Brunner drops the unconscious hobgoblin before it is able to wake and harm the party.
Chirk moves around the corner to allow Rusco to safely get behind him.
"Rusco come to Chirk!"
After Rusco comes behind Chirk, he casts a healing spell on his spirit animal.
Rusco moves over to his master. As Chirk begins to cast divine healing on his magical fox, Rusco stands on his back legs and rests his paws on Chirk's shoulders. Standing like this, the fox comes to eye level with the Grippli shaman. He licks his master's face excitedly with his cold, ice blue tongue as the healing washes over him.
Jean-Pierre, ignoring the flesh wound, 5' steps forward, and takes some more shots at the leader.
"Let's more it! This one's as good as dead."
Bahram looses another arrow at the leader
Then moves Kirin forward.
Jean Pierre steps forward and looses a flurry of arrows. Both hit the leader solidly and leave him looking like a hobgoblin pin cushion. Bahram looses another arrow that flies wide and then moves to a position that gives him cover from the leader.
The leader looks significantly injured. The arrogance he displayed just moments before leaves his eyes as blood darkens his cloak from the arrow wounds he just received. He loads and fires his crossbow one more time before dropping the crossbow and fumbling for a whistle that is hanging from his neck.
The bolt sails past Jean Pierre's head. The hobgoblin is unable to lift the whistle to his lips before the party has a turn to stop him from alerting the goblinoid army that celebrates just a few hundred feet away.
Bahram looses another arrow at the leader
Chirk moves forwards to get within range of his hex spell
He hexes the hobgoblin with his evil eye.
"Chirk will hex you, dreadful hobgoblin!"
After he releases the hex, he commands Rusco to attack by a whistle.
Bahram misses yet again. Chirk pops out from behind the bridge pillar and moves forward. He stares down the enemy with his creepy right eye! ;)
The hobgoblin succumbs to the hex and loses some of his physical defense.
Rusco sprints past his master and attempts to bite the hobgoblin.
Even with the hex, the fox misses with its attack
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Arun hears the arrows thud home into the hobgob leader (well, JP's. He saw Bahram's efforts and assumed he was shooting at someone else entirely...). He finishes his incantation, and a shimmering glow of greenish light coalesces into a slavering attack dog .
Turning away from Arun, it launches itself at the hobgob leader.
As the dog engages Arun spurs his horse, Caleb, forward, and attempts to daze the hobgob with a burst of light directed straight at its face
Khaz slammed his hammer into the ground and a wave of energy shot out, healing his wounds and those of his comrades. Still hurt, but now without potentially mortal wounds, he took off running (40ft movement) towards the hobgoblin leader.
With a sigh, Jean-Pierre moves forward.
Arun's summon creature charges the Hobgoblin and bites him hard, but he is able to shake off the effects of the daze.
Khaz calls on Torag and heals those near him.
Jean-Pierre moves up next to Arun.
'Blast, need to get to the bridge, it looks like that hobgoblin is getting ready to call for reinforcements and I'm too far away to stop him.' Brunner turns from the carcasses and sprints toward the bridge, reminding his comrades as he goes. "Remember th' plan, we need tae protect th' brig till th' explosi'es ur sit!"
The hobgoblin leader moves away from the combatants . He raises the whistle to his lips and blows it. It lets out a high pitched shrill. He drops it and smiles at Arun. Almost immediately, the group hears wolves howling and shouts from the city. Turning, you see the outskirts of the now thousand strong goblin army turn and start pointing at you. A group of about ten warriors starts to move in your direction.
Kinning busts out of the guard tower carrying a large glass bottle with a yellowish liquid. "Get ur asses oer the bridge. Vane! Bring the stump remover." She moves up next to Brunner, obviously heading to the far side of the bridge.
Torag help us, we need to get this bridge down.' Turning to Kinning he asks: "Dè as urrainn dhomh a dhèanamh gus a dhol an drochaid seo, a chaidh a spreadhadh? No am bu chòir dhuinn cudrom a chur air a chumail an Horde bho bhith a 'faighinn seachad air?"
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The celestial attack dog continues to attack the hobgoblin leader, lunging and snapping at his legs:
Arun, infuriated by the hobgob's call for reinforcement, spurs his horse to gallop past the hobgoblin . As Arun circles the hobgoblin, his voice rises, his eyes seem to drill into his enemy's mind and he emits a wave of pulsing mental energy to crush his opponent's will
Khaz puts his hands on his wounds and breathes a prayer to Torag.
"Help Kinning. I'm the fastest runner of us. I'll make sure none get to ye as ye work."
With a sigh, Jean-Pierre charges across the bridge.
Torag help us, we need to get this bridge down.' Turning to Kinning he asks: "Dè as urrainn dhomh a dhèanamh gus a dhol an drochaid seo, a chaidh a spreadhadh? No am bu chòir dhuinn cudrom a chur air a chumail an Horde bho bhith a 'faighinn seachad air?"** spoiler omitted **
Kinning responds, Someone kill that blasted hobgoblin and then everyone else get their asses to the other side. We need to blow the bridge before they get to it! Do any of you know anything about structure?"
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Arun will contribute to the knowledge engineering roll using his blacksmithing, once the hobgob is dead. But I'll need some help with that...
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Khaz rushes over to work on it. With the stress of the battle raging around him, he did his best to assist Kinning work it.
Bahram drops from Shirin's saddle, knocking and loosing an arrow as he does so
Shirin rears up and then charges forward,
The summoned dog's bite attack misses, but Bahram's arrow strikes true. Rusco's bite drops the leader just as Bahram's horse rushes and knocks the Hobgoblin's limp body over the edge of the bridge and into the water.
The large group of followers from the city make a break for the other side of the bridge with the party.
'The leader is down, I need to move to the other side. Brunner nods to Kinning, "Bidh mi a 'faicinn thu air an taobh eile nighean. Thoir dhaibh rudeigin a cuimhne."
He then turns and begins to run calling to the villagers. "By torag, rin ye fowk, we dinnae want anyain else tint tae th' goblin horde!" When Brunner reaches the far end of he bridge, he turns, axe and shield in hand, waiting for his friends.
common"By Torag, run you people, we do not want anyone else lost to the goblin horde."
I think I may be able to help Kinning a little with the placement.' Keeping one eye on the approaching hoard, and the other on Kinning as she places explosives. Brunner occasionally calls out recommendations and encouragement.
As Shirin moves across the bridge alongside the civilians, Bahram waits on the town side until everyone else has passed, bow drawn. He crosses only at the last moment when everyone else is across.
Jean-Pierre keeps hustling across the bridge.
Kinning, Brunner, and Bahram all double move across the bridge. Brunner leads the group to an advantageous position for he, Khaz, Arun, and Kinning to work. Vane runs alongside Kinning with the stump remover. He calls out, "Find the weakest spot on the bridge frame. It would probably be where the wood structure meets the stone!" JP moves across the bridge and gets in a spot where he has cover to defend the engineers while they attempt to set the bomb.
Rhyna and Kit carry Aubrin and lead the others further across the bridge. The original ten hobgoblins move 1/3 of the way to the bridge. Seeing them go, another twenty turn and start to follow them.
Khaz finds a good spot to place the bomb. He lodges the stump remover in the frame and then pours the accelerator over it. Kinning pulls out a flint and steel and starts striking it. "You all best be making yourselves scarce." She lights it.
The accelerator flashes and catches quicker than Kinning anticipated.
'She;s lighting that now, we need to move.' Seeing that Kinning is lighting the fuse Brunner turns to his friends. "We need tae move noo, afair 'at hin' blows!"
The accelerator flashes and flames engulf the engineers.
Kinning sees Arun drop. "We gotta move him. This things goinna blow! We've only got seconds!" She runs off toward the woods as does all the other townfolk.
The first ten hobgoblins stop running and start walking across the bridge. "What do we have here?" One of them calls out in a deep voice. "You thought you were going to escape us? Time to die!" They lick their lips and laugh as they approach with weapons raised.
"Cowards!" Khaz reached down and touched Arun, using up the last of his power.
He then said, in a much quieter voice:
"I'm faster than them, Torag has blessed me with that, probably for this reason. You'll never outrun them. Brunner, get the mage on his feet and get him out of here. No time to argue."
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It's not unheard of to witness a mage blown up in a furious firey detonation. Often the explosion might be the result of arcane experiments gone wrong. In this case it's the fault of poor industrial health and safety, as the demolition charge misfires.
Knocked insensible by the blast and bleeding out from a terrible chest wound, Arun likely owes his life to his Dwarven friend. "Urghh..." is all that escapes his lips as, healed, he rises to his feet. There's time for thanks later, he reasons, once we're away and out of crossbow range.
He lopes the short distance to where he tied Caleb whilst assisting with the demolition. Soothing her with one hand, he vaults up, and surveying the advancing hordes of goblinkind, spurs the horse to carry him (alongside Khaz and Brunner) away across the bridge to safety.
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'Blast, never will get used to the burns, and Arun's down, huh, Kinnings, running, never thought she would leave a friend, maybe she's leading the people away, that must be it.' turning to see what he can do for his friend, Brunner looks toward the goblin horde, then smiling as he see's Torag heal Arun. "Uill rinn Khaz!"
Grabbing Arun by the arm he hoists him to his feet. "'main 'en, boy-o. noo is nae time tae rest. khaz is reit, we need tae rin." Helping his friend, he heads towards the rest of the party as fast as he can.
As they go he smiles and tells Arun, "Whit th' goblins dornt ken, is Ah ainae runnin' frae th' barnie, aam runnin' frae th' s'plosion."
common "Come on, boy-o. Now is no time to rest. Khaz is right, we need to run."
Common"What the goblins don't know, is I ain't running from the fight, I'm running from the explosion."