Osru takes a moment to look around at the others who had stepped up to fight off the goblins. "Good work everyone. It looks like we have more fighting ahead of us so let's all try to work together and drive off these cursed goblins. I am Osru Lassem and this young lady is Zella."
He watches the goblins for a moment, trying to determine what they are up to. There must be a reason they are attacking right now.
"Ven," she says. "But now isn't the time for pleasantries." The smoke in the air, the shrieking, the leaping flames, all of it is just noise, and Ven focuses through the distraction, looking for an area where the goblins are more densely concentrated or if there is a situation that is particularly urgent in their immediate vicinity.
"I am called Nero, but this girl is right. Now is not the time, we need to stop these pests..." Raniero growls as Osru and Zella approach. He sniffs the air instinctively, scanning the area for the closest or most dire threat.
Zella is in a rather foul mood now. "How dare those evil little goblins interrupt a sacred event??"
She will cast Create Water on the fire closest to her in an attempt to douse it.
As Ven and Raniero keep eye out, they soon spot two goblins entering the square from the west. They shriek as they see the group and get ready to attack.
Everyone stops, however, as a wagon goes up in a tremendous flame to the southeast. Near the flames, several goblins are gathered with torches. They seem giddy at the sight of the flames, even as they move toward the catedral. Another goblin follows with a whip, and it is one of the ones leading the chant. It's voice rings loud and clear as it continues the song:
Goblins chew and goblins bite.
Goblins cut and goblins fight.
Stab the dog and cut the horse.
Goblins eat and take by force!
Goblins 22
Osru 15
Blikx 14
Raniero 10
Zella 8
Ven 7
Tears of anger streaming down her face, Blikx moves around the tent to stand just before the stage .
She extends her right hand and calls on the storm inside her again to lash out at the nearest goblin.
Osru hustles to get a clear shot at the goblins near the burning wagon.
Zella stays close to Osru and takes a sot at the same goblin if he does't down it on his own.
Zella curses her defective crossbow.
Ven moves to the west and attacks the goblin in front of her.
Osru's arrow flies and hits a goblin square on the back. Their attention now taken, the group turns and notices others in the square.
Blikx finds her electrical powers still unwieldy as the shock dives away from her target and hits a discarded shovel instead.
Nero rushes the pair of goblins to the west alongside Ven.
Raniero charges at the first goblin he sees and swings his sword in a fury. The goblin falls back under the blow, already out cold. The fellow goblin stops its laughing just as Ven reaches it and gives a wild swing to keep it from leaping at Raniero.
Zella meanwhile takes a potshot at the goblins on the other side of the square, but misses once more. Angered the goblins charge in with their torches.
Two of them mob Osru, and one manages to whack him sharply with a torch and almost managing to set him aflame.
Another charges at Blikx, but stops its swing as its torch suddenly goes out. It is not alone, however, as the goblin who was chanting comes close and chants more, this time swinging her whip around her head in a wierd fashion.
Blikx collapses to the ground into a fit of laughter eerily similar to that of the goblins. The goblin next to her joins in the laughter, pointing at her in delight.
Osru feels the demon in him welling up. He bares his teeth and ferociously snaps at the goblin in front of him.
"hhhaahha....get...heeheee...out...(gasp)...of...heeee...my....haaahaaa-hea d!" she howls between guffaws.
Osru misses his bite, but seems to have put the goblins on edge.
Zella will attempt to fire at the goblin in front of her.
Raniero steps forward and finishes off the last goblin near him with a wide swing, batting the goblin away down the street.
Zella, not wanting to risk hurting Osru, misfires once more as the bolt flies off randomly.
"Show-off," Ven murmurs, and takes off running to go help Blikx. If she's anything like the mages in Ven's family, Blikx won't do too well in one-on-one melee combat.
As Ven rushes to the mage's side, the chanting goblin begins a new verse of the song.
Goblins race and goblins jump
Goblins slash and goblins bump.
Burn the skin and mash the head,
Goblins be here and you be dead!
With a flick of its wrist, the goblin sends its whip flicking toward Ven's ankle. The other goblin, trying to join in, swings at Ven, forcing her back a step and just out of the whip's reach as it snaps at the air.
Waving their torches wildly, the goblins are unable to reach Osru without getting distracted at the random small items they're setting on fire. One cracks up as the other manages to temporarily catch a piece of its ratted clothing on fire.
Meanwhile, the wagon continues in a blaze, sorching the ground around it as the material inside continually add to the flame. Occasional loud pops can still be heard coming from it.
Round 3:
Blikx extends her hand toward the goblin before her and unleashes another arc of electricity.
Osru is bemused by Zella's inability to hit the goblin 5 feet in front of her. "If we survive this, I'm giving you some lessons my dear."
He tries again to bite off a tasty hunk of goblin flesh.
Osru feels a keen sense of irony as his joke makes him miss the goblin he also bit.
As the goblin near Blikx tries to stab her with its wierd blade, her electricity finally finds a conductor as the shock travels through the blade and into the goblins hand. It hisses in annoyance, wary of striking again.
Zella sighs. "Apparently I do need them."
She attempts to fire at the goblin again, taking a 5 foot step backwards if the goblin tries to close the distance on her.
"Really badly..."
Nero turns, smirking at Ven's comment as she takes off toward the others. He runs towards Osru and Zella, hoping to lend a hand.
As Raniero heads toward the others, Zella finds her almost careening right into Osru as it flies off wildly.
Ven manages to stab the goblin near her, blocking its return strike. This time, she did not react fast enogh, and the chanter caught her leg with a painful crack. With a sudden jerk, Ven finds herself on the ground next to Blikx.
The goblin chanter continues the song almost mockingly:
Chase the baby, catch the pup.
Bonk the head to sht it up.
Bones be cracked, flesh be stewed,
We be goblins! You be food!
The other goblin licks its lips at the mention of food, holding its blade out toward the two girls menacingly.
The goblins around Osru manage some luck as well as the mention of food excites them. Swinging much faster than before, one manages to bash Osru's foot with a torch.
Ven hits the ground with an, "F***! Ow!" As the chanter goes on, she hisses to Blikx, "I'll get his attention so you can get up and cast."
Blikx nods in acknowledgment of the half-elven woman's plan.
Blikx gets to her feet and targets the nearest goblin (either the one adjacent or the one with the whip) with another arc of lightning.
Osru takes a moment to study the gobline then tries once again to bite the quick little bugger.
Osru's attempt to bite his target almost end up reversed as the goblin's torch waving almost smacks him in the face.
Raniero starts to move with more haste as he closes in on the battle. Hefting his sword in two hands, he steps in with an overhead chop toward the goblin who is waving a torch at Osru.
Zella once again fires her crossbow at the goblin, offering up a quick prayer that she will finally hit her damn target this time.
"Thank the goddess I finally hit something."
As Zella prepares to fire, Raniero bursts in and slams his sword down on the head of one of the goblins, splattering blood everywhere. Flinching from the gruesome scene, Zella accidently lets the crossbow go off. Upon slowly opening her eyes, she sees the last goblin staring down at the bolt in its chest as if in disbelief.
Zella lets out a little: "eeww." as some of the spattered blood land on her.
And this is why I try to shoot things from a distance.....
Ven leaps up flamboyantly (), blows a raspberry at the goblin in front of her, and stabs it.
The goblin jeers at the rising Ven, but becomes infuriated at her raspberry. Leaping forward, it manages to nick her on the arm, but moves too close to dodge her return blow. Backing off, it holds its side where blood is begining to spill out, only for its whole body to lock up as a burst of electricity courses through it. It falls to the ground, smoke rising off of the body and giving off a not too pleasant smell.
The warchanter, seeing itself now alone, stops its song and lets out a high pitch scream as it swings its whip around its head. With a flick, it sends out the whip, though stopping halfway before her target, Blikx.
Blikx feels the same presence from before flood over her, but she manages to force the hideous voice out of her head.
Meanwhile, the last standing goblin near Osru looks up at him with a sort of panic from having a bolt straight through the heart. It tries to keep fighting, but even as it reaches out to swing at Osru, it falls over to the ground.
Osru moves over to where he has a clear shot and lets an arrow fly at the remaining goblin.
Nero moves around to face the goblin, standing in between him and the two girls. "Stay behind me..." He growls menacingly.
Osru's bolt sails past the warchanter's face, immediately getting its attention. It hisses as the large man moves in front of it.
Zella moves up a bit to where she can try to get a better shot at the remaining goblin.
"Sorry! I'm aiming at the goblin!"
As Ven goes running around both Raniero and the Goblin, she shouts, "An interesting proposition, but I have a better idea!" Ain't no way the little nuisance can trip me up running so fast around him! She moves into a position so she is flanking the goblin with Raniero and with the moment granted by the goblin's split attention she goes for a weak point.
Finding herself suddenly surrounded by comrades in arms, Blikx loses her line of sight on the whip-wielding goblin.
This one's done for. Better see if there are any more.
She looks around to see if any more goblins are nearby. If she spots any, she moves towards them. If she doesn't see any, she moves away from the current fight towards the nearest fire and calls a blast of wind and frost to extinguish it.
Ven is thinking she's rather clever as she sneaks up to the goblin, only for a bolt to flash past her nose, making her back up rapidly. A shout of apology follows from the priestess as the woman begins to reload her crossbow, but Ven's moment has already been lost.
It seems the goblin activity is starting to die down somewhat, though there still seems to be fighting going on elsewhere.
The warchanter, meanwhile, finds itself surrounded and hisses at all its new foes. Angry, it snaps its whip at Raniero but misses.