"Sorry in advance!" Lilyroot yells, moves closer to the last goblin, and throws another bomb!
vs touch ac
(and 3 splash to those nearby)
"Sorry in advance!" Lilyroot yells, moves closer to the last goblin, and throws another bomb!
[dice=Attack]3d6+3 vs touch ac
[dice=damage]1d6+2 (and 3 splash to those nearby)
(4 = upper left)
Aurica casts her spell, making everything seem to fall into place as necessary, though unfortunately Lilyroot's throw is marred by her unwillingness to hit the cat creature fighting with the goblin she was aiming at. Perhaps it was better that way. The goblin takes advantage of the momentary distraction and attempts to get himself a cat's paw trophy.
Sorush moves into the crowd and then suddenly finds himself standing alone in the market, watching a scene of combat with small creatures. Goblins... A small explosion near the well catches his eye.
Milah's blade is slow, but her reactions aren't as she dodges out of the way of the goblin's blow. Her own blade flashes, targeting the creature's midsection.
Maerra charges up. "Too slow!" she exclaims. "Ahh! At least I got one. Good skewering there, cat-woman."
She looks down the well. "Don't know that I'd trust water out of that shaft now. D'you see anything we could use to cover it up?"
Milah skewers the last goblin, its dying words covered by the gurgling of green blood from its mouth.
Maerra spots a turned over table nearby that could be lifted onto the well to cover it up.
The sounds of battle continue a bit away from the town square. You hear shouts of panic and numerous calls for guards. The sun has set and the evening sky is now lit by the reds and golds of flames coming from fires being lit around Sandpoint.
Every so often you see another of the goblins running through the streets, chasing someone or guards chasing it.
Aurica let out a sigh of relief as the last goblin in the immediate area fell. "Is anyone hurt?"
"Slightly," Lily admits to Aurica. She lifts some of her apron, revealing the sap coming out of the small knife wound.
With the momentary cessation of hostilities, Zev stands and walks over to the wagon, pulling his arrow from where it had become embedded.
"Not hurt." he says to Aurica, then to Lilyroot, "I like your boom-booms."
Then his head swivels at the sounds of battle from the town-square and without another word runs in that direction.
Maerra heaves the overturned table over to the well. "Maerra Solrinslag. Call me Maerra. Reckon we should follow that odd human before he gets himself mobbed by goblins and kicks the bucket?"
"Maerra Solrinslag. Call me Maerra. Reckon we should follow that odd human before he gets himself mobbed by goblins and kicks the bucket?"
"Yes--we'd better not waste any time."
"Slightly," Lily admits to Aurica. She lifts some of her apron, revealing the sap coming out of the small knife wound.
"Stick close to me and my magic will keep you going a little longer. We'll get you a proper fix for that when we have some more time."
"Not hurt." he says to Aurica, then to Lilyroot, "I like your boom-booms."
Lilyroot looks down, "I didn't think they were that impressive... oh well, guess I did a good job growing this time around!"
"Stick close to me and my magic will keep you going a little longer. We'll get you a proper fix for that when we have some more time."
"Oh, it's just a scratch, I suffer worse from my own experiments all the time, but I appreciate your aid!" she thanks.
Milah nods in acknowledgement of the dwarf's compliment, then her head swivels quickly as she stares, mouth agape, at the human's strange comment. She recovers just as fast, thinking, I must have misheard, surely...
To the tiefling she says, "No injuries here.", then readies herself to follow the odd human to...wherever he's running off to.
Sorush finally pushes his way through the crowd. He is stunned momentarily by the scene of violence before him. He says to the group before him, still swaying slightly "I take it there be no more parties?" taking in their dumbfounded stares, he sighs, and continues "Well, we better go save that poor chap, before more of these... 'goblin' fellows get to im."
No sooner Zev goes running off and the rest of you follow, you see a wagon explode into flames and several more of the goblins carrying torches and dancing around the flames, one of them seems to be... is that... singing?...
Lilyroot, not wanting to be caught too far from the action again, advances to next to Zev for preparation,
Then rushes forward closer (20' move) and hucks a bomb at the middle of the goblins!
Glancing at the swaying half-orc and the human archer, Maerra moves up between them and the goblins, axe at the ready.
Zev moves a bit to get a clear shot, his focus on the dancing goblin closest, studying...
Aurica moves closer to the action and then casts her spell again.
As one of her arms waves across the front of her body, Aurica seems to pull a card formed from red light out of thin air, and then she throws it at a goblin.
bludgeoning damage
Milah advances on the new band of goblins, rapier drawn.
Her rapier flashing, she attacks the closest of them!
Maerra steps forward to deliver an overhand blow with her waraxe...
... and hits the goblin hard enough that they won't be getting up again. Not now, maybe not ever with the blood loss from Milah's rapier.
Sorush hustles across to where the fire and goblins and loud noises are.
Lily, now fully committed to the fight against these foul creatures, tosses another explosive with pinpoint accuracy into the middle of them, sending the diving for cover. Unfortunately for one of them, he dives right into Maerra's axe, splitting himself in half, his purloined red scarf slowly falling to the ground around his twitching body. His companion, this one sporting a shiny gold earring and black soot from being blasted by Lily's bomb, attempts to get past his fear of the larger folk and attacks Maerra for slaying his brother.
Another goblin circles around the wagon and attacks Milah from the side.
The goblin with the screeching some escaping from its mouth continues the cacophony and without missing a beat, snaps a whip at Milah as she gets closer. She is too fast for the whip and it never touches her.
A flash of red light and the goblin that was rushing to avenge his fallen brother is knocked backwards, right into Milah's blade. A look of surprise crosses its face as it slides off and slumps onto the other body.
Earring -15/6, Red Scarf -30/6, Cigar 6/6 Singer 9/9
The goblin hanging back to the south is the next to take the brunt of Maerra's ire. She charges at it, swinging her axe low.
Lilyroot, not wanting to catch anyone else in a bomb and not seeing it as needed, Charges forward to *just* outside the goblin's reach, and tries to wang it with her mace.
(+2 attack + 2 charge)
Though lashing out with her extended arms produces nothing but a divot in the ground.
Milah counters the goblin's thrust with a parry and thrust of her own.
Lily's long reach isn't enough to hit the poor goblin, but it doesn't matter as Milah's sharp blade finds its mark. While not enough to kill the thing, it certainly causes it to pause for a moment.
Maerra, having been done with the goblin's singing a while ago, silences the creature, her axe cutting a gash in her belly. The singing quickly turns to squeals of pain.
The remaining goblin decides this is the best time to beat feet and does so, running towards the town gate...
Lily flails her mace at it again, to a similarly unconnecting result.
Maerra wipes her axe on the goblin's rags. "Let it run. There'll always be more gobbos, we want the freakin' cowards to be the ones who see another day. All of y' alright there?"
Milah nods. "I wasn't injured, despite their best efforts." She, too, cleans her blade on one of the corpses and sheathes it, then begins searching the bodies in the hopes of finding some clue as to why they were attacking.
Aurica lowers her hands, which had been ready to begin casting another spell. "Yes, I'm fine. Was that the last of them? We'd better have a look around, to be sure."
"Fair point, fortune-teller." Maerra heads over to the stage for a better vantage point and tries to see if there are any more goblins coming this way.
Sorush gesticulates wildly, reigning in the arcane energies he had been drawing forth. He struggles a bit with this, his obvious insobriety clearly a factor. Having finished his impromptu light show, he calls out to th group: "I'm all good over here, though goin looking seems like a decent plan to me."
"Same report as last time," Lilyroot adds. She wasn't any more hurt but she didn't heal her small wound in the meantime either.
Though the sounds of battle are farther off, you can still hear them in the streets. Though the festival grounds have bodies of either goblins or some not so fortunate local townsfolk, the place is relatively deserted.
About this time, a familiar face runs towards you. At first you have trouble placing him, with his well kempt dark beard and mustache, blue robes and a teal and blue butterfly hanging on a small chain in his left hand, but his even and clear voice seals it for you. It is Father Zantus, the head priest from the newly minted church. You heard him at the festival's commencement.
"I.. I don't know who all of you are, but your help is greatly appreciated.", he says, clearly out of breath. "I am Abstalar Zantus, keeper of the wisdom of Desna and the Sandpoint Cathedral. Any further assistance you could provide would be... greatly appreciated."
A cry of pain from one of the locals unfortunate enough to have not gotten out of the way of the goblins gets the man's attention. "If you'll excuse me, you appear to be able to handle yourselves well. I must attend to the others. Perhaps we'll speak again later." He doesn't wait for an answer and heads towards the source of the cry.
All of sudden you hear a loud barking sound and then a yell for help. It seems to be coming from the direction of Sandpoint's northeastern gate.
Zev was just about to release an arrow at the fleeing goblin when Maerra's suggestiion pierces the special focused state he was in. Slowly he eased his hand back towards his bow, finally taking the arrow off of the string and holding it, "Zev is ok." he says simply, "Gobs are bad." he adds, looking about at the chaos the little monsters had left.
When Abstalar runs up , Zev bows his head respectfully, remembering his Ma's admonition to treat holy men with respect. "I am Zev." he says to the Desnite, but then the barking erupts from the north east.
"Dogs? and Goblins?" he asks, but doesn't wait for an answer, he is already off running in that direction.
Milah calls out to anyone listening, "The singing one is still alive, but barely. It might be worthwhile to bind it, but I have no rope." That done, she grabs the whip - not to use, but also not wanting it to be used on anyone else - and begins rushing after the one who called himself Zev.
Sorush adds "I got rope, but I don't tie knots all that good. I think savin this 'Zev' guy again is a bit more important." he then turns and joins Milah in chasing after him.
"All hands to the northeast, eh?" Maerra reaches to the pack where she keeps her rope, but seeing all the tallfolk dashing off, she decides against any delay and follows after.
Aurica begins to hurry after the others. "Father Zantus! We've rendered that one unconscious, but I don't know how long it will stay that way. Keep a watchful eye!"
You quickly make your way out of the town square, past the cathedral, down Church Street, past the White Deer Inn, with its two well carved deer standing guard over the entrance. As you get near Northgate, you see a goblin riding what appears to be hairless dog use its long handled blade to cut down the dog that was barking. It falls without so much as a whimper. You can see its owner cowering behind some barrels near the gate and a few more goblins start coming out from hiding, cheering with their weapons in the air and approaching the man...
As they all draw near to this new group of goblins, Aurica winces as the dog whimpers. She wastes no time before calling on her magic for the luck of fate to guide Aurica and her allies and hinder their foes.
Lilyroot advances to put herself in better position for when it comes time to throw bombs.
Maerra advances to the edge of the Moon aura's pale glow and yells "That's all the easy meat you're getting today s!%$eaters, run or die!"
Milah charges the mounted goblin and thrusts at it with her rapier!
Sorush moves forward to be in position to catch the goblins on the right in a color spray in the next round.
Everyone quickly moves into position, Aurica casting her blessing, the glow never leaving her side. Milah takes full advantage of this, quickly closing the distance to the mounted goblin. His victory is quickly squashed as her blade finds its mark in the thing's back. He squeals and wheels around to face her...
3/12, 9,6,6,6
Surprise Round
Zev runs up and skids to a halt as he sees the poor dog cut down by the mounted goblin, "Puppy..." is all he says, as he knocks the arrow in his hand and fires...