Another of the goblins rushes forward, crying out an unintelligible (in any language) war chant. It arrives just next to its prone fellow, and sneers at the poor felled goblin. As the other goblin attempts to rise and perhaps falls victim to Eli, his companion kicks him in disgust.
The kick lands squarely, and the disgraced goblin curls up in pain, clutching its stomach.
A third goblin dashes along behind one of the now vacated vendor huts, and squeals in delight as he rushes at Madir. It seems as if he thinks Madir, being the furthest away, is the easiest prey.
The goblin atop the wagon cackles madly as it begins rummaging through a crate. Good produce is flung about in frustration, until he stands up from the cache with a shout of delight. Having found a hard melon, he gleefully hurls it at Oren, who is nearly too far for him to reasonably hit. Unbelievably, his throw is a thing of legend, and the hard melon thwacks Oren in his bald head.
The disgraced goblin forces himself to get back to his feet.
Tallvar
Eliazur
Gobbos!
Oren
Gruhx
Madir
Oren rubs his head in annoyance, glances down at the now-bruised melon, then back at the annoyingly gleeful goblin on the cart. "Like throwing things, do ya? How about you catch this!" The dwarf reaches down into his being and sends out his will into the elemental planes, breaching the gap just enough to call forth a torrential spray crystallized earth - sand, as is completely covering the land of Osirion - and directs the blast towards the goblin.
Free Action: 5-Foot Step
Move Action: Gather Power - 1 burn soak
Standard Action: Sand Blast w/ Pushing Infusion against goblin on cart.
Completely silent, Madir dashes towards the goblin that has its eyes set on him, dragging the falchion behind him. Once the two of them meet, Madir swings the heavy blade upward...
... Taking the small critter with him.
"You are not welcome here."
As the Goblin that pummeled his shins gets to it's feet, Eli stabs down with his scimitar...
... but misses the target as he's still trying to regain his balance.
"NO! You no slave us!" screams Gruhx. He can feel his ears beginning to burn as he rushes forward. "You stops!"
'Mom always said I was special...but need to control anger...mom say anger controlling me is bad...'
Taking a few ragged, shallow breaths, the trox continues to shout at the small men. "YOUS LEAVES NA-YOW!"
Suddenly, a whisp of smoke curls from his right ear as claws shoot out of his two main hands. "EEEERRRRAAAAAAA" Instinctively, he lashes out, he aims for the two goblins nearest him.
Eli stabs down at the goblin, but the little creature wobbles as it gets to its feet, and the awkward angle forces his blade aside.
Wiping away burst melon, Oren angrily lashes out with his power, but the blast flies to one side of the goblin. Though it misses the target, the blast launches bits of fruits and vegetables into the air when it slams into the wagon's contents. The goblin next to it looks at Oren in wonder.
Gruhx moves forward and swipes out with two vicious claws. The first misses as a goblin uses its small stature to duck under the mighty blow. The second goblin, who had just triumphantly gotten to his feet and avoided Eli's strike, felt invincible. He did, until Gruhx swipes into, and through the creature's shoulder. A thick spray of blood is launched at Eli as the goblin goes done, its upper half barely there.
The goblin approaching Madir gives the hunter a wicked grin, but seems to doubt itself when he sees the large Falchion. He stops, but does so far too slowly, and Madir cuts him from crotch to chest, opening him up the middle. The goblin falls to the ground, bleeding out a painful death.
Eliazur
Gobbos!
Oren
Gruhx
Madir
Tallvar frowns. He hadn't expected the little beast to actually shake off his effect that quickly. He again locks his eyes on the goblin, hoping to dull its reactions to those attacking it.
"Thank you Bug Brother!" Eli says to trox as he tries to regain his balance and swings his scimitar at the goblin in front of him.
Sarenrae! Why am I so off right now? These goblins aren't from the tribe that killed my parents. I shouldn't be so shaken! Get it together Eli!
The goblin tries to shake off the effect, but suddenly his moves become sluggish and slow.
Though sluggish, the goblin still manages to reach out and swipe at Eli with his crude knife.
The strike is a sound one, the goblin who had just been kicking his brother now intent upon a new victim. He slashes through Eli's defenses, giving the man a wicked cut.
The goblin atop the wagon, seemingly frightened of Oren and his odd magics, looks down to see the mighty Trox nearby. He lets out an undignified squeak and reaches down for whatever weapon he can find - a large potato. He hurls it at Gruhx! Unbelievably, the goblin hits his target again! The potato glances off of Gruhx's head.
Eliazur
Gobbos!
Oren
Gruhx
Madir
"Gruhx! One side! Oren yells at the over-sized bug-man. Rather than waiting for the Trox to move, he step past him a uses another sand blast against the goblin on the cart.
Move Action: Move 10'
Standard Action: Sand Blast against goblin on cart.
Goblin on the wagon making a ranged attack should provoke from Gruhx due to reach. If there's something special preventing the provoke, no worries.
"Weave Eli 'lone!" cries out the large man as he shakes the fruit from his face. Glancing down towards the airbender, he nods. "One side."
Lashing out once to help his brother, the massive trox hobbles between the two foes.
As the goblin atop the wagon rears back to throw, Gruhx swipes out at him, opening up the unfortunate fellow's belly with his sharp claws. The goblin goes down, hanging on to his mighty potato.
Having finished off one goblin and seeing the others take down the rest, Madir focuses his gaze on the last remaining goblin as he slowly walks toward it.
Though he is quite used to keeping his one, single neutral expression, Madir has one other facial expression, which he holds now: one filled with feral malice and wild anger, a look of murderous intent. It's a gaze that he doesn't use with emotion, but with pragmatism, using it to unsettle and scare away foes. Unfortunately, he hadn't quite considered the thought that his allies might see this gaze as well.
"Leave this place."
The lone remaining goblin seems nigh invincible as he dodges Gruhx's swipe and then Oren's blast. But, the power of these pale-skinned casters seemed to be wearing him down. He doesn't move as fast as he should, and now seems to be hesitant and unsure of how to next act. He glances to the left and right, seeing his allies down and dying.
Eliazur - shaken
Gobbo - shaken and evil eye
Oren
Gruhx
Madir
Eli takes a breath with a prayer to his goddess and recovers from the shock of seeing goblin's attack the town he's come to love so dear. As he rights himself he sees out of the corner of his a eye a strange new comer to Sandpoint and the pale skinned man's face changes and distorts in to something horrific. Eli is taken by complete surprise and is in utter shock. He looks down and sees the goblin still standing but just as shaken. He swings his scimitar and ...
Tallvar continues staring at the goblin, again willing it to falter in its attacks.
The goblin tries to shake off the effect of Tallvar's gaze, even as it dodges Eli's attack. Though it seems shake off long term effects, the goblin still feels the weight of the gaze for now. Whimpering, the goblin throws up his hands, comically hurling his knife up and then nearly taking off his own ear when gravity helps it back down. Unarmed, the goblin falls to its knees, whimpering...presumably for mercy.
All about you, chaos has engulfed Sandpoint. Goblins race everywhere, running amok and singing and slashing indiscriminately.
Eliazur - shaken
Gobbo - evil eye twice (-2 AC and -2 ATT)
Oren
Gruhx
Madir
Oren eyes the creature on it's knees, hand outstretched towards it in preparation to strike. Instead, he lowers his arm and looks up at the trox. "Pick him up, would ya Gruhx. We can find a place to put him later."
"Agreed. A better idea would be to focus us on those that still intend to harm."
Madir looks around, looking for the best option to direct the party's attention to in our efforts to stop this attack.
Spittle flying from his mouth as his anger continues to fuel his actions Gruhx lashes out again. Just as it looks like he may cut the beast in half, he reaches behind and grabs at the goblin.
"Kay! Gruhx try. Yous bad tings!"
Gruhx easily hoists the goblin up and seems ready to carry him along like a nondescript sack. The goblin squeals at first, but then submits, seemingly sure that he had no other choice in the matter.
Madir keeps eyes up and weapon ready, even as the townsfolk seem to be in complete chaos. Just when it seems as if the chaos has no true point at which they could help, a sudden bloom of fire is cast into the sky. A few small figures rush about in the southern end of the square, as a cart at the edge of the festival grounds has burst into flames.
One goblin near the cart has quite literally whipped other goblins into a frenzy, both with a wicket barbed whip, and with a shrieking song of what seems to be mostly made up words...even to someone knowing the goblin tongue.
Oren sighs in exasperation, "Damned things don't know when to give up, do they." Making his way towards the fire, Oren motions for the others to follow.
Without much hesitation, Madir follows Oren. He asks to the group, not anyone specific, "Does this happen often in Sandpoint?"
At that moment, he hears a bird's cry that he recognizes, and reflexively replies with a call of his own. "Here, Black!"
A large, large black vulture descends down, slightly less tall than Madir himself but an imposing presence with his wings spread out. Madir nods to him and then the bird returns to the skies, circling Madir from above.
"Black will help us. Let's go."
Tallvar takes a few tentative steps toward the goblins to the south, but stops short of being even with Oren. Even if he can put aside his fear for the time being, he knows he won't last long at close range, even against goblins. He listens carefully to the singing goblin, but even after having learned their tongue in years past, he can make little sense of its gibbering.
As you advance to the south, you can see that the goblins gathered around the burning cart all brandish both lit torches and their wicked looking blades they call dogslicers. The torches are no doubt the cause of the fiery inferno that they all seem to be dancing about.
Even though the square is a picture of chaos, Gruhx's lumbering steps and his animal roar are enough to notify the goblins of your presence. They turn to look, and some of the torch-wielders seem to shy away in fear. However, one solid crack of their leader's whip spurs them into action, and they turn to charge at you!
Tallvar
Madir
Torch-wielders - 4
Whip goblin
Gruhx
Eli
Oren steps forward forward, his expression neutral and focused as he draws power from the elemental planes with his will and, sending the energy down his arms and shooting towards the nearest goblin.
Free Action: 5-foot step
Standard Action: Sand Blast
Madir calmly walks up, once again his eyes full of malice. "You are unwelcome," he calls to the goblins as he stares them down quite like last time.
He then points towards the singing goblin and shouts upward. "BLACK! ATTACK!"
The bird immediately swoops downwards towards the creature and aggressively pecks its head.
Tallvar takes a few tentative steps forward, hand still clutching tight to his dagger, Ember following close behind him. He stops beside Oren and his hand moves toward the pouch on his belt. He stops short, though, and instead focuses his gaze on the singing goblin, willing it to react to attacks more slowly.
The goblins, surprised as they are, fall victim to the strange attacks of Madir and Tallvar, though Oren's blast misses its mark. They stare, seemingly both confused and frightened, their bodies seemingly locked in place.
The goblin with the whip only halts for a second, then his song continues, spurring the goblins into action!.
The western-most goblin charges at Madir, though with its short legs it has quite a bit of ground to cover in order to get there.
Another goblin follows suit, and gets close enough to Madir to swing with his torch.
The other two smaller goblins rush into the fray, also brandishing their torches at the suddenly unlucky Madir.
Unbelievably, none of the attacks hit home, Madir slipping them with ease.
The whip-wielder continues his song, working his allies into a frenzy to try and combat the dangerous attacks of these foes. Even while singing, the goblin finds it hard to ignore the massive form of Gruhx fast approaching. It locks onto the large adversary and adds a few off-tone lyrics to its song.
Tallvar
Madir
Torch-wielders - 4
Whip goblin
Gruhx
Eli
Eli moves 20 feet through his companions approaching the goblins with his scimitar drawn and slashed at the little green creature.
Hearing the goblin's screeching song, Gruhx's mind falls back to his past...visions of goblins whipping him...killing his mother...and worse come to mind.
The massive creature stops suddenly, visibly shaking as the images play like a reel through his mind.
Seeing that something happened to Gruhx, Oren moves around behind the large Bloodrager and channels a blast of sand towards the apparent leader of the goblins.
Move Action: Move 15 feet
Standard Action: Sand Blast vs. whip-wielder
Madir, surrounded by goblins, takes a deep breath and exhales sharply through his nose, imitating a bull, and again, and again...
With a sweep, Madir then moves to chop the goblin to his right, hopefully opening up the way for the others somewhat.
While Tallvar reaches into a pouch on his belt with his left hand, he begins muttering while making gestures with his right. He locks his focus onto the singing goblin, finishing his spell with a few gestures in its direction.
Oren's blast slams into the goblin leader, slashing and scouring its skin. The goblin seems furious, but then Tallvar's power takes it, and its eyes cloud over. It seems to be unable to act, and its song ceases. When the song ceases, the other goblins seem to deflate slightly, their bluster gone.
Eli and Madir both miss their marks, the little goblins proving to be quite difficult to hit.
The goblins attack, swinging their torches with wild abandon, seemingly as close to hitting each other as their enemies.
Once again, the goblins all miss their mark. They seem to be disgusted with their weapons, and more than one drops his torch in order to use a blade instead.
Tallvar
Madir
Torch-wielders - 4
Whip goblin (dazed, -6)
Gruhx
Eli
Violently shaking his head, spittle flying all over the captured goblin, Gruhx eyes the singer. "Yous no SING!"
Stepping closer, he chucks the goblin in his hands at the whip weilder.
Seeing that Gruhx is has the leader contained, Oren turns his attention to the others. He unleashed another torrent of slicing sands at one of the goblins threatening Madir.
Standard Action: Sand Blast vs. Eastern-most goblin (currently in melee)
Satisfied, Tallvar turns his attention to the goblin Oren had just attacked. He repeats the same incantation.
Considering the eastern-most goblin covered by Oren and Tallvar, and instead moves to hit the goblin attacking Eli.
Black swoops down again to attack the singing goblin, biting at his eyes.