SPOILER WARNING: I will describe the adventures of my PCs as they sought to discover the mysteries of The Lost Mine of Phandelver. Reading this will give away some of the secrets and surprises found in this module. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
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Some explanation and character creation can be found in my previous post, here.
Part 1 describes how the PCs discovered there was something sinister going on near Phandalin and what they did about it. In Part 2, they gain an animal companion and have a bath.
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Having discovered the goblin lair, delivered their cart of goods to Barthen, made a wolf friend, and had a bath twice, the party found a goblin living chamber at the top of a steep climb. Unfortunately, there were still goblins in the living chamber and battle immediately commenced.
Olva and Inigo were the only ones at the top of the slope when the battle started. Five goblins rushed the adventurers while another ran over to a figure chained up in a loft-type area. Olva took out one attacker with a well placed arrow shot before they could close with her. Nissa, Keno, and Carlita hurried to climb up the hill and untie the wolf's harness so that they could join the battle. Inigo danced in and put major damage on a couple before everybody piled in to finish them off.
With only two of his underlings left alive, the goblin in the loft dragged the figure over to the edge and threatened to drop him off if the group wouldn't agree to parley. The heroes could see that the figure was actually Sildar Hallwinter, the bodyguard that was captured with Gundren. Everybody, including the goblins, backed off for a bit and began to talk.
The leader goblin, Yeemik, wanted the adventurers to take out his boss, Klarg, so that he could be the boss goblin. Unfortunately, his accent must have been a little too strong as my players decided their characters couldn't understand him because they don't speak goblin except for Carlita. Though Carlita could understand what Yeemik was saying, she decided to cast sacred flame on him, setting him alight and causing him to drop Sildar over the edge. Sildar fell to the floor of the cavern, cracked his head, and began to slowly bleed to death. Meanwhile, Yeemik was flapping about trying to put himself out. Nissa sent Keno to savage him, and after a brief tussle Yeemik fled toward the back of the cave. Inigo, observing Yeemik's flight, pulled out his dagger and tossed it strait into Yeemik's kneck, killing him.
Seeing the rapid fall of their boss, the two underling goblins cringed in a corner, pleading for their lives. Unfortunately, Nissa didn't understand goblin and decided to blast one with a fire bolt. Seeing that no quarter would be given, the remaining goblin took a wild shot at the nearest enemy, Keno, before he, too, was taken out. However, the goblin's desperate shot of desperation found a home and Keno was knocked out before anyone could help. Luckily, Carlita remembered that she could cast spare the dying, and rushed to stabilize Keno and Sildar before they succumbed to their wounds.
Having cleared out the goblin sleeping quarters, the party decided this might be a good place to take a short break before continuing their assault on the goblins in search of Gundren.
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This was probably my favorite scene so far. There everybody is, trying to parley with Yeemik, trying to decide if they should do what he wants, when suddenly Carlita decides she doesn't want to listen anymore and blasts him. Everyone has one of those "What just happened?" moments as they see Yeemik go up in flames and Sildar fall over the edge of the precipice. And then, just when Inigo has got everybody calmed down again, Nissa, not knowing what to do, decides to blast one of the last two remaining goblins, whereupon the final goblin, knowing he is dead meat walking, makes a shot at the wolf and manages to land a killing blow. The final stab by Inigo must have been almost a mercy killing. "You poor schmuck. Let me put you out of your misery before the crazy ones get you." Priceless.
I wasn't sure what the rules were for long and short rests, so this was a good place to stop. The holiday was over and it will be Christmas before we can get back together, but I know that all my players are eager to see what happens next with this crazy group.
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