Lia glares at the rest of the goblins. "If any of you little green freaks understand Common, consider THAT a warning. Either leave now, or die!"
Pendrix yelps, and leaps back to avoid the goblin's swing. It goes wide. Really, REALLY wide. Pendrix mutters an angry chant, and sends another ray of sparkling energy at this goblin.
Karst whistles approvingly at Lia's strike as a blade skitters across his shield.
Nice one.
He then brings his hammer down on the second goblin with great vigor and aplomb.
The hammer strikes squarely in the center of the goblin's over-sized head with a sickening crunch.
Even as frustrated as she was with her marksmanship, Sesi can't help by smile as she sees Lia relieve the singing goblin of her overly large head.
"HA! I thank you, milady, for ending that atrocious racket," she says with a overly wrought aristocratic accent before nocking another arrow and loosing it at the goblin going after Pendrix.
"DIE!", the remaining, weakened goblins echo, as they mount a desperate assault on Pendrix.
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Pendrix cried out as the goblin's knife cut a long, red line down his forearm.
He darted to the side, and began backing up slowly. He took random, erratic steps, and never took his eyes off the goblins.
Lia sighs. "So be it, then."
She raises her sword and advances on the goblin north Pendrix. She swings it in a wide arc...
Let's wrap this up!
Karst brings his hammer up to catch the goblin under the chin.
The goblin scurries back, dodging a blow that would have sent him flying.
@ Pendrix
Way to take one for the team, boyo! Keep it up!
Sesi lets loose a string of curses in two different languages as her arrow once again misses her mark. Frustrated, embarrassed, and just plain mad she tosses the bow to the side and draws her hunting knife.
If she was going to miss anyway, might as well let the goblin's join in on the "fun."
The remaining pair of goblins don't seem to have Chiz' good sense to back down when they're outmatched. In their rage, they fight to the death. You put them down, although it takes longer than it perhaps should. Karst and Lisa earn themselves a slash and a shallow stab from a goblin blade, but it's small scabs, really.
With the fighting over, and no immediate threats around, you have a brief moment of respite to regroup.
Dealing out two points of damage to randomly determined party members:
Karst gathers you all close, releasing another burst of divine power to ease your wounds.
By my father's bushy beard, we're not done yet! Goblins hate horses and dogs, so they'll be burning the stables and the kennels, or I'm a fool.
Pendrix spends a few moments looking at one of the goblin's bleeding to death. Then he crouches down, hiding the goblin's body with his hunched form. There is a very faint purple glow. He stands, and walks back to the group. The goblin is dead; his eyes glossed over with what look like deep red cataracts.
Lia starts cleaning goblin blood off her blade before looking around at the carnage. "Dad? Dad, where are you?! DAD!"
Sesi gathers her bow and sword as Karst heals the party.
"Calm down, panicking will do nothing if he's alive and nothing if he's dead," the varki archer tells Lia as she checks the blade of her sword for any nicks, "don't worry, we'll find him alive and well soon," she adds with a smile to take some of the sting from her earlier words.
Seeing the flash of purple, and the strange state of the goblin corpse and can't help but shudder.
Still, he had done well, even if he hopped around like an idiot for a moment when he got close to a goblin.
"Pendrix, do you know how to handle a dagger?"
Lia takes a couple of breaths before refocusing. "Um... right. Yeah."
Pendrix nodded.
"I can handle a knife blade well enough. I never thought I'd need one here in town though... "
His voice trailed off. Crestfallen, he walked back to the rest of the group.
"So...um....you all seem to handle yourselves well in combat. Thanks for rescuing me."
He grinned a weary grin.
"What's next?"
Sesi garbs one of the daggers on her belt and places it into Pendrix's hand.
"First lesson I was taught before my tribe left me to the Winds that Walk, never assume that you won't need to protect yourself."
After that, she scratches the back of her neck and looks to the others.
"I think our friend with hammer mentioned something about the stables, but I don't know where those are."
Karst, and neither do I. You two. indicating Pendrix and Lia. You seem to be natives. Where's the livery? If those little devils are attacking in earnest, they'll burn it.
Pendrix accepted the offered dagger with a smile.
"You have my thanks. I will be purchasing one of these when this is all said and done, to be sure."
Turning to Karst, he raised his voice a little to be heard over the din.
"I do in fact know where it is. It's just over there."
He pointed off in the distance, as if trying to point over the buildings around them.
"You know what? I'll just show you." He turned to go. "Come on!"
Lia's farther is nowhere to be seen - he probably got lost in the crowd. Wether he figured she'd head for the safety of home, or is out there looking for her and trying to drag her back with him is anyone's guess.
Regardless, there's a loud scream, from up the road near the northern gate.
Lia turns at the sound of the scream, her face paling. "That's not Dad, but... come on! We gotta go!"
She raises her sword and starts heading off in the direction of the scream. "Come on, someone's in trouble!"
Harst hurries to follow Lia toward the scream.
Pendrix picks up his robes and runs like a startled librarian.
He catches up to Karst, and keeps pace with him.
Sesi follows Lia, her sword drawn.
A blue-clad man, clearly the source of the scream, is huddled against the wall, with a goblin towering over him. The goblin is slashing his blade, but is doing little more than cutting the man's arms up something dreadful, and shredding his fine sleeves.
He's probably not going to die just this second, you don't think. Still, it was a good thing you came along.
In the background, the gate hangs wide open on its hinges, and a bunch of goblins seems to be guarding it. Or something. Their leader* is currently in the proccess of hacking up the remains of a horse with some sort of glaive-like implement. He looks up as you arrive on the scene, and wheels his mount around. It's a rat-like thing, but overgrown to the size of a large dog, and with red, irritated gums, swollen to resemble a babboon's ass. Puss drips from its mouth, and it's generally a nasty creature.
The goblin raises its glaive, and squeals something. The three other goblins converge on you. They're probably going to put those knives to good use in a few moments. Also, while two of them carry small idols carved from wood, one of them is dragging around a live pidgeon on a fishing line. It flaps around helplessly, much to the goblin's glee.
*Or, at least, the guy who has a big weapon and is sitting on a mount.
"Karst, Lia, can you get my flank," Sesi asks before charging the center Goblin with her sword.
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Springing into action as Sesi charges (and misses horribly, incidentally), Lia moves forward and glares at the goblins.
Summoning up more magical energy from within, Lia focuses for a moment and holds her arm out, guarding herself from possible strikes.
"Here goes..."
A rainbow flash of colours leaps from her fingertips, engulfing the mounted goblin, his mount, and another goblin!
Pendrix runs to toward the besieged man, hoping to help him.
Karst charges into the fray, rushing past Lia after her spell has taken effect. He bears down on one of the unaffected goblins , pausing to swing at one of the prone goblins as he passes, using his hammer as a croquet mallet on the stunned goblin's over-sized skull.
Most of the goblins collapse. The ruffled pidgeon, suddenly freed from the clutches of its tormentor flies off, probably to find a quiet tree where it can dislodge the fishing hook.
Karst does some good damage to a helpless goblin's head. Meanwhile, one of the remaining goblins step up to Karst and shakes his goat-like effigy, hoping to call forth one of those bursts of flames, and preferably without getting knocked out in the process.
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Pendrix succeeds in catching the other goblin's attention. This has the unfortunate side effect of making him the target of its dogslicer.
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Lia does a little fist pump as her magic decisively puts the goblins down. She's about to advance on the fallen mounted goblin, but seeing Pendrix take a hit from a goblin sets her off.
"Hey! Leave him alone!" She calls out as she advances on the little beast. Now angered, she lines up a swing and strikes!
As the goblin closes the distance between them, Karst shimmies to the side and lines up a blow to the Goblin's head when it gets close enough...
...but it ducks out of the way.
Sesi marches up to the closest goblin that's still standing.
With an angry overhand chop, she brings the sword down on the goblin's head.
Pendrix screamed. The dogslicer had cut a long line down his left side.
He'd never felt such pain; not like this.
He thrust his knife out, trying for the goblin's eye.
The stab went wide. Pendrix swore.
Sesi handily brings down the goblin with a swing of her blade.
As Lia misses the goblin under fire hops backwards, and calls a gout of flame, erupting from his grubby hands, washing over both her and Pendrix.
Lia hisses as she takes the full force of the fire from the goblin. "Oh, THAT was a big mistake, sir."
Lia's eyes glow a bright blue, and her sword's edge takes on that same glow. She lunges forward and wordlessly tries to sweep the goblin's feet out from under it...
Sesi marches over to the prone goblin and raises her blade up once more.
How nice of Lia to make this a little easier, she thinks as a savage grin spreads across her face.
The grin turns into a snarl as her blade misses and digs into the dirt as the goblin squirms out of the way.
"Tule tänne, senkin, vihreä, paska!"
Pendrix grunted as the flame washed over him.
Quickly shaking his head, he lunged toward the goblin, attempting another stab.
Karst growls and strides over to the goblin.
Squirmy little...
He brings his hammer down.
Pendrix stabs the goblin in the throat with what is perhaps surprising precision. There's quite a lot of blood, and it seems likely that it's either dead, or going to be very soon.
There's only one goblin left, and he lies stunned on the ground on top of his mount.
The man you saved stirs - he seems to be in momentary shock, sitting propped up against the stone of the gatehouse. The sounds of battle back from the cathedral square seems to have died down.