Avan rolls in, looks about himself then sits down and pokes a dot on the earth with an abandoned and dried up tree branch.
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You see a larger hut in the back of the village, far from the gate. The Goblins, still bickering over what to do, are shocked when Irnk enters uninvited, and though they are cowed from your earlier display of intimidation, they still begin whooping and shrieking that you should not enter.
Their allies in the next building, however, are not so worried about responding to your entry, now that they have clearly ascertained that you are neither one of the skeletons that attacked them, nor a fellow Licktoad come back after the recent raid. One emerges with a tube in one hand and a dogslicer in the other, and his two companions come bustling down a stairway with dogslicers in hand. They yell something that is mostly incoherent, but you figure it to mean, "Death to the intruders!"
Galford hears the angry cry emerge from the village.
Init Order: You, then the enemy Goblins
Irnk is there, and the rest of you can do a double move to reach the village, or try to do something else at 60' distance you are right now.
Licktoad Battle Map
When the hooting and hollering starts, Apex clutches her staff worriedly, and then sets her shoulders bravely and starts to run to the village.
Something's wrong! Mister Irnk may be in trouble!
She runs to the village, not stopping until she is in range of her magic.
The Leaves of the tree shook and fell as Avan launched himself from his scouting spot.
A cloud of dust rose to greet him, as his feet returned to the grassy earth, and a moment passed before he cut through the small of dust and ran in the direction of the village.
Shaking his head in irritation at his own impatience, Irnk readies his bow, loosing an arrow at the goblin with the Desnan Candle.
At the goblin's cry, Irnk snarls. "Nan kou li fè m mal, ou moun sòt. Si ou pa t 'vle fè aksidan, ou ta dwe te pran m' nan pale ak Chèf Gutwad lè m 'te di ou!"
When Sybil hears the hooting coming from the village, she turns toward Avan and Apex, prepared to give them directions. However, seeing as the first is already back on the ground and the second has already reached the village, Sybil stands up from from behind the bushes that were hiding her and rushes toward the entrance of the village. Standing 5' away from the actual gate, right behind Avan . She tries to appraise the situation. However, seeing all three goblins, she seems to freeze for a moment.
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Licktoad Battle Map
- G1: Goblin in the catwalk 5' up.
He is very busy spinning and complaining
- G2: Goblin armed with a dogslicer, looks very angry at something.
Moves towards Irnk, and attacks him with a very serrated and rusty dogslicer.
- G3: Goblin in the stairs, also with a dogslicer. Has a hideous head (even for a Goblin).
The other one comes down the stairs, and attacks Avan.
"Kini nga buangbuang walay mga hinagiban. Ko kan-on kini!"
Both of them fail in their attacks.
The wild swings of the goblin were mostly aimed at Avan's feet and abdomen, so the martial artist was surprised when the creature lunged to try a slash at his face, but was still able to react and easily side step the attack and let goblin land behind him...surprisingly on its feet. In silence Avan shifted into his favored stance..and turned away from the failed attacker, ignoring him as if he was just an annoying passerby.
A bored look was on Avan's face when he turned towards the goblin that attacked Irnk, but his brown eyes had an unusual intensity burning within them. A moment passed before he launched a palm strike at his opponent and followed it with a low kick.
Dropping his bow to draw his own Dogslicer as he steps to put the attacking, irritable Goblin between himself & Avan, Irnk spits back at the foul-mouthed one. "Sa ki bèl wotè janm se yon zam, yon sèl estipid. Lanmò ou a ap sèlman ranfòse branch fanmi ou yo."
Irnk uses turns his draw into a wicked slash across the Goblin's side.
Apex looks worriedly at Avan and Irnk, but she see they have their goblins well in hand, so she speaks a small incantation, holding her staff out in front of her, and then points it at the goblin on the wooden platform. The staff flies out like a spear, and you can see the wind whirling around it like a small cyclone.
After striking the goblin, the wind that was whirling around it becomes a thin line that snakes back to her hand like a small, tornado, where it deposits her staff and dissipates.
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Irnk moves behind the angry Goblin and resolves all his issues with a quick cut of his dogslicer. As the dead Goblin body falls down he shows a sick grin in his face.
Apex transforms his staff in a magical wind spear which flies directly to the Goblin in the catwalk, which spinning and screaming around don't realize his is under attack. At the last moment he turns and avoids the wind spear, which returns to Apex hand. The Goblin will never know how close it came to die.
Seeing a Goblin fall under Irnk's blade, Sybil relaxes a bit and regains control over herself just enough to notice that the goblin up on the platform has a some type of alchemical device in his hands, thus would be a poor target for her bomb. The dwarfette puts back the two flasks she was holding in her pockets and draws her crossbow.
Avan did not understand what the goblin was saying, but he knew that he didn't like its tone, so once more in silence he stepped towards the goblin, feinting with his right foot but delivering a fierce side kick with his left, continuing with an equily vicious downward right elbow to the head and finishing with a left palm strike to his opponent's face.
Taking a deep breath to calm herself some more, Sybil loads her crossbow, lifts it up, aims at the remaining goblin and shoots.
Whirling about, Irnk calls out to the sole remaining Goblin. "Moun ase ki mouri. Mete desann feu a ak pran m 'nan Gutwad, e pa gen plis gen." Holding up his hand to the others, he calls out. "Wait."
Groaning in exasperation, Irnk quickly makes his way to the ladder up to the walkway. Continuing his momentum, he hurdles up to the frantic Goblin.
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Not sure what the falling damage is for, nor what Goblin is running in which direction.
Galford was ALONG the hunt (not on top of it), and the G1 goblin is spinning in his place, not running away.
He can't reach the Goblin G1 with 30' speed, the difficult terrain stair and Irnk in the way (you can't finish your move on top of him). And you can't reach the Goblin on top of the catwalk from the floor. I put you as close as possible.
Apex summons the wind around her again, sending her staff flying at the goblin on the catwalk. It flies so close to Galford's beak that the cyclone carrying the weapon ruffles his feather quite a bit.
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You all can swear the wind javelin hit the goblin, but he swing and rolls with it so when it return to our hand he is unarmed.
The goblin stops, looks at himself, looks at you all, and smiles.
"Ako dili matarog"
He says matter-of-factly.
He assumes a defensive position and challenges you with his hands.
Your turn again...
"No, no. I got this." Irnk declares, waving the others back. To the obvious expression of self-confidence on the face of the surviving Goblin, he replies. "Montre m 'jis ki jan envulnerabl ou ye. Ou bat mwen, ou ka ale sou yo ak sou fè tout sa ou vle ak pye yo wotè. Mwen kraze ou, ou pral pran m 'pou pale ak Gutwad!"
Shaking his head sadly, Irnk draws his own blade, slashing at the overconfident Goblin. "Ap viv yon moun san konprann. Mouri yon moun san konprann."
As the Goblin's blade breaks, Irnk pulls back his own. At the half-hearted parley, Irnk growls, flatly. "Mennen m 'bò Gutwad."
Sybil watches as the combat takes place, unable to find any opening to shoot a second bolt at the goblin. Seeing Irnk lower his dogslicer, she stops looking for an opening and calls to the goblin.
"Is the fight over? Will he stop trying to kill you?"
Apex nervously grips her staff, and the air around her whirls as if it is restless, as she watches the exchange between the two goblins.
The back and forth between their opponent and Irnk was lost on Avan. He had considered intervening but while he knew that Apex and Sybil could handle themselves he believed that they preferred to fight at a distance and so it would be better for him to remain and take on any potential enemies that would consider charging them and it seemed that Irnk had the situation firmly under control. Still he kept his eyes open and turned his head from left to right in hopes of surveying the area around him.
"I don't think he can kill him with a broken dogslicer, well he could try gouging it into his eye and and then repeating the same attack...but that would be very hard and at that point it would be better to just use your fists" Said Avan in a frightfully calm manner, especially when considering the subject matter that he was talking about.
At the Goblin's offer, Irnk's expression hardens. ""Mennen m 'bò Gutwad." He repeats, brandishing his unbroken Dogslicer closer to the other's throat. "Si ou siviv, w ap gen plis chans pase ou gen kounye a."
"If you survive, you will have more chance than you have now."