The goblin warrior before Scout gets head in the head with a hoof and a crack appears in its skull, he slumps to the ground.
Taliesin rushes into combat with the other warrior and cuts him quite deeply, the goblin still stands though barely.
David's missiles slam into one of the archers in the back and slams the air out of him.
The goblin that ran away, keeps running away and is now at 280 feet distance.
Seeing David move toward Forfax. Elenzar takes aims at one of the archers after advancing 30 feet.
Elenzar takes down the archer that got slammed by David's missiles.
The warrior in front of Taliesin and Scout takes a swing with his morningstar at Taliesin and then collapses to the ground, succumbing to the cut from Taliesin from before.
The other two goblins now make a run for it, running 140 feet away. The sound of two horn blasts sound across the valley.
"Forfax, you've arrived too soon. You've overexerted yourself, don't do that." The honeyed voice says.
When you turn around you see a female humanoid shape cloaked in a gold- and sand-coloured hooded cloak, her hands aglow like the sun's lightrays.
"Be careful next time, I can not watch over you all the time. Take caution, things are set in motion, things that are even bigger than this conflict you're trying to fight."
She takes your face in her hands and kisses your forehead, then whispers.
"Sleep now Forfax, you're not done yet." Again Forfax falls into a sleep and awakens, but this time it feels a little more fitful.
Elenzar looks about and tries to determine if all the gobbers are down and none are running for reinforcements.
After he is sure Forfax is okay he consults the map trying to figure how close they are to Monn. As he consults the map he notes, "We are pretty close guys the valley where 'Monn' is marked is just over that ridge."
Nathaniel uses 2 lay hands on Forfax.
"Hold still."
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The group sees the miraculous recovery of Forfax as suddenly he sits right up despite there being a very large pool of his blood on the ground. He sits right up and a bit in shock.
When Nathaniel uses his own healing ability to alleviate some of Forfax's hurts, another horn is sounded further away, one blast this time, then another is heard from between a few mountain peaks. The last one is sounded three times.
"I suggest we get ourselves the heck out of here, they could send those mobile wolfriders."
"That means we will be expected too."
There are sparsely populated forests abound, you could hide in there, there are some rocky outcrops atop some of the hills. If you so wish you could climb up and have a look out over the valley and the first signs of where the workplace of Monn might be. Giving us a good view on the place and how many defenders are coming for us.
As the party rests up and pauses for a moment after reaching a place from which they can see further across the valley, they can see small plumes of smoke rising from behind a small mountain and also several caves in the near distance, about a day to half a day's travel.
When night falls, the people on watch can see glimmering lights in the distance, probably torches of other goblin patrols scouring the area for you.
Elenzar looks concerned at the torches, "We stand out perhaps some mud on our faces and goblin armor might keep us hidden in plain sight. Especially if we want a closer look."
"You think that'll work? We're a little taller than them. I'm unsure to what extend we'll even fit in their crafted pieces."
using the cover of darkness i can to get a closer look if there is no one skilled in that art
Nathaniel stays very low to look at the composition of the search parties.
"Now..let's see what we've got on our tail."
Elenzar nods.
Agreed, scouting first in order to get a better number count
Elenzar only sees the blur of light sources moving around as he peers through the dark night, Forfax however doesn't show the slightest of interest as he still feels troubled by his near-death. David and Nathaniel guess that the movement of the goblins indicate that they will come round the south side of your new position. Taliesin sees the movements more precise and watches the other group as well, seeing where that group has already been.
At Taliesin's indications and advice people who want to scout out the party move towards a rocky outcrop at the base of the hill, cloaked in darkness behind rocks and shrubs the group waits for the group of goblins to appear.
My armor's too noisy >.>, no sneaking here.
Taking his sweet time taliesin crouching close to the group will head closer
Taliesin sees the group appearing from a south-western road. His eyes need some real adjusting to the dark, but he can clearly see the four goblins carrying the torches as they are illuminated against the darkness. Three of them carry bows, the fourth one carries a spear and a horn.
As Taliesin starts to sneak down Elenzar tags a long. He whispers as he catches up, "Can't let you do this along."
Elenzar sees the same thing as Taliesin, the illuminated faces of four goblins, and a few dark shapes between them.
The other groups were too far away for you to get close quickly enough, but the other groups seemed to also have four lit torches with them.
taliesin will grab Elenzar and make way back toward the group
whispering this group is about 6-7 goblin strong three are archers and the rest melee. there is one guy with a horn. IF David and Nathaniel are ok on magical resources. I propose we take them out. There are currently 3 groups total looking for us about same sized squads. This could be our attack plan: David color spray the group aiming for the one in the horn. We mop up those still up. If the alter is given we finish up the group and retreat into the darkness. If the combat went well for our side we can move and pounce on an other group. The idea of course to reduce the number of green skin.
"Not to mention you need to get up close to use color spray."
Elenzar whispers "We are a single horn blast from the other groups, and possibly their camp. They are searching in the hopes of engaging us. Each time we engage even if they only find goblin corpses we confirm our presence. We need eyes on the camp and to strike where and when they do not expect."
they know we are here in the area, that last group of 10 strong made sure of that. Now the game plan is to lower their number as much as possible while we can. We have the element of surprise and even if we insta kill half of them before retreating into the darkness that goblins we do not have to worry later. David are you up to it?
"We are not an army we are a small force. Whose directive is to strike supply chain. Harrying a few patrols already looking for us, what does that help? We have already pulled these goblin from normal duties to waste their time. If we continue to strike. They may call for aide and that could pin us down. Also has it not occurred that they are sending these search teams to harry us. Sending small units to slow and harass forces is a containment tactic. These goblins even if they do not kill us if we chase after every one. Then our attentions are perhaps directed where the enemy wants rather than where the enemy does not want. I say we get more intel on Monn and what his encampment looks like before whatever weapon he hopes to bring to battle won't go. That to me sounds more important than a few wandering patrols. We keep talking like if we don't kill something that war is lost. The difference in this war is not going to come from a few goblins dead, or even a single Cyclops. We were unable to defeat their general let's not let this other leader get what he is building into action. Because if it is as important as he thinks that can't really effect things."
Fine he says retreating lets go and have a good nights rest then