Updated... next time I'm going to skip a big portion of time, unless you guys come up with a real plan.

Tann, Malius finds that his ferrets are still alive, but not anywhere near.

Brianna: Geim only had one Cure Serious left, you used one Prayer spell and a Cure Serious in the battle with the goblin paladin (wyvern rider). I had you use it on Malius, and use a Cure Moderate on Elessarae.

the chains make for a practical application. By wrapping chains around your fists, you're noW considered armed, and deal lethal damage, as well as no longer provoke unarmed attacks of opportunity.
Time to think a little more outside the box.

well, if that's thinking outside the box, then keep on doing it!

Because you're going to need to get creative.

Of couse I pat him with my head. I will make that clearer in my post. I would not want to give Almerin ANY EXTRA WAYS TO RUIN OUR GET AWAY.

Well hoping the orcs can't keep it up the all day and night.

BTW which direction was the Goblin going? Towards the cave?

cave? Did I mention a cave?

So far that's two people who have referred to my thinking (or lack of it).

Whether or not chain-wrapped hands would make me "armed" or not, for me to hit them, I would have to be in range for their own AOO's because the chains worn as wraps would NOT extend my reach ...

And using the chains as weapons would cause a non-proficiency (unfamiliarity) penalty.

But setting the chains aside for a bit: You mention dimension-hopping? Can someone who would recognize a spellbook be "hopped" outside to retrieve one for all casters to use?

Are there any Illusion or Alteration spells available from any of the casters that could be used to make one or more of us look like them?

I wouldn't think wrapping your fists in chains would invoke an unfamiliarity penalty, as you're still simply punching or what not, it would be like wearing a spiked gauntlet in a sense simple turning non-lethal into lethal and armed damage. Though you are correct in losing 'reach' but then again, THAT use of the chain would certainly be a unfamiliar wepaon penalty and it might not even be enough chain to grant you a reach bonus.

I can dimension hop likely a total of two people out of the cage sucking up the remainder of my spells for the day. The only illusion spell I have of remote use are Dancing lights and ghost sound, but these orc's have been pretty smart to linking magic to the caster as we've seen.

As far as a spellbook goes. Any arcane caster (myself or Ellisarae) as it stands I believe would be able to 'burn' spells directly from a spellbook. Using them as scrolls but destroying the chance of ever memorizing from said book again. Though I don't see any spellbooks just lying around waiting to be nabbed either.

Elessarae does not use a spell book. As for CAVE I misread as to where the Goblin shaman came from.

I now see that this was probably MY fault since I wrote this:

"A boney finger was pointed at the cave and he raspily crowed in the goblin tongue: “I need four more guards on that cage, and this ruckus is ending now.”"

Which should've been "pointed at the CAGE and he..." of course.

Sorry for that.

You don't use a spellbook for YOUR class spells, but you still have the ability to burn spells from them like scrolls, as essentially that's all a spellbook is.

You can cast spells directly from a spellbook, but that'll be the only time, and the last time you'll use them, because the spell is gone after one use.

Now you guys know what Bootskull is. And it's not pleasant.

Hope you'll enjoy this.

What about spells?
If I fire bolt someone, is it subdual fire lol?

I so wanna dimension hop the skull into the enemy net lol.