While Seska heads over tot assist the Allied goblins, the duo blue & cyan swing their blades at the Allied goblins in front of them.
Said goblins are all too eager to rejoin their spouses, and quickly dodge the blades.
Daniel
Daniel will run up next to Seska to cut off the other non-coerced goblins and ready an action to strike any goblin within his reach that takes a hostile action towards him or his companions.
With Daniel closing distance, the fight advances to the 2nd round.
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Round 2
Blue friendlies swing their swords at the blue enemies.
But they both miss, the enemy goblins switching to cautious, now that more combatants are against them.
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The two archer goblins take shots at the arriving Daniel.
, however Daniel notices this, and manages to block 1 with his raised sword, the other bouncing off his armor.
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Green friendlies close in on Cyan.
, the friendly flanking Cyan lands a hit, cutting the flank of Cyan.
Green & Orange goblin are KO from Severa's spell.
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Severa
Astella
Red friendly archers (KO from Severa's spell)
Seska
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Blue (-7) & Cyan (-5)
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Daniel
Astella moves and casts Gravity Bow.
Seska moves toward the red archer and takes a swing at him.
Severa gulps at how close to the front lines she is but bravely steps a little closer to the action and tries to blind one of the unfriendly goblins. After all, she was the one who wanted to liberate the goblins who aren't necessarily unfriendly!
Severa sends out a ray of sudden light, aimed at the hostile goblin's eyes. But the movement of combat between him and two friendlies, make it miss.
Astella prepares a new gravity bow as she advances.
The 3rd who advances, Seska, lands a good hit on the archer goblin.
*profanity in goblin*
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Blue (-7) & Cyan (-5) swing their swords at the friendlies.
But with the increasing pressure of attacks against them, their accuracy falters.
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Daniel
Daniel moves to support Seska. Longsword leading the way.
Daniel deftly swings his sword at the red goblin archer, which is enough to put him to disabled, as he now leans forward badly bloodied.
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Round 3
Blue friendlies swing their blades again at the enemies again.
One misses, but the other lands a fair hit on Cyan, putting him on disabled as well.
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Purple draws his shortsword and swings it at Daniel.
, but Daniel's armor deflects the impact.
Red steps 5ft away and draws a small red potion.
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Green friendlies quickly reposition themselves into flanking positions.
Blue is spared a hit, but Cyan bites the dust, falling to the ground.
Green & Orange goblin are KO from Severa's spell.
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Severa
Astella
Red friendly archers (KO from Severa's spell)
Seska
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Blue (-7)
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Daniel
Astella moves and shoots at Blue.
Severa tries again to blind the nearest unfriendly goblin!
Seska grits her teeth and attacks again.
But this time she swings wide as the goblin dodges in desperation.
Two ranged attacks fly towards the blue goblin, but him being between allied goblins, makes hitting him tricky.
Seska's swing is evaded, the goblin dodges.
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Blue (-7) swings his sword at the blue friendlies.
, and hits one for a small wound. He then steps 5ft away out of flank position.
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Daniel
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Daniel tries to take advantage of Seska's strike.
and manages to land a solid blow as dodging her attack left them unbalanced.
Daniel unleashes a most accurate attack, instantly cutting down the 2nd archer. Red's eyes go wide at this attack's efficiency.
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Round 4
One of the blue friendlies advances towards the archers, only to make a sudden turn to flank the blue enemy goblin, while the other blue friendly swings his sword at cyan.
They both hit. Blue's looking woozy, barely able to stand now. Cyan falls to the ground after getting slashed.
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Red steps 5ft away, and drinks the red potion.
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Green friendlies join in attacking the blue goblin.
, both miss, the 2nd though only just.
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Severa
Astella
Red friendly archers (KO from Severa's spell)
Seska
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Blue (-11)
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Daniel
Astella shoots at Blue.
*Urk*, blue falls to the ground with an arrow sticking out of his chest.
The team mops up the red straggler, and the unconscious enemy goblins are disposed of as well.
Suffice to say, now that combat is over, the friendlies (all of them!) pause momentarily.
"Thank you...but who are you, and why or how are you even in here?"
Seska, for all that she is blunt, is wise enough to know that she should not be the one to do the talking, and looks to Severa and the others.
That's a complicated question, but it comes down to a couple of simple facts. First, we honor life. We have been working with other humans to protect our towns from some recent devastating goblin attacks. Second, we abhor slavery. When we learned that many of you had been forced to attack us rather than doing it of your own free will, it seemed that helping you would not only accomplish our goal to protect our people, but it would also preserve your lives and free you from slavery and coercion.
Of course, the protection of our people isn't guaranteed, nor is your freedom I suppose, depending on whether you have a place to go to live in peace and protection from whoever kidnapped your family members, but perhaps if we talk together we can help each other further. My name is Astella. This is Seska, this is Severa. This is Daniel. We own the castle near Welnin. What are your names?
We have been working with other humans to protect our towns from some recent devastating goblin attacks.
Some uneasy glances. "Yeah we feel bad about the raids. Weak excuse, but we do. We too come from varied professions prior to getting thrust into the ranks. Ranging from combat trained to the mundane."
Of course, the protection of our people isn't guaranteed, nor is your freedom I suppose, depending on whether you have a place to go to live in peace and protection from whoever kidnapped your family members, but perhaps if we talk together we can help each other further.
"Some would return home. Some were always on the road by profession.
Some would be seeking a new home due to personal circumstances."The one talking introduces himself as Garreth, formerly an assistant foreman in a warehouse, in his mid-20s. The others likewise have names one could associate with names any guy from the lands populated by humans. After all, elven and dwarven names would sound very odd with their appearance. From their quick introduction, including Garreth, 4 were of mundane professions, including shopkeep and manual labor. Two were voluntary town watch prior to ending up in the raider ranks.
But all 6 agree mutual cooperation is a good prospect, assuming they survive this night. With still several dozens locked in infighting, the battlefield within the fort is still far from quiet.
Garreth: "Up ahead are tents of a couple of 'disciplinary enforcers' and Rams.", he pulls his own collar to show a hint of one of the animal tattoos. "Rams are the ones loyal to the commander."
"If they haven't killed him yet, a brawler by the name of Xander might be an asset, but he's tied up there. Hates them with a passion. His brother got beaten to death by them."
Astella looks around at her companions to make sure everyone is willing to take it further. If no one objects, then she says
We're happy to help you free Xander if possible, and if any of you need a place to stay, we can offer help. It wouldn't be easy. There are those that will be extremely distrustful because of the recent problems, but if you're willing to live among humans, elves, and dwarves, we do own some land.
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As Astella mentions those who would be extremely distrustful, Seska flushes. She might not be who Astella meant, but she certainly, having healed many of a goblin-inflicted wound of late, has developed a prejudice. She looks at her feet. It's so easy to forget most folk do what they do because they are protecting their own. She holds the rest of the introspection for later. There were still those who were happy to fight her people and she, indeed, also felt a need to protect her own.
"Freeing the brawler sounds like a good idea. All the help we can get... since it sounds like this leader's a nasty piece of work."
Severa nods as she listens "Yes we will do what we can for Xander. And if we can get to the commander and decapitate the snake... all the better."
Just a hundred feet ahead, behind now unoccupied tents, are two circular tents with a campfire. Peeking around the corner of a tent, you see 6 goblins stand near the campfire talking to a goblin with a short mohawk. A 2nd mohawk goblin stands near a pole where a goblin in damaged blue shirt and bare feet hangs from a pole.
He hangs by the tied hands from a hook, just 2 feet above the ground. The ropes out in the open.
Cyan mohawk speaks in some mocking tone to the prisoner.
"A pity we've got no time to have some more 'fun'. I guess we'll warm up with the disobedient ones, then vent any excess on you."
Garreth and the others motion for you to wait, and behind the tents where you came from, makes a ruckus, drawing away 4 goblins into searching for the 'rebels'. The gravel in this area draws attention and turns heads south your way.
The green mohawk goblin points towards you.
"What're you two standing here for? Kill or capture them, now!"
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Round 1
Astella & Daniel
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Cyan Mohawk & Green Mohawk
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Severa
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Orange goblin & Red goblin
Astella raises her bow and shoots Cyan Mohawk.
Astella quickly lands an arrow in the mohawk bearing goblin's leg.
Something nasty is said in goblin, as he points to you.
Daniel moves to in front of Astella, preparing a swing for the 1st goblin coming into range.
"If the tied up brawler is as useful as that Garreth fellow said. Maybe shooting the rope bonds keeping him up could be useful."
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The mohawk boys advance upon the party.
Daniel lands a hit as well, taking a good chunk of HP away, before the goblin swings a morningstar at him.
Cyan misses, and green double moves to get closer to the south.
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Seska & Severa
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Orange goblin & Red goblin
With the cyan-clad baddie close to her, Seska figures the most helpful thing she can do is step forward with aspergillum and shield and give him a good thump.
Severa moves to get a better angle and fires a blinding ray at one of the mohawk warriors!
Seska smacks the green dude on the shoulder with some solid force, him gritting his teeth at the impact.
Severa's beam flies away, but flies over the guy's head.
The 2 'Rams' goblins advance, swinging their short swords at Daniel.
, neither of them land a hit though.
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Round 2
Astella & Daniel
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Cyan Mohawk (-10) & Green Mohawk (-6)
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Severa
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Orange goblin & Red goblin
Astella says something nasty in Goblin right back at mohawk boy, then steps away and aims at the rope binding blue-shirt Goblin.
Astella's arrow flies true, and pierces the bindings holding up the goblin brawler.
His feet back on the ground, he wastes no time at all and charges at the target of his anger.
Cyan mohawk's eyes look cross-eyed, after a loud sound of something hard hitting his head, and he drops down onto the ground.
Daniel
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Green Mohawk (-6)
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Severa
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Orange goblin & Red goblin
Daniel nods in appreciation at the solid punch taking out one of the mohawk enforcers.
He himself swings his sword at orange.
And he instantly cuts the guy to staggered condition with a vicious slash.
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Green mohawk swings his weapon at Seska.
, and he sorely misses, Seska easily sidestepping the attack.
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Seska & Severa
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Seska retaliates at Green with a most un-sister-like snarl.
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Severa keeps trying to blind mohawk
Seska and Green mohwak start exchanging swings between them, eager to make the other fall. Severa aims her finger, then has to aim again, then again. Damned be it, and she just shoots at a moment she feels is right.
Unfortunately it was too late, and the ray flies past the goblin instead.
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Orange goblin, having seen the enforcer just drop like a bag of potatoes, turns to swing his sword at the brawler named Xander.
, but the surprise element from just before makes him fumble this attack.
Red goblin swings his sword at Daniel.
, but it just bounces off Daniel's sturdy armor.
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Round 3
Astella & Daniel
Xander
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Green Mohawk (-6)
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Severa
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Orange goblin & Red goblin
Astella shoots at Green mohawk.
Daniel tries to counters with a thrust, but the goblin uses the momentum of his swing to move out of the way.
The goblins are spared a few more moments, as they manage to dodge arrow and sword.
The liberated Xander throws two punches at the goblin next to him.
The strain on his wrists still leavin numbness, his current attacks both fail.
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Green Mohawk (-6) swings his morningstar at Seska.
The goblin manages to land a solid attack on Seska.
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Severa & Seska
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Orange goblin & Red goblin
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Seska cries out an extraordinarily colorful curse involving certain gods and their unspeakable anatomy, as the spikes of the morning star bite past her pauldron and tear into her shoulder, opposite her shield arm.
She nonetheless stays focused on the fight, saving her spells for a more opportune time, and simply steps downward (so she can either eventually get into a flanking position with Daniel, or so he can flank Green with her). Adrenaline sparing her the pain of her injury for the moment, she swings her mace in retort.
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Severa tries again to blind the mohawk guy!
The mohawk enforcer gets a hit in return, definitely breaking a rib in there. As he regains his footing, he is hit and blinded by Severa's blinding ray.
The orange and red goblin attack Xander and Daniel respectively.
Orange lands a hit on Xander.
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Round 4
Astella & Daniel
Xander (-6)
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Green Mohawk (-12, blind 1 round)
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Severa
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Orange goblin & Red goblin
Astella shoots at green mohawk again.