Emili runs past Kage and tries to pull one of the sneaky goblins off balance from his vantage point on the platform.
"I can see 'em over here!" he calls over his shoulder. "Anybody want to join the fun?"
The Red Oni wasted no time joining Emili in his "fun".
Round 6
Talios trips the front goblin, and the Red Oni stabs it.
Round 7
Kage fires an acid splash which misses.
The goblins swarm around the Red Oni, swinging at her:
One hit!
Chief Licktoad backs up and fires his bow at Emili:
But his arrows flies off into the distance!
Turn Order:
1. Talios
2. Mitsuru
3. Kage
4. Goblins
5. Tenchi
6. Red Oni
7. Emili
Party Status:
Mitsuru 4/9
Emili: 10/12
Rin: 3/10
Kage: 7/8
Tenchi: 4/12
White goblin: -5, prone
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”Whoa there!” Emili instinctively ducks as the arrow flies overhead, then turns his attention back to the goblin chieftain. ”Rude!” He cracks his whip again, this time trying to catch the goblin’s bow.
”Hah! Take that you little rotter!”
Mitsuru leaps to the ground, rolls, and comes running to the Red Oni's aid. "Leave her alone, you biters!"
Realizing there were more enemies below, Tenchi moved up and tried to shove Yellow out the hole in the wall.
Round 7
The goblin misses as Tenchi rushes in.
He succeeds in pushing the goblin back, but the goblin behind stops the movement before they could be carried over the edge.
Emili whips and pulls Chief Licktoad's bow from his fat goblin fingers!
Round 8
Mitsuru moves around and stabs the goblin easily.
Turn Order:
1. Talios
2. Mitsuru
3. Kage
4. Goblins
5. Tenchi
6. Red Oni
7. Emili
Party Status:
Mitsuru 4/9
Emili: 10/12
Rin: 3/10
Kage: 7/8
Tenchi: 4/12
White goblin: -5, prone
Orange goblin: -5
Talios rushes down the nearby ladder, healing Red Oni.
"Careful, I won't lose someone to these foul creatures. " he says placing a hand near her wounds, channeling the power of the wand.
With a flurry of swings, The Red Oni lashed out at the orange goblin she and her allies had flanked.
Kage Kurai moves up and fires at the goblin chief.
Round 8
Talios heals the Red Oni, who drops the goblin with one blow, then turns and hits the goblin with a second!
Kage hits Chief Gutwad with an acid splash!
Chief Gutwad screeches:
He reaches down and retrieves his bow, then aims and fires at Emili:
But he misses a second time!
The goblin strikes back at the Red Oni:
hit!
The other swing at Mitsuru:
miss!
Turn Order:
1. Talios
2. Mitsuru
3. Kage
4. Goblins
5. Tenchi
6. Red Oni
7. Emili
Party Status:
Mitsuru 4/9
Emili: 10/12
Rin: 6/10 [+5, -2]
Kage: 7/8
Tenchi: 4/12
White goblin: -5, prone
Yellow goblin: -2
Chief licktoad: -3
Emili ducks the second arrow, then glances over at the other non-goblins. "Can someone get up close and personal with the chief there?" he calls from the balcony. "Or here, let's see..." He cracks his whip again.
Emili grins as he hops down from the walkway and makes his way around the fallen chieftain to stand between him and his fellow goblin. Dagger in hand, he drops his trusty whip at his feet and balances lightly on the balls of his feet. "Whenever you're ready, Oni!" he calls cheerfully. Let's see how lucky these little blighters feel!"[/b]
Having shoved the Goblin in his way, Tenchi sighed as it still stood in his path. Swinging his blade, he hoped to drop it so he could continue moving.
Mitsuru hops backwards out of Tenchi's way, circling around to trap the goblin chieftain between her and Emili.
"Whenever you're ready, Oni!" he calls cheerfully.
"Just a moment!" The Red Oni quipped inbetween swings of her Hanbo.
Talios eager to finish the fight, steps up and swings with the morningstar in his other hand.
"We almost have them defeated...unless more crawl out of the buildings."
"There's always more, and it's always worse," Mitsuru mutters in response.
Round 8
Tenchi chops, finishing the goblin in front of him.
The Red Oni swings, but misses with both attacks.
Emili cracks his whip, tripping Gutwold, then moves in.
and the goblin can merely flail at him uselessly.
Round 9
Talios clobbers the goblin, shattering the bones in its clavicle as it drops to the groun!
Mitsuru moves up and hits the prone Licktoad Chief!
Kage splashes the chief with acid as well!
Muttering, the chief draws a speak and stabs back at Mitsuru from the ground!
hit!
Turn Order:
1. Talios
2. Mitsuru
3. Kage
4. Goblins
5. Tenchi
6. Red Oni
7. Emili
Party Status:
Mitsuru 1/9
Emili: 10/12
Rin: 6/10 [+5, -2]
Kage: 7/8
Tenchi: 4/12
Chief licktoad: -15
Emili leans over the prone goblin chieftain. ”Remember those sheep your tribe took two moons ago?” he asks, twirling his dagger before grabbing the hilt and plunging it towards the goblin’s chest. ”This is for them.”
Kage Kurai hops off the walkway, runs up and stabs the chief.
Holding her side where the spear wounded her, Mitsuru grits her teeth and stabs down at the horrible creature at the same time as Emili's finishing blow.
Tenchi climbed down the ladder and moved into melee with the chief.
Tenchi repositions himself.
Emili stabs the chief brutally, and Kage catches him with a splash of acid, and the Chief collapses.
Party Status:
Mitsuru 6/9
Emili: 10/12
Rin: 6/10 [+5, -2]
Kage: 7/8
Tenchi: 4/12
As you finish searching the last few rooms you find no more goblins, but inside H11 you find a beautiful red chest which contains:
"We still have some magic in the wand if anyone wishes to be healed, I think the storm of goblins has passed. Especially seeing as their Chieftain lies before us. We still have a lot of questions but have made the roads much safer." Talios says looking over the battlefield, ensuring all the goblins are dead.
As he surveys the battlefield, he realizes this wasn't the first fight.
"There was an equally violent battle here, before ours." he says worried, but with relative safety he will head back through the buildings to give a more thorough search.
"Going to take my time searching the buildings now that we aren't fighting our way through." he says to the group.
Mitsuru leans back against one of the house stilts, catching her breath. "Longest minute of my life," she says. "Good thing we weren't the first through here, if this is what was still left waiting for us."
After a minute to rest, she pushes off and stands up straight again. "How's everyone doing? Should we take all this back to town or press our luck in the swamp?"
Tenchi cleans his blade and then says "A decent fight, but Goblins are not exactly foes that will lead to an epic."
At Mitsuru's question, Tenchi says "I am able to continue."
Emili nods as well as he coils his whip and hangs in once more from his belt. "Guess a battle earlier would explain why all the goblins were hiding in their houses," he drawls rhetorically, "but were the ones here the winners or the losers of that fight?" He taps the red chest with one hand and continues in a more direct manner. "You don't think it was over this beauty - or what's inside it, do you? We can take it back to town with us and see if anybody can make sense of that map. Maybe Sandru - he's probably traveled enough to recognize something."
"We could continue but carrying the chest through the swamp or leaving it here, seems unwise. Perhaps we can go meet Sandru, as Emili suggested. Also turn in these goblin ears before they start to stink..." Talios chuckles as they plan out their next move.
Mitsuru makes a face once she notices the ears being cut off for their bounty, and turns away. So...barbaric, she thinks. "I agree, Talios. We've certainly made the swamp safer today, and I don't want to walk around with unpreserved...remains...any longer than strictly necessary."
Kage Kurai nods. or at least, his hood shifts. It was probably a nod. "I'd rather we weren't trying to haul all of this around the swamp while we keep exploring. Could I keep those, by the way?" he asks, gesturing to the shuriken.
Deciding to return to the village and get rid of heavy/disgusting items first, you make it back through the swamp, where you are able to triumphantly turn in the ears including the Chief and claim your reward.
"A bath would be nice."
"There was an equally violent battle here, before ours." he says worried, but with relative safety he will head back through the buildings to give a more thorough search.
"A copper that the fight had something to do with the humanoid skeletons. Hopefully this map can lead us to more information."
"A bath would be nice." Rin replied to her brother with a stretch. "As would cleaning my equipment." The Red Oni quickly attempted to recover.
Later that evening, after repairing to your individual living areas to clean up, you return to the Rusty Dragon Inn, where Ameiko has poured you all a round on the house.
"It's truly wonderful that you found the goblin den so quickly! With Chief Gutwald gone, I am sure the goblins will bother Sandpoint no more. Tell me, was it difficult fighting so many goblins?"
"Eh, we did alright," Emili drawls as he casually lets his shirt hang open to reveal several bandages covering his arms and torso. "Would have been a lot closer if Talios here wasn't on the ball with his healing touch." He winks at the samsaran and pours himself another mug of ale, raising it before tossing it back. "Cheers to the doctor!"
Laughing, Mitsuru raises her own mug and knocks it against Emili's. "Couldn't have put it better myself!"
Rin gave her own silent cheers to Talios as she brought some food for the group. "Well I'm just glad you were all able to make it out alright. I was so worried. I would have been mad at Tenchi forever if he finally came home just to get killed by some goblins." The young woman said with a teasing smile to her twin.
"Well, I am certainly glad I had you all to keep the goblins at bay! They have given me enough scars for this lifetime and I don't want them giving you any but tonight is for celebrating! Cheers to all of us and our future goblin hunts!" Talios says raising his own drink with an embarrassed smile.
Still, beneath the surface he wondered what else was lurking in that swamp.
"The fireworks certainly made it interesting at times."
Ameiko places another ale before Talios, then looking to the group askes, "So you plan to go back into the swamp to hunt for more of them? Or was this enough of the adventurous life for you all?"
"Well, there was certainly a scuffle in that village before we got there," Emili replies slowly, sipping his ale thoughtfully. "Suppose there could be a few more survivors that come back over the next few days. I'd hate to have to track them all down through that swamp though. But there was also that... Oh, Ameiko, you've been around too - can you make any sense of this?" He places the fan on the table, careful to avoid the patches of spilt liquid so the barkeep can see the map drawn on the backside.
"It certainly seemed that there was more to it than just the goblins we found. If it is another tribe or something else, then they are also a threat to communities around here. I am duty bound to look into it, personally." Talios says sipping on the next ale.
"And having you all along would make it much safer. What does the Red Oni have to say about it?" he asks the mysterious person who initially brought them together.
"We will have to ask our most mysterious ally if and when she returns," Mitsuru says as she takes a sip, avoiding even a glance in Rin's direction. "But I agree, there's certainly more going on than the usual nonsense goblins get themselves into."
"There was some kind of witch in the swamp, right? Maybe we could seek her out and find out if she had anything to do with it."
"That witch sounds risky but more talkative than any of the goblins still scurrying around. I say we head back to the village and continue after the trail there. Might encounter that thing lurking in the swamp while we are at it."
"No arguments here - but first we sleep." Emili raises his mug again for emphasis.
Kage Kurai's hood dips in the way that you're coming to realize is *probably* a nod.