Anton clashes his warhammer and machete together, grinning at the goblins. "Come on, then! Pitter patter, let's get at 'er."
Delin readies her crossbow alongside Ma'ra, and helps her form a small firing line.
The Magician Zomeraand moves towards the stage and makes a dagger magically fly towards one of the Goblins. They see the dagger pass by, wide, and then one of them shows you his huge wide horrible tongue to mock you while the other smiles.
Lief Stoutspear keeps his aim and kills another goblin, piercing his head again.
M'ara and Delin Chiri form a firing line and let a volley hit the goblins that attacked them. One of them dies, a bolt in its check, while the other barely survives.
Olga Bâlan gets a small dagger out from her clothes and throws it against the surviving goblin. She misses badly.
"Sorry!"
The goblin, seeing himself facing too many opponents, and badly hurt, makes a run for it getting lost in the commotion.
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Over the stage, Anton Ionescu tries to demoralize the goblins. One of them seems to be shaken and doesn't attack, while the other is not impressed and attacks Anton Ionescu.
It is a mighty thrust, looking to maim Anton, but Anton is too quick for the Goblin and evades the attack.
YOUR TURN!
Continuing to direct his flying dagger, Zomeraand launches it at the goblin again. This time, he adds a bit of extra energy to the blade.
Delin ignores Olga's miss in the moment, intent on dropping the wounded goblin before it can flee and cause more trouble to someone less prepared.
Delin finishes the wounded goblin.
Lief smiles at the sight of Delin and M’ara dropping a pair of goblins with their crossbows. Turning, he spots the wizard struggling to hit with his magic dagger. Wanting to help, he moves next to the wizard while stringing another arrow, and then fires it at the same goblin the dagger missed.
Anton grins at his attacker while knocking him about.
Delin Chiri aims at the back of the escaping goblin, lets the air in her lungs get out slowly, and fires. The bolt flies true and embeds itself in the back of the goblin. It falls down and stays there.
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Closer to the stage The Magician Zomeraand sends a magically-infused dagger towards one of the two goblins there, but he is still off. He feels like something is not right, as he has been unable to hit anything.
Lief Stoutspear walks and stands next to the magician, smiling confidently while he prepares to fire an arrow against the same goblin. And misses the goblin too!
The goblin, amused, look at both the "longshanks" and show them his tongue, mocking them.
Anton Ionescu on his part, faces another goblin in melee. He swings his machete, that the goblin barely avoids. But when the goblin is about to smile about his luck, Anton's Warhammer blows his smile, and teeth, away, killing it instantly.
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The last goblin let out a desperate cry and attacks Anton, trying to use the big "longshank" as cover against the others.
YOUR TURN! Time to finish this one up...
”Don’t feel bad,” Lief says to Zomeraand, patting him on the back, ”that one was especially good at dodging.”
After seeing Anton deal so easily with the first goblin to reach him, the ulfen man trusts him to deal with the remaining one. So, he knocks another arrow and scans the area for any additional goblins.
With no immediate target out of melee Delin takes a moment to kneel down and say a brief thanks to Desna. As she makes a sign across herself a few more words spill from her lips as she cast a spell of warding on Olga. "We're not done yet." she cautioned, but there was amusement in her voice as Anton dispatched one cocky goblin with a bash to the face and prepared to deal with the last remaining blighter.
"Would you like to try your hand at a crossbow instead of a dagger?" she asked as she held out the weapon to Olga. She was acting disarming in a rather ironic way, but truth be told she doubted her luck with her crossbow would hold. Arming the young "apprentice" would leave her free to cast.
(OOC: Casting mage armor on Olga and offering the L. Crossbow.)
”It’s much harder than in practice,” Zomeraand replies, blushing slightly. ”Then, I was aiming at empty bottles swinging on various lengths of twine. Clearly, I was predicting their movement and relative positions by watching the twine more so than the bottle. Goblins are much more chaotic.”
The red starts to dissipate from Zomeraand’s face as he completes the mental exercise of diagnosing his failure.
Anton swings twice more, his warhammer missing the little goblin but the machete hits home.
Anton Ionescu finishes the last goblin as townspeople start to flock towards Lief Stoutspear, seeing him as a center of safety in the middle of the chaos of the goblin raid.
As soon as Major Deverin sees the last goblin go down, she screams to everybody.
"To the cathedral! Everybody, go to the cathedral!"
Father Zantus quickly catch on the major idea and starts helping all the townspeople go into the church.
Titus Scarnetti leads her sister down from the stage, but Stella makes for Anton Ionescu.
"Thank you for saving us from the goblins! Will you join us in the cathedral?"
Titus, angry, pulls her sister to take her into the cathedral, without success.
Many people look at Lief Stoutspear, waiting for him to tell them if go into the cathedral or stay put.
Olga Bâlan smiles and grabs the crossbow.
"I will cover you!"
She stands looking around, keeping an eye out for any goblin.
"I'll be there in two shakes of a pig's tail. Get safe, young princess."
Zomeraand looks at the others. "From what I've read of them, they'll keep burning and killing until they are stopped. (sigh) I guess I know what we have to do to prevent this whole town from going up in flames...again."
He looks around for the nearest group of goblins and moves in their direction.
"This is quite the mess the Goblins have started...."
M'ara smiles at Olga's enthusiasm, sliding up beside her, showing her how to hold the crossbow correctly, and quickly giving her a few pointers...such as , don't point at friends.
She then moves to accompany the Magician...
"Cover your friend Stella young one." Delin instructs her as M'ara gives her a few tips, "I will keep an eye on this lot."
She spares a look at Zomeraand, measuring the mage after their engagements so far. With a slight smirk she turns to M'ara and offers her a wink before they both move up to flank Zomeraand. "Don't put me to sleep." she states.
"I'll be there in two shakes of a pig's tail. Get safe, young princess."
Stella gives Anton Ionescu a kiss on the cheek.
"Please be careful!"Then she lets his brother lead her into the catedral.
Titus Scarnetti, before entering the cathedral, gives Anton Ionescu a look taht could kill him if Anton was a lesser man.
Anton realizes he has a new enemy in town.
M'ara smiles at Olga's enthusiasm, sliding up beside her, showing her how to hold the crossbow correctly, and quickly giving her a few pointers...such as , don't point at friends.
She then moves to accompany the Magician...
"Cover your friend Stella young one." Delin instructs her as M'ara gives her a few tips, "I will keep an eye on this lot."
She spares a look at Zomeraand, measuring the mage after their engagements so far. With a slight smirk she turns to M'ara and offers her a wink before they both move up to flank Zomeraand. "Don't put me to sleep." she states.
Olga Bâlan hears the instructions attentively, and she nods before going into the cathedral with the others.
"I'll defend them all!"
At major Deverin's instructions, the townspeople enter the cathedral. Just after The Magician Zomeraand and Etna Venus Van Ash talk, and as to answer them a cart next to the cathedral explodes into flames, letting a big plume of smoke rose over the square.
The screams and laughs of another group of goblins are heard all around. They have set the cart on fire, and are now armed with torches, and seem set up in burning all of Sandpoint. Starting with the cathedral.
YOUR TURN!
Lief looks around as people flock to him. He seems a little bit uncomfortable suddenly being thrust into the spotlight, but he remains fairly calm and calls out, ”stay together in groups- numbers are an advantage. Anyone with a weapon, even a makeshift club, stay on the outer edge of your group and protect those who are defenseless. Avoid any building that are flammable though, goblins love burning stuff!”
As soon as the goblins reveal themselves, Lief fires the arrow that has been resting in his bow.
He quickly sizes up the new goblins, but notices nothing special about them. Rushing forward towards them, he knocks another arrow and fires at the closest goblin.
Zomeraand sees an opportunity to end the engagement quickly. He moves up to the lower right corner of the stairs and faces the goblins.
”Arcus Langourem,” he intones, extending his hand towards the cackling horde.
(OOC: Familiar can't exactly relate it, but I like rolling.)
The Magician Zomeraand bravely approaches the goblin pack and casts Color Spray, expertly getting all the front line goblins in the area of effect.
The next goblin is expertly dispatched by Lief Stoutspear with his bow.
The last goblin, seeing all of his companions down, decides to let out his big guns. It looks at Lief and cast an evil spell against him.
Then it moves behind a small merchant tent and hides there.
YOUR TURN!
”One of the little buggers got away, it’s got to be hiding somewhere nearby. Keep an eye out!”
Delin begins the familiar act of drawing her dagger and tending to a sleeping goblin.
"Find him! Capture him! We need that goblin! I'll hold here!" Anton holds for a foe in reach.
Lief starts to chuckle but quickly shakes the goblin magic from his mind. Knocking another arrow, he moves to look behind the tent...
”There it is!” the Ulfen shouts firing at the little green spellcaster.
Lief's arrow misses the goblin, which casts another spell at Lief.
After casting the spell, the goblin gets out of his hiding spot and wakes up another of the goblins with a kick.
"YOUR TURN!"
Zomeraand launches his flying dagger at the goblin that just emerged from hiding. He infuses the blade with a small amount of magical energy, then lets it fly.
Delin will follow through on her previous actions.
Lief sneers at the goblin and drops his slippery bow without evening trying to maintain his grip on it. Instead he charges forward towards the vile creature, drawing his greatsword as he moves. When he reaches it he swings hard at the frustrating foe.
Delin Chiri finishes one of the unconscious goblins, while Zomerand sends a dagger flying towards the Goblin war chanter. The dagger strikes true, but the goblin doesn't fall.
Which doesn't help it, as Lief approaches and decapitates it with a mighty blow. The goblin corpse remains standing, with its arms extended, as if looking for his missing head.
The other goblin stands up and wakes up another of the goblins!
YOUR TURN!
Lief angrily chops at the nearby goblin that let down its defenses.
Lief barely misses his attack of opportunity.
"Or, sure, chop its head off. Keep one of the grunts alive then!"
Zomeraand directs his dagger towards the still living and active goblin.
Delin simply pivots to the next goblin even as they are starting to wake one another up and continues her grim work. She was far more lethal in this regard than trying to stop them.
Seeing Delin Chiri kill another of their kind, the two goblins turn and run away, even as The Magician Zomeraand attack misses them.
M'ara, on her part, has put off the fire of the cart.
Lief Stoutspear stands over the last unconscious goblin.
You all turn around. There are several dead goblins and a couple of townspeople. But at least the square seems clear of the little humanoids, and nobody seems to be in immediate danger.
The major of the town approaches you.
"I am Kendra Deverin, major of Sandpoint. thank you for protecting us. But I need to ask more from you. I got word of a group of goblins attacking the White Deer inn, north of town. Can you go and help them? There are no town guards I can ask them to do it. Please, help us!"
"Absolutely, Major. Who's in?"
Lief is about to chase after the fleeing goblins when the mayor approaches. He listens to her plea and nods. ”I’ll do what I can, ma’am,” he answers. Then he jogs over and grabs his bow before heading off to the north.
Cutting the goblins throat is done surgically, and without embellishment. Still, the remaining goblins are smart enough to run seeing the fate of their fellows. Looking around at the dead bodies, the young half elf can't find it in herself to pity them.
When the mayor requests their continued help Delin hesitates. She sees the wounded around them, but as the others are quick to volunteer she manages a rueful smile. "I will help as well." she acknowledges, "If you see a young woman with a crossbow in the church, please tell her I will return?"
Zomeraand nods to the Mayor and joins the rest of the group in defending the inn.