It was not what they expected, course, they were not sure what they were expecting - mostly they thought that they would see the humans that they were supposed to find - the main reason why they were in this strange dragon citadel in the first place! But no. At least not yet.
They looked around. It was very damp and moist and had vines and algae on all the walls and most of the ceiling. The algae cast a strange purple light, so they could see a little bit, but had to let their eyes adjust to the glow.
Apart from the hole, there were 3 other ways to go. Two of them had doors and one of them lead out into what looked like a cave or something.
They were not sure where to go, but they did wonder where the goblin king and queen were who had fell down the hole. They had expected to see them, along with the other goblins, but they were not there.
Anyway, all was quiet for awhile and they decided to pack their packs full of the purple algae for some quick and easy mini-medicine (even though it tasted terrible). However, as they were gathering up some of the purple algae, they must have made too much noise deciding what to do, since one of the doors opened and a small hobgoblin peered out into the room. He made a noise (what sounded like a question and then a yell) and then he quickly closed the door and ran back to where he had come from.
Realizing their mistake, the adventurers hurried to the door to prepare for yet another fight!
They got ready and then opened the door to look inside. It seemed to open up into a hallway, but it was quite dark and the purple light did not reach too far. As they were looking, a javelin came hurtling past and hit Relord in the chest. They did not see who had thrown it, but there were indeed other sounds further down the hall.
Relord quickly cast Light on a rock and threw it down the hall to brighten things up. It helped a bit and they saw 2 hobgoblins scurrying towards one of the middle doors.
They had fought many hobgoblins before, so they knew they were pretty easy to kill, so Ropin and Masiry ran to the door they went into. As they ran down to the door, they saw two other doors in the back open up as well, but did not look at what was coming out. They were concerned with the 2 hobbies in the room and Ropin lunged in first.
However, when he was there he saw a terrible thing: it looked like a small horse or a large rat had been experimented on and had a large cut on its belly. But not only that, it looked like there was a tree growing out of the stomach! After looking quickly (and not throwing up), Ropin saw the 2 hobgoblins rush at him to try to attack. But one goblin closed the door so Masiry could not help! Ropin was on his own.
In the meantime, Relord, Kasas and Erky had come into the hall and had taken up positions against some other monsters.
Erky and Masiry were trying to get the door open to help Ropin, but Relord and Kasas headed back to where the other doors had opened and something else had come out.....they looked and were surprised that it looked like a hobgoblin but with hard tree-like skin and branches that seemed to come out of his skin.
What in the world was going on?
It seemed like this Belak character was experimenting on hobgoblins and other animals to mix the tree blights and other animals! Terrible!
The worst part was that these hobgoblins, while slower were much harder to kill and had poison in their claws!
Also, as Erky and Masiry were trying to help Ropin, another weird horse/tree creature came out of another room and tried to bite Erky. Thankfully, Erky was nimble and escaped the bites.
Finally, Ropin emerged from the room himself and looked tired. He had killed not only the 2 hobgoblins, but the horse/tree creature that the hobgoblin set loose on him. It was a weird fight and once he got out and looked at the other weird creatures, they all were left wondering what was going on.....
What was going on?
And where were the humans?
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