I kick the hobgoblin leader in the side as I walk by him." It's a great day. Evil like this needed to be destroyed. We have done a great thing today." I will help comfort the slaves and patch them up.
I look to Jason for his decision." I see pros for both continuing and falling back. I'm leaning towards falling back. We have too many people to watch over to continue on."
I hesitate, "Normally I'd agree, but there may be a few more lone captives like this nearby. If we leave them, they may be killed or taken wherever this bastard was hoping to escape to."
"If she is okay to move, lets get her and this stuff back to where we left the guards, they can watch her while we finish the sweep. I think we are almost done."
Out of Character: Search check in the leader's room for anything else of interest.
I nod to the others, and help get the captive and everything else back to where we left the elven guards.
If that goes smoothly, we'll return to the passage and keep hunting. If we can, we're finishing this today.
Out of Character: I'll ask Q to spend one CLW casting on me. Hopefully just enough to staunch the worst of that sword hit.
"I don't know Jonathan, the only way to be sure is to look. If we see too many branch points however, we need to leave rather than keep going."
After handing the loot and the recently recovered captive off to the elven guards, we go back to where we were, and keep moving.
I gear up and take my place in the group, saying "No matter how much more there may be to explore, the water barrier is going to restrict the number of times we can access these tunnels. Has Be or anyone else encountered that spirit you mentioned, since that last time? The one that said he could keep the water from his tunnels?"
Specific Action: Regular rolls.