Having got used to standing behind three tough guys I am momentarily shocked and offended to have been hurt; this isn't supposed to happen!
"Why you little..."
I send a flash of divine fire toward the dazed goblin but am too busy nursing my wound to aim well.
Seeing Gyorgy's divine fire miss the target, Jessa attempts to summon forth her dagger to end the goblin's life for him.
Kenzo gives chase a step behind Mitnal, dagger in hand.
Jessa mismanages her arcane ability and fatigues herself mentally and magically. She is unable to cast a spell for 1 round.
Eugen meanwhile cuts down the dazed goblin.
Mitnal quickly overtakes the other goblin as he runs through the throne room and into the hallway Eugen had just opened moments before. The goblin turns and attacks with a dogslicer, hissing like a snake.
Mitnal almost runs onto the blade but manages to stop himself in time.
"Oh...wow..." Jessa winces and sways on her feet as the hovering dagger returns. "I feel woozy all of a sudden," she tells Gyorgy, "Maybe I overdid it a bit?"
Mitnal bashes away at the goblin but with no luck.
1d20+3=7, 1d8+2=9, 1d20+1=9, 1d6+2 =5
"Don't hiss," he growls. "It's distracting."
"Oh...wow..." Jessa winces and sways on her feet as the hovering dagger returns. "I feel woozy all of a sudden," she tells Gyorgy, "Maybe I overdid it a bit?"
"I get that sometimes. It only lasts a moment usually, but it gives me awful headaches."
Then I remember where we are and move up to join Eugen; "Nice one."
Mitnal misses the goblin. Kenzo can help gang up on it if he wants. It looks like its going to try to bolt through the door.
Kenzo leaps into the air to kick the goblin, but he has to adjust his attack to avoid Mitnal as the large barbarian side steps the goblin & his dog slicer.
Attack 1d20=1+3=4, Damage 1d6=1+1=2
The goblin, seeing himself once more outnumbered, two to one, tries to open the door and flee into the other hall.
Mitnal attacks the fleeing goblin. 1d20+3=14, 1d8+2=8
The goblin stumbles as Mitnal attacks him from behind, but he does not fall and then he is out the door and running to the west.
Jessa finally hurries past Gyorgy and Eugen.
"C'mon! We better go help the others before they run headlong into who knows what..."
Blackwing darts ahead of her, flapping down the hall more quickly than Jessa can keep up.
I pat Eugen on the shoulder: "As the lady commands..."
Then I move after Jessa at haste.
"Follow that goblin," says Mitnal eagerly. "He'll lead us right to the others!"
"Hah, Mitnal that's brilliant!"
I run after him with the others.
"Hah, Mitnal that's brilliant!"
I run after him with the others.
Mitnal looks back at Eugen a little confused. 'Brilliant?' he worries. 'No one has ever said that about one of my ideas before. We must be making a terrible mistake.'
He continues to chase the goblin.
"Wait! We're making a terrible mistake!" Jessa feebly calls out, falling behind the more athletic members of the party to come alongside somewhat-winded Gyorgy. "What if they run right into Nualia and her whole goblin army?" she frowns at him.
Kenzo, still jarred from his miss, yells at the others, "Let him go! Stay together!"
I pant back to Jessa as I run; "I think Mitnal may be a mad wave we can ride. He is a child of Desna, perhaps, though he doesn't know it."
I run on.
'A child of Desna?!' Jessa thinks, 'He's a Shoanti. He'd be more likely to follow a totem-spirit or just about anything other than the goddess of Varisians.'
She continues pacing Gyorgy, unwilling to leave him and unable to keep up with the other boys. 'But at least Blackwing's keeping an eye on them,' she reassures herself.
'I wonder if there's anything shiny in here?' Blackwing muses as he wings his way down the corridor, 'Surely these goblins keep some kind of treasure about. Maybe that's what was in that chest I helped dig up?'
He pauses a second and looks around as he glides.
'Now where'd that Shoanti go?'
The goblin flees down the hallway, back into the first room the companions entered in the complex. The goblin reaches the furthest door on the north wall and moves to open it.
Mitnal, hard on his heels, can make a single attack as the goblin tries to open this new door to flee through it.
Meanwhile, Mitnal's companions are just a few seconds behind him. Close enough to make the barbarian feel supported, far enough away that they can't stop him from giving chase.
Mitnal swings wildly at the goblin.
'That should keep him running,' thinks Mitnal as the hammer wushes behind the goblin's back.
The goblin rushes through the door.
There is sunlight coming through from the other side. Mitnal also hears the whine and growl of animals.
Mitnal waits for the others to catch up. "Dogs," he says. Nodding towards Kenzo he adds, "Send the druid in first."
"He's good with dogs?" i ask, breathing a little heavy.
"He's good with dogs?" i ask, breathing a little heavy.
"Druids," replies Mitnal in his 'I'm explaining things' voice (which he doesn't get to use very often), "can talk to animals and stuff. Let the druid through."
"He's good with dogs?" i ask, breathing a little heavy."Druids," replies Mitnal in his 'I'm explaining things' voice (which he doesn't get to use very often), "can talk to animals and stuff. Let the druid through."
"weird! I bet they're terrible conversationalists," I say, mostly to myself. "The dogs I mean."
The entire party is soon gathered with Mitnal in the first room of the fort. There are still dead goblins on the floor here. The door through which the goblin entered is open and a wide open area with a trampled grass floor can be seen on the other side. the goblin that ran through is out of sight but can be heard talking to someone or something in goblin. About forty feet away, rising to its feet, the group can see a goblin dog on the far side of the courtyard.
I gulp down a little extra breath
"I think this is called 'losing the advantage of surprise'."
I look at Mitnal and then Kenzo; "Those awful Goblin Dogs only seem to listen to Goblins, can you really control them, Kenzo?"
"Control them?" Jessa scoffs as she's the last to arrive, "Whatever do you mean? Kenzo adheres to the monastic tradition like some of the Tian Xia or Vudrani. Did someone think he was a druid or something? Ha! As if! Right, Kenzo?"
She leaves the rest of her question unanswered as she peers past the door at the goblin dog. "Oh, no. Not more of those hideous things! Can't we just put an end to them all?"
She readies her dagger in the event she needs to launch it at the animal with her magic. "Well, don't just stand there. Let's send a volley of arrows at it first."
I look at Mitnal and then Kenzo; "Those awful Goblin Dogs only seem to listen to Goblins, can you really control them, Kenzo?"
"Control them?" Jessa scoffs as she's the last to arrive, "Whatever do you mean? Kenzo adheres to the monastic tradition like some of the Tian Xia or Vudrani. Did someone think he was a druid or something? Ha! As if! Right, Kenzo?"
"Me?" Kenzo says with a little surprise. "I'm not a dog handler, if you could call those disgusting things dogs. Hell, I don't even want to fight those mangy beasts."
Mitnal's Initiative: (1d20+5=11)
Goblin Dog Initiative: (1d20+2=20)
Four Goblin Dogs rush towards the door behind which the party is standing. They can't all attack but the one in the lead charges at Mitnal, whining and biting.
Charging Bite Attack at Mitnal: (1d20+2+2=21)
Damage: (1d6+3=5)
Goblin Dogs in the Courtyard - Round 1
Goblin Dogs - Initiative: 20
Gyorgy - Initiative: 12
Kenzo - Initiative: 12
Jeslara - Initiative: 12
Mitnal - Initiative: 11
Eugen - Initiative: 10
For Mitnalfortitude save (1d20+5=16)
I reflexively send a ray of divine fire toward the dog that struck Mitnal.
[ooc]I messed up my roll (should be a +4, not a +7) so it is actually 24 to hit. I guess it doesn't matter with a natural 20...
DF (1d20+7=27, 1d6+2=5)
"Beasts!"
Jessa mentally launches her dagger at another dog, hoping to injure some of the ones the others can't reach because of the door.
Both the dagger and the divine fire slam into the first of the dogs. [ooc]Total damage will exceed its hps but we'll still wait and see if the threat is confirmed before describing the extent of the dogs injuries.
Mitnal slaps at the dog with his hammer and klar more like a child startled by a spider on his leg than a grown man who has killed for his clan.
"Get away. Get away. Bad doggie. Eeek!"