They are calling for reinforcements, including a bugbear!
Eponine will sheath her blade and ready her crossbow again.
As Victor manages to avoid the stream of arrows, he takes aim, "My turn," and fires again.
Victor fires another deadly shot as Eponine exchanges her blade for a ranged weapon, Belril pops up out of the brush, fires a shot that bounces off the stockade wall, and then drops prone again into the brush.
Atop the eastern wall a new figure appears, a half-elf male some of you may recognize as Tstuo Kaijitsu, who glares down at the field of battle. He calls out,"Cease this! Thistletop is too well defended for you rabble. Go back to Sandpoint and mind your selves."
"We are here to save Ameiko. From you, it appears!" Wren yells at the half elf. "Give her to us, and we'll leave you be."
"What the--?" Kern says. "Isn't that Ameiko's brother?" He loads his crossbow and then aims it in Tsuto's directions. he yells up.
A bugbear? Sophy's eyes widen as she realizes that if a bugbear joins the fray, it will be coming through the doors she's huddled right next to. She hustles across the threshold, afraid at every moment that a monster will burst out and snatch her up. When she reaches the other side unaccosted, she ducks around the corner and places her back to the wall, glaring up at Tsuto, remembering the horror left behind in the glass-working room, what had been done to his own father.... She is determined he won't go away without telling them what has happened to Ameiko.
Kern and Wren demand to know where Ameiko is.
Sophy darts to the other side to the stockade door to get a better view of Tsuto.
The half-elf glares down at them, "You are meddling in Kaijistu family affairs that are none or your business. I repeat, be gone from here or my friends will add your corpses to the mounting pile of dead."
The two remaining goblins on the western wall duck down out of sight as he is addressing the group.
You call these murderous little thicak your friends?!?
Unless someone uses a free action to shout and stop her, Eponine will let loose with a crossbow bolt at him.
To hit
Damage
As the goblins vanish, Victor turns to Tsuto, his patience wearing thin, He nocks an arrow and takes aim, daring him to make a wrong move.
Victor turns to Tsuto, his patience wearing thin, and moves across the bridge shouting, "You will surrender now, Tsuto, or prepare to fight! Be smart and answer the question!"
Eponine chooses not to wait for an answer, firing her crossbow yelling, "You call these murderous little thicak your friends?!?" The bolt plunges into the stockade wall below where Tsuto is standing behind the wall.
Belril says nothing as he stands an lets a sling stone fly. It looks as if it going to smack the half-elf in the head, but then Tsuto's hand darts up knocking the projectile away so that it harmlessly falls to the ground.
Tusto brings a short bow up from behind the wall, causing Sophy to react reaching out almost unconsciously with her mind. His brow furrows as she attempts to invade his thoughts, but his mental prowess is strong enough to ward off the attack. Tsuto calls out, "A mind witch eh? Well lets see if we can put an end to that!"
Victor doesn't hesitate and lets his arrow fly, it streaks through the air and catches the half-elf in the shoulder.
Tsuto takes aim and fires at the Oracle. The arrow comes close to her head, but plunges into the doors of the stockade instead.
Wren fires off one last burst of magical energy through her wand, targeting Tsuto.
Damage
No Problem :)
Victor turns to Tsuto, his patience wearing thin, and moves across the bridge shouting, "You will surrender now, Tsuto, or prepare to fight! Be smart and answer the question!"
Eponine chooses not to wait for an answer, firing her crossbow yelling, "You call these murderous little thicak your friends?!?" The bolt plunges into the stockade wall below where Tsuto is standing behind the wall.
Belril says nothing as he stands an lets a sling stone fly. It looks as if it going to smack the half-elf in the head, but then Tsuto's hand darts up knocking the projectile away so that it harmlessly falls to the ground.
Tusto brings a short bow up from behind the wall, Kern sees it coming up and takes a shot. His arrow landing in the wall next to Eponine's
Seeing the half-elf's bow casues Sophy to react reaching out almost unconsciously with her mind. His brow furrows as she attempts to invade his thoughts, but his mental prowess is strong enough to ward off the attack. Tsuto calls out, "A mind witch eh? Well lets see if we can put an end to that!"
Victor doesn't hesitate and lets his arrow fly, it streaks through the air and catches the half-elf in the shoulder.
Tsuto takes aim and fires at the Oracle. The arrow comes close to her head, but plunges into the doors of the stockade instead.
1d20+5=21
1d20+4=12
Wren uses her wand to summon up a reserve of her depleting magic and blasts Tsuto with a painful missile of energy.
A dark skinned, robed woman arrives on the wall next to Tsuto, pointing a wand at Wren and sending her own bolt of energy at the wizard. From within the stockade a loud awful singing begins,
"Goblins chew and goblins bite. Goblins cut and goblins fight. Stab the dog and cut the horse, Goblins eat and take by force!"
The chilling words bring back memories from the night of the raid on Sandpoint. Sophy, Eponine, and Wren can hear the sounds of timber dragging across the stockade door presumably releasing the barricading crossbar.
On the western tower the goblins return, joined by a third to replace the one already slain. They seem to be awaiting orders.
Another figure arrives upon the tower with Tsuto, this one wearing banded armor and carrying a composite bow. He lifts it ready to fire upon the group below.
Tsuto shouts, "Surrender! Cease this fight and we will let you live!"
Yep, I saw it I decided to use it to start the next DM post instead of tagging it on to the end of the edited last post
He is s ruggedly handsome human with an athletic build.
Eponine will press her assault on the arrogant half-elf, firing again with her crossbow.
To hit
Damage
Eponine fires her crossbow, but Tsuto's uncanny speed allows him to throw an arm up just in time to deflect the arrow away from him harmlessly.
Belril takes his shot and the aim is true smacking the half-elf on the shoulder. Tsuto lets out a loud grunt of pain and falls down behind the wall out of sight. Belril rapidly loads and fires another sling stone, this one at the mage, but it flies low and bangs off the stockades' wall as the hafling moves north.
As Belril's shot flies true, "I told you to surrender you stupid man." Victor mutters to himself as he moves up and fires at the wizard who shot Wren.
Kern reloads his crossbow and, seeing that Tsuto has fallen, fires at the wizard.
Rebuffed by Tsuto's disciplined mind, Sophy scrambles across the open square of ground to huddle in the corner and be less targetable from the top of the tower. Holding her dagger at the ready, she watches the stronghold doors with trepidation.
Kern also takes a shot at the women in the tower, but the bolt only finds wood. Sophy looks to protect herself from the attacks from above and get out of the way of whatever might becoming out of the stockade doors so she scampers across the clearing to a presumed safe place. As Victor moves over the bodies of the dead goblins and dogs, his boots squish in the blood soaked mud. That however dose not affect his aim as he easily hits the mage over the wall with a well placed arrow.
Hearing that the goblins were going to be coming out after them, Wren casts a spell and she disappears from view. She then quickly stows Father Zantus's wand, making sure nothing untowards happened to it.
Eponine fires at the man in banded armor, hoping for better luck than she had with Tsuto.
To hit
Damage
Edited to change target.
Wren vanishes from view after chanting a few arcane words and a magestic sweep of her arms.
The mage points her wand at Victor, a bolt of blue hissing energy darts through the air plunging into him. Then she ducks down behind the wall out of sight.
From inside the stockade the eerie goblin song continues as the doors push open concealing Eponine behind one. The whip wielding chanter waves her hands and casts a spell at Kern. For a second he feels his mind get foggy, but he resists the magic and shakes off the effect.
Three tough looking goblins start to rush out of the stockade, but Belril takes advantage of the opportunity to lash out at the first one. The halfling knocks it hard on the head as it advances on Kern. It then swings its pole arm like horsechopper at Kern's feet trying to knock the warrior over. Kern lands a right cross square on the goblins jaw, knocking the creature out.
A second horsechopper wielding goblin rushes out and faces off against Belril, also trying to knock the halfling off his feet. Belril is quick and skips over the slow moving attack.
Another golbin with the wicked blade attached to a pole swarms over against Kern, also trying to take the big man and drop him prone. The weapon masters superior training prevents the creatures attempt.
Following the goblins out a huge bugbear, whom you all instantly figure must be the elf hating Bruthazmus, swings his heavy flail at Belril's head. The confident halfling continues to be more agile than his attackers and ducks the powerful swing.
From the western wall there is a commotion as a massive (for a goblin) crown wearing giant gecko rider pushes past the archers there rides down the wall and closes in on the combat from the backside.
The three archers on the wall disappear from sight again as the man on the eastern wall fires his bow at Victor but the arrow misses.
Round 13 Map; I removed the dead from before to make the map easier to see, Wren is Invisible