To your left, a large fireball erupts at a point just south of the Cathedral's western entrance. Near you, Amieko shouts: "Dear Gods, no! That's the fuel for tonight's bonfire. With that they can burn the whole town! You must stop them! We'll hold them off here!"
Need DC 15 Perception checks from all, may not take 10 this time. Anyone with Darkvision may take +4 bonus, low-light vision +2.
Good Guys
Bad Guys
Surprise Round
Explosions in Sandpoint! Goblins on the loose! Cathedral in danger, once again. Time to get kick more goblin butt.
26 White Goblin (not him again...)
26 Blue Goblin
23 Red Goblin
20 Tinuviel
16 Purple Goblin
15 Robin
14 Smoke
11 Yellow Goblin
6 Cadas
3 Rogar
After igniting a cask of oil and causing the explosion, all the base goblins grab staves of wood, lighting them in the oily flames. The singing Goblin starts up her song from the beginning again, stirring the others into a frothing-at-the-mouth frenzy (not that they needed much help.)
Tinuviel blinks hard to clear her eyes.
Kvothe flutters up higher to see what's going on.
Seeing the danger Cadas growls in anger and moves to stop the goblins. Holding her new shield in one hand and her trident in the other she reaches the extent of her move but then suddenly grows in size standing nearly 10' tall.
Rogar grimaces as the fire grows. His people's history with these monsters gives him insight into how fire drives them and what they are willing to do to make it grow.
"The flames will whip them into an even worse frenzy than that which we've faced. Onward!"
Smoke shields his eyes for a moment, dazed and confused. "What's going on?!"
Rogar moved quickly toward the flames hoping to catch the Goblins between himself and the Enlarged Cleric.
Surprise Round - Goblin Pyros
26 White Goblin
26 Blue Goblin
23 Red Goblin
20 Tinuviel
16 Purple Goblin (singing one, sorry)
15 Robin
14 Smoke
11 Yellow Goblin
6 Cadas
3 Rogar
As the goblins light their torches, the Purple Goblin continues her Mariah Carey impersonation letting out unintelliglble squeeks and squeals to their capering delight.
Tinuviel can't make out the cause of the explosion, but she sends her familiar aloft, who can.
The halfling bard does see the culprits and moves to cut them off, yelling at the others.
Smoke, who had his eyes on the coming battle with Ameiko is blinded by the flash of fire, and cannot act.
Rogar sees the sneaky buggers and considers an enveloping movement like that used at the battle of Redmont Pass to defeat the goblins. He moves to flank them if possible.
End of Surprise Round - Goblin Pyros
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Goblin Pyros - Round 1
26 White Goblin
26 Blue Goblin
23 Red Goblin
20 Tinuviel
16 Purple Goblin (singer)
15 Robin
14 Smoke
11 Yellow Goblin
6 Cadas
3 Rogar
The goblin triumvirate (White, Blue and Red) take their torches to nearest flammable structures and starting firing those building or tents, oblivious to your approach for now, even with Giant Cadas looming. They are consumed with burning and destroying.
Tinuviel follows Giant Cadas towards the goblin pyromaniacs.
While the other goblins are busy burning, Purple Goblin is fully aware and concerned about the priestess' new size. She stops singing, humming softly instead, and reaches into her belt pouch. Pullling out a goose feather and making unusual hand motions, she points at Cadas. A moment later the dour Shoanti begins to smirk, then giggle, then snort, and finally laugh out loud.
Smoke dashes forward, weaving a path beside Cadas's quickly growing form. He makes a beeline directly to the singing goblin. Lifting his greatsword as he comes to a halt, he twists his body in preparation for a strike.
Goblin Pyros - Round 1 - continued
Robin hesitates for a moment, waiting for the dwarf shield-slinger to make the first move.
By choosing to delay, you take no action and then act normally on whatever initiative count you decide to act. When you delay, you voluntarily reduce your own initiative result for the rest of the combat. When your new, lower initiative count comes up later in the same round, you can act normally. You can specify this new initiative result or just wait until some time later in the round and act then, thus fixing your new initiative count at that point.
You never get back the time you spend waiting to see what's going to happen. You also can't interrupt anyone else's action (as you can with a readied action).
Initiative Consequences of Delaying: Your initiative result becomes the count on which you took the delayed action. If you come to your next action and have not yet performed an action, you don't get to take a delayed action (though you can delay again).
If you take a delayed action in the next round, before your regular turn comes up, your initiative count rises to that new point in the order of battle, and you do not get your regular action that round.
26 White Goblin
26 Blue Goblin
23 Red Goblin
20 Tinuviel
16 Purple Goblin (singer)
14 Smoke
11 Yellow Goblin
6 Cadas
3 Rogar
- Robin (delaying)
While the jester is hesitating, Smoke is running. Already feeling behind due to not seeing the goblins, he sprints at full speed toward the chanting goblin.
He arrives just in time to be met by a swinging torch from Yellow Goblin who has moved to protect his leader.
Fortunately, the flaming brand thunks off Smoke's armor, with no harm done.
Cadas is disappointed when goblins do not try to rush her but sees the goblin singer wave feathers at her and she thinks Well, at least I drew the attention of one of them. Then she feels an attack on her mind but is able to mentally thrust it aside. Feeble. she thinks as she closes the distance with her enemy.
Maintaining her large form she closes on the closest goblin and attacks it.
Round 1
Tinuviel continues to unintentionally move behind cover. As soon as she can get a clear shot at a goblin, she will throw an acid dart.
Rogar rushes toward the Goblins as fast as he can. Pushing past overturned carts and dodging bodies. He closes on the Goblins at last, but the run left him unable to attack.
"Prepare for your end, you hairless children of dogs and lovers of horses!"
Goblin Pyros- Round 1- continued
Giant Cadas easily shrugs off the mind-altering spell from the goblin caster, and lunges at Blue Goblin with her oversized trident. Unfortunately, the intended victim sees it coming and avoids the forked weapon.
Rogar double-times it to intercept the marauding goblins but arrives to late to make an attack before the goblin can react.
More smart-mouth comments from Robin also start to affect White Goblin irritating him and offsetting the benefits of his singing leader.
End of Round 1
Goblin Pyros- Round 2
26 White Goblin (debuffed by Robin)
26 Blue Goblin
23 Red Goblin
20 Tinuviel
16 Purple Goblin (singer)
14 Smoke
11 Yellow Goblin
6 Cadas (enlarged)
3 Rogar
- Robin (delaying)
White is directly threatened by the dwarf and responds by swinging his burning torch into the face of the dour ranger.
But the attack is easily blocked by the shield-master. The goblin then tosses his burning brand aside and draws his slicer, as he moves to his right.
Blue Goblin also swings with his torch, at Cadas.
Again, the goblin attack is easily turned aside by the priestess and her immense shield.
Red Goblin hearing the cry from his Purple master, launches himself at the threatening longshanks barbarian. His attacks swing the flaming brand wildly.
+1 fire damage = 3 total HP.
The torch catches Smoke on the arm causing slight bludgeoning damage, and 1 HP of burn damage.
Boo moves behind the enlarged cleric then behind the burning tent trying to find the right angle to make an acid attack but is frustrated in her ability to find a clear target so far.
The goblin caster alerts the rest of the crew to the attack, and turns up the volume and intensity of the song, making the goblin followers jump and sway. She steps back from the warrior with the big sword to avoid any messy melee and flicks out at him with her whip, trying to tangle his feet.
The whip from the retreating singer tangles in Smoke's feet as he advances into the battle, and just after the burning torch hits him, the whip knocks him off balance, and prone in front of two armed goblins!
Seeing that two goblins are closing in on Smoke Cadas strikes at one there that provokes from her.
Smoke growls and pounds a fist into the ground, standing up with reckless abandon.
His anger peaks and he twists to face the goblin who burned him. The pain helps him feed the fire in the core of his being, and he reigns everything in again, feeding the flame with every part of him until nothing is left; Smoke is lost in unchained focus.
He uses the sword like a bat, swinging to strike the goblin with the flat of the blade. Without missing a beat, he lunges after the one who tripped him.
Goblin Pyros - Round 2 - continued
The enlarged cleric's new-found size makes her attack just clumsy enough that the trident strikes the moving Red Goblin but deflects without causing damage.
Tripped by the gobliness' whip, Smoke finds himself on the ground. The 2 lurking goblins make lunging attacks on the lad while he is defenselessly trying to bounce up.
+1 fire damage=2 HP total
Red Goblin's attack misses wildly, but Yellow strikes the rising barbarian, clubbing and charring his back.
Despite the pain, Smoke rises, anger churning inside him -- the fires taking him back to his youth and the burning and burning. He lashes out with his blade flattened. The force of the blow smashes the Red Goblin, who had burned him before, caving in his skull. Rage consuming him, the barbarian leaps after the whip-wielding goblin.
Yellow Goblin who connected when the lad was prone, tries to strike him again now that he is upright again.
But seeing his comrade cut down, the goblin leaves his swing well short of the mark.
Letting the enlarge end Cadas returns to her normal size and strikes at the goblin next to her.
As the Goblin swings his torch, Rogar deftly moves his shield in position to bat it away. His eyes shimmer with the light of the brand.
"Your fire is about to be extinguished beast," He growls with malice.
As the Goblin tries to recover the Dwarf slowly steps forward, pivots his hips turning his shield arm away from the goblin. His left hand grips his right and the handle of his shield. Then he swings back at the goblin.
Goblin Pyros - Round 2 - continued
Shrinking back to normal size, Cadas strikes at the nearest goblin again, but to no avail.
The burly dwarf smashes the goblin two-handed and the resulting crunch is quite satisfying. The goblin dies a painful death. Rogar then advances to see if he can add yet another notch in his shield.
Robin continues to annoy and insult the goblin, and adds then pulls his dazing spell on the Blue Goblin
The intended victim stops for a moment, but quickly shakes off the effect and continues it's brutish ways.
End of Round 2
Goblin Pyros - Round 3
26 Blue Goblin
20 Tinuviel
16 Purple Goblin (singer)
14 Smoke
11 Yellow Goblin
6 Cadas
3 Rogar
- Robin
After shaking off the effects of the bard's spell, Blue Goblin sees his melee opponent shrink back to normal size and cackles maniacally. Throwing down his flaming torch and drawing his pointy goblin knife, he lunges at the Shoanti priestess.
The blade narrowly misses Cadas'neck, instead scraping her shoulder as the attacker shifts to his right.
The goblin singer sees the burly dwarf cut off her path to escape from Smoke. Knowing she likely cannot trip the sturdy dwarf, she drops her whip, and draws her dagger. She lunges at him, a wild madness in her eyes.
The viciousness of the attack surpries Rogar, but he recovers in time to deflect the blade with his trusty shield. The gobliness steps to the side after her frustrated attack, trying to get around the dwarf.
Tinuviel moves a little closer to the action. Tinuviel thinks Acid is always my friend in need She shares her friend with the blue goblin by throwing an acid dart at him.
for damage
Smoke sees the singing goblin scamper away, but is acutely aware of Cadas being struck behind him. Knowing the result of leaving her and Tinuviel behind with the two goblins, he evens the odds.
Turning to one goblin, he stomps his foot and swings the sword in a wild arc.
He feels it impact. That's got to sting.
Smoke hurdles the dying goblin, coming at the one who cut Cadas from behind, and swings his sword-- ineffective and off the mark, but enough to distract it. It's suddenly heavy in his hands... The fire in his heart is raging again, and the burns across his body ache. He can feel the Skoan-quah marks on his body grow cold.
Seeing Smoke's clever tactical move Cadas tries not to wast the opportunity and strikes at the goblin.
[ooc]Can I have a different dice rolling algorithm please? [/dice]
"Now just to shut you up," Rogar snarls at the Goblin.
He raises his shield high above his head. Goblin gore dripping from his auburn beard. His eyes flash with hatred as he brings the shield down.
Goblin Pyros - round 3 continued
Tinuviel finally moves around all the obstacles and gets to the fray in time to throw a wild acid dart at Blue Goblin.
Smoke lashes out with his greatsword ending Yellow's miserable existence. His anger sated, the youth feels the adrenlin rush out of his system and slowly sidles into place to assist Cadas with the remaining brute.
The priestess' trident misses the mark yet again, even with the distratcion on Blue's flank, but the same distraction works for Robin whose whip curls around the creatures ankles, knocking him prone and leaving him exposed to attack.
Meanwhile, Rogar tries to pummel the chanter into silence, but his shield-bash is a little to slow for the nimble gobliness.
End Round 3
Goblin Pyros - Round 4
While the fires still burn in Sandpoint, most of the sounds of goblins singing or growling, have stopped. Only the handful before you remain to be dealt with. Shouts from near the church indicate that help may be on the way from there. To the south, a rescue operation is under way to drag families from burning buildings. Nearer, the combat continues:
26 Blue Goblin
20 Tinuviel
16 Purple Goblin (singer)
14 Smoke
6 Cadas
3 Rogar
- Robin
The prone Blue attempts to rise drawing attacks from both Smoke and Cadas
The Purple singer continues to step around Rogar, having lost her whip, she can only flail at him desparately with her slicer.
But that blow dies on the dwarf's shield like so many others.
Smoke draws down on the goblin, hard. His burns throw him off, but luck is on his side.
"Cadas!" he shouts, looking helplessly to the fires growing. "Can you do something about this?"
He sighs, exasperated. "I'm starting to get why Hosk hates these little bastards so much!"
Because it has worked ever so well so far, Boo throws an acid dart at Mr. Purple.
for damage
Merciful Desna!
On her turn Cadas advances on the singer and tries to end her.
Smoke's tired arm lacks the strength to bring a real strike to bear.
Goblin Pyros - Round 4 - continued
After the timely trip by Robin, the Blue Goblin was prone. Trying to stand he fell victim to a mighty stroke frm Smoke's blade. Even though the barbarian was worn from his anger, he had enough left for a killing stroke.
Yet another dart from the Elf Wizard resulted in yet another miss. She really did need some target practice.
Seeing the goblin singer was the only remaining target, Cadas strode with purpose around the flaming market stall and rammed the chanter through the belly with her holy weapon. Finally that damn singing was over...
End of Combat
Cadas will gather her friends, new and old together, along with any townspeople who might be hurt and channel yet again.
Gozreh, help us in this time of great need! She calls out as positive energy bursts around the group in a 30' radius.
"Thank you," Smoke gasps-- whether it's for the prayer to Gozreh that sizzles away the burns on his back or the fact that she stopped the goblin chanter's screaming is unclear.
The battle is ended and the fire is slowly being brought under control. A few homes are damaged, a few stalls ruined, but the overall carnage was controlled by your quick-thinking and rapid actions.
As you stand there panting and gasping after the near constant battle, a town guard rushes up to you. "'Cuse me, Your Honors, but the Sherriff'd like word with you a the Cathedral steps if you can. Follow me and we'll get there."
Picking your way through the litter of goblin bodies and the carnage of the fight you see Hemlock in discussion with Father Zantus. As you approach the cleric turns to you. "Desna be praised, you have saved the church and the town. However can we repay you?"
Sherriff Hemlock looks askance at the priest, "Ya can start by getting them some o' that Butterfly Magic an' healing their wounds. I need their help further.
"Oh yes, of course," Zantus says. He makes the requisite prayers and gestures and a cloud of swirling swallowtails, still present in the area from earlier in the day swarms on top of you. Whereever the butterflies land on you the healing and restorative touch renews your spirit and heals your wounds.
+ remove any conditions like Fatigue etc.
As Hemlock turns to you, the sound of a frantic dog bark comes from the north followed by a scream of a man. "You best go see what that commotion is, my guards and I will make sure none o' these gobbies are still in the town. Sounds like it's coming from north o' the church." He nods his thanks and takes his squad of soldiers through the yard, checking for any stray or straggling goblins.