Thorfinn misses the goblin in front of him. "Off to the side, lass! Get out the line of fire! Dan, get over here!"
Dan continues climbing across the bridge.
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Ioxeia stabs at the goblin in front of her and Thorfinn, before wheeling out of his reach and circling to the shelter of the wall on the east side of the entrance, out of view of the archers.
From there, she anxiously watches Thorfinn brace to take the next goblins' charge, and Dan's progress along the bridge's handrail. Calling on her magic, she reinforces her shield and prepares to defend herself.
Ioxeia uses Thorfinns attack that distracted the goblin to skewer it right through the heart, before moving around to the side of the building in order to get out of sight from the archer goblins. With Ioxeia out of sight the ranged goblins turn their attention to Dan who is nearly across the bridge.
The three remaining goblins move forward to attack Thorfinn, while two new archers appear in the eastern tower adding their aim with the other tower toward Dan.
One of the goblins gets a lucky blow in on Throfinn while the others distract him with their attacks. The barrage of arrows comes flying down at Dan, sticking him like a pin cushion, just as Ioxeia before him. A couple of the arrows stick into some vital organs causing severe pain.
Chim seeing the new arrivals let's loose more of his arcane powers. Once again splitting the balls of force, one each for each goblin in the western tower.
As the magic energy collides with each of the goblins, one of the goblins falls to the ground.
Dan barely manages not to fall off the bridge, his only thought to get to the far side and out of view from the archers.
Thorfinn can't seem to hit anything.
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Seeing more archers reach the eastern tower, leaving her exposed, Ioxeia realizes there's just not space enough for her to sneak past the goblins crowding Thorfinn and through the open doors of the fort. If the goddesses will that I die today, let it be gloriously, she muses, a desperate calm settling over her.
Calling another spark of magic to sharpen her spear, she throws herself against the goblins attacking Thorfinn from the other side, hoping that she can escape the archers' arrows in the melee.
Dan finishes his climb across the bridge leaping into the spot Ioxeia previously held. Thorfinn attempts to slice down another goblin but has no luck as he tries to keep himself defended from their attacks. Ioxeia runs in from her cover and stabs on of the goblins on Throfinn. Though with her grave injuries she only manages to hit it in the shoulder and it still stands.
Another group of goblins floods out of the farthest hallway, with the slighlty injured goblin you spared last night in tow. In addition, there is a goblin mounted on an oversized lizard that seems to be shouting commands to the others. The goblins and dogs on the floor start to wake up but still seem in shock and not able to see. Seeing the difficulty their kin are having with the dwarf they all focus their fire on him.
Still the dwarf keeps up his defenses nearly taking a few blows but managing to avoid them. Chim tosses more magical balls of force, one at one of the new arrivals in the east tower and one at the remaining goblin in the west tower.
The two balls of force hit their targets and both goblins drop out of sight.
Dan moves closer to Thorfinn and Ioxeia and calls on Cayden to relieve them of some of their wounds.
Thorfinn is operating in a target-rich environment, but still can't hit anything.
Dan channels the divine power of his god and it washes over the area healing Ioxeia, Thorfinn, Dan and some of the injuried goblins. Though only one seems to snap back to life. Thorfinn attempts to attack again but with all the chaos around him he can't find an opening. While Ioxeia skewers the goblin she had already attacked, dropping it to the ground.
The remaining archer turns his attention to Dan as he shots.
The arrow glances off his armor and flies off the cliff. Out of the two goblins already engaged, one of the goblins attacks Thorfinn while the other targets Dan.
Neither are able to connect though. Some of the other goblins start to stand, hearing battle but still blind. The goblin dogs stay down on the ground.
Chim takes aim at the last remaining goblin an unleashes his balls of force.
They smack into the last archar and he falls to the ground. He shouts out from across the bridge "My powers are spent." He then starts working on tieing off his end of the bridge and making sure it is secure.
Finally seeing a well-defined target, Thorfinn delivers a devastating blow to one of the blinded goblins. "That's more like it!"
Thorfinn cuts one of the goblins attemption to stand, still blind and confused. Ioxeia tries to do the same but with her injuries still so severe it seems to hamper her abilities. Instead she tries to take advantage of her position with Dan but still has no luck in her attack.
With Cayden's blessings buoying his spirits, Dan rushes over to the closest goblin and smashes at it with his morningstar.
Dan clobbers the goblin between him and Ioxeia dropping it to the ground unmoving.
If one is within reach, Thorfinn will attack a blinded goblin before it can get back into the fight.
Thorfinn attempts hitting another goblin but has no luck. The remaining goblins swarm onto the group.
Thorfinn continues his hot streak with AoOs, landing a solid blow on one of the goblin dogs as it stands up.
Dan swings wildly at one of the rising goblins.
Thorfinn slices through the goblin dog as it attempts to stand, dropping it back to the ground unmoving. Ioxeia stabs one of the goblins getting in position around her but this goblin seems tougher than the others, taking the blow and still ready to fight. Dan isn't able to connect with the goblin in front of him getting up. The goblin inside the fort riding on the oversize lizard still shouts out commands. One of the goblins also inside casts a spell directed at Thorfinn
The tougher looking goblins level their horsechoppers at Ioxeia.
Though non seem to be able to connect with her. The goblin you spared from last night summons a firey blade into his hand and moves to attack As the rest of the goblins go to work on the party.
While they curse and yell and attempt to attack they all seem to caught up in their own chaos as the party deftly defends themselves against the oncoming attacks.
Chim finishes tieing off his side of the bridge and yells back to the others "I'll see if I can find help." then disappears back into the thistles.
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Ioxeia does her best under the rain of blows, holding up as long as she can until most of the little monsters draw back out of reach. Desperation beginning to set in, she whirls in an arc to use her shield to best effect as she tries to cast another spell.
A chill blue glow pours like seawater from her hand to the tip of her spear, which she thrusts at the goblin dog between her and Dan. Unfortunately, her efforts to cast her spell safely throw off her aim, and she misses.
Dan swears as he misses the goblin. "Cayden, any more help would be greatly appreciated."
Ioxeia attempts to stab one of the goblin dogs after casting a spell but she misses her mark. Thorfinn drops to the ground in uncontrollable laughter, rolling around just laughing.
Dan casts a spell provoking the goblins to attack.
One of the goblins cuts into him as he is attempting to cast the spell.
The goblin mounted on the lizard, unable to get into battle continues to shout at the other goblins. The goblin caster next to him begins to start singing some horrible song. The goblin caster weilding the fire blade attempts to strike at Ioxeia, followed by the tougher goblins and then all the others attack as well.
Out of the chaotic mess of attacks only one of the goblins was able to barely nick Ioxeia, but in her current state a nick is a pretty serious injury.
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As the goblin from the day before launches himself at her, Ioxeia thinks, So, this is how this is going to be.
Anticipating that other spellcasters are likely the greatest threat, she does her best to bring the treacherous creature down. In a show of confidence, she shouts, "You! I won't make the same mistake this time!"
Dan shrugs off the goblin's blow and grins as Cayden's strength flows into him. "You're going to regret that." In a moment, it would. For now, though, Dan called down more of his god's healing energy to bolster him for the fight.
The spell's lack of effect seems to have energized the dwarf for the moment. With a shout, he chops into the goblin between him and Ioxeia. "Hold on, lass!"
Thorfinn goes for the goblin to Ioxeia's west, trying to clear the area around her.
Ioxeia attempts once again to stab into one of the goblins, though this time targeting the goblin from last night whose treachery put everyone in the current situation. However, with everything going on she still isn't able to connect. Dan calls on more divine power from his diety to heal his own injuries, though this provokes an attack from his foes.
Neither connect to possibly interupt the spell. Thorfinn takes a swing at another goblin, taking it down just like the last. The goblin caster still inside the fort continues his horrid song but also pulls out a dogslicer ready to attack. The goblin on the lizard moves forward with his higher quality sword at the ready to assualt Thorfinn. The goblin from last night steps down seeing Thorfinn as the greater threat and shouts to some of the other goblins who then circle around him. One of the tougher goblins steps down to aid in the assualt while the others continue to focus on Ioxeia. The other remaining goblins and goblin dogs attack who they can reach.
Even with the overwhelming assualt the goblins lack real combat training and the more experienced party memebers are able to fend off all the attacks, except for one which barely scratches Dan.
Dan starts walking toward Ioxeia and Thorfinn, swinging at whatever goblins or goblin dogs are closest.
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"I'll do my best!" Ioxeia calls, trying to correct for her furious lunge a moment before. Still trying to catch her breath in the whirling melee, Ioxeia is unable to land a blow. Trying not to give up hope, she braces for another round of wild attacks from the goblin mob, while offering up a silent, inchoate prayer, Goddesses, if we can just hold on...
Thorfinn turns his attention to the tougher goblin that just tried to attack him, his bloody axe tracing a lethal arc through the air. A wordless growl is the only sound he makes.
Dan and Ioxeia continue to fight, but worn down by their own injuries aren't able to connect with their targets. Thorfinn manages to slice into the goblin riding the lizard but what would normally put down the other goblins seems to only barely injure this goblin. The goblins continue their assualt with the one continuing it's horrible song.
The goblins, still extremely unorganized miss with most of their attacks. However, one of the tougher goblins skewers Ioxeia and she drops to the ground a stream of blood running out of her open wound.
Thorfinn growls again and continues to go after the goblin he wounded.
Dan continues to try to close the gap between himself and Ioxeia.
Thorfinn strikes the mounted goblin once again, but he maintains his position to continue the assualt. Ioxeia lies on the ground a pool of blood starting to form around her from her open wounds. Dan, empowered by the divine grace of his god smashes the goblin dog in his path to Ioxeia, dropping it to the ground with one blow.
The goblins continue to attack much like they have been, though they fill in the space where Ioxeia fell in order to better assualt the others.
The mounted goblin and the caster from last night both cut into Thorfinn leaving some serious wounds. Two of the meaner looking goblins also manages to stab Dan and Thorfinn with their horsechopper.