As Filk tries to get by, Leeza stabs at him! Her blade catches him in the arm, which throws off his attack against blue.
Leeza yells out, "Dostaň prdel kolem jeho, abych ho mohl strčit!"
She then waits for blue, 'The Invulnerable'.
Blue dodges past Atrix and Valerka, and dashes around Filk (who is armed only with rocks). He then stabs Filk, not having patience, but misses wildly.
Leeza then dodges past Atrix and Valerka to line up and attack on Filk.
She fails in her attempt.
- x Goblins
- => Atrix
- => Valerka
- => FiJeet
- => Filk
- Leeza
U = Unconscious S = Surprised D = Delay
Conditions:
Atrix: 11/21 -6 NL
FiJeet: 3/15
Filk: 14/23 Temp: 0/2
Valerka: 16/16
Goblins:
Blue:
Leeza:
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As if in slow-mo, Valerka does a double take as the Goblin stumbles past her, winds up and tries to punch the twisting, rolling goblin as she passes.
She looks to Filk, "No, no I do not particularly like seeing their ugly mugs up this close - but it looked like you all needed some Elven help."
She once again utters the magic incantation, this time protecting herself from any direct attacks before delivering her spell and stepping back a few feet.
Leeza starts staring into space.
"Well, I do appreciate the help - be it elven, gnomish or human. I was just concerned for your well-being, you being quite unarmored and all."
His plan didn't go quite as he intended. The goblins managed to poke him far too many times with their little blades. But looks like fortune favoured him, as all he got was a minor cut. And now, with Atrix chopping down the Leeza, Filk is free to back off from the blue goblin. He tries to send Leeza's blade to finish the blue goblin. But looks like rigor mortis has kicked in, and the dead goblin hangs to the blade, ruining Filk's effort for fancy finish.
Atrix finishes off Leeza with a dramatic slash to the gut. Filk tries to follow up on that action, but fails.
Blue steps up to Filk, and stabs at him. The great golem gods seem to hate him as much as they do Filk.
- x Goblins
- => Atrix
- => Valerka
- => FiJeet
- => Filk
U = Unconscious S = Surprised D = Delay
Conditions:
Atrix: 11/21 -6 NL
FiJeet: 3/15
Filk: 14/23 Temp: 0/2
Valerka: 16/16
Goblins:
Blue:
Leeza: -21 [fatigued]
Valerka starts doing something unthinkable to Leeza... you can palpably see her draining the life force from the female goblin. Her body tenses and a blackish-purple mist can seen coming out of the goblins mouth before it is breathed in by Valerka. In a few moments it is over, and Leeze has stopped breathing.
Atrix, on the other hand, chooses a simpler way to dispatch a goblin, and slashes into the last one, dropping it.
"Was that the last of them?"
Filk turns left and right, holding a small pebble in hand. But once he cannot spot any moving goblins, he relaxes a bit.
Once FiJeet starts using his wand, Filk realizes he has been wounded as well. The small cuts from the goblins' blades and the the burns from the fire are not too serious, but perhaps it's for the best to heal himself just in case.
He takes the last of Carlo's healing potions, and gulps it down.
The peppermint flavored drink tastes fine, but perhaps the magic in it was somewhat diluted. It certainly didn't have a great effect. But then Filk remembers he got also a wand from Head priest Ruvarra, back in town.
"Hey, FiJeet, could you tap me with this wand?"
With wounds closed, he turns his attention towards the goblins. First of all, he collects away the weapons from their reach - just in case they are just very good in feigning death. And then he proceeds to check if they have anything else of interest with them.
"Quite many shacks in here... I think we should check them all."
H6: These foul-smelling buildings are filled with filthy piles
of rags and straw.
H7: This wooden shack is built more soundly than the others. It contains a large bed stained purplish-black with sludge, and a short wooden table piled high with maps and papers.
The author of the papers believes himself to be a devout follower of the 'Mother of Monsters'. Throughout the papers are descriptions of his devotions and obeisance to his goddess. He is convinced that the Mother speaks to him on a daily basis. He has apparently been raised on a steady diet of bitterness against humans and wishes for glorious redemption for all goblinkind.
There is a lot of details about his plans to lead the goblinoids’ next glorious uprising, destroying of all humans in his path. He left his mother and emerged on the surface, moving east toward Saringallow. Along the way, he conquered a disparate band of goblins—the scattered descendants of a few Goblinblood Wars survivors who quickly came to see the powerful young bugbear as a savior. Mezodarath marched the goblins further east, where he fortuitously discovered the remains of a destroyed fort. There, the goblinoids trained and recruited other wandering goblins for their eventual attack on the unsuspecting residents of Saringallow.
Just a few weeks before Mezodarath planned to attack, though, a strange creature approached the goblin scouts that skulked outside of Saringallow. Although he looked like a lurching and bloated human, the creature managed to stay the goblins’ blades and, his interest piqued by the Lamashtan-like war cries on their lips, convinced the goblins to introduce him to Mezodarath.
This creature coached them on their upcoming assault on Saringallow. He described the town and the surrounding area to the goblins, and told them to keep an eye on the residents’ comings and goings. The demon instructed the goblinoids to attack when the townsfolk seem the weakest, cause as many casualties as possible, and force-feed demon’s bile to anyone they don’t outright kill. Of course, goblins are a capricious and not entirely competent lot, and the scouting missions they’ve undertaken have not gone unnoticed.
H8: Crudely fashioned tools hang from hooks along the eastern wall. Drawings of questionable skill cover the remaining walls, depicting humans being crushed, dismembered, or otherwise mutilated by elaborate and impractical traps. This includes plans for the brown mold trap outside.
The tools are good enough to be a set of Masterwork Tools (craft traps)
Studying the plans will give you a +2 circumstance bonus on your next craft traps check.
H9: This appears to be a storeroom. You do find a lovely silver and pearl necklace worth about 50gp.
H10: The floor of this small building is recessed into the ground about a foot and filled with viscous purplish ooze. A crudely carved image of a three-eyed face decorates the far wall.
The sludge appears to be demon's bile.
The eyes look to be valuable gemstones.
The team figures out who has cold iron weapons, and cleans up the demon's bile. Then, Filk uses his telekinetic abilities to remove the eyes, and nothing untoward happens.
The team moves to the final doorway. Filk again uses his supernatural telekinetic abilities to open the door. Inside are several goblins (all covered in the tell-tale signs of demon's bile), a human woman, and a huge bugbear also showing the signs of demon's bile!
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The Yellow, blue, and red goblins all move, and fire their bows at Atrix. One of the arrows find their mark, though the other two clang against the doorway.
The other two goblins seem to be waiting on something.
- x Goblins (R,B,Y)
- D Goblins (T,P)
- => Valerka
- => Atrix
- => FiJeet
- Bugbear
- Filk
U = Unconscious S = Surprised D = Delay
Conditions:
Atrix: 16/21
FiJeet: 14/15
Filk: 21/23 Temp: 2/2
Valerka: 16/16
Enemies?:
Blue:
Yellow:
Red:
Teal:
Purple:
Bugbear:
Woman:
The human woman calls out, "Help me! Mezodarath is trying to kill me, and Sarringallow!"
She pulls out her longsword and swings at the bugbear. "He was going to feed me that nasty slime!"
She misses, badly.
"You will pay for that, scum humie!" yells the bugbear in common. He then cuts at her with his falchion. His swing is equally ineffective.
- x Goblins (R,B,Y)
- D Goblins (T,P)
- x Valerka
- x Nixa
- x Atrix
- x FiJeet
- x Bugbear
- => Filk
U = Unconscious S = Surprised D = Delay
Conditions:
Atrix: 16/21
FiJeet: 14/15
Filk: 21/23 Temp: 2/2
Valerka: 16/16
Enemies?:
Blue:
Yellow:
Red:
Teal:
Purple:
Bugbear:
Woman:
"Uh, right... We'll help you, lady. Who might you be, actually?"
There was something odd in the situation, and the woman being unbound and drawing her sword just now. But maybe this is not the best time to try and figure out the situation. So Filk just moves near the fence and pummels yellow goblin with his powers. That one seemed certainly hostile, at least.
"Nixa.." she gasps, he voice somewhat raspy, and if she was trying to catch her breath. "They... captured me..."
Filk's rock hits yellow, squarely, and the goblin collapses.
Blue and red move to shoot at Filk.
- x Goblins (R,B)
- D Goblins (T,P)
- => Valerka
- Nixa
- Atrix
- FiJeet
- Bugbear
- Filk
U = Unconscious S = Surprised D = Delay
Conditions:
Atrix: 16/21
FiJeet: 14/15
Filk: 14/23 Temp: 0/2
Valerka: 16/16
Enemies?:
Blue:
Red:
Teal:
Purple:
Bugbear:
Woman:
The red goblin starts swatting at invisible sparkly motes.
The human woman warrior looks past the bugbear to Valerka... "I don't think so..."
"NO! YOU CAN'T!" shouts the bugbear, threateningly. "Finish her." he says to the goblins.
Purple then moves to a more advantageous position and swings his heavy mace at the woman. He manages to miss.
Then teal moves in, charging with his mace. He connects with the woman.
Nixa then swings at the bugbear, stepping towards the door. Her blade cuts deep!
- x Goblins (R,B,Y)
- x Valerka
- x Goblins (T,P)
- x Nixa
- => Atrix
- => FiJeet
- Bugbear
- Filk
U = Unconscious S = Surprised D = Delay
Conditions:
Atrix: 16/21
FiJeet: 14/15
Filk: 14/23 Temp: 0/2
Valerka: 16/16
Enemies?:
Blue:
Red: DAZE
Teal:
Purple:
Bugbear: -10
Woman: -4
FiJeet manages to lace a shot into the bugbear! He turns around, growling, "You are next, gnome scum! I have a nice vat of bile for you to drink!"
Atrix moves in, and slashes a nasty wound into the bugbear.
The bugbear then looks at Atrix, swears something nasty in goblin, steps, and attacks her!
- x Goblins (R,B,Y)
- x Valerka
- x Goblins (T,P)
- x Nixa
- x Atrix
- x FiJeet
- x Bugbear
- => Filk
U = Unconscious S = Surprised D = Delay
Conditions:
Atrix: 16/21
FiJeet: 14/15
Filk: 14/23 Temp: 0/2
Valerka: 16/16
Enemies?:
Blue:
Red: DAZE
Teal:
Purple:
Bugbear: -25
Woman: -4
Noticing everyone targeting the bugbear, Filk decides to follow the others' example. He notices a good, fist-sized stone in the ground and fires it at the (hopefully) unsuspecting bugbear.
Filk's rock catches the bugbear in the back of the head, and the creature drops to the ground, blood pooling, but without breathing.
Red and blue both fire arrows at Filk! While blue's arrow misses, red manages to catch Filk in the neck, causing a nasty wound! Filk staggers a bit at the force of the shot.
- x Goblins (R,B,Y)
- => Valerka
- Goblins (T,P)
- Nixa
- Atrix
- FiJeet
- Filk
U = Unconscious S = Surprised D = Delay
Conditions:
Atrix: 16/21
FiJeet: 14/15
Filk: 2/23 Temp: 0/2
Valerka: 16/16
Enemies?:
Blue:
Red: DAZE
Teal:
Purple:
Bugbear: DEAD
Woman: -4
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Valerka makes a quiet "hrumph"
Fine, if she won't come to us, I'll go to her. I don't see what the problem was. Two of the guys just had bows and couldn't have hit her, and the Bugbear wouldn't have been a problem if she had withdrawn from the fight carefully. Dumb fighter types...
She powers her hand up with more purple energy moving forward to smack a bow wielding Goblin with it.
Valerka cast her spell, but fails to deliver it against the agile goblin!
The purple goblin then gets into a flanking position with teal, avoiding any attacks by her by swinging around. He then attacks and misses.
Then, teal gets into the game, and also misses.
Nixa then attacks the red goblin, stepping so that she is next to Atrix. She also manages to miss.
- x Goblins (R,B,Y)
- x Valerka
- x Goblins (T,P)
- x Nixa
- => Atrix
- => FiJeet
- => Filk
U = Unconscious S = Surprised D = Delay
Conditions:
Atrix: 16/21
FiJeet: 14/15
Filk: 2/23 Temp: 0/2
Valerka: 16/16
Enemies?:
Blue:
Red: DAZE
Teal:
Purple:
Bugbear: DEAD
Woman: -4
"AAAAGH! F... Sh.. Bastard!" Filk cries out, as the immense pain from the arrow hits him. He follows up with a litany of curses in Osiriani, and shoots a retaliatory rock at the blue goblin.
Then he retreats away from the fence, and away from the goblin sharpshooters.
The blue gobin, who was not the one to hit Filk, goes down with the rock the telekineticist throws at hom.
While FiJeet fails to hit with his arrow, Atrix finishes off the teal goblin.
The red goblin, seeing his friends go down, turns and runs to the back passage.
The team quickly dispatches the remaining two goblins, as they quickly determine that the passage in the back goes no where.
Nixa turns to the team and says, "Thank you for saving me! I am certain that Mezodarath would not have allowed me to live. He was blaming me for your intrusion, and was going to kill me rather than feed me that vile purple ooze!
"Honestly, I think that being killed would have been better..."
With the remaining goblins fleeing, Filk leaves his cover behind the shack. "Ow, ow, ow... Those arrows hurt. FiJeet, would you mind operating the healing wand for a moment?"
Then, he eyes Nixa for a moment. "Glad to see you're all right, lady. How did you end up here in the first place?"
Nixa Volsetti expresses her profound gratitude, explaining that she was able to seize the opportunity to break free thanks to your timely intervention and Mezodarath’s subsequent distraction. She explains that she was abducted along with her cousin from Saringallow and taken to a strange place that she cannot completely identify, but about which she could provide general details. She was later given to the goblins, who brought her to Highfort and hoped to learn about the town’s defenses before enacting some sort of heinous plan to turn her against the townsfolk. The goblins and Mezodarath have kept her locked up in the cave ever since, waiting for her to break.
Upon returning to Saringallow, you can collect any bounties they’re owed by providing proof of the goblins’ death, describing the scene at Highfort, and generally explaining the situation to Mayor Sandra Trinelli (or having Nixa do so on their behalf ).
"Ok, I'm glad we got you out of there alive. What happened to your cousin, is s/he still in the strange place you mentioned? We could go check that up, and hopefully get rid of the purple-goo goblin menace once and for all."
Filk kindly asks Atrix to 'harvest' the ears from the goblins, while he loots Mezodarath and his goblin lackeys. After that, he is more than happy to return to Saringallow.
"I don't know where Nolaria is. I haven't seen her since I was taken by Mezodarath. I hope that she is ok.
"I can't really tell you anything about my abductor, save that he was a young man. He did know me and my cousin, as well as the others he had captured. I was knocked out before I was sent to the damned goblins, so can't really tell you more."
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Fijeet comes out of his combat-coma very giddy and happy. "I can't wait to get back to Saringallow... I wonder how Majara has been doing...
And oh yeah! we should warn them about this evil plot against the town too! This will make a great story to tell..."
Fijeet's good mood continues through the entire trip home, with drum beats joining off and on - even after Valerka stole the first two pairs of drum sticks in the night....
After Filk turns in the Goblin ear bounty... Fijeet tells the Tale of the siege of Highfort to the Mayor... or tries to before be quieted by the group... So he pouts in the corner as Nixa summarizes the threat to the town.