"Oh hell, why not." Elanna mutters, pulling out her crossbow and firing at a goblin, staying in cover as much as possible.
Triel advances, with Vindir alongside her in ectoplasmic form.
Hope was surprised the goblins were unaware of their presence after her rather lack-luster attempt at sneaking. Seeing Elanna raise her bow Hope began to form a ball of gravity and lobbed it right after Ela's bolt following her lead to try and take one goblin out quickly.
Hanging back as much as possible, Screaming Moon twirls his sling and lets a bullet fly at the nearest goblin.
Fi fired a shot with her crossbow as well, not expecting very much.
Your opening salvo takes the goblins by surprise! Fio's bolt and Hope's blast slam into the low walls the goblins are standing behind, but Elanna and Screaming Moon score hits, leaving one goblin wounded. Triel hunches over as she squeezes into the low cavern. The goblins shriek in alarm!
"Why are you going in? I thought we were drawing them out?!" Fioralba says, confused. She dashes in after Triel, dropping her crossbow and drawing her rapier.
Hope cursed when her blast missed the mark and quickly pulled more power together this time adding some extra punch to the blast. When she finished she sent the ball at the same target as before.
"Triel! Fi! What are you doing?!" Elanna shouts, firing another bolt at the goblins which misses as she is distracted by her two unfathomable allies.
The goblins stay behind the low walls and fire shortbows at Triel. One scores a hit.
Vindir's eyes flash when Triel gets shot. "YOU SON OF A--" He roars before throwing himself at the impetuous goblin who did it!
Triel follows suit, driving her spear towards the other goblin!
Screaming Moon moves forward and casts Daze on one of the goblins.
Fioralba casts her fatigue spell and then moves in after Triel and gets opposite of the goblin she's attacking, providing a flanking bonus to help negate the crowded fighting conditions in here as she tries to deliver the spell.
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Hope zeroed in on whichever goblin was being hit the most and pulled in another ball of gravity which she promptly flung at her target.
Vindir’s vengeful strike takes down the wounded goblin. The other one resists Screaming Moon’s spell and dodges your other attacks. He puts a whistle to his lips and blows a shrill note before drawing a dog slicer and lunging at Fioralba. The magus parries the attack!
Hope was displeased that the last goblin blew the whistle. She knew they would all be coming now and they should find a place to defend where tehy could prevent the goblins from surrounding them. She sent another ball of gravity out, this time at the remaining goblin, and then said, "We should fall back, find a choke point to make them come through."
Fioralba presses her attack, lashing out twice more.
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"Hope is right! Fall back!" Elanna shouts, knowing there is about to be a deluge of goblins.
"I think this is our best option, right here. We can wait at the ends of the tunnels and take the goblins one by one before they can get out and surround us.
If I manage to entangle one of them, we can focus on the goblins from the other direction."
Triel retreats from the fight, while Vindir moves to flank with Fi and punch the goblin in the back!
Vindir and Fioralba flank the goblin, both wounding it as the rest of you fall back to the main entrance of the tunnels.
Snarling and yipping, a pair of goblin dogs rush in from the northern passage. They bite at Fio, while the goblin himself slices at the magus again. Luckily, none of them manage to hit.
Vindir punches the goblin again!
Triel takes out her healing wand and taps herself with it.
"I wasn't expecting these goblins to be so resilient..."
With a worried thought at Fioralba being left behind, Screaming Moon continues back toward the cave entrance, ready to send a Silkstring Snare at any enemy that comes in sight.
"Fi, fall back!" Elanna reiterates, starting to panic about her sister.
Ready a crossbow shot if the others do fall back.
Hope, realizing that something needed to be done so the others could get out of there and regroup, moved in front of Elanna and then sent another blast of gravity out, forgetting the nearest goblin dog in hopes of reducing the odds and giving Fi a path out of there.
"Here doggy, doggy!" Fioralba says, trying to draw the creatures away as she withdraws towards the others.
"Incoming!" she shouts as she makes her way back.
Vindir scores another light hit on the goblin. Fioralba dodges its dogslicer as she falls back down the tunnel. The goblin dogs yip and follow in her wake, and while Elanna manages to shoot one, Hope's blast misses. Screaming Moon fails to entangle the creatures.
The dogs tear into Fio's legs while the goblin attacks Vindir.
Two arrows suddenly thunk into Vindir, though neither seems to harm the phantom much. He can see another goblin standing at the end of the tunnel to the south. This one wears a breastplate and has one eerie blue eye instead of the usual red! She sings a creepy refrain in the Goblin tongue as she nocks another arrow!
Triel promptly jabs Fi in the back with the wand.
Vindir, on the other hand, throws two punches at the goblin still fighting him.
Not being able to get forward to give Fioralba additional healing, Screaming Moon settles for attemtping to ensnare the other goblin dog, while taking a step back and reloading his sling.
Hope pulled in another blast and attacked the same dog thing as before with another concentrated ball of gravity.
Fioralba cries out in pain at the damned dog that nearly took her down to the ground. She makes it back to the group and breathes a sigh of relief when Triel heals her some. She tries to pivot and slash with her rapier, but her lingering injuries cause her to swing poorly.
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Elanna swaps for her rapier and steps into the clearing left by her sister to try and strike one of the dogs in the chest.
Vindir cracks the goblin upside the head, a heavy blow that drops him to the ground, bleeding! The goblin dog avoids Screaming Moon's snare again, and neither Elanna, Fioralba, nor Hope manage to hit!
Having swapped places, the goblin dogs now bite at Elanna, one sinking its teeth into her thigh.
The goblin archer shrieks angrily and shoots at Vindir again! She lands one ineffectual hit!
Stepping up behind Fioralba, Screaming Moon rubs his salve on her wounds.
Vindir whirls on the goblin dog he's flanking with Elanna and starts punching it!
Triel steps up next to Elanna and stabs at the same goblin dog!
Triel and Vindir both strike the goblin dog, taking it down!
Fi waits for an opportunity to get close to the goblin dog, calling out "Ela back up after you swing!".
Assuming she does she dashes forward to strike it.
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Once again Hope pulled in more power and sent another blast of gravity at the nearest target.
Fiona and Hope narrowly miss, but Elanna stabs the remaining dog. It retaliates, biting her again.
The goblin archer moves up to get a better shot. She cries out in anguish when she sees the fallen dog, shooting at Vindir again, but once more the arrow doesn’t harm the phantom!
Healing Elanna.
Vindir shoots an unimpressed look at the goblin shooting him. "Shoot me a dozen more times, darling. I'm sure one of those arrows will stick eventually."
He then turns back to the remaining goblin dog and aims a pair of punches at it!
Triel drives her spear towards the same creature.
Elanna curses as she tries to stab the creature again, resisting the urge to not scratch all over as the mangy thing gets close.
She takes a short step back again to allow someone else to take a bite of the apple.
The second goblin dog falls! Only the archer remains now.
Dashing forward into the new opening, Fioralba tries to stab the archer! She casts fatigue spell and moves forward with a thrust of her rapier.
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