Bruthazmus

“Bruthazmus”
Rise of the Runelords episode
Episode no.	Episode 17
Date	2008
Game Master	Abbe
Characters	Honeypot Nathaniel Nell Velicia
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In this chapter Ripnugget wasn't the only warchief, so now they face Bruthazmus.

Bruthazmus

Next we went through a short corridor to a room that had a lot of chalk goblin drawings on the wall. They showed, among other things, a large cave beneath the fort in which there was a goblin drawn as if it would be 30 ft tall if it was to scale.

We continued through another corridor and looked through a door to a large hall looking like another evil temple. There was a large monstrous statue of mother of all monsters with things glowing of frost and fire in its hands. There were lots of pillars in two rows along the hall. Nathaniel bravely stepped into the room, lighting it with his just started sunrod, when we noted there were monstrous dogs hiding behind the pillars.

Nathaniel took a few steps and attacked one of the dogs, wounding it deeply. Honeypot followed him in and further, attacking another. The strange looking dogs melted into shadows and appeared at a new place attacking from directions you wouldn't expect. I threw my dagger into the one Nathaniel had hit hoping to kill it, but my dagger barely hurt it. I retreated back into the corridor we came and hid. Suddenly one appeared right in front of me and attacked me. It's claws cut deep and I counterattacked stabbing it slightly. Then it disappeared. I ran back to the entrance into the room and threw the dagger once again but missed. As the dagger appeared in my hand again I threw it again but missed, again. I retreated to hide and sneaked up and attacked but missed yet another time. Luckily the others had not been as unfortunate as I. The bodies of the dogs disappeared and when Nathaniel was about to wipe the blood of his sword, it was clean.

There was an altar at the furthest part of the temple that was raised higher than the rest of the room. The statue stood behind an altar. I thought we should make sure the temple was destroyed, but thinking about how hard it was to get father Zantus to go into the tunnels below Sandpoint, even with us guarding him, it would probably be near impossible to get him here through goblin infested woods. I suggested that we, or rather someone bigger and stronger than me, would smash parts of the statue and perhaps even of the altar, but Velicia didn't want to destroy it. She said it would be better to decorate it with flowers and ribbons. I was skeptical. If the evil ones returned they would just brush it off and have their evil worshiping place back.

Half goblin, half bugbear warchief Bruthazmus.

After a well needed rest we continued to the next room from the raised part of the temple. It turned out to be a torture chamber. There were cells and even an iron maiden. We checked it but thankfully it was empty. a short corridor led to a new room with several doors and an opening where some stairs started.

Before entering the next room Nathaniel as usual listened through the door. He could hear noises. He opened the door and standing next to him I threw my dagger at a goblin just inside. It was one of the female cheering goblin types. From far in the back of the room a strange looking goblin halfbreed, probably Bruthazmus came running past us all. It strangely disappeared in the shadows. I retreated into the torture chamber and hid. After gathering strength I charged back out flipping through the corridor, right at Bruthazmus, but missed. I quickly stabbed again but still missed. It tried to get away and turned to run and I managed to stab it in the back and Nathaniel hit it so hard with his longsword that it lost balance and got nowhere.

Honeypot moved in behind it and I somersaulted up to it burying my dagger deep into its gut using my legs for strength, rolling away to avoid the blood that gushed from the wound as it fell to the ground. I felt pretty good having just killed my second leader of a goblin tribe in one day. It wasn't by myself but I am still pretty proud.