"I don't plan to let up." Maqan reassured her friend as she pressed on.
Round 4
One spear hits Maqan for 2 damage. As Urdrsk gets hit by a bolt and bullet for 12 damage. Urdrsk slashes into the weakened goblin before him and takes it down. The badger makes large crunching noises in the other corridor.
Round 5
Maqan and Urdrsk miss. The goblins don't as the two in front both hit, Urdrsk continues to get pummeled by rock and bolt, Maqan gets hit by a cruel arrow that sticks into her leg,
Round 6
As Urdrsk gets hit by a spear, bolt and bullet again he drops as Maqan is hit by another arrow in her shoulder.
Maqan and Urdrsk miss, but your goblin allies come to the rescue they charge forward as each of you fall with brandished weapons. Smashing into their kin for their saviors!
The goblin allies make a wall and attack their kin as others drag the dwarf, elf, and human back to be healed.
Round 7&8
The goblins fight against each other. Goblins fall on either side. At the end of round 8, 3 of 6 of your goblins still fight, the others bleed on the ground. Your foes have lost two goblins too pushing them back just a little. The badger is again waiting it turn to get at the goblins...
As the other goblins attack and some drag off Urdrsk from the fight, Cook-Cook begins casting a spell on the downed dwarf.
As he does this, barely observable multiple thin arms wrap themselves around Urdrsk and infuse him with healing energy.
Cook-Cook moves over to Saronis, knowing that he and Urdrsk are the greatest fighters among the group and begins casting the same spell again.
This time the thin arms simply touch the unconscious elf and revitalize him with new energy.
Cook-Cook makes sure that Maqan is stale by administering first aid to her.
Cook-Cook joins the fray again and hurls a stone from his sling at the nearest enemy goblin.
As Cook-Cook moved between their friends, Maqan threw a pall of acid into the enemy lines.
She stopped what she was doing so that Cook-Cook could take a look at her wounds. "Thank you." Maqan said with a nod.
After Cook-Cook's help, Maqan moved back into combat.
Rounds 3 & 4
Cook Cook hit his target and hurt the goblin, though not enough to down it.
Round 6
Cook Cook heals Urdrsk and he awakens with 4 hp. Urdrsk can now act in this round. Maqan is still out cold.
Round 7
Round 8
She is now stable thanks to Cook Cook.
Round 9
The rest of your ally goblins fall! They are able to take one of the other goblins down but are out of the rest of the battle. The badger moves up to keep the line but now becomes the sole target of the remaining 7 goblins. Cook Cook comes forward and released another shot with his sling but hits the ground before it can get to its target.
Round 9
He awakens with a start, especially with no weapon nearby, he looks at Maqan and hopes she is alright. He touches her and quickly says Skylark in Elven, healing her for .
Round 10
He pulls his warhammer from his belt and crouches over Maqan to make sure she is stable,
Round 10
He double moves trying to get into melee, if possible ending in a spot he can charge.
Round 6
As the dwarf stands the catfolk in the same leather armor as before joins the group. "I am so sorry I slept through the rousing. Here may the benevolent heal you." He prays and touches Maqan...
He heals Maqan enough that she may join the fight as well.
Round 7
Healing Saronis too, the catfolk prays to the benevolent again...
Saronis would get up and heal Maqan next, Then the catfolk picks up its weapon as it moves forward to join the battle.
Round 6
Fully healed, Urdrsk nods at Maqan and the catfolk. "Gòòd lùck." The dwarf then charges around the corner and back down the hallway, returning to the battle.
Round 7
The dwarf hero continues his charge, attack the goblin and unleashing his Frightful Presence (Ex)!
Round 8
Urdrsk pivot in a blur and attacks the goblin next to the fey .
Round 9
Missing the goblin by inches, the dwarf attacks once more.
Round 10
Urdrsk pivots back to attack the next goblin down.
In Urdrsk's actions he cuts down two more goblins, Two of the goblins flee and return in Round 10.
Flinging acid at a safe distance. Only hitting one of the goblins...
The badger turns into the faerie and flutters away down one of the side tunnels as Urdrsk and Saronis arrive again to enter into melee. The other goblins crawl and pull each other back as you take over the line of fighting.
Urdrsk takes down another goblin, Three goblins make the volley as before, as the two in front use spears against the dwarf and elf.
Round 10
He picks up his blade on his way forward, dropping the warhammer. Standing again next to the dwarf he smiles at him saying, "Well we will see what can be done in our little time! For GLORY!"
He solidifies his defense more than offense standing next to Urdrsk.
Round 11
Stepping forward he lets the goblins flee and focuses on the one who had given him the most pain. Still keeping up the defense he strikes out with a steady strike.
Round 10
Even with all the defense Saronis puts up the boss gob is able to hit him, knocking him down to 0 hp. Saronis takes down one as Urdrsk takes down one as well, the goblin's blood splattering against the floor and wall. The boss goblin strikes Saronis but he does not fall. Then takes a few steps to get behind his fellow goblins. With little else to do the catfolk begins to help the goblins away from the carnage.
The last two goblins flee leaving the well armored goblin, with a wide brimmed dirty hat with feathers stuck in it, behind. It growls at each of you shouting, "You leave now, I let you live!"
Saronis cuts down the goblin in the wide brimmed hat's side leaving a grievous wound but it was fast enough to evade death.
Cook-Cook picks up another loose rock from the ground and flings it at the last remaining goblin standing.
Round 11
Breathing hard but determined, Urdrsk responds to the armored goblin. "Àyé àm prèpàrèd tò mèèt my áncéstórs, thìs dáy. Àrè yóu?!!"
Round 11
Cook Cook slings the rock and the goblin easily dodges it. The goblin is now shaken by Urdrsk but stands his ground, "We will see!" He takes a step back and fires into Saornis the arrow missing him entirely.
Round 12
Taking another step back to get a shot at the dwarf he lets the arrow fly sticking his tongue out at you and laughing as you fall. "Only if you can catch me, ELF!"
The catfolk comes up and stabilizes Urdrsk with a touch and stands over him giving him cover.
Round 12
Continuing to fight defensively he steps up and strikes at the goblin again. His blade hitting the leather and metal studs of the armor, as they deflect his hit. He sneers at the goblin saying, "Your line ends here!"
Maqan laid upon the group and the sounds of the world came back to her slowly. The pain of the wounds that marred her body still caused great pain, yet the blood from them had stopped flowing... for now.
Dragging herself foreword slowly, Maqan winced from the pain, but go herself to the begging of the hall. "Saronis..." She whispered as she took a hold of the pendant. Hands stained with her own blood.
"Urdrsk... Cook-Cook..." She breathed out. "I'm sorry, I cannot be of use to you all.... right now..." Her head was still spinning from blood loss.
Round 13
The goblin takes another step back and releases another arrow, which bounces off Saronis' armor.
Round 14
The goblin gets one more arrow off to bounce off the elf's armor. It cries in pain as it is hit again losing mobiblity from the massive wound to its leg. The catfolk gets to the dwarf and stabilizes him.
Round 15
Blood splattering everywhere. The goblin is sliced in half from Saronis' attack.
Round 13
Continuing to fight defensively he steps up and strikes at the goblin again. He snarls at the lack of purchase his blade gets.
Round 14
Continuing to fight defensively he steps up and strikes at the goblin again.
Round 15
He then backs up to the dwarf and goes to apply his healing training only to see the catfolk doing it for him.
He picks up his dwarven friend, his weapon and his own. Then slowly trudges back. Getting back to Maqan he puts the dwarf down to be re assessed by Cook Cook and the catfolk as he goes to Maqan, "Thank the gods you are alive, I was afraid you were lost!" He puts his free hand down to brush the side of her face and move some of the hair to the side. Then with a smile he states, "We all need a break and a bath!"
Breathing heavily from exertion, Urdrsk looked up from the floor at the others. "Cànnàè bèlìèvè..wé sùrvìvéd! Thàt wàs ìnténsé!"
Cook-Cook looks a bit confused at first as the goblins seem to have been beaten, as the group goes from nearly beaten themselves to a victory.
Then he looks a little deflated as he realizes he hasn't been much help in combat itself.
He sighs to himself and goes to work to help any of the injured goblins from their side, to see if some could still pull through by receiving first aid.
As he goes about his work, he speaks up.
"You and me both, my dwarven friend. I had hoped the resistance of the other tribe would be less fierce after your initial raid on their camp. But you all held your ground well. In contrast to me." He adds on a real soft tone, barely audible to others unless they were trying to hear.
Maqan smiled weakly as Saronis returned to her alive. When he moved some of her hair she leaned her face into his hand. "I'm glad you're okay." She breathed softly. She kissed him, having been so worried after they all had suffered so much.
Then she looked to her friends. "Intense is a word for it." She told them with a sigh. "We should hav time to take and rest though..."
The elderly and young goblins do their best to make your stay well but they are goblins. They take suggestions from Cook Cook and make piles of grass for your beds. Most of them move into the invaded goblin complex. They help you in anyway asked.
With Cook Cook already at the lead a mighty soup has already been prepared and it continues as the feast they offer in thanks.
The first thing he does is take a bowl of water and his towel to clean off the majority of the blood. Next he makes sure the group is settled for the night. Having a bed made in the old healer's quarter for Maqan and himself.
He takes a bowl of the soup and thanks Cook Cook, "Thank you for the hot meal we have, may it sustain us! Oh, it is really good!" Then with gusto he eats two more bowls.
Cook-Cook walks among the campment distributing the cooked soup and food amongst the party and the goblins. As he passes Saronis and the rest of the party, he gives them all a second scoop of soup in their bowl.
"You've earned this. Not many people would willingly help out a suffering goblin tribe, no matter what their urgency is. And I'm not fighter, the best I can do is keep people's spirits up after a battle. Even if these are not my tribe, I consider Sanctuary my tribe, I am still thankful for showing your aid towards those in need."
As the others eat, Cook-Cook bows and he says with a small twinkling in his eyes.
"May the God of Noodles, the great Chef in the Sky, bless our food and our hearts."
As the goblin turns away to walk towards an other part of the camp, the back of his right arm is visible.
The dwarf sits upright along with the others, busily consuming the offered food. Urdrsk takes in the grateful words of Cook-Cook, almost half-unbelieving he just helped/saved a goblin village.
"I do what I think is right. I do my best to sever the existence of evil and tyranny. Sometimes it works and other times it does not. They appear to just want to survive and I can accept that, their kin were trying to kill them and that is evil." He states in response to Cook Cook.
He would also note to the group, "I am going to go find the faerie."
Later he takes a bit more interest in Cook Cook and ask him aside, [smaller]"What's with your skin being scaly?"
He does his best to clean his armor, gear, weapons, and body with the biggest pot or vessel he can find.
As Saronis mentions the scales to Cook-Cook, he frowns and looks to Saronis with a confused look at him.
"Scaly? As in scales like a fish or snake? Where?"
Cook-Cook seems dumbstruck by Saronis's remark and he begins a closer inspection of his arms and legs.
However, nothing can be found, both to Cook-Cook's and Saronis's dismay.
"Hmm... I don't know, perhaps a blessing? Perhaps leftover from some fish I cleaned and ate?"
Maqan glad accepted the noodles Cook-Cook handed out. Food seemed to be the best thing right now and she ate some what happily.
However the Magus seemed oblivious to the new scales the small cook seemed to now be sporting. Or maybe the noodles were that good and she just didn't care.
He simply shakes his head at Cook Cook and lets it be forgotten.
The next day he is up before the others most likely and cleaning. Helping the goblins move into their new homes, or more likely back into their old den. Helping them feed the bodies of the fallen to the man eating plants. Though he informs Urdrsk that he should stay in his bed and get as much sleep and rest to recover faster. He keeps looking for the halfling, half orc, and the humans that were with them before but finds no indicators of their bodies.
The catfolk comes along and heals both Maqan and Urdrsk each after restoring its spells with prayer. for Maqan and for Urdrsk. Not wanting to use all of his lay on hands he waits to heal them until 'night', assuming you stick together.
"Thank you." Maqan said to the catfolk as she healed her up a bit.
Though he informs Urdrsk that he should stay in his bed and get as much sleep and rest to recover faster.
Urdrsk nods, but adds right before the elf lord leaves. "Bùt thè Clán mùst bè tòld whàt hàs hàppènèd. Wé nèèd tò gèt báck tò Sánctuáry!"
Cook-Cook walks by the others to provide some ,longer term care as they intend to get some sleep. The goblin bandages their wounds and provides ointments and salves out of his healing kit and herbal remedies to help them sleep better.
As he does so he talks to Urdrsk.
"Yes we do need to get back to Sanctuary. But first, you need rest. You all were pretty heavily wounded and you need to get your strength back."
"I agree with Cook Cook, we need to be fully healthy and rested before we move out, otherwise we might not make it. We did pick the hardest path. Maqan, Cook Cook, and I are healthy, are you?" Saronis points out.
Cook-Cook looks a bit dreary-eyed at Saronis, Maqan and Urdrsk.
"Well, let's hope this path's hardest part was the goblins. I am not sure if I can contribute much to a greater combat down the line. I am more of patching you up."
The goblin manages to stifle a yawn as he puts his hand before his mouth.
"May the Great Chef in the Sky, keep us safe, even if he can't see us now. I do reckon we need to head back to Sanctuary to tell what happened, and we would need to do that as fast as possible."
Urdrsk rises with a grunt. "Ìf Ì'm wéll ènòùgh tò wálk, Ì'm wèll ènòùgh tò fìght! Lèt's gèt móvìng." The stubborn-as-always dwarf slowly gathers his gear to leave.
"Then we should be off. Cook Cook thank you for staying up and treating everyone. You can nap in my backpack if you want. Collect our gear and then we can make our goodbyes." the elf states to give the group focus. He had pretty much already packed and helped Maqan collect her gear.
Once they were all set he walked over to the chief and the catfolk, giving each of them a handshake leaving the words unsaid.
The catfolk and chief accepted the handshake from Saronis and any others that do the same. They proclaim their thanks and gratitude. The catfolk gives each of you a flask of holy water. The chief gives each of you a brightly colored feather putting it in your hair if you let him, a rough cut gem of the same color, and a simple patch of their blue tribe's symbol, The goblins all waved their hands and with cries of thanks they sent you on.
Though you didn't go to far until you came upon another group. Getting closer you see the three of them around a small fire. A halfling, halforc, and a dwarf. Getting closer each of you would recognize your allies or acquaintances,
Urdrsk, seeing the group at a distance, lets out a loud cough, as to let the three around the fire know others are close. As they come into the light, the dwarf makes a show of his hands away from his weapons.
"Òì! Wè méán yóu nó hárm!" The dwarf said in a heavily-accented Common.
Hegron stands up - the outline of the approaching group seems familiar, but he cannot be sure. Instinctively the large half-orc stands protectively closer to Amelia, raising his own hand in a greeting.
"Well met and in peace" - he replies.
"Òch! ..Hègròn, ìsn't ìt? Whàt ìn thè Nìnè Hèlls àre yòu lòt dòìng dòwn héré?"
"Hegron? Amelia? And Ispen?" Maqan asked to herself when they go close enough to see the faced.
"How did you get down here? The way we took is blocked now." Maqan pointed out. "Are you all alright? Are you hungry?" Maqan asked, obviously worried about the group they had just come across.
Amelia sits watching the crackling fire her head swaying as if to an invisible rhythm and only looks up just as the group enters the area. Seemingly oblivious to the loud cough earlier. She jumps up from her sitting spot and excitedly runs to hug Maqan and even cook cook and Urdrsk.
If one could throw words at people, Amelia certianly would be as she blurts out words faster than food burns when one looks away. All while a glimmer of light from the fire reflects off her eyes.
Its so good to see you! O! oh no I'm not hungry I brought some food, but oh we touched this rock thingy under the church after being told to find all of you and zap! We were sent somewhere up on the mountain where we met this old lady that started talkin' to us aboot destiny and stuff though I don't remember most of it as I was a bit busy takin' in the sights sorry about that then we took this really fun path through a huge brier patch and this dark creepy tunnel before being brought here by the nice goblins. She finally seems to take a breath before splurging out more
As for why we are here well a lot of stuff has been going on back in town since you left what with the dragon and kobolds and all that it makes hard to take a nice walk or well, really do much of anything lately and with half the town being burned I was kinda down but this trip has been amazing and fun and some of the sights were just breathtaking! So it hasn't been all bad. She stops and gives everyone a beaming smile before looking around. Where are the others?
Urdrsk's mouth is agape, trying to understand the avalanche of words that assaulted the dwarf. "Sò, yòu mèt thè làdy by thè gràvès ànd bècàmè hèròès, ànd Sánctuáry's ÒN FÌRÈ?!"
Amelia looks to Urdrsk Well I don't know about being heros, I mean, I'm great and all but thats a bit much. Maybe. Oh, uh-huh, or, was. As she answers Urdrsk's last question her grin fades away um... right. I may have gotten distracted... She looks like she is about to say something else, but then she looks you over again and gasps. Your hurt! Here, let me help. She turns and rummages in her pouch before pulling out a small vial and turning back to Urdrsk. Okay, this should work, and um, shouldn't hurt.. or maybe it did? No, only tingle... probably. She takes the tiniest of drops of a dark red liquid before smearing it on his head and saying a small phrase. Infurm Irisev