quiet enough down the corridor and got chased back to my party. But overall it was fairly good. Karkanna and Seven Oh Nine had to be healed but other then that the party made it through well. Also once again Twinkles was summoned to the battlefield and did nothing. I'm starting to think the gnome has mental issues. I heard him muttering something about summoning three of them afterward. Other then the fighting we found a bunch of cool stuff and most importantly, people sized beds. Nice ones. Belonging to people who... did god knows what with tentacles....... oh shit.

Still living underground. Not happy.

So I woke up today in some sort of blanket-coated stink pit. Not a good beginning to anyone's day really, but then I remembered where I was. Still in the cogs, getting ready to battle a pack of angry, and probably hungry, goblins trapped down a shaft. So we all hurried over to the hole and fix the pulley mechanism only to be informed by those who have dark vision that there is a bugbear at the bottom of the shaft. And he is pissed. Great. Fortunately he was stupid and Ru was able to lure him up to where we all were. Bad part of that plan was that he didn't die before he was able to alert the rest of the goblins to our presence. Did I mention that the monk kicked him down the shaft and then he didn't die. That sucked too. Though it was a good kick, he would have been good and screwed if it weren't for some damn meddler with a potion.

So we realized that trick probably wouldn't work again so we grabbed the rope and backed off for a bit. Ru offered to go get us some feather fall tokens so that we could go down the shaft easier and would be less likely to get maimed by hordes of goblins. We were all pretty much on board with that, so he went back up the elevator and was gone for most of the day. The rest of our "party" decided to check out a staircase that I had found behind a secret door. It lead to a spinny metally room. It was decidedly unpleasant so I tried to get out of it as soon as possible. There was another door and it lead to a room with a warforged in it who was clearly malfunctioning. It was unclear as to the meanings of some simple words and attacked us with an evil homonculus. Kind of gross really. The gnome proved himself more in battle today, though the continued use of the Celestial Badger (I think I heard him call it Twinkles) is kind of troubling. Also he shows bad judgement on survival. He was among the group that did not want to corrupt the machine's memory so that his friend "Merrick", who Ru tells us later is the uncle of that Cannith guy we saw killed, would not be able to find us, because the last thing we need is some more reasons to get us in jail.

We took the scrolls and wands and gems from the room and went back up the stairs. The artificer warforged seems exceedingly pleased with the magic items. I almost thought it was going to short circuit when it saw them. The wands that were identified were fox's cunning, levitation, and invisibility. I for one am glad we can be invisible. We showed the gems to Ru when he got back with the tokens and he said that they belong to house d'Cannith. Probably not good for us, but they are pretty shiny. Since we really didn't want to deal with the goblins right then, and I feel as though we had gotten enough loot for one day, we decided to rest for the remainder of the day and tackle the shaft another time. You know, tomorrow, after sleeping in the goblin beds, again. Hopefully then we will be done here and since the only action today was killing a cracked out warforged it will be good to have some nice old fashioned killing tomorrow.

Note: Significant amusement over Half-orcs enlarging abilities.

How I got sucked into the Hell dimension known as the Cogs

It all started with going to a bar. I soooo did not get drunk enough for what happened later on. No this is not the same thing as last week! Anyhow, I was in a lower level then where I usually drink on normal days and I went into that bar that Ru is currently using as a whorehouse and got some wine. Yeah it was all fine and normal until this dude started freaking out and stabbed himself while shouting some sort of Emerald Claw bullshit. Then his friend turned invisible, ripped the head off some other guy and disappeared into the shadows. I mean you gotta admire the guy's technique but damn, so everyone normal in there bolted. This, of course, brought the Watch down so I had to run upstairs. I mean there is no way I could let myself get caught in this dive, even though I didn't do anything.

I ran upstairs and rifled through personal property in search of something to get me out of there. Someone left a necklace, so I took it, I mean a girl has to have her priorities right? But other then that there was no way out so I went back in the hall. Some losers were yelling and another dude vanished into thin air. I don't know if you are keeping track at home, but that is two of them now. So I went into another room in an attempt to find something useful... but what I found was Ru, dressed as an eight year old girl I might add. Yeah it is weird but whatev. So we jumped out a window and went our respective ways.

The next day after I woke up to SOMEONE rudely tapping on my window, interrupting my beauty sleep (it was Ru, his bastard pimp sold us out and he needed to bust in), I headed back to the bar fully aware that my face was staring at me from a wanted poster every few feet. Ru explained most of the situation on the way there. It was a seriously not good situation. So I opened the door and we found the bartender dead lying next to a freezer. Serves him right. We took his money and his liquor. And then some drunk Dwarf chick busted in... I am not really sure why, but she followed us home. I guess she also was wanted by the Watch like Ru and I.

We all got a summons from the House d'Sivis and learned that if we wanted to get help from them in clearing our names, or really learning what the hell the Cannith people wanted from us, we would have to go collect some sort of debt from Goblins.... And that is why we are now here in the Cogs. Oh yeah, there were other people on this poster and we have to work with them. The elven cleric seems pretty cool, though the half-orc cleric does not seem to like Ru or I. The Gnome and his shiny friend do some sort of magic or something. The Warforged seems to regard money in the highest order, though she refuses to just take it, I don't really understand why. There is some sort of Monk made out of metal who used to work for one of the disappearing dudes and a paladin, who really is kind of bad ass for someone who is half human. I guess she knows the other chick who is on the poster with us but that woman isn't here.

I really hate the Cogs. I do not belong down here. And yet here we are. The hobgoblin douche bag who ran the joint fed us some line about only obeying the laws of d'Artagnan or something else goblin related. So we totally killed him. Bad point to that being then the other little goblins got pissy. They should have just paid up the money they owed I mean, really, one hobgoblin against nine people, that is ridiculous. Anyhow we managed to waste the entire group of goblins without anyone getting hurt. The Monk obliterated like two of them, I wasn't even sure Monks were allowed to do that. So we killed them all and didn't even get a scratch on us but I have to say the weirdest part was definitely the Badger. What the hell makes a badger Celestial anyway? Does it shit stars? I just don't understand Gnomes.

So we checked out all of their stuff and found a bunch of gold. This was the good part of it. We also found a shaft full of angry Goblins, this part, not so awesome. There was also a chick chained up to a wall, very suckish. But at least she wasn't dead, so she was doing better then the guy next to her. She and the rest of us have decided to sleep in the creepy goblin beds for the night and see about the shaft thing in the morning. Let it be known that if I catch any sort of goblin disease because you people wanted to stay here, I am going to hurt someone.

To Do List

1. For talking about my mother, stab Gnome while he is asleep. Make sure the shiny Warforged is powered down first because it seems to have attachments to him.

2. Find Ru, then drink that booze we jacked off of the fucking bartender who ratted us out. Attempt to scope out any sources that can raise him from the dead, so that I can kill him personally.

3. Kill Goblins in creepy underground shaft. Take their stuff.

3.5 Get a rope, what good are rope skills if you don't own one?

4. ....That is pretty much it, you can't do much when leaving the house can get you arrested.