For future situations though, treat Hassel's attack like this; Bite attack +5 1d4+5;Hooves +5 1d6+5 and make a DC 10 Ride check if you want both of you to fight. Though I'd say Hassel uses his hooves more often than his bite. You may use his hooves to attack as he prances and gain a +1 attack and damage yourself because of higher ground, forgetting his bite attack. something like this Knight
Forfax's bill strikes true and the goblin is knocked prone by the blow and screams in agony as he rolls over the floor to the side. Coming to the end he grabs his axe and readies himself for a follow up combat.
The goblin Nathaniel is fighting roars at him and 5-ft steps beside him, drawing his weapon on the go. Then he attacks Nathaniel with Heavy mace.
Nathaniel wasn't quick enough with his shield and takes a blow to the shoulder.
The goblin at the back spits on the ground calling out in Common no less.
"You stupid Erathians don't know when to stop do you."
He charges Forfax upon his steed and lashes out at him with his longsword.
and he misses Forfax by a few inches as he missed the height he was on.
Round 1
Taliesin will move up inside the barn and will attack the goblin that is in combat with elenzar
Taliesin catches the goblin in one of his lungs with the longspear, catching the goblin totally off guard as the spear is thrust into his chest. The goblin falls on the ground gasping for air and then gurgling as his last breath leaves him.
Nathaniel feels the blow connect across his shoulder. Luckily it isn't such a strong blow at the moment. He looks at the goblin in front of him and with a determined look he holds his mace slightly backwards, taking another swing at the goblin.
Elenzar strikes ouf with his sword.
Nathaniel moves up to the goblin close to Forfax and smahses its head in. The goblin collapses to the ground dropping the sword from its hands.
David carefuly aims at the last goblin close to the stabled horse and shoots. He aims a little too high and the bolt pins itself in the wooden beam above the goblin's head.
Hassel's hooves trample the dead goblin some more before giving his rider the ability to strike true on the last remaining goblin, piercing its green skin and he falls lifeless to the ground.
Inspection of the goblins reveal that they carried a heavy mace and a battleaxe, 2 Studded leather armours, a longsword and a masterwork studded leather armour. Furthermore the three all carried a dagger and one of them carried a glass bottle with them with undetermined contents.
Nice work every one. We killed everything and received no wounds. Lets gather the stuff and continue our inspection of the area shall we?
David does his best to determine the contents by looking and smelling from the flask. He quickly determines it is a potion of CLW, possibly raided from the farmstead.
Forfax takes a little time to calm the strong farmhorse down, but it eventually he succeeds. The horse is chestnut brown with lightbrown manes it looks strong and heavy, but you think it's probably suited to heavy labour instead of warfare.
The barn itself is littered with horse dung, straw, and some goblin camp equipment. There is also 60 ft of hemp rope, 2 riding saddles, a haversack, a sack of dried meat of unknown origin, 2 human corpses, a pitchfork and a broken ladder.
The attic with hay above is unreachable at the moment.
I think this farm will need new owners after the siege is broken. replied taliesin pointing at the corpse
Elenzar whispers a prayer.
"Forfax, do you want a new pitchfork?"
Elenzar starts to part the goblins from their equipment and search them. "Thiz studded leather looks pretty high quality. Any takers? Lets keep goblin gear separate from that which they may have taken. The militia may want it back in service."
i think it would be more beneficial for all if we sold it i think replied Taliesin after looking at the armor
Elenzar nods at Taleseins statement and packs up the gear from the goblins. Checking for additional things in their pockets. He makes separate piles of goblin make gear from Earathin made gear. ”Lets get this stuff on the wagons and then secure the silo. After that we can bury the dead.”
After things are stowed on the wagon he looks to his fellows, ”Ready to search the rest of property.” He heads toward the silo and searches.
The silo still stands tall and looks like it hasn't been as manhandled as the other buildings. The great doors are slightly ajar and initially there is no sound coming from within.
Taliesin will move in carefully inside, weapon in hand.
(if nothing of interest he will give the all clear signal)
Elenzar keeps his eyes peeled and backs up Taliesin.
Nathaniel flanks Taliesin when going in, holding his shield ready.
As the four members walk towards the silo door, Forfax dismounts Hassel as the close quarters might not be optimal to gfight on horseback. The group of four approach slowly and perceive a slight stench in the air that becomes more apparent as they near. It smells a bit of rotten eggs.
Then as Talisien opens the doors and lets the light shine into the large room, a large group of bats are revealed and awakened. Only too late do the four realize the number of bats inside the silo is worrisome as they come flying straight for them all at once.
Talisien takes a few bats to his arms and shoulders, but quickly decides to make himself smaller, much to the dismay of Elenzar right behind him. Nathaniel's shield braced him for the impact of many bats on it, but still a lot collided with his head as it sticks out a lot above the rest.
David is shielded from most harm by the large aspiring paladin, however the bats move through the group so rapidly that a few leave a nasty cut on his arms.
The bats make their way out of the silo and fly off in a north-western direction, leaving the party battered, scratched and even cut.
The silo itself, is reasonably empty, apart from the bat droppings and the skeleton of a dead dog, nothing looks important, though the stench is now particularly clear. The doors to the grain storage seems tightly sealed, so the grain might still be aplenty in these stores.
Elenzar retreats from the doorway. He buries his face in the wall and covers any exposed flesh. "Aaaahhhh! Who was it that said bats are harmless."
"It could have been worse, so unless they come back to have a bite of us i'm not so worried."
taliesin will go out of the silo and inform the wagon drivers of the situation and of the grain in the silo
Talisien informs the wagon drivers and they nod as they ride their ox carts towards the silo. The look upon their faces at the devastation is very grim.
As the wagon driver that spoke to you before reaches the silo he whistles a slow tone in amazement.
"Well I've never thought the silo would still be sealed shut after those goblin attacks, either they didn't care or they were too dumb to figure the door out." he says as he calls for a crowbar from the other drivers.
"Right lads let's get this door open and the grain loaded onto the carts, get moving."
The loading of the carts takes almost the rest of the day and you will have to camp near here for the night.
alright so we are going to camp out here for the night. i'll take first watch with one of the drivers. The rest of you should do the same.
Elenzar nods and makes his way to a comy spot to lay his head. He says little but seems to touch his face and hannds where the bats got him esch time with a wince.
The night passes quite uneventful, the midnight hooting of an owl and the distant howling of a wolf are the only sounds that can be heard during the watches.
During the next morning the drivers are preparing for the next leg of the journey, feeding their oxen and checking their hooves.
"Morning lads! You be ready to travel to the lumberyards today right?"
The driver points back at his wagon. "With the amount of grain we got yesterday, we have 3 carts almost fully loaded, we might not need to visit the other farmsteads further up north."
We are following you so lead on. replied taliesin with a bright morning smile.
"Wow I didn't know you could do that. Thanks."
Nathaniel was looking at David's performance of healing.
Nifty indeed.
Nice work there david
Elenzar picks the last watch he spends some time reading the book given to him by the elf.
When it comes time to break camp. "Sounds good. Though gathering food to deny it to our enemies may make almost as much sense as gathering it for ourselves."
The apparent speaker for the wagon drivers speaks up at Elenzar's point.
"That sounds like a good idea, however we don't have the capacity to do so. If ye ever want to return with his mission, my mates and I are willing to join again as well, so says Brand!"
Are we done already ? replied curiously taliesin
Elenzar listens a moment, "Fair enough lets get to the lumber then."
The group makes their way to the lumberyards after about a full days travel. Along the way they come acrossthe battlefield of the last day, or at least close to it. From a distance, the crows and ravens are easily heard and spotted that pick their way through the corpses.
It is a grizzly sight for the ones not used to battle, but you could make a slight detour to check upon the remnants.
At the lumberyards though, there are definitely signs of a larger group of goblins having been present here, a few hundred most likely.
let's hope it wasn't too costly for our troops. Taliesin will point to the other the fresh goblin tracks from the pile of lumber to the fire pit
let's be ready anyway. he motion the drivers to stop and the rest of the party to follow him as he moves up in order to investigate