Slither: Session 4

Last time: Kiva and Jelle encountered Desarim, the sole survivor of a band of adventurers, who leads the way to the room where his party disappeared. Jelle becomes trapped burrowing into a tomb and meets an untimely demise at the wrong end of a Serpa’s axe. Desarim and Kiva are dragged into a pit by skeletal hands, where it’s discovered that at least one member of the Desarim’s party survived. A woman named Pella enters with a dramatic flair and lures a monster on top of Desarim and Kiva. (making it clear she has some questionable “history” with Desarim) yeah everyone is getting along splendidly.

 Kiva marches Pella towards the door exiting the chamber, continuing their verbal fight. As she pushes Pella a snake monster comes busting through the door. Kiva throws Pella in the path of the Trogdor but fails to account for Pella’s agility. She misses the Trogdor’s swing and states saucily “I’ve learned these moves in the club.”  Desarim and Kiva were also able to dodge the initial strikes by the Trogdor but the argument continues between Kiva and Pella. They are so distracted with their bickering that no one noticed when Trogdor came back until it landed a right hook, sending both of them sprawling back onto Jelle’s body. This attack comes with such a force, it takes out a support beam of the chamber in the process
Meanwhile Desarim stands by idly trying to come up with a solution to save them all. Despite the dangerous chaos of the situation, Kiva and Pella’s argument continues, this time fighting over who got the pleasure of looting Jelle’s body. “Who risked their neck to even get him down here safely, and was doing fine until you showed up? says Kiva heatedly. “Hey he was my brother! Back off hoe!” retorts Pella. They don’t let up fighting, even over the corpse of their former comrade, until they see Desarim trying to fight the Trogdor solo.
Pella teams up with Desarim at the last minute, using their magic to burn the Trogdor but only managing to  singe a scale or two. The Trogdor hisses “Did you really think that was going to work? Now I shall surely kill you all now, as I’m starving and   you look like a good meal.” While the Trogdor is being distracted by the flames and going off on a rant. Kiva ties a rope between it and the last remaining support pillar. She shouts “Run you Fools” after which they all run as fast as possible out of the chamber. As the creature attempts to chase them, it pulls the pillar and collapses the chamber.
 Running out as fast as their legs can carry them, they almost didn’t see the cliff shortly past the door; luckily, they stopped just in time. Taking a breather to glance around, they discover a rope bridge to cross to the other side. As they get about halfway across the bridge, Desarim spots two Goblins with his spyglass and readies his bow, the goblins spot them back about the same time. Luckily Desarim has his bow at the ready and as they begin to shoot, he shoots back. Meanwhile Pella grabs Kiva hiding behind her as a human shield.  This serves her well, as initial volley of arrows hit Kiva directly as the arrows deflected off her armor. Her breastplate is severely damaged beyond repair, yet she is luckily unharmed. Enraged, Kiva twists and forces herself to her knees, opening Pella up to take the next volley of arrows into her soft flesh. She drops to the ground with a thud. Desarim successfully shoots the goblins down and together he and Kiva loot the body of the fallen Pella. Afterwards Desarim pushes her body off the bridge so that no one would know they were ever there, stating “She was never my girlfriend anyway.”
They proceed down the bridge, and open a door into what appears to be an old armory. There are many abandoned shoddy weapons scattered around the room, pitchforks and brooms and the like. Kiva and Desarim each take a couple (“Backups never hurt anyone, especially in a dungeon!”) and continue exploring the room. In the far corner, they see another door, and a cage containing a haggard looking elf.
They ask him what his story is. The elf states that his name is Aram. He had been imprisoned here for several months, pointing to the markings on the wall where he had been keeping track of the days. He continues saying  that he had come here with  friends  but  that  they  had  all died, to which  Desarim mumbles  “Welcome to the  club  bro”,  and  states  that  most of them had  died at  the  hand of  the  Trogdor and  mentions  how  crazy  intense it was to fight it ( Kiva and Desarim nod in  agreement)  and  that  any  friends that survived the Trogdor attack were killed by the Goblins. 
They release Aram from his cage and Kiva throws him a pitch fork. Catching it, Aram tries to stab Kiva reflexively but due to his weak muscles and Kiva’s cat like reflexes he misses. Kiva glares at him, He quickly apologizes, explaining he had been tortured by the goblins his instinct just kicked in. Kiva shrugs it off but warns “Don’t let it happen again. They collect themselves and start to hear chanting from the next room.
Desarim bravely agrees to lead and opens the door first. He has just enough time to witness a crowd of goblins, all chanting and surrounding a crowned goblin on a throne. The goblins turn and Desarim is promptly shot in the face with a flaming arrow, dropping him right in front of the door. To stop the hail storm of flaming arrows Kiva and Aram quickly push Desarim’s body out of the doorway and shut the door before they are killed. Filled with fear Kiva and Aram plan for what their next move will be against this new threat.