Episode 7: A Great Upheaval Part 1

Aired November 15, 2016 (Pen & Pixels Episode 56)

Episode Summary

 * Bell constantly ringing as they approach Nightstone by day
 * Large boulders found littering the ground and having destroyed the drawbridge and buildings
 * No evidence of siege weapons or large tracks
 * Gate unguarded, goblins and worgs found inside the settlement
 * Goblins playing with bell, party sneaks back out of town and follows booted, humanoid tracks to the north
 * About a mile to the north they encounter the mouth of a cave with the tracks leading in
 * They enter the cave and create some light, illuminating the body of a bathing ogre
 * A few goblins are also keeping watch from two elevated ledges
 * Ura’ash is shot at by one of the goblins and combat begins
 * Selsig (unsuccessfully) attempts to scare the goblins down from their ledges with a loud, dragon-like roar using minor illusion
 * Justice (unsuccessfully) attempts to trick the goblins into thinking the party is a group of friendlies in disguise
 * Female ogre throws javelin from the distance and joins the fray
 * Justice is knocked unconscious by the ogre
 * Selsig casts Color Spray and blinds then naked, wounded male ogre
 * Greta heals the wounded Ura’ash and dying Justice
 * Selsig slays the male ogre, whose lifeless body falls into the mud pit, spraying it everywhere
 * Greta casts a flaming sphere in the midst of the goblins and slams it back-and-forth between the goblins
 * With a sneak attack, Selsig slides his rapier through the other ogre’s throat, slaying it as well
 * Justice requests one goblin be left alive
 * Ura’ash grapples the final goblin (who calls himself Gleek) and takes it captive, ending the combat