Thaddeus your spell dazes the goblin.
Notick, your arrow files wide as you fire on the move at the goblin.
Khrondak raises the earth-breaker above his head and waits for the goblins to approach.
HP: 22/22
AC w/ shield: 17 (11 T / 16 FF)
Resistances: Acid (5), Cold (5), Electricity (5)
CMD: 16
F/R/W: +5/+1/+2 (+1 vs fear)
(+2 vs evil descriptor)
daylight uses left: 1/1
Ongoing Effects: none
Goblin 1,
Goblin 2,(dazed 1 round)
Goblin 3,
Goblin 4,
Goblin 5,
Goblin 6,(wounded)
Goblin 7,
Goblin 8,
Goblin 9,
Goblin 10,
Bel'Tanis
Khrondak, (divine favor 1 min +1)
1st— deadeye's lore, divine favor[used], shield of faith, true strikeD
Thaddeus,
Midori,
Scoria, (used a potion of Mage Armor AC 20, 1 hour)
Notick,
The goblins surge forward to press the attack, hooting and howling as they jostle for position with each other to get into melee range.
However Khrondak and Bel'tanis have anticipated the goblins reckless charge, and swing first.
The goblin dodges Bel'Tanis's fiery red scimitar, however the other lead goblin not as lucky to avoid Khrondak's earth breaker. The hammer crushes the goblin with ease.
The Goblin slashes at Scoria and misses.
The goblin returns the attack made by Bel'Tanis, but misses.
Here was a slight dilemma in Scoria's eye, for while their gauntlet was quite effective, she couldn't see the goblins finally understanding after half their number went down to change tactics from blindly rushing them.
She struck out, her stance solid as stone as her fist drove at the first goblin.
Notick abandons the Ranged weapon, cursing under his breath as the goblins swarm them and he's so unprepared. He'll Move forward a step, watching his footing while drawing his Falcata. He spins in a fancy twirl as he swings the blade down onto the closest goblin.
Thaddeus once again does his best to clog the gap, believing it to be the best way to control the hoard. Though he would like that there was at least room to let more than one in at them. "Scoria, if you step back to my right or front right, they can come in two at a time. That will allow four to five of us to attack at once." He then asks for Iomedae's aid once again.
Notick you move forward into melee with the now dazed goblin easily hitting the creature, it is gravely wounded.
Scoria you attack the goblin (1)smashing it in the face as it presses forward for an attack, you kill the creature instantly. You then turn your attentions on the wounded and dazed goblin to your left. You stike easily connects on the dazed creature killing it.
Midori will move to RR-25 and fire her shortbow at goblin #1
As the battle against the goblins rages, from behind you hear the barking and braying of dogs. A pack of goblin dogs have joined the fight.
Goblin 1,(dead)
Goblin 2,
Goblin 3,(dead)
Goblin 4,(dead)
Goblin 5,
Goblin 6,(wounded)
Goblin 7,
Goblin 8,
Goblin 9,
Goblin 10,
Goblin Dog 1,
Goblin Dog 2,
Goblin Dog 3,
Goblin Dog 4,
Bel'Tanis
Khrondak, (divine favor 1 min +1)
1st— deadeye's lore, divine favor, shield of faith, true strikeD
Thaddeus,
Midori,
Scoria, (used a potion of Mage Armor AC 20, 1 hour)
Notick,
Round 3 Map
Round 3
Hearing the dogs and seeing that Notick and Scoria seem to have the goblins contained, the aasimar turns and dashes back to protect the party's flank.
HP: 22/22
AC w/ shield: 17 (11 T / 16 FF)
Resistances: Acid (5), Cold (5), Electricity (5)
CMD: 16
F/R/W: +5/+1/+2 (+1 vs fear)
(+2 vs evil descriptor)
daylight uses left: 1/1
Ongoing Effects
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Khrondak hears the barking coming from behind and turns around to see Bel'Tanis rushing towards the goblin dogs. The shoanti watches the hideous pets turn around the corner and clenches his fists around the earth-breaker, gritting his teeth.
Khrondak marches to join Bel'Tanis in his stance againt the goblin dogs. "Together we shall hold these beasts back, Bel'Tanis!"
Updated map showing Bel'Tanis, Khrondak and the Goblins (and dogs) moves for round 3.
Round 3 Update
Bel'Tanis as you rush to engage the dogs, one attempts to bite you as you run past it to get into a better positon to attack.
The dog misses as you round the corner and get into attack position.
The goblin clumsy attack misses.
The goblin misses as moves forward to engage.
The Dog lunges at you Khrondak and scores a hit.
Khrondak as you try to fend of the first strange looking mix of goblin and dog, the second also scores a hit.
"There is nothing to your right but thickets, sergeant," Scoria respectfully stated to Thaddeus's suggestion - space enough perhaps to press oneself up to the wall of brambles, but hardly room to fight at all. Now there were more coming from behind - dogs from the barking. Bel'Tanis and Khrondak had gone off to fight the dogs, which she supposed was valid if it left their front line a little thin. "Do not let them pass," Scoria spoke to Notick - the two of them had to give the others the time necessary to deal with the second force before they were truly flanked.
She lashed out once more with fist and foot, acting upon the wave that smashed up against their wall. Hopefully they could keep them at bay.
Notick grins widely at the stonemason, an obvious look of self-appreciation as his mind comes up with the perfect plan, "As you say..."
He'll hold his blade steadily at it's side, dashing his hand forward and barks his arcane command for his planned spell, a dweomer forming around his body before focusing to his hand and shooting from them out at the goblins.
A burst of fire erupts with a roar, working to engulf and burn the goblins to the ground.
Recognizing that the two of them were going to hold the small opening, there was nothing left for him to do against these foes. He decides to move to the secondary threat with the others. He moves over to stand beside Midori, and attempts to continue to use his power to remove a dog from the fight, as it were. Any time he can stop any one of them from taking any action, is almost as much as preventing injury to one of his allies. "Had we moved into the goblin's chamber, we would have been trapped by these dogs. Since we hold the advantageuos terrain it has worked to our benefit, as we control the openings, and limit the number they can bring to bear on any indiv...". He's cut off when he sees Bel'Tanis has moved too far in and gotten himself surrounded.
Midori will move to qq24 and fire at goblin #7
Faced with two goblin dogs, Khrondak closes his eye for a moment, focusing Gorum's will and might. He pictures one of the beasts in a pool of its own blood, and swings the hammer down against it without even looking. He opens his eyes to watch the earth breaker's spiked head go down, and the dog steps right under it at the very last instant as it vainly tries to escape the blow. Upon hearing the sound of crushing bones, Khrondak knows his vision has come true.
Thaddeus the dog resists your sorcery!
Saves!
Your first attack lands square against the goblin in melee, killing it instantly. Your shuriken then kill the goblin behind as it tries to climb over its recently killed ally.
Notick, a jet of flames erupts from your hands, but the goblin is to quick and evades the worst of the flames.
Your attack misses as the goblin dog rushes to attack Khrondak.
Your attack misses.
The goblin dog is no match for your earthbreaker. The dog dies rather messily.
Round 4
HP: 22/22
AC w/ shield: 17 (11 T / 16 FF)
Resistances: Acid (5), Cold (5), Electricity (5)
CMD: 16
F/R/W: +5/+1/+2 (+1 vs fear)
(+2 vs evil descriptor)
daylight uses left: 1/1
Ongoing Effects
Notick your cone of fire sweeps over the goblins killing 3 of them instantly and severely injury the other two.
Scoria you then follow up Notick's devastating spell with a fully of attacks. The goblin (7) in melee with you dies quickly to a strike. You then do a follow up strike to the goblin (5) next to Notick, killing the previously wounded creature.
Goblin 1,Dead
Goblin 2, Wounded
Goblin 3,Dead
Goblin 4,Dead
Goblin 5,Dead
Goblin 6,Dead
Goblin 7,Dead
Goblin 8,
Goblin 9,Dead
Goblin 10,Dead
Goblin Dog 1,Dead
Goblin Dog 2,
Goblin Dog 3,
Goblin Dog 4,
Bel'Tanis
Khrondak 9/19 HP, (divine favor 1 min +1)
1st— deadeye's lore, divine favor (used), shield of faith, true strikeD (used)
Thaddeus,
Midori,
Scoria, (used a potion of Mage Armor AC 20, 1 hour)
Notick,
Spells Used:
2/3 1st Level
The goblins continue to press their attack on Scoria and Notick even though only two remain. They seem be oblivious to the losses. Their attacks are frantic and lack any sort of focus.
The goblin dog attack fare no better than their goblin kin.
The monk sometimes forgot that among her allies were potent spellcasters. Notick's impressive curtain of fire that burned away nearly half of the remaining goblins was quite impressive. She steeled her fists, looking to end the threat from this end, hoping that the others would have similar luck with the dogs.
The goblin dies quickly to your flurry of attacks,
Thaddeus is glad to see their small group has made fairly short work of not only the goblins, but their disgusting dogs as well. Since he failed to stop the one dog against Bel'Tanis from acting, he tries to prevent the other one, with a warning to the warrior. "Bel'Tanis, if one of them doesn't act, take out the other, I may have bought you a few seconds."
Scoria you kill goblin 8.
Bel'Tanis swings his scimitar in a flashing arc at the nearest goblin dog not affected by Thaddeus' magics.
HP: 22/22
AC w/ shield: 17 (11 T / 16 FF)
Resistances: Acid (5), Cold (5), Electricity (5)
CMD: 16
F/R/W: +5/+1/+2 (+1 vs fear)
(+2 vs evil descriptor)
daylight uses left: 1/1
Ongoing Effects
After crushing the first goblin dog, Khrondak focuses his attention at the other one. He dodges the dog’s fangs and, with a powerful swing, tries to hit it between the eyes for a mortal blow.
Bel'Tanis and Khrondak you both crush your opponents.
The remaining goblin looks around as if just now realizing that all of its companions are dead. It turns on Scoria and continues to attack with a savage glee.
However it's attack is wild and with out any semblance of skill.
With only one opponent left, Scoria didn't hold herself back, striking out hard and fast with her body.
Scoria flicks the blood from her knuckles and steps back towards the fight with the dogs - though it seems that she won't be necessary, the monk draws her temple sword just in case, the soft chime of bell charms accompanying it.
With only one enemy left, and unable to daze it again, Thaddeus moves up to the other side of the dazed hound in order to make a solid attack on the thing.
The last goblin and dog fall to blades, fists and spells. The battle has won.
The creatures lair looks more of a temporary camp than a permanent residence.
Thaddeus looks around at the carnage, taking it all in, his wheels turning. "Notick, and Scoria, you guys were very effective in reducing the goblin numbers. Good job. Same to you Bel'Tanis and Iron-Forged with the dogs. I suggest we see if they have anything useful on them, and then wonder if it would be wise to dump them down this hole as a way of covering our tracks. Any thoughts on the matter? Scoria?" He asks her specifically, knowing that she often has issue with some of his suggestions, but thinking she may feel reluctant to question him outright more often.
He roughly glimpses amongst the bodies, but doesn't really know what all to look for, or what all they want to take with them. Yes, that many weapons and armor could be sold, but is it really worth the hassle for what they would get out of it?
"Simply that we do not waste too much time checking the bodies. Most likely they will still be here when we must exit. We should not overburden ourselves while there are still enemies to fight," Scoria adds in her own advice. There was also the limited amount of time her quaffed potion would continue to protect her. She had a spare, certainly, but she felt they needed to take advantage of their most limited resources.
"Notick, good work. Your spell was well timed and useful," She tells the half-elf, giving him a respectful nod. Magic was a foreign affair to her, but she could not deny that it was useful in certain instances.
The monk would give the bodies a cursory once over before setting off again as the scout - seeing that she'd led them into a dead end, it was time to head back, towards where those dogs had come from. She wondered who else had been made aware of their presence now, and kept her steps as light as possible.
The most unusual thing of the goblins in this chamber is they all have bird bones and feathers, tied into their armor, clothes and hair.
All of their weapons and gear are in poor shape.
Khrondak smiles and gives a satisfied look to his colleagues, blood splattered all over his clothes and armor. "This was a good fight!", he proclaims boastfully. As Scoria searches the goblin's dead bodies, Khrondak notices the bleeding from his wounds and asks "Anyone else got hurt? Come beside me and we shall be relieved from these wounds."
Notick just nods knowingly in response to the Stonemason's praise. He'll glance around the field, scrunching his nose slightly at the amount of death around him. "We've all done well here..." he says halfheartedly, not enjoying the idea of killing, but not having any other choice softens his hard analysis. "We should keep moving. We've no idea what sort of response may arise from the commotion we've created here."
Bel'Tanis cleans the blade of his sword on the hedge, but keeps it out and ready. He glances at his hand as he does so, spattered with blood, and a few moments later a troubled look clouds his face briefly.
Human blood. Elf blood. Goblin blood. Is there a difference? Nualia...
The fair skinned, dark haired aasimar shakes his head then turns back to the group. He helps with patting down the goblins, more considered with disposing of their weapons than with anything else. "No sense in leaving these here for other goblins to come along and find." At Notick's words though he nods, "Notick's right. We should press on as quickly as we can. That skirmish was over in a flash and the rest of the goblins might not know anything is amiss yet."
Scoria nods, though glances over at Bel'Tanis briefly, concerned by the troubled look on his face. She doesn't say anything to him about it - it is neither the time nor the place. She knows there's nothing she can say to relieve his mood.
She scouts back to the chamber with the large pit in it, before heading past it, up into the unexplored northern passage.
Scoria you scout along the northern tunnel which leads into what looks to be a dog warren. No creatures are present. The chamber is full of refuse. Toe the east a tunnel goes north and south. They are the only exits.
Glancing between north and south paths, Scoria thought about it briefly. On the one hand, north felt like the way further into Thistletop. On the other, leaving the south path unexplored could end up with them once again caught off guard by enemies coming from their rear. Deciding to err on the side of caution, the monk quietly steps down the southern route, keeping low and her sword in one hand.
Bel'Tanis nods approvingly at Scoria's choice of direction. "Lead on, Scoria. Lead on."