Jia swings at the spell-casting goblin.
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This might just be me, but the "let's not kill goblins" section of the party hasn't done much to convince the "hey let's do our job" section not to kill goblins. It's why we are ostensibly here after all, so don't be upset if Jia Li doesn't immediately stop attacking.
Maybe they have all gone insane? Jia leaps forward in a flying kick against the goblin.
Jia assumes her crane stance and moves up to C5 to confront the goblin.
Why did he just attack those humans? "What are you doing?"
Is it just me, or are our figures not on the map?
Jia continues ahead.
"Then go right."
Jia raises her arms (in Crane Style, Swift Action) and leaps to strike the spider.
Jia pauses to wrap clothe around her exposed flesh.
Jia takes the lead and heads towards the cave.
"We aren't being paid for iron mask men. If they have nothing to do with the goblins, we return to complete what we have started."
Jia Li will help look for tracks.
"Can we track them without them knowing?"
Jia-Li waits patiently for the others to decide what to do. Having nothing to say, she says nothing.
"Let's get back to work."
While her erstwhile allies are harassing potential halfings, Jia Li is dragging the faceless stalker out of the house where she will make quite certain it is dead (and learn new and interesting facts about its anatomy.)
Jia brings her fist in a up to meet the stalker with a fierce uppercut.
Jia tries to punch it in its faceless face.
Slow to react due to her shock at the discovery of this inhuman creature, Jia watches in slow motion as it claws at her twice. In her head, she hears the voice of Huan Lu, Move foolish girl! No student of mine will be taken so easily. Slipping into her Crane Style, Jia Li steps forward into the house to give her companions more room and punches at the false beast.
Jia Li sighs, and approaches the house. "Hello? Who in there?"
I want to like the shaman, but I don't I wish they had made the spirits more specific like the witch patrons. It would be cool if they could do things like Moon spirit or Shadow spirit and it not just being another Heavens oracle.
"We could knock."
"You are not wrong in that."
We are practically a death squad. It's the natural outgrowth of what happens when you determine entire classes of people to be monsters. It along with the reasoning on why the drow have dark skin really reveal the rather unpleasant racist undertones that exist in DnD and its offshoots. As a person, I'm totally feeling Terwin.
Jia Li thinks if you cannot stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. :-p
"Is it evil to go to war against the enemy of your community? This job about eliminating goblins and goblin capacity to harm the town."
"It is difference between survival and death." She works efficiently as she talks two more ears go into the salt.
"Go?" Shrug. "Stay?" Shrug. "Go or stay, know that town and swamp at war. In war the other side need not be evil spirits to want you dead. If this goblin had returned to his people, then it not just we in danger -- town too. For then the swamp knows that town is willing to send people into swamp to end them. What do they do in response? Fire in the night. Town burns."
"Your alternatives are not so. You were hired to kill goblins. To go into their homes and slay them. It is not a pretty job. Not nice job. Maybe it is job you no longer want. But don't delude yourself into believing it is not the job you took." With those words, Jia sighs and reaches down to break the goblin's neck.
Point a thumb at Darren, Jia says, "He not wrong. You like little boy who sees butterfly when he should be gathering wood. Butterfly pretty, but it is not your duty. Picking up sticks your duty."
Though it seemed to her essentially arbitrary to spare this goblin, but not his fellows, Jia's tortured tongue did not have the energy to argue. None of us know what we are doing. He is even less of a bounty-hunter than I. He seems so confused about what hunting for a bounty entails. Jia Li shrugs again as she packs the ears the party has collected in salt.
Jia shrugs. "Are we no longer going to attack their village? Sparing his life could doom ours if he reports our strengths and weaknesses. I would only spare him if we are abandoning this mission."
"Ten gold per ear. 300 gold for cheiftan's head," Jia confirms. She has at this point collected all the goblin ears besides for the one that they are questioning.
The monk falls silent. She frowns. Their tongue was difficult for her. She did not think that she disagreed with the mage. They were thinking beings as were the goblins. Their actions were there own. Only evil spirits were completely wicked. But he seemed to think they disagreed. She must have misspoke. Or maybe he didn't want to think that hunting down their fellow sentients for money wasn't a bad action? Maybe he thought that the war absolved his blood guilt? These were no acts of self defense. But they were the acts she had chosen to take so that she could afford to live in these strange lands.
She gives him a pitying look. "Much is said of one's enemies. 'They eat babies.' 'They lie with their dead.' Some true. Some not. An entire people only completely bad in the minds of their enemies. True evil is province of bad spirits."
Another shrug. "Peoples war constantly. Pink. Green. Tan. All. It is savage. War is savage. There is little good, little noble, in war. The goblins and the townsfolk fight for resources -- land and pride. The town seems to be winning. They have town. The goblins have swamp. Are you now surprised that have they own tongue, their own inner lives?" The woman looks vaguely exhausted stringing all those words together in her tortured accent.
Jia shrugs. "We agreed to collect goblin ears in exchange for coin. What matter is it that they have internal conflict?"
Jia collects the ears as they were asked. "Thank you for the healing."
Jia Li kneels down in the mud and removes the goblin's ears. We all have to eat.
The surprisingly powerful blow from the goblin throws off Jia's next punch.
Mired in the mud, Jia's next kick also fails to strike its target.
Jia Li continues to progress towards G4, when she closes on the goblin she goes to punch him, but slips in the mud slightly which throws off her balance.
Jia Li will go total defense as she makes her way closer to G4 (I believe that would be I6.)
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