For those who wanted an update on what happened in our game here it is.
Just to summarize, we were investigating a goblin market where the murder of one particular goblin was carried out by our trusty paladin.
What happened next was......
We basically all left town. Except the paladin. The market mobilised to see what the commotion was all about. I guess if you're gonne kill someone you gotta do it quietly. Mal, the paladin, made a run for the horses. That's as far as he got before he was swamped by gobbies trying to grapple, trip, bite and generally behave in an anti-social manner. The next part was way cool.
Mal continued to cut the horses free whereby they all ran away. Then he simply thwarted most attempts to grapple and trip, and continued to drag the wailing mini-horde through the viallge while any green-skin within earshot attempted to climb on wagons, each other etc to have a go. It was like WWF (or whatever) with gobbies jumping all over Mal, bashing him with pots, pans and anything else they could find.
Eventually they got him down with subdual damage and hung him. Still, it was fun seeing how far Mal got with approx 15 midgets trying to hold him down. The funniest bit was Mal continually warning them that if they continued they would be in real trouble. Defiance is beatiful.
Anyhoo, now we're surveying the sewers for the city. It was a very productive session.
Funny adventure moment that, the little nasty runts swarming like that. *shudders*
some minor changes as to how i remember it, and i'll try to keep the flames to low.....
Just to summarize, we were investigating a goblin market where the murder of one particular goblin was carried out by our trusty paladin.
objection to the term murder your honour :P
What happened next was......We basically all left town. Except the Paladin.
everybody did the bolt with no regard for the consequences of the paladin. good/neutral, lawful/neutral/chaotic, one and all ran for the hills.
we could discuss the impacts of this to their alignments but i deliberately didnt bring it up in the session, mal deserved whatever he had coming.
The market mobilised to see what the commotion was all about. I guess if you're gonne kill someone you gotta do it quietly. Mal, the paladin, made a run for the horses. That's as far as he got before he was swamped by gobbies trying to grapple, trip, bite and generally behave in an anti-social manner. The next part was way cool.Mal continued to cut the horses free whereby they all ran away. Then he simply thwarted most attempts to grapple and trip, and continued to drag the wailing mini-horde through the viallge while any green-skin within earshot attempted to climb on wagons, each other etc to have a go. It was like WWF (or whatever) with gobbies jumping all over Mal, bashing him with pots, pans and anything else they could find.
Eventually they got him down with subdual damage and hung him.
it was amazing to watch the mix of gobbos and kobolds gang up on the heavily armoured dwarf as he kicked off trip attept after trip attempt, grapple attempt after grapple, freeing the horses in the hope they'd scatter the greenskins wading through the masses at first level knowing every pan at -4 to strike due to being an improvised weapon was just as likely to hit as the spears doing subdual, eventually to be mortally wounded to -4 hit points before the gobbo leader healed me and declared i be hung.
The gobbo's returned my body to the city with a request that they be allowed to conttinue their shanty town with taxes being paid etc. the Matrician said no. So then the encampment made themselves scarce.... as would I if i had just returned a citizen to the state after he'd been hung....
Still, it was fun seeing how far Mal got with approx 15 midgets trying to hold him down. The funniest bit was Mal continually warning them that if they continued they would be in real trouble. Defiance is beatiful.
ahhh yes i felt it only fair that i keep warning them as I wildly swung my great axe lethally.... outnumbered but brave to the end.
so no decision needed by the DM as to weather the pallys actions were unpaladin like.... issue swept under the carpet till the next time :) keep em guessing hey!!
Anyhoo, now we're surveying the sewers for the city. It was a very productive session.
........and I have taken a halfling rogue/halfling druid racial substitution all the way baby!!
I love this group, every session is an adventure both in game and out. my love forever to everyone involved
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I quit following the original civilized goblins thread awhile ago so I don't know if I missed this or if it ever came up, but I think it's really funny that the dwarf's name was Mal.
The prefix "mal," of course, comes from the Latin "malus" which means "bad." It is often used in the composition of words denoting evil and ill like malediction, malicious, and malevolent. How could there be any doubt the dwarf was evil? He was practically named "evil."
I thought it was referencing the Latin "malleus," or hammer. The Good Dwarf Paladin was hammering those so-called civilized goblins. ;)