"Speak...for yourself." The elf spits a bit of blood.
Vendrick makes a hand sign and disappears. "Vanya."
What is it you want?"
Unseen Female goblin: Your Heads!!...
A second volley of arrow is launched (I'll assume you went for some cover, that's seems natural). Most of them miss but one scratch Sven forearm (2 dmg)
Unseen Female goblin: Spinegougers Don't disappoint the toothless, is now or never!
- You have the feeling you have heard those two names in the past somewhere-
A little more than a dozen of goblin start screaming and running chaotically to your position. So chaotically that some of them slip and fall, another crash against a three and another one step over a comrade foot and the two of them start fighting.
They are lead by a better equipped female riding a big white wolf.
"Why does it always have to be goblins?"
Desmond sets his sword aside, and returns fire with his crossbow.
"Bah...haven't used this in a while."
Sven sighs. "Wanton destruction it is."
He roars and charges at the leader.
Sven succeed in unmounting the female goblin who is now 15 feat away from her mount. It's vendrick's.
Vendrick cannibalizes his Locate Object spell for arcane power and begins to conjure a Celestial Elk.
Sven toss the female goblin 15 ft apart, she lands...
... on foot.
The white big wolf open his mouth and a cold wind strike at Sven
Some goblin shoot arrows to Sven and desmond, and luckily for them some of them hit (3 dmg for Sven, 12 for desmond). But most goblins are just surprised that their leader have been dismounted and stops for a second to consider what to do.
Desmond picks up his sword and walks toward the leader goblin.
Sven stays where he is and does his best to eat the wolf thing before it can kill him with coldness.
A Celestial Elk forms into a flanking position with Sven and lays into the wolf. It's hooves and antlers glow with holy power.
Vendrick himself considers throwing a fireball but decides to wait and see how things play out.
Sven brutally tear apart the white wolf spilling blood and guts everywhere. The goblin see the show and get scared. Most of the ones in melee range run around chaotically while a couple of them stand there trembling. Their leader gets more angry than scared but decide to run away leaving the others to their own. She shouts to the archers to finish the big boarman, they obey in launching ne final round before escaping themselves
The arrow fly but Sven remain safe from them behind the Celestial Elk.
Sven pants and shrinks down to better hide behind the elk. He also bleeds. A lot.
"C'mere, Sven, before you pass out."
Desmond patches Sven up with the wand he was totally carrying the whole time.
Unless you pursue them or track them the goblin leave you alone. With more calm Sven and Vendrick recall that it's they have been attacked by the spinegougers in the past.
Desmond also heals himself and Vendrick.
Then he takes a shot of whiskey, and passes the bottle to Sven.
"To calm your nerves," he explains, "I'd offer you some, Vendrick, but I get the feeling you don't appreciate this method of healing."
"Hmf. Do you think me so uptight?" Vendrick snatches the bottle and drinks a bit more than a man of his constitution should. He ends up coughing heavily before clearing his throat.
"Invigorating...truly we are a raucous band of warriors."
Desmond laughs.
"That's the spirit! No pun intended."
"So now that we're all brimming with liquid courage, shall we be off?"
Sven wipes his lips and hands the bottle back.
"Yeah. If the Spinegougers come back I want to be further down the trail when they find us."
Just after Sven finish talking you hear some brush moving and a chilly voice say
No arrows, Gomhok is coming in peace! Gomhok want to talk! - An unusually tall and skinny blue skinned goblin stand some feet away from you, ready to run if you act with hostility.
"Speak!" Sven yells over to it.
The goblin hides a little more
We Spinegouger not want to be here, we not want to fight you, we waited here for you too long and we want to go home in the cold. But the toothless commanded our leader, and our leader commanded us, and we afraid and obey. Next time, if you kill her we just go away.
"Who is the 'toothless'? This is the second time I've heard of her."
Gomhok seems somewhat confused by the question, but replies -The toothless, she is the oldest goblin, she... - He seems to be struggling at pinpointing the concepts, you remember the spinegougers to not be the smartest goblin around. All clans make silence and hear when she want to speak
"What does she want?"
Gomhok only know she ordered Khulta to attack you
"Well! We can infer that we're doing something she'd rather us die for from that."
"The question remains how she knew we were coming here though. If she is the priestess masterminding some diabolical plot then she may have divined it through her patron....or she has spies."
We have deal, longshanks?
"We kill her, you leave? Sounds fair to me. Though the gods know why you'd want to return to that blasted monster infested tundra."
"Just make sure your buddies know to stay out of the way."
Gomhok grins happily and Evilly and leave.
"At what point did killing tyrannical goblin leaders become a thing of ours? Maybe we should get business cards."
You move and Nothing else interrupts you in the night.
...Hours later...
After walking for a while you notice The change in the vegetation as all the trees are some variety of pines. A faint blue mist start to surround you and the air become slightly more cold. The air feel charged, and you can feel in your skin a tingling and all the normal sounds of a forest are missing.
When you start thinking about it, you are not sure how much time have you been inside that mist, or since when the pines surrounded you.
Vendrick sticks a finger in his mouth then holds it in the air.
"This must be the place."