Jinda climbs up the ladder, wanting to keep an eye on both groups moves to a spot where he can see everyone still.
"I'll draw their fire. Get ready to follow me." Hiro says to Magnauk. The samurai grips his katana and drops into a defensive crouch as he steps toward the doorway. With a glance back toward Kenji, Hiro rushes out to engage the foremost goblin archer, the pungent stench of the harpy musk coating the front of his armor assaulting his enemies as he exits the ramshackle hut.
Lyraesel dashes sround the hut aiming to come around from an unexpected angle.
As Hiro charges out, the goblins open fire on him.
One somehow manages to land a successful arrow shot into the samurai, before his associate is cut down in a spray of goblin blood.
Magnauk quickly moves up to the goblins and takes a defensive stance in front of them.
Surrender or die the choice is yours.
Kenji will follow after his friend, skidding to a stop outside the door. he'll fire off a shot of flames at the one in front of Hiro
"Hyah!"
vs. touch
Kenji will follow after his friend, skidding to a stop outside the door. he'll fire off a shot of flames at the one in front of Hiro
"Hyah!"
[dice=Flame blast attack]1d20 - 2 vs. touch
[ooc] Might be a good idea to re-post initiative with enemy attacks so it's usually on the current page.[ooc]
Jinda follows through the hut, to catch up with Magnauk and Hiro.
Kenji winds up and swings, his comrade making him hesitate just a second longer than he would have liked.
The shot scorches the nearby hut wall as it goes wide.
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Moving into a position wher ehe can see the goblins, Lyraesel fires, trying to aim past her allies.
Magnauk swings at the small goblin before him trying not to kill but hoping to subdue as best he can with a sword.
"How many more goblins are there? Is this the last of them?" grumbles Jinda, as he points at remaining wounded goblin and unleashes another Ray of Frost.
The two goblins who are fleeing continue to flee.
The two goblins threatened by Magnauk drop their bows and do their best to attack him with dogslicers. Their efforts are hampered by the fact that they are quaking with harpy-musk-induced fear!
Unable to get through the half-orc's defenses, the goblins look dismayed, but don't see any better options.
Hiro steps up beside Magnauk and slashes his blade at the unwounded goblin attacking the half-orc, hoping to demoralize the other, already-wounded goblin and encourage it to flee.
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Shwing! Hiro's slice sends his goblin opponent tumbling to the ground.
Jinda follows up with a ray of frost that catches the last wounded goblin in the front and causes his large eyes to roll back in his head. He lets out an almost comical sigh as he slumps to the ground.
The other two wounded goblins continue to try to flee, heading for one of the large rooms to the southeast. Upon reaching the door they bang upon it, but the sound of another goblin voice inside shouts out at them. They resume frantically banging on the door but the shouting simply gets louder and the door doesn't open.
Lyraesel takes a shot that lands nowhere near the fleeing goblins.
Magnauk getting frustratedly swings his sword
and misses as the goblin ducks.
Surrender of stand still
Kenji tries yet again to contribute to the fight!
[dice=fire blast!]1d20-2
[dice=fire damage]1d6+2
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Kenji's blast hits the goblin who was hammering on the room door in the back, and the goblin smashes against the door, then slides to the platform in a smoldering heap.
The last remaining injured goblin, seeing which way the wind is blowing, hustles like mad out into the swamps.
After a few moments of silence, the party hears an angry goblin voice from inside the room to the southeast, then nothing more. Nobody opens the door.
Clearly there's still a goblin (or plural) in the room, but they must be hiding? Barricaded in? Preparing for siege?
"Good shot, Kenji!" Hiro praises his companion as the young man's fire blast eliminates the goblin that was banging on the door.
Hiro makes no move to pursue the last fleeing goblin, choosing instead to tend to his wounds. The samurai grimaces as he removes the goblin arrows piercing his shoulder and thigh, and tears strips of fabric from his tunic to bind his wounds. "Was anyone else injured?" he asks, glancing toward Kenji with concern. "Ameiko will skin me alive if I bring him back perforated with goblin arrows," Hiro thinks to himself.
Once assured that his young charge is unharmed, Hiro turns his attention to the large, heavy door securing the room that the goblin sought to enter. "I think it safe to assume that whoever is in charge is behind that door. The question is how many goblins are holed up in there? Do we try to force our way in, when they're likely waiting for us with bows drawn? Or do we try to force them out... Perhaps smoke them out?" he suggests, directing this last question to Kenji. "We should probably check to see if that room has a back door," he adds.
Kenji looks the hut over. "It'll burn, sure, but is that really the way to deal with them?" he asks, the thought bothering him a bit.
"Blasting them when they're attacking us is one thing, but I don't think setting the hut on fire to drive them out sounds very heroic."
He hesitates. "I mean... well, goblins, so... yeah?"
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Shouldering her bow, Lyraesel draws her sickle and sets about removing an ear from each dead goblin, slowinging them in a leather pouch, while searching thier filthy little bodies as she does.
watching the last goblin leave and hearing the goblin voice inside, Magnauk readies his sword and shield and walks up to the door.
He checks to see if the door is locked.
If unlocked he will open the door in such a way as to not be directly in front of the door taking cover at the side of the opening and raising up his shield.
Jinda looks at Lyraesel, quickly hiding a look of disgust as she saws the ears off goblins. I really detest the little buggers, but eww...
"So Kenji, how do you like your first taste of battle? Ready to retire and run an inn yet?"jokes Jinda, with forced cheer. He then follows Magnauk to the big hut, staying back a few feet.
Kenji will hold action to literally open fire if any goblins pop up.
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As Hiro circles the building, he spots that the ladder around the back goes up to what looks to be a well-fitted board in the back wall that would probably serve as a secret entrance or exit.
The front door, on the other hand, seems to be heavily reinforced. While it might be possible to break it down, it would likely require the use of your weapons to do so.
Whatever goblins are still inside the room aren't opening the door or coming out. Occasionally you hear the guttural and squeaking sounds of goblins arguing inside the room, but they're shut tight in there.
TO break it down, there are a few possibilities that come to mind.
* Try to break down the door. Probably easiest with an axe.
* Try to smoke the goblins out by starting a fire. (Easy with Kenji around.)
* Go through the secret back way that Hiro found.
* Say "screw it" and leave. (Seems unlikely.)
* Something else?
Lyrasel moves arpund to cover the back entrance with her bow.
"Smoking 'em out is probably the easiest, not sure we want to cross that line though... And then there is the fireworks, that could blow the whole place to smithereens, and maybe start a large fire that could harm others."muses Jinda loudly. With a thoughtful look, Jinda comes up with a better plan, "Magnauk lets bust down this door, and have Hiro and Lyraesel guard the back entrance. Kenji be careful with the fire blasts, there could be a lot of explosives in there!"
With that said, Jinda moves up to the door with his axe and gives it a try.