Pulling another two arrows from his thigh quiver and nocking one, Windsight hears Rojava's words. "Speak for yourself," he mutters as he eases slowly forward, but his head is already turning, eyes searching and ears straining to find his next target. A handful of goblins don't just romp into town on their own; there must be more. There must be a lot more.
I expect there to be more; if Windsight spots one (besides the one under the cart) within the first two range brackets, he'll take a single shot at them. What, by the by, is the AC we're aiming at??
Gwyd hears Rojava call out to the goblin under the wagon. I truly hope there are no more of the little beasties roaming around. They give me the shivers! He scans the area, trying to spot any more of the terrible little hellions. If he spots another goblin in addition to the one under the wagon, he will continue singing. Otherwise, he will let the song die and see if any non-goblins in the vicinity are injured.
As the goblin song continues to drift across the battlefield that was once a street the Goblin under the cart is inspired by the battlesong and leaps at Ro, quite literally foaming at the mouth.
His weapon proves to be too slow though as Ro was prepared for his leap. Her blade claims the life of a second goblin mere moments after she claimed the first.
The sounds of battle still rage around you as townsfolk scream in terror and continue to flee fro the menace of the goblins. It seems this is not an isolated incident but an all out attack on the city!
Gwydd spots a few townsfolk who seemed to be injured on the far side of the wagon.
Windsight sees that not far from the current battle, some rises from several torches south of your position.
"We must defend the town. Something has driven them to this." Karina searches, listening to see which direction seems to need their help most.
Rojava looks down sadly at the second dead goblin. As the immediate threat ends, she realizes that she still hears chanting. She must have been overly focused on what was happening immediately around her. There must be more goblins in the town than she realized!
Lia will take a look at the stage, trying to make sure that that Father Zantus is alright...it was mere moments since he threw the thunderstone, even if they seemed to have stretched significantly with all that's been happening.
Assuming he is alright, Lia will put her hands on Kira's shoulders:"Kira, go to Father Zantus...stay with him for now - I need to be able to do what I need without worrying about your safety...I told you I had bad dreams about today - do this for me so nothing happens to you so nothing happens to me, will you?", before giving her a close hug and releasing her.
If Kira doesn't leave, Lia will continue arguing with her.
If she does run to the Father, Lia will close her eyes and try to remember what happened next in her dream...something about...smoke and fire.
Opening her eyes again, she takes a look around, seeing Flutter nervously zig-zag in the air towards the south, clearly expecting things to become worse before they become better again.
"Karina is right. We will have defended the town! We need to stick together, otherwise bad things happen. Badder things.", Lia explains to the others.
"That much is certain, the only question is where do we go first?" Asks Marcelano as he loads his crossbow. The young man then proceeds to look around at the chaos in an attempt to find the center of it.
"South," replies Windsight laconically. That, of course, is where most of the town is. "Smoke," he adds, nodding towards bobbing torches. "Get ready for fires, too."
Gwyd looks around, his heart racing in his chest. He spots the injured townsfolk by the wagon and hears the cries of terror all around him. When Windsight calls out the direction of the smoke. Gulping to clear his mouth, he looks back at the injured folk.
Shelyn, by your song and your dance, allow your grace to blanket the people of Sandpoint tonight. Please, see to the wounds of those around. I can't do any good charging off to help others if I have no one at my back with naked steel to keep me alive also. I'm going to cast my luck with the other Godtouched. They need your strength and voice now, more than ever. Grant me the resolve to sing brightly throughout this torturous night. He prays, quickly. With a grimace, he joins with the others.
We're the blessed of the Six. No matter where we go, we shouldn't go it alone. In this cathedral, all six are worshipped. We MUST show citizens and visitors alike that goblin treachery is not enough to shake the faith of the gods, or their mortal servants. Let's be about it quickly, Gwyd says quietly, but with a sense of firm purpose.
Karina takes point, shield at the ready, as the group moves south towards the smoke.
"We move! Goblins beware. Sandpoint Cathedral stands."
Rojava sees the smoke to the south and falls in with the others moving that direction.
As the Godtouched look around it is obvious the entire town is engulfed in this fight, though you were near the stage Father Zantus moved through the back entrance, presumably to deal with a bigger threat in that direction.
To your direct southern position one of the wagons lights up in flames, new flames, not the ones you spotted moments ago!
From around the wagon five more Goblins appear, four armed with torches in one hand and dog slicers in the other. The fifth sings another horrible Goblin battle song.
Goblins burn and Goblins churn.
Goblins kill at Goblins will.
Goblins sigh when doggies die.
Goblins love to see your blood!
Goblins take your life away.
Goblins kill all who stay!
Goblins chew your tender meat.
Your weakling Gods you will meet.
We be goblins!
You be food!
Kira holds her position right beside Lia, "I am not running off on my own in this chaos!"
Karina of the Flame
Lia Tani
Marcelano Alazario
Matrim of Shadows
Rojava Brishen
Windsight
Goblins
Gwyddym, Lia, Matrim, Windsight, Karina
Goblins!
Marcelano, Rojava
"Stupid father Zantus, running off on his own. Do stay then, Kira. He was not supposed to do that. In my dream, you were safe with him, which means I'll improvise to keep you safe with me!"
Seeing the new Goblins, Lia moves up to them with a certain resolve and anger that is seldom seen in her:"Chew funny colors instead! Kira is not food!"
Hearing the goblin launch into that hideous song, Gwyd takes a few short strides to stand between Karina and Windsight. Steeling his nerve, he begins belting his own melodic lilt again, encouraging his friends to strike true and to stand strong.
Matrim moves 60 feet straight down.
Will Save G1
Will Save G2
Will Save G3
Will Save G4
Will Save GB1
The Color Spray rolls through the ranks of Goblins, the warriors are surprisingly unaffected while the singing Goblin finally clams up!
"Gwyd, the stage is all yours!", Lia exclaims as the singing Goblin stops screeching.
"Lia!!" Windsight's alarm at the willowy young maiden's approach to the little chaos monsters is almost to the point of panic; with long strides he covers the distance between the two, even advancing a bit further before firing an arrow at the goblin barely five steps away from him. "Gaahh!!"
Clearly, calm is necessary for a good shot.
... man, I just cannot hit it today, can I? :P
Matrim will move forward and attack the yellow goblin.
Karina steps forward to deal with this new threat. "Lia, stay behind us!"
Karina's scimitar slices into the first of the Goblins drawing blood but it does not fall. The other Godtouched do not fare as well as their attacks fail to strike their diminutive targets.
The Goblin warband strikes!
Goblin #1 Attack Karina - Dogslicer . Damage - . Confirm Crit Dogslicer .
Goblin #2 Attack Karina - Dogslicer . Damage - .
Goblin #3 Attack Matrim - Dogslicer . Damage - .
Goblin #4 Attack Lia - Dogslicer . Damage - .
Color Spray Results - .
The lead Goblin trades blows with Karina but the rest of the Goblins seem uninspired as their Bard has been brought low.
Rojava rushes over to beside Lia. The goblin singer's rhyme is a simple one and Ro picks up the meter immediately. When the singing goblin drops unconscious, she ad libs a responding chant that picks up where the goblin left off.
Arriving beside Lia, Rojava makes a quick attack against the goblin that she can reach, powering her weapon with an arcane strike.
Goblins try but goblins die
Watch them fail and hear them wail
Goblins run when people come
Puncture one, it's oh so fun
Goblins take nothing away
People kill all who stay
Goblin corpses in the street
They are looking not so sweet
This be Sandpoint
You be fools!
Eyeing the stage for a moment Marcelano ponders his best route to his friends. Deciding that the risk isn't worth it in the present situation he instead hustles around the stage and takes a position near Rojava.
Ro's rapier flashes in the light of the fire as the sun begins its descent but its all flash and no sizzle as the Goblin she intended to strike dips out of the way.
Marcelano re-positions himself to take advantage of the numbers being on the side of the Godtouched as combat moves forward.
Gwyddym, Lia, Matrim, Windsight, Karina
Goblins!
Marcelano, Rojava
Gwyd jogs forward to tuck in next to the group, grinning as he hear's Rojava's rendition of the Goblin "melody". Picking it up for an encore, he repeats the verse, letting his call to courage flow through the words.
He reaches out and claps Ro on the shoulder, his hand feeling a bit warm as he imparts Shelyn's luck on her.
Matrim will tumble past the goblins and get behind the Green Goblin. Slicing into him once he is there.
Totally ignoring the goblins in in front of her, Lia touches Windsights shoulder: "Windsight, you can do better than that, I know it!"
,before taking a step back to look for Kira.
The Goblins were dead, even if they didn't know it yet, but that was an inevitability...so there was no point in wasting further thoughts on those.
Karina slashes at the goblin in front of her. ()
"Wind, he's all yours."
She steps back to make room for the archer.
"The fewer, the better," Windsight remembers his brothers saying to each other; if there are five enemies all injured, or three enemies less so, the fewer enemies there are the better you are - because you never know when one of them might get lucky. The archer smiles grimly at Lia's touch - missing that shot will be something he remembers for a while - and replies, "Well, don't make me come running to your rescue, little one!" Two shots snap out from his bow in quick succession, the first into the goblin right in front of him, and - after a glance at the mayhem Matrim's agile tumbling makes of that goblin - the second into the goblin Karina is now facing off with. "We have more work to do; let's finish these."
First shot into the one Karina slashed, the Yellow Goblin:
Presuming the Yellow Goblin is dead, and since I think the Green Goblin went down at the hand of Peter Parker Matrim, put the second shot into the one next to Karina. (Precise Shot letting me ignore that pesky -4.)
I presume any threats will use the second die as a confirmation check...
Lia and Gwydd call upon their abilities to aid the rest of their allies in the fight.
Matrim tumbles past the green goblin and in one smooth motion spins striking the creature in the back, before it can even turn to face its opponent it falls flat on its face, slain by the rogue.
Karina strikes the Goblin that she already wounded laying it low.
With Karina out of the way, Windsight fires two arrows in rapid succession at the Goblin still threatening Karina. Like its allies before it, it falls to the Godtouched! One arrow in the throat, the next arrow in the eye.
Still, one Goblin remains it advances upon the deadly archer!
Its weapon though cannot pierce the armor of the Monk.
As Lia turns around, she sees that Kira is about 10' behind the position of the rest of the party.
Marcelano rushes past Rojava and strikes the goblin on the head with a heavy blow with the butt of his crossbow.
"Take that you little devil." Shouts Marcelano as the blow connects.
With a sway and a shift of his bow, Windsight taps the flat of the goblin's chopper, redirecting its thrust to push into nothing but thin air. The archer looks mildly surprised at the success of the maneuver. It's one thing to do it in practice against a partner you know, he considers, quite another in bloody battle. If the choppah had connected, it would have sliced through his loose shirt and flesh as easily as the dog's fur and throat.
Rojava rushes toward the remaining goblins. As she passes by Gwyd, she gives him an appreciative smack on the butt, not an easy thing to do while holding a buckler but possible.
1. She moves within reach of the goblin which has been clubbed by Marcelano and follows up with a rapier thrust.
2. She scoots by the goblin Marcelano has clubbed as it collapses to the ground and proceeds to sit on the unconscious goblin. Dropping her rapier and buckler, she pulls loose the knot that holds the leather band wrapped around her left wrist. She shakes her sling out to its full length and uses it to bind the goblins hands behind its back.
Matrim will move to the nearest (alive) Goblin and attack.
Marcelano's crossbow butt connects with the head of the remaining warrior, a loud CRACK signals that the blow was fatal asthe Goblin falls in a heap.
Ro sits on and begins to tie up the remaining live Goblin, the one stunned by Lia's spell.
The area near your position seems to have quieted down though the sounds of combat and looming fires elsewhere in the city are of obvious concern. Still, the city is full of capable combatants, thing should be alright soon enough...
Kira calls to the rest of you, "Let's assist those around us now that the Goblins have been defeated!" She rushes to the side of townsfolk who have been wounded by the Goblins in your area.
Windsight was better prepared to discuss religion or tell if someone was being sincere than he was to examine the wounded. "Go," he says to the others. "I'll keep watch." Up onto the stage he goes, striding across to get the best vantage point and identify where the next nut that needed cracking would be. While it was good to put a rabid animal down, perhaps Rojava could get some sort of information out of her captive. And he knew that though their group was winning these fights, he also knew that wiping out goblins when you outnumber them two to one is an easy thing to accomplish. The problems would come if - or when - there were more than just a handful.
I know it isn't time yet, but a pre-rolled perception check can't go wrong, right? Lets the GM alert us whenever it's time. ;)
Karina moves among the injured to assess who needs help the most.
"Windsight, keep an eye out. There may be more hiding, they like to do that."
After securing the goblin's hands, Rojava begins the awkward task of dragging it out into the square's center. She doesn't want to leave it out of sight, where it could soon also become out of mind.
She then reluctantly turns to trying to figure out how she might help any of the injured people nearby. Healing is hardly a talent of hers but Can't hurt to try as long as they're not too badly off.
Rojava goes to the assistance of a nearby man who is on the ground but moving.
Lia throws Windsight a smile, then follows Kira, kneeling down with one of the townsfolk:"All the crimson...it's beautiful but should be inside..."
After helping the person, she explains to Kira:"It all got messed up. When father Zantus left without you, what I dreamed got scrambled. I think there are more goblins yet, and more dangerous than those, but I don't remember where we confront those..."
Lia holds onto her friend and closes her eyes, trying to remember, while Flutter keeps "watch" over them.
Gwyd follows Karina, eager to help where he can. Knowing his limits on assessing the wounded, he instead keeps his eyes scanning the area around them. I pray there are no more goblins. How would they have gotten in here? Surely these little devils aren't bright enough to have done it on their own!
Karina, you focus on that, I'll keep an eye out as we work our way through the crowd.