If she can get a clear shot Miet unleashes a colour spray into the rafters trying to get as many as possible.
Go with that then.
Up in the rafters, the Varisian woman crouches down, focusing her attentions on Ellantera. "You!" she points down at the ranger. "You are the first to know my glory!" She murmurs an arcane phrase and gestures with her free hand.
At the same time, the clockwork construct jumps down from the rafters to land on the chimney slab next to Oscar, and swings one of its mechanical arms at him. Even wrapped up in the net, however, Oscar is able to hurl himself sideways to avoid the blow.
Miet adjusts her position in the muck and then casts a spell straight up, sending mind-bending colors blasting through the rafters. Although the Varisian woman seems unaffected by the magic, the goblin staggers and topples through the rafters, falling to land - unconscious and twitching - in the septic sludge.
The remaining three goblins cackle and fire their bows again - all aiming for the spot where Shiv just was. As the arrows pass harmlessly through the empty spot, the Varisian woman curses. "No, you fools! Deal with the intruders below!" The goblins look confused, but understanding seems to finally penetrate as she repeatedly points downward vigorously.
In the doorway, Erwin raises his holy symbol and murmurs a prayer to Abadar. You all feel the hand of the Master of the First Vault touch you, guiding your actions.
Uraisa targets the closest goblin to her position with her last force Missle of the day.
Force Missle damage
Shiv smiles to himself, despite his pain, as the goblin next to him eats a blast of magical energy from Uraisa just before he simply steps off the beam and lands in the muck beside his dear sister. Ellantera feels a tugging at the potion bottle on her belt as his hissed words come out of thin air next to her, "One of the little muckrakers got lucky. Need ta make use what's in that bottle sis."
Kassandra murmurs a brief invocation and points toward the ceiling. Four balls of colored light glimmer into existence, illuminating the rafters and banishing the concealing darkness up there.
Ellantera has both hands away from her sides, looking up into the rafters.
"Take it, Shiv. Natalya, is that you? We've been looking for you and the goblins are trying to stop us! You are in danger! Your machine is going to hurt Oscar, you need to make it stop!" Looking around at the others, she says, "It's Natalya! Don't hurt her! Miet, you almost got her with your spell - be careful!"
Oscar struggles in the small space with the webbing around him. He tries to draw his dagger and cut his way out of the strands, backing into a corner, and keeping his weapon between the mechanized creature and himself.
Spinning where she stands Galyna sends a bolt flying towards the automoton's eye, cranking the crossbow to prepare another shot should tis one fail to bring it down.
Confirmation
Sawing away.
Oscar hacks away at the net, cutting a sizable hole but not quite one big enough to escape through. Galyna's crossbow slams into the construct's... back? side? it's hard to tell... with surprising force, although she doesn't manage to find a weak spot in the thing's construction to wreak even more havoc.
Miet Will take a ready action to colour spray any goblins or Natalya if they step into view.
Uraisa's spell hurtles into a goblin, causing it to cry out in pain. Near the back of the attic space, Natalya murmurs another arcane phrase, and a sheet of shimmering substance covers the beams in front of her, making it dangerous to get too close. The goblins lean down and take aim at Galyna, Uraisa and Miet, loosing arrows that fall like rain.
Although the gnome takes a minor graze from one of the arrows, the other two miss wide, leaving their targets unscathed.
In the chimney, Oscar sees with surprise and shock that some of the damage wrought by Galyna's crossbow bolt on the construct begins closing up, the damaged shell snapping back into place right before his eyes. The thing takes another swing at the warrior even as he stares.
Again, though, Oscar throws himself aside, allowing his armor to absorb the blow without effect.
"STOP FIGHTING! Don't you see this is the person we've been trying to rescue? Natalya, these goblins are going to hurt someone, make them stop!"
She will finally fill her hands with a weapon, drawing her bow and pointing at the goblin that grazed Miet with the arrow as she shouts at the Varisian woman.
The potion bottle snatched from Ellantera's belt disappears into thin air only to reappear falling into the muck seconds later, "Ye've gone daft sis. Start killin' things but keep that lass alive fer tha gold." Footprints appear in the muck leading off toward Salt's struggling form.
Kassandra focuses her will on the goblin, and its eyes droop suddenly. Despite her magic, though, the goblin remains obstinately conscious.
Uraisa casts a spell at the goblin she hit with her Missle earlier, hoping to scare some sense into him.
"Sorry Ellantra I think Natalya there has completly lost the plot."
Miet moving to get into a better position
"Natalya, stop your gobs or I will have to defend my other friends! We should not be fighting!"
Oscar continues to saw at the tough tendrils.
"I gotta remember to give this thing a better edge".
Dagger Damage
Then to the Mechanoid "Hey cut that out". "When I get out of this mess, I'm gonna turn you into a heap of scrap metal".
Galyna fires at the mechanical figure again, but this time, in the heat of battle she finds her aim off.
The goblin resists Uraisa's magic just as its fellow did Kassandra's.
In the hollowed-out chimney, Oscar cuts himself free and is able to toss aside the remnants of the net before turning to face the construct.
"Knock that ol' bucket o' rust int' th' sewage, Oscar! Natalya, call off yer tin man!"
Erwin shouts an Inspiring Command at Oscar.
As the fight continues, Kassandra tries to move closer to the actual battle in order to be more effective.
The three goblin archers fire another volley at their previous targets, except for the one that shot at Galyna last time; that one decides to try for revenge against Kassandra for trying to hex it.
A second grazing shot catches the gnome, but the other two have no greater luck than they did before.
Natalya - if it is indeed she - raises a crossbow of her own, ignoring Ellantera's pleas for amity. "You will all suffer the terrible consequences of my displeasure!" she howls. "You cannot defeat me! Your only hope is to flee - or bend knee before my glory!" She aims the bolt at Galyna and looses it.
The bolt splashes harmlessly into the muck, well away from Galyna. (El: surely she didn't actually mean to threaten your other friends - it must have been a warning shot, in hopes of keeping back those she feels are threatening her... right?)
In the chimney, the construct's self-repair mechanisms continue undoing the effects of Galyna's attack, while the construct itself tries once more to punch Oscar.
Perhaps the gears and flywheels that control the clockwork's aim remain impaired by the crossbow shot, though - now entirely freed of the net, Oscar has even less difficulty dodging this attack than he had dodging the last one.
"Owww stop that." Miet moves and attempts to get the Goblin that keeps shooting her with a colour spray if she's not in range she will just double move.
Ellantera returns fire at Miet's attacker. "I told you to make your vermin stop, Natalya. I warned you."
Miet's spell hammers the senses and mind of the goblin archer, and it gives a little squeak just before its eyes roll up into its head and it topples unconscious from the rafters into the muck below.
"This looks like a job for a smashing tool". Oscar draws his mighty warhammer, and swings it at the contraption.
Warhammer Attack
dismantle damage
Shiv glances at the Oscar's battle while passing it before saying, "Salt, stop playin' around with that thing before ya git yerself kilt." The rogue mounts the ladder and makes his way up before stepping off next to the spellcasting object of their quest.
Uraisa attempts to Daze the goblin she injured earlier.
DC 13 Will save.
Ellantera walks over to where the goblin fell from the rafters. As she does, she moves her bow to her off hand and draws her longsword. If possible, she will hold the goblin underwater with a boot - otherwise, she prepares to strike him when he tries to stand up.
Frustration is obvious in Ellantera's voice. "Natalya! We're here to help you! Why are you forcing us to fight?"
Erwin keeps the encouragement coming.
Kassandra watches as one of the goblins falls into the muck and decides that this is the time to advance her position. Trying to dodge any other bolts from the goblin adjacent to her, she positions herself closer to Natalya and tries to curse her.
Ellantera's arrow dispatches another goblin, and Uraisa attempts to befuddle the mind of the last remaining archer. The magic makes the goblin go cross-eyed, and it simply stares blankly for a long moment.
Kassandra tries to hex the group's target at long last. The Varisian woman shakes off the effect, though, and glares at the witch.
Up in the chimney, Oscar discovers that his strength and the construct's speed are fairly evenly matched; even with the mystical blessings, he cannot manage to land a solid blow on his foe.
Shiv glances at the Oscar's battle while passing it before saying, "Salt, stop playin' around with that thing before ya git yerself kilt. Circle right Salt an we'll gut it." The rogue steps up next to the strange contraption and pauses for a second examining it before shoving his rapier into what appears to be a particularly important mass of gears.
Suddenly Shiv appears out of thin air obviously badly injured by the goblin arrow still sticking out of his chest...