"I have a better use for the fire." Tanwen says, putting her sword away and picking up one of the goblins and tossing them into the molten glass before walking directly into the fire. "I don't often do this in front of others you may not care to watch." Tanwen suggests as she lets the fire lick and close her wounds.
The Tiefling watched in fascination as Tanwen healed herself. His resistance to fire paled in comparison to actually being able to use it like that was an impressive skill. He wondered why her clothes didn't burn from the heat as well.
Instead he popped our the crossbow's bolts, loaded two fresh into replace the ones he fired, and loaded the clip back into place before craning a fresh bolt into the weapon, ready to fire. "Since we need not concern ourselves with the flames for now, once Tanwen has finished healing we need to follow the Goblins. The..." Shalluk looked at the corpses, coated in congealing class. "The mischief the Goblins got up to in here suggests we shouldn't let then have free reign in the rest of the building for long. They might try and burn it down out of spite."
"that's rather amazing, handy too he says in mild awe "true, if whatever scared them isn't going to jump out at us we should deal with the present threat?
Nearly half a minute later, Tanwen steps out of the flames with a sigh of relief, "Ah, much better." She adds, the physical wounds which she had had just moments ago already healed up, though her flesh looked hotter for a moment before cooling down to a more normal temperature. "Shall we go kill more goblins then?"
Cale grins, nodding "I do believe we shall"
He looks down at the tracks, asking soba if she smells anything,
The cat sniffs around trying to identify the various scents present in the room, goblin, elf, human, fire, glass
Soba runs after them, ready to sink her claws into the creatures, Cale'anon chases after her hot on her tail
Cale opens the door and shouts to his fellows where the goblins, as this the two of them were headed.
Shalluk winced at Cale shouting out. Well, it wasn't like the Goblins didn't already know they were coming, but...confirming it just seemed a terrible idea. If nothing else they seemed liable to run again.
Still, they hadn't found Ameiko yet, and she was what was important now that he knew the place was safe. So he followed, quietly hoping that the Goblins had run away completely. He did not want to see what happened if they stayed to finish Ameiko off...
Tanwen really wasn't sure that shouting was necessary, though the glassworks did already have quite a bit of noise, so perhaps she was wrong. Still though she followed along, hoping that they could find Ameiko before anything bad happened to her.
Cale growls in rage at the half elf, working with these little beasts, and draws a bead on him when his panther tackles the half elf so he grunts and instead fires it off at one of the goblins instead.
The cat yowled out in pain as the counterattack from the goblin and elf tore into his meager defences.
Shalluk sighed, seeing the dire straights that the Elf and his pet had already gotten themselves into. But he had no great wish to see the animal suffer for there recklessness. Channeling his power, he glanced at one of the Goblins and uttered a word in Aklo.
Her falcata at the ready nearly instantly, Tanwen makes her way over towards the action, but stops shy of actually engaging in melee combat with the goblins, deciding instead to breathe forth a fiery cone enclosing in one of the goblins and the half elf, but avoiding the panther.
Cale called back his companion for her to be healed, before he pours magic into his bow and fires an arrow at the one of the foes still standing after the fire washed over them
Shalluk sighed in relief as the big cat managed to break off. Murderous Command would wear off the Goblin. Shalluk had rather hoped that the little monster would cause an internal fight, but that single round of distraction seems to have been good enough for now.
Now, however, they were crowding Tanwen. Shalluk wasn't especially worried - Tanwen had proven to be pretty adept at not getting hurt - but he figured one less Goblin wouldn't hurt her chances. Checking the crossbow quickly, he raised it to one cheek and aimed at the Goblin he had just cast his spell on. With a little luck it would still be confused from the spell wearing off. Holding his breath to help his aim, Shalluk pulled the trigger and felt the heavy thump of the bolt's release.
"Why are you fighting on the side of these goblins!" Tanwen demands as she raises her sword against the half-elf challengingly. She then swings her sword at him wildly.
Cale channels magic into his bow before firing an arrow into one of the opponents attacking his friend as he lets out a mighty shout the arrow flies out at the creature.
Soba stays back and begins licking at her wounds an eye out for anyone gettin close to Cale.
Wincing from the pain of the half elf's blow, Tanwen's decides to focus on defending herself instead of striking out against the monk.
Cranking the heavy crossbow back into position, Shalluk considered his next move. The Half-Elf was obviously causing problems for Tanwen, and Shalluk could heal her. Of course, an arrow through the spleen would like as not slow the fighter down too. Or he could summon a spirit, give it another target. But neither of those were sure to keep her alive - a Cure spell probably ould.
He glanced over at there own Elf companion, and nodded towards the Half-Elf. He knew his Curse meant he could only talk in Aklo, and as such probably couldn't speak to him, but hopefully he got the message.
Shalluk himself moved up behind Tanwen and laid a hand on her shoulder, concentrating his powers into her wounds.
Cale'anon shouts out "your allies lie dead, broken at your feat while we outnumber you four to one, I think it is you who need to examine who will be the dead one! he taunts as he fires his magical arrow. though his shot flies wide his words rang true.
Tanwen wasn't entirely sure how they would defeat this foe, but nonetheless, the chance to fight such a challenging foe made her blood boil.
The closed quarters made combat difficult for the swordswoman, and she could only imagine how it affected her allies who seemed to favor ranged weapons, still retreat was not an option, not for Tanwen. She knew that she couldn't risk using he breathe weapon, not while others were as close as they were, but she needed to change tactics in some way.
"And I suppose you are better then pathetic? You think you are some sort of big shot who is worth something?"
Shalluk cursed in Aklo, a crackle of obscene words in an obscene tongue. He hacked a cough, blood pouring out between his lips. The hideous blow had crashed into his sternum, and now he could feel the blood trickling down his throat. It made him feel queezy just thinking about it.
Desperate and afraid, Shalluk did what he always did - he backed away. But this time with a plan. By moving away from both Tanwen and the Elf he forced the monstrous monk to choose one of them as his target. Whichever one he went for, the other two would fall on him. It wasn't much, but forcing the monk to move and loose those flurried kicks was the best Shalluk could think of.
However, he had no intention of giving in. With a whispered word of Aklo that anyone who could speak the tongue would hear as 'Mother', a shade appeared before the Tiefling, between him and the monk. His mother had come once again to save Shalluk.
Raising her own spectral weapon, the shimmering figure aimed and opened fire on the monk.
Cale fires off another shot starting to worry not just for his companion but for himself,
But with the accuracy of his next shot a resurgence of energy flows through him "I can hit just fine you bastard
Cale throws down his bow and pulls out his sword channeling magic into it so what you're saying is that we should kick your ass and prove our worth by taking out a real opponent then
"But I thought you just said we weren't heroes, so who would notice if something happened to us?" Tanwen couldn't help but ask as she noticed her eleven companion pulling out a sword.
Deciding it was time to re-engage, Tanwen rushed towards the half elf once more.
Shalluk swore and moved away again as the lunatic launched his attack. The spirit flickered and faded under the creature's barrage. Shalluk cried out and swore again, turning back to face the Half-Elf. The tiefling snarled something in Aklo.
With a wave of a hand a smattering of Aklo the spirit reformed, once more between Shalluk and the monk. Shalluk grinned, his blood stained lips twisting. The spirit cranked the crossbow she held, raised it and fired again.
Seeing his ally move closer Cale moves to the other side of the monk, hoping to distract him at a crucial moment, and give the oracle time to heal his four legged friend so they could just pile on.
oh what's this? It seems you finally run out of witty banter? A shame I was having fun.. Ah we'll I guess I should get around to ending this fight,"
he says being true to his words and bringing down a colossal hit with his magic charges sword before speaking again as he does weird hand signs with his other hand you know, I'm not just an archer or even a swordsman, no, see I'm also a fairly accomplished Mage, here, let me show you!
Surged by the success of landing a blow on the half elf, Tanwen swings once more, a grin upon her face.
With his two allies keeping the monk busy, Shalluk directed the spirit to keep the pressure up. The spirit raised it's spectral weapon once again, sighted, and opened fire on the monk.
Shalluk himself moved over to the cat. He mentally considered his spells - two left. Well, hopefully the last one he could use on himself. He reached out and laid his hand on the cats flank, really hoping the animal was intelligent enough not to maul him instead.
Soba looks up at the tiefling notes the positive energy on his hand and nods allowing him to touch her before charging off at the evil half elf
"he's down, quick, shalk, stabilize him, that's like a cantrip for you cleric guys right?
"He tried to kill us, we never spared any of the goblins, why should this half elf be any different?" Tanwen felt the need to ask, knowing that had the tables been turned the half elf would not spare them.
"one because we're heroes, I'm not sure goblins can be anything other than evil but elves can and are to go to trial if possible, we are to facilitate that if possible because we're heroes and that's what we do, that's what makes us better than them, secondly if he is awake, alive and conscious we might be able find out where the person we're here to rescue is" then he adds as an afterthought "plus I'm pretty sure at least most of the goblins died before they could be spared even if we wanted to.