Lady Loren nods her head for her two attendants to take the blanket and coat from Alruc while she takes the vest offered by Anna.
"So, why did you take this quest? I didn't think anyone was ever going to actually rescue one of us," She says once the party, with ladies in company, begins to move.
"The messenger was... convincing," says Anna, scrubbing her face just from the memory of it.
"Well, the bartender was horrible, and wouldn't serve ale in a timely fashion. When this offer of coin and battle came along, I figured, why not? And here we are, and here that gobbos lies. A good day for civilization, eh?"
A good day indeed. Though if we meet that slobbering page again I may punch him just to be safe.
"A good point, Bruno. That fellow certainly gets a sock in the jaw soonest possibility."
Alruc looks extremely pleased and perks up at the thought of bashing his teeth in.
Cao is quiet as events unfold and merely murmurs, It was the right thing to do. when asked about his motivations. The elf was content for the job done and done well and was ready to head back to town, interested to see what else might come from this distraction.
Mei has been silent, just watching over everyone. Even at the Lady's request she does not immediately answer, apparently out of respect for the Lady's title.
But soon she gives a short response, I am Mei, I am a hired bodyguard under the employ of Cao indicating the elf.
I keep enough distance between me and the ladies that I can pretend to ignore their questions and thus able to not answer.
"Poor Mr. Blathermost. He's only trying to do his job," Lady Loren says while shaking her head, "well whatever the reason, I'm glad you did it. They were talking about taking us to 'put with the others.' Not really sure what they meant."
The two of you catch a whiff of decay every now and then.
Anna wrinkles her nose as the wind changes. "Does anyone else smell that? It's like... something rotting. Maybe the goblins had bodies?"
Her nose can obviously only do so much, but she starts trying to sniff out the direction of the smell all the same.
Cao shares Anna's expression and also takes to stepping about trying to pin down the smell...
Damned if I can tell. I confess that all my training on the inner workings of them mind have let my senses not as sharp as many of my kin...
"Meh. I just smell gobbo. That's bad enough, you ask me."
"Smells like gobbo does its? I wills make youse alls smells of rottsies! Then mehbes youses smells betters," a high pitched voice screams out as four goblins, which you recognize as part of the group that killed each other, comes pouring out of the woods. The stench of decay is thick in the air as they shuffle forward to mob the front of the line.
Zomblin: AC 18/14/15
Zomblin 1: 12
Zomblin 2: 12
Zomblin 3: 12
Zomblin 4: 12
Blik: AC 16/16/11
HP: 40
"Ha! I knew I smelled gobbo. Dead, rotting gobbo filth, too!"
Alruc lowers his lance and charges the closest goblin zombie.
to hit, for piercing damage
With a sickening, meaty crunch, Alruc's lance shatter's the zomblin.
"Oh, I think I have something for you," the voice of the living goblin says from the cover of the underbrush.
You see a the form of a goblin slinking through the brush towards the part of the group that has the three rescued girls.
Two rocks appear in Bruno's hands and are hurled at the goblins in rapid succession.
perception
"Over there! By the human girls! Another sneaky gobbo slime trying to hide and ambush!"
Alruc points his lance at the sneak as he bellows.
Anna moves to attack the goblin that Alruc pointed out.
(sneak attack, right? goblin has not acted yet)
Mei moves to protect the freed captives, she is currently unsure what direction an attack may come from but she does know the most likely after Alruc's warning.
Cao opts to stay close to Mei and follows suit in preparing to deal with anything that comes near the girls...
I "jump" to the nearest tree branch out of the reach of the zomblins.
Zomblin: AC 18/14/15
Zomblin 1: RE-DEAD!
Zomblin 2: 3
Zomblin 3: 12
Zomblin 4: 12
Blik: AC 16/16/11
HP: 34
The Zomblins, whether out of mindless violence or out of some spark of their natures that still remains, concentrate their attacks on Alruc's horse.
The three girls, meanwhile, move back from the brush where Anna disappeared into. The goblin yelps in surprise and hisses in pain as Anna slices at his arm.
"You'll pay for that," he promises through clenched teeth.
Stones spring to Bruno's hands and fly at the zomblins at a rapid pace.
The zombies slam and claw at Alruud ineffectualy, unable to get through his barding.
Wheeling around, the steed rears and kicks out at the creature's while Alruc stabs down with his lance again.
Alruud bite! for damage
Alruud stomp! for damage
Alruud stomp! for damage
Taking a 5' step back to get distance for the lance.
Alruc lance! for piercing damage
Confirmation: Alruc critical lance! for piercing damage
"Filthy undead gobbo scum. Don't you know you're supposed to be dead?" Alruc yells through gritted teeth as the creature's swarm him and his mount.
Zomblin: AC 18/14/15 DR 5/slashing (Sorry, forgot to put this there.)
Zomblin 1: RE-DEAD!
Zomblin 2: RE-DEAD!
Zomblin 3: RE-DEAD!
Zomblin 4: 12
Blik: AC 16/16/11
HP: 34
Alruc and his mighty steed return two more of the walking corpses to the realm of death. The last one doesn't seem to even notice the fall of its companions.
Blik takes a step back from Anna and points a gnarled finger at her.
"May Glurk Hada feast upon you a thousand times," he screams as a shadowy mist rises from the ground around the young woman and tries to cling to her.
The sounds of magic can be heard behind Mei, She turns and moves to engage the now exposed Bilk.
Anna slashes out at the goblin twice.
Cao focuses his attention on Blik like his allies and attempts to throw another destructive blast...
seeing that all is under control, Jyste keeps his eyes on the girls ready to "lift "them to safety should the need arise