Shadowed Designs

Game Master Mystic_Snowfang

The goblin drops dead.

150 XP each

As the dust settles you notice an eleventh goblin. It seems that he was watching the whole fight. He's smallish and wears cobbled together armour, including a (thankfully clean) chamberpot on his head.

"Ix not want to fight, Ix smarter than other goblins." He squeaks at you. "Ix been looking everyplace for lucky paladin. He points at KuJoe, apparently mistaking him for somebody else. "See, Ix got hammar and helmet. You hafta train Ix to be bigstrong now!"

Sense Motive:1d20 + 8 ⇒ (12) + 8 = 20

"Another one? Man this trip is just getting off to a great start."

Leaf- It seems that the goblin is honest, and really wants to... train as a Paladin or something like that.

"You save Ix's life, Ix owe Paladin!" It seems the little goblin thought all human paladins were the same person.

Casfi'azair puts his book down for a moment, looking up from the tantalizing words that occupied his attention for so long. It soon becomes clear to him that his companions had just fought a battle against several goblins. The sounds and screams did not reach his Elven ears, as he was too engrossed within his book. Casfi'azair looks around and sees the mangled Goblin corpses strewn everywhere, "Pity, looks like I missed something."

Leaf looks at Kujoe with an expression of annoyance on her face.
"Well, it's your call."

Mystic just realized, she forgot to put the loot
The goblins don't seem to have much in the way of gold on them, in fact they only have a mere 200 GP between then.

Other items include:
a shiny glowing ring,
a fine leather belt,
a shield with a bite out of it,
Several potions,
ten dogslicers
two horsechoppers,
ten less than functional crossbows,
a bag full of dried salted lizards
, A flute
, a pair of boots that have been eaten by moths,
a jar full of maggots,
a coin purse with some stones that may be valuable (and maggots),
a broken timepiece,
A hat with a bite out of it,
A mouldy vest
Pickles that have gone rancid and may have gained a sentience of their own
a bright pink loincloth
A few long knobbly sticks that may be wands or backscrathers (and have been used as back and other place scratchers)
and a bag that is mewing loudly.

Leaf cautiously opens the mewling bag.
And I don't even wanna know what a goblin is doing with a pink loincloth.

With the goblins dead, Cer lay each one out peacefully by the road praying silently over each of them for a few seconds, in the hopes of bringing their souls some peace.
She then rejoined the party, looking over the spoils and with her careful eye cast Detect Magic to see if any items stood out.

Enall hops down from Auto and pokes at the pickles to see if they really have become sentient. It would be fairly interesting if they were, and their views on vegetarians would be amusing(and quite possible horrifying) to say the least.

"Oh, Auto, you can put Mimay down now too."

Leaf- As you peer into the bag you see a litter of three sand kittens. These poor little mites are likely orphans, and likely were going to be dinner.

Cer- Two of the knobbly sticks have a faint magic coming from them, as does the ring. The belt appears be very magical.

Enall- The pickles are not sentient, they are just very rancid. Take a fort save because they are so revolting to be anywhere near.

Fort Save:1d20 + 3 ⇒ (7) + 3 = 10

You feel an overwhelming urge to puke your guts out. Roll a will save against puking.

Leaf takes the kittens over to Zook (did he ever say that was okay?) and shows them to him. "Ever raised kittens before?" then she remembers that a goblin walloped her when the wound stings, a lot.
"Hey Cer, you said that you can cast healin--. Why are you giving goblins a burial?"

"Because it is the right thing to do." the dragonrider says, checking her mount's form over for any injuries that she may have sustained in battle. "Why don't you check to see of those potions are the sort that can heal you.

Zooke looks down at the kittens. "Can't say I have. I raised a rat once, but I've seen sand kittens and these little guys seem to be near weaning age. But they'll need dead things. Maybe we should ask them what happened to their ma."

Will Save:1d20 + 5 ⇒ (17) + 5 = 22

Enall- You manage to keep your breakfast down, however maybe you should investigate something other than the rancid pickles.

Okay, to keep things straight, this is before Leaf goes to Cer.
Leaf looks at Zooke, "Guess we'll find out what to do together."

Leaf uses her Speak with animals ability,
"Hello little ones, where's your mother?"

Aaaand this after Leaf finds Cer

Leaf's mouth hangs open in shock for a second. "'Right thing to do?' These are GOBLINS we're talking about! They came and attacked us for no other reason than they thought it was funny. Am I the only one that saw two of them laughing at the misfortune of the others?! I dunno about you, but to me that ain't the way people deserving of a proper burial act."

"So, ah *urp* they had kittens?" Enall says as he hurries away from the pickles, cursing his inquisitive nature.

The kittens look up at her.

"We don't know"
"The green ones stuffed us in a bag"
"I'm hungry!"

Ix stands there and picks his nose.

"Other Gobbies eat kittens, Ix no eat kittens Ix vegitableatarian. Well mostly, Ix like worms."

Zooke reaches down to bet one, and gets a finger bitten for his efforts. "I think we need some ground up meat for them. He says.

"Ah but civilized folk like us are expected to behave civilized like that. Anyway, I can't convince Fiarre to eat them no matter how hard I try. And I think they attacked us because they are stupid. Its not their fault they've got less than functioning brains."

Before going to Cer
"Hey now, no biting my friend. Don't worry We'll get you something to eat. Just stay with Zooke for now, Okay?" Leaf turns to Zooke, "Do we have anything that they can eat? I don't know what to feed them, and they're hungry."

After finding Cer
"B-but their GOBLINS! Smelly, crude, evil Goblins. Do you think they'd do the same for us if the situation was reversed? They'd probably eat you and butcher me. I wouldn't even feed them to the kittens they were going to eat, even if I was sure they wouldn't get sick from it!"

Leaf stands there, holding the bloody wound on her arm, as she glares at the Dragonrider and the Cleric.

Zooke points towards the kitchen carriage. "The half-orc probally knows where the meat is."

Round 4:

Charge to the goblin squaring off with the cleric1d20 + 9 ⇒ (8) + 9 = 17
1d8 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 9 (nonlethal)

The Calistrian bounds across the desert towards the taunting goblin and drops it into unconsciousness with a carefully controlled kick at the Cleric's feet. She steps back and bows gracefully to the aasimar, he face expressionless. "I gift you with a living captive, righteous one."
Sense motive on Cer to see into her reaction. 1d20 + 17 ⇒ (16) + 17 = 33

I'm going to bump this because it looks like no-one saw it.

"They eat their own kind, they'll eat anything. And they'd be more likely to eat you, since apparently they're fond of gnome flesh." She said as she pulled a exotic saddle out of one of the carriages where she had stowed it. Then she put it on her dragon's back.

the "saddle" looks more like riding straps from Dragon riders of Pern

Before going to find Cer
"Probably, I'll go ask."
Leaf winces as she finally notices wound from earlier, and the blood running down her arm.
"After, I get this taken care of. Can you look after them for a bit?"
She then goes off to find Cer

Emlia- Two of the knobbly sticks have a faint magic coming from them, as does the ring. The belt appears be very magical. The ring, on closer examination appears to be a ring of some sort of translation, and the belt is a popular magical item. One of the wands is a wand of "cure moderate wounds"

"Ix called Ix!" Ix says. "Ix want to be first vegitableitarian Goblin Paladin!"

"Ix so you wish to train as a Paladin eh..." Kujoe pauses and thinks a moment. "Can't say I've seen one of your kind before if you wish you can come along I can tell you your "training" wont be as simple as you think. You are different than most of your kind Ix I see potential in you.." Kujoe extends his hand for a shake with the small fellow he seems to see something special in this one but he can't put his finger on it.

There is still a booger on Ix's finger as he shakes the Paladin's hand. "Ix make you proud! Ix smart, Ix not attack you and not get smashed in face!"

As far as I see it, Emilia has put her mouth a lot of places that most people rather wouldn't think about. I don't think she'd be phased much, and might even savor the flavor of blood, dirt, and sweat.

Emilia spits out the goblin ear in her mouth before winking at Colt. "Nice shooting there, slinger."

Colt finishes reloading, nods and tips his black hat a bit, almost smiling, as he turns his attention back to the melee.

To come back to the present.

Colt stands watch while the others ogle the treasure stash.

Though Kujoe trusts the gob he will still use detect evil to guaranty he is as stupid and safe as he looks :) Kujoe is very serious about training the gob.

Did anyone take any damage in that fight or not

Leaf took 12 damage and Enall took four

Ix really doesn't seem to be evil, in fact he seems to be quite serious and a little smarter than most goblins.

"AAAAARRGH! I can't believe I'm traveling with a Goblin! A FREXXIN' GOBLIN!!"

"Calm yourself Leaf Ix here is not like the other savage people of his kind he can always be useful to us as well." He says to leaf he then turns to the gob and whisper to him "You watch yourself you hear Ix training as a Paladin takes more than to be strong willed do not worry I will watch over you." He gives the gob a pat on the head and motions Ix to follow him.

Ix gives a toothy grin.

Is anyone gonna look at the loot, or take something? Or did Mystic do all that hard work for nothing?

Colt might...if he knew what any of it did :-).

Well there is a bag of shiny stones, and maggots...

Kujoe takes the gob somewhere private and sits down to have a little talk with him. "A paladin dedicates there sword to smite evil, pledges there life for justice and the servitude of the divine"Kujoe pauses "Now Ix just what god do you serve?"

Emilia will try on the belt to see what it feels like. Is it stylish? What does it look like? She'll also slip the wand of cure moderate wounds into clothes, knowing she can make use of it. The tiefling doesn't attempt to hide any of the objects, but neither does she telegraph her interest. She goes through all the things with equal interest, avoiding the more unpleasant items that aren't magical.

Ix frowns then grins. "The one that's drunk all the time! Ix heard people talking 'bout him! Ix like him!

Ix frowns then grins. "The one that's drunk all the time! Ix heard people talking 'bout him! Ix like him!

A goblin paladin of Cayden? <3 That's priceless.

Kujoe assumes he means Cayden Cailean he then laughs heartily at the Goblins comment. "You have much learning to do young gob, what is it you know of Cayden Cailean what is your deity's Domain hmm" Kujoe is trying to make this as simple as possible for the goblin seeing he has the potential in him he will not give up in trying to teach Ix.

Emilia will try on the belt to see what it feels like. Is it stylish? What does it look like? She'll also slip the wand of cure moderate wounds into clothes, knowing she can make use of it. The tiefling doesn't attempt to hide any of the objects, but neither does she telegraph her interest. She goes through all the things with equal interest, avoiding the more unpleasant items that aren't magical.

The belt is a very pretty leather belt, well made with patterns embossed in gold on it. However as soon as you put it on it seems to tighten around you and you cannot remove it no matter how hard you try.

The goblin pauses and then grins. "He's brave, and does what he wants, and he's special for wine and ale!" Ix looks as if he were hiding something, then he looks at the other dead goblins. "Ix has... book... with pictures. Pictures of Cayden.. But Ix not read it, Ix don't read. But pictures pretty." He hands over the richly illustrated book.

Kujoe scans through the book but looks mostly at the pictures Ix was talking about he hands back the book and asks "Do you know how to read little one this book could teach you much about your deity." Perhaps Kujoe will have to teach Ix yet another thing.

The goblin looks very young, likely only freshly let out of his cage. "Bigger goblins say reading take words out of head. Reading bad, they burn book if they find it." he says. "Ix no read, Ix no learn how.

"Your kin do not read and perhaps they would be much smarter if they did. You are different from them Ix reading can help you in countless ways you must consider it." Kujoe tries to persuade Ix that it is a good idea to learn to read.

Diplomacy:1d20 + 13 ⇒ (4) + 13 = 17

Ix ponders for a moment. "Other goblins dead, Ix not. They stupid for attacking you. Ix not attack you, Ix smart. Ix get smarter by reading. Ix learn reading, because Ix better and smarter."

Is anyone interested in the glowing ring? I swear it's not cursed.