As Kovak giggles wildly like a deranged circus clown, several of the goblins attempt to latch onto the squirming goblin and keep him from peeling his face off and making a cool Kovak mask out of it. While the possibilities seem promising for future masquerade balls, the goblins decide it would probably be a bad idea for the most part. Mugmuff latches on to the goblin, while Bart makes futile pawing attempts, hoping to help the rogue get the mad goblin under control. In the end the anti-paladin's heart just doesn't seem to be fully dedicated to the effort. Failing to get himself under control, Kovak uses a free hand to continue to tear chunks of flesh from his face. His eyes roll about his head in sheer madness as he rakes his cheek, tearing away more meat and spraying Mugmuff with his blood.
" kovak must get pretty for the party everyone will be so jealous ahahhahaaa " kovak screeches as he wiggles
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Mugmuff tries to pin Kovak so he has to stop hurting himself...
Momentarily extinguishing his torch, Torch attempts to crown Kovak with the smoking stub. Unfortunately, his aim is off considerably, and he nearly manages to bop Bart instead.
Nurpus looks to Purpus, Kovak, Purpus, Kovak.
"Dats no good. Less holes not more holes. We talk bout dis later."
Unsure what else to do, he drops Purpus and runs towards the deranged bard.
As he drops Purpus... "Stay."
"GWAAAAAAAH!"
He then attempts to grapple the crazy goblin.
...instead he trips and falls next to him.
"Oof."
Bart bares his teeth at Torch who appears to have suddenly gone crazy as well and lunges at Torch trying to grapple him instead.
Bart instead trips over Nurpus adding to the goblin pileup.
The goblins continue to grope and grab at Kovak, trying to pull his bloodied hands away from his face. Despite their best efforts the mad bard continues to wiggle free at every turn, gibbering and cackling the whole time, his eyes glazed over with true insanity. Try as he might, he can't seem to muster up enough willpower to fight off the madness, and his lunacy continues as he takes a free hand and gouges out one of his eyes, the orb hanging limp against his cheek, still attached to the nerve that leads back into his eye socket.
Bart stares down Kovak and in a firm voice shouts "Stop!"
Bart then extracts himself from the pile and towers over Kovak.
"fhabkjfbvaeurbvakjrvbkzfbadkfjbaolkfnalkfnvalrn oal eeeehhehehehe hahahah cars!!!"Kovak shrieks as he struggles
Bart casts a spell at the insane goblin and stomps his foot at him in anger! Kovak babbles madly at the anti-paladin and shrinks away somewhat, both terrified and unable to control himself at the same time. He wiggles and squirms but is unable to reverse the grapple that the rogue has on him. Mugmuff twists his position a bit, trying again to pin the squirming bard, and in an amazing display of skill, bends Kovak's legs up over the goblin's head and shoves his toes into his drooling mouth, turning him into the first goblin pretzel on Golarion.
Kovak, in his weakened and frightened condition, struggles to get free from the bavarian-goblin-twist submission hold of doom, but it completely trapped by the excellent maneuver.
"Ok quick like... someone with rope tie him up while he's pretzeled." If no one has any rope, he'll add..."There was rope hanging down in that other room.. go gets it."
Nurpus runs off in the direction Mugmuff mentions and gets the rope.
Bart, being the biggest bestest headed goblin will take the rope from Nurpus and tie up Kovak with it.
"murfh mer muftfffff" kovak gags on his toes struggling to free him self for he must be pretty for the Prince...
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The goblins, in an amazing display of yet unseen teamwork, quickly work together to tie the wiggling and squirming Kovak up with rope. As he lies there on the ground he continues to make slobbery biting motions, hoping to get a juicy ankle into his mouth for his trouble.
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Nurpus stands watch for the thing that is causing this.
"Maybe, need fresh air. Lets head back out and regroup. Bart think that bestest plan."
"Just smack him hard in head, he be back to normal," Torch offers helpfully.
Bart, fed up with the horrors of the house, and tired of waiting, grabs each goblin by the ear, including the bound up Kovak, and drags them out of the room, down the stairs, and out the door they entered. Despite the squealing and protesting by all of the miserable goblins, the biggest headed goblin of all has no problem bullying each of them into submission. Once outside, each of the goblins breaths a sigh of relief, not only to be out of the foul manor house but also because Kovak seems to have stopped trying to wiggle free from the bonds and tear off his own face.
Not far away, the goblin guards are encamped along the road, sitting around a fire and eating something that was probably once an animal of some sort, the creature slowly turning over the campfire on a spit and sending fabulous scents and aromas wafting through the cool night air towards the party.
Sitting around the fire, roasting a squirrel that she had caught with the help of a summoned eagle, Agna watches the house with interest as the goblins who had gone inside are one-by-one dragged out by the biggest-headed one. She quickly sucks the meat off the squirrel in one gulp, then walks over to them. Then she sees that one of the gobs is tied up with his foot in his mouth and blood gushing from countless scratches all over his face.
"What you dumb gobs do? This look like fails. Bad fails." She taps kovak with a wand and his wounds close up, though the scarring is horrid and substantial. "What happen to angry one? I saw him earlier. He brave and stupid, just like Agna likes them."
"A little too brave and stupid.... He dead. We need go back in house though." Starts untying Kovak since he's not trying to maul himself anymore... but slowly - starting with his foot in mouth first, to see what he says, before untying the other foot or his hands.
Torch stands by, keeping a close watch on Kovak, in case he needs another application of the club.
Mugmuff looks at the female with her chin dripping with squirrel fats and juices... "Hullo, me Mugmuff... this unhappy gob Kovak... was crazy... maybe still crazy. You got spare squirrel haunch? Me hungry." he adds that last as if he suddenly realized how hungry he was, smelling the roasted meat.
Agna tosses some meat to the hungry goblin. "You dumb gobs need help? Think you do."
Mugmuff catches the meat one handed and gobbles up a few bites... "Mmm good... you do more than cook good?"
Agna smiles viciously, and starts casting a summoning spell.
Agna casts another spell, and suddenly hurls one of the toads at Mugmuff.
Unfortunately she misses Mugmuff and instead hits Torch. Torch feels tired for a bit.
After showing off her not-terribly-impressive spellcasting through throwing animals at others, Agna says "You hold on. I run back and get stuff to fix stupid gob. Be back soon. Come with if you want."
Agna goes back to town and attempts to trade a few of her (pictures-only) magical scrolls for a pair of potions of lesser restoration.
Mugmuff walks along with Agna as she goes to town... On the way, he'll ask her, "Why you throw froggie at me and Torch?"
... and while he lacks any special bargaining skills , he'll still try to make it clear to the trader that the swap is a necessity.
"We need these potions. You make trade she wants, yes?"
Kovak is looking and his "friends " and struggling to speak passed his toes as well as get free...
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Bart will attempt to lick the toads before they disappear.
Bart will attempt to lick the toads before they disappear.
Nurpus, bored with current events involving magic and potions, sits quietly in a corner and licks himself.
Torch decides that nappy time is upon him, and promptly lies down to sleep.
Agna gets the two potions, and then feeds them to the stupid foot-in-mouth goblin.
"Yous gobs owe me. I get first treasures. Let's go do your job. Dummies."
"We owes yews, but we gots lots to do in that bad house to find any treasures. Let's go do it." and at that, with Kovak untied, he heads back to the haunted house.
Torch follows, with a sigh.
Bart nods, still disappointed that the toad disappeared before he could lick it.
"ye fix kovak face kovak happy to try and keep ye safe" happy to have most of his looks back kovak moves with the group back into the odd home
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Nurpus follows along muttering to himself.
"Stupid toadwoman want first loot. Purpus show her first loot. Give loot bullets one at a time...
Stupid Kovak songs no good anyway. Betterer songs when eating foot. Stupid toadwoman mess everything up."
Bart is getting hungrier and is on the lookout for leftover supplies to eat.