"My men can watch them for you, if you like."
The Blackraven looks disappointed for a moment, then sets his strong jaw and furrows his brow. “Freyr Darkwine is no king,” he says. “It is not for him to erase a weregild of a thousand years to convenience the Pathfinders. Kill us all if you must, but you’ll not drag us before his justice. Those goblins will die like the monsters they are!”
Two warriors then burst from the stables.
Round 1: (Bold may act)
Wyatt
Tyranius
Arkath
Auriferous
Nemrok
Bartholimu
Goblins
Enrik (7 damage)
Red (5 non-lethal)
Blue
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Enraged by the betrayal, Arkath is about to strike immediately until all of his allies try to belay the threat. Growling, he instead casts a spell on Kitzil, causing the dinosaur to ooze acid from its mouth. "Guard, front!", he speaks in Orc, the megaraptor moving in front of the goblins and readying to snap at anything that approaches while Arkath pulls out his falchion.
A person on the roof of the longhouse crosses the top. He looks like a chaplain, but has a shimmering, magical field around him.
[spoiler=Spellcraft, DC 12]It appears he just cast Shield of Faith[/dice]
Enrik charges towards you, or perhaps towards the goblins, with a look of utter hatred in his eyes. Kitzil makes his readied attack and misses, so Enrik responds with a swing of his axe.
The two warriors both step up to retaliate against Batholimu, although again you can see their intent is to attack the goblins.
The goblins delay, and then scatter.
Round 2: (Bold may act)
Wyatt
Tyranius
Arkath
Auriferous
Nemrok
Bartholimu
Chaplain
Enrik / Yellow (7 lethal 5 non-lethal -2 attack)
Red (10 lethal)
Blue (5 lethal)
Goblins
Nemrok - nice try, but Yellow (the leader) is not intimidated.
Bartholimu - from where you are on the map, you cannot cast without drawing an AoO, even if you move 5'. Do you want to try casting defensive? Or accept an AoO?
The chaplain on the roof moves to the edge, and casts a spell.
Enrik steps over, and continues to try to carve his way through Kitzil.
The blue guard yells to the red, "Hold this guys so I can get to the goblins!"
The red guard tries to grapple Bartholimu.
Blue moves past anyway, moving towards the goblins and flanking Auri.
The goblins stop in there tracks and return to Arkath.
@Auri - yes, that warrior did attack you.
Wyatt's arrow finds a chink in Enrik's armor, thunking into his torso. Which a grimace, Enrik falls unconscious.
Tyranius casts Bless.
Auri, shaking off the feelings of gloom, gets momentarily confused as she realizes someone attacked her from behind. She turns and slaps the blue guard with the flat of her sword, hard enough to drop him.
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If they are down Bartholimu will move up to yellow and cast shocking grasp.
If they are up Bartholimu will use his force missle ability
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Do you want to Shocking Grasp red? If so, I think you still have to cast defensively or risk an AoO.
Enrik is now dead.
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Enrik is now dead. Everyone can stop attacking yellow...
Whoops, can I direct that attack at the next closest?
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Kitzel rushes Red and bites him, taking him out of the fight.
Bartholimu, being now without nearby enemies, blasts the cleric on the roof. Seeing all of the ground combatants down, he runs back up the roof and over (unless Nemrok can kill him first).
The cleric slips and slides off of the roof as an arrow thuds into him as he hits the ground, killing him instantly.
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Auri goes around the men, doing what she can to bind their wounds.
Once those that can be saved are, she will supervise taking them into the house.
"Rather than the store room, lets put them in their beds. With weapons and armour far away. I want to know why they attacked us and whether we are likely to see another such attack."
While kind enough to want them to have some comfort in their beds, she ensures they are tied up.
"Keep an eye on our goblins. We still need them rested and to make sure they don't set the place on fire. Tonight might not be as restful as I was hoping for."
Only the cleric is truly dead, the others can all be saved (Red was all lethal damage, but only at -2 when he dropped at the end, so you can save him). Enrik wakes, still enraged, but eventually you get the whole story. He recently lost his family due to goblin raids, and so he ignored the orders to ensure your safe passage fueled by his blood hatred. The other three were new recruits, just following orders.
You make your way to Trollheim with your goblins (and the others, if you choose), and are congratulated on transporting them all alive (which earns you 2 prestige points).
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Auri continues to try and work on her draconic with Nemrok.
"There has to be a story to how you learned the language? Did you meet a real dragon?" she asks with interest.
She also ensures the goblins are well treated, hoping that by showing them a good example she may plant a seed that would see them treating others with a little more respect than in the goblin want to do.
Lastly she intends to leave Enrik behind.
"Your friend died, needlessly, due to your hatred. And you could well have too. There are times and places to fight goblins, just as they are to fight men."
She leaves the words hanging, hoping that Enrik may see the error of his ways, but sadly doubting he will.
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Thinking for a moment, before leaving Enrik, Auriferous tries something different.
"Enrik, you must need supplies to keep up the battle against the witch folk and their goblin minions, right?"
She pauses, gauging his reaction.
"I have... contacts who would like to be able to use your outpost here for conducting trade. How do you feel about helping out The Exchange?"