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Ekan is forced to maneuver around the two goblins in the front and slog through the rough terrain created by Eostre's spell to get at the cleric. The pustule-faced one and the girl goblin in the dress seize the opportunity to take a couple of stabs at him. The girl's swing misses, but the other one barely hits Ekan with a shallow cut.
The pustule-faced goblin snorts in contempt and slogs his way through the gravel-covered floor, drawing an attack of opportunity...
...ducking under Ekan's kick, and stabbing at his vitals!
This time, Ekan feels a dogslicer spearing him in the back! The goblin in the dress squeals in joy.
Judging from how the other goblins wince, this one never heard of the concept of 'indoor voices'.
Eostre smirks a bit.
"Takže, máte rádi křičet, máš malý skřítek? No, proč nezkusíš TOTO jeden na pro velikost?!"
She chants and waves her hand about, then takes a deep breath, puffing out her barrel-like chest and opens her mouth and out comes...nothing. At least as far as most in the room can hear. The goblin in the dress, however, hears a terrible cry, like the shriek of the damned.
, and dazed for 1 round unless the goblin makes a DC 17 Fortitude save.
The dress-wearing goblin blinks before clapping her hands to her ears and stumbling around.
The pustule-faced goblin winces, but doesn't say anything.
Conner rushes in, taking up position directly northeast of Ekan. He wastes no time taking the pressure off and brings his sword down on the eastern goblin.
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The pustule-faced goblin stabs Ekan in his back, but somehow Ekan's wounds aren't as bad as they ought to be.
Still in the other room, Evelyn feels a stab in her back. The taste of blood fills her mouth, and a bruise appears in the same place on her body as Ekan was hurt.
So it works...
Evelyn's infernal healing spell causes a bit of her pain to disappear.
She moves into the room where most of the others are fighting, so she can see what's happening there, and goes total defense.
Ekan grunts in pain, and feels much of it subside. Between one ally taking on his pains and another rushing by his side, he feels much blessed...
and still a bit embarrassed as he misjudges the terrain.
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Unfortunately, as Conner moves in, Eostre's conjured earth impedes his movement. While he is able to reach the goblin he's aiming for, the goblin has a chance to react before he can bring his sword to bear.
The dress-wearing goblin teeters and wobbles about, still reeling from the scream Eostre unleashed upon her. The skull-wearing goblin, on the other hand, starts laughing madly.
"Ooooh! Mogmurch finally has something to test his new invention on!" The skull-wearing goblin hops away from Ekan and throws a black sphere at him...
The sphere lands between Ekan's legs and explodes in a loud *POP!* The monk is engulfed in a burst of smoke and fire!
"OW! Dammit, Mogmurch!" The pustule-faced goblin yells at Mogmurch, throwing his arms up to try to shield himself from the worst of the blast. It doesn't help--even the other two goblins are burned from the blast.
The cleric growls at Mogmurch and directs the spiritual dogslicer to attack Ekan again...
The dogslicer stabs into the floor next to Ekan. The goblin grumbles and starts focusing inward, trying to cast another spell without drawing an attack from the monk...
...and manages to do it. He reaches out a hand and touches the dress-wearing goblin on her burned shoulder.
In the blink of an eye, the goblin's wounds and burns instantly heal.
Nicat moves up to just within the jumble of stones created by Eostre's spell, where he can reach the closet goblin with his whip. He cries out, "You just keep burning your friends, crazy gobber! This is gonna work out fine!" As he says this, he attempts to wrap his whip around the ankle of one of the goblins, but has little luck - ironically enough.
Ekan attempts to press the attack on the goblin south of him, hoping to down at least one of them.
When the bomb hits Ekan and some of the goblins themselves, Evelyn's mouth again fills with fresh blood.
Ekan's first swing comes dangerously close to connecting with the pustule-faced goblin, but he leans back just enough that the strike falls short. The second swing is wilder, and the goblin is able to sidestep it with ease.
The goblin manages to step free of the gravel and stab at Ekan's vitals again, this time thanks to the cleric flanking him!
...unfortunately, he misjudges his reach thanks to his newfound mobility. He swings too quickly and too wildly, allowing Ekan to dodge!
Evelyn continues to heal due to her infernal healing spell.
Now to heal myself some more, so I can continue to support them!
Evelyn uses the wand of cure light wounds on herself and heals some of the damage she's taken for her allies.
Ekan is in trouble, and rapidly getting deeper. Conner brings his sword down on the northern goblin, trying to prevent his friend from being surrounded. His blade hits home, crushing through the demihuman's collarbone and into it's chest cavity.
Eostre takes a deep breath. She needed to get closer to the fight to help more. She advances into the room after the others.
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Conner's sword strikes true, successfully greatly wounding the goblin priest!
Eostre charges into the room in time to see the gravel and stone she conjured fading from existence.
The cleric points the spiritual dogslicer at Ekan once more, and it swings...
...and this time manages to strike home, carving a chunk out of Ekan's chest before it disappears.
The cleric whirls on the rest of the team, and for a split second a look of recognition crosses his face. "Počkat - nezůstaly tyto Dlouhán ty stejné, kteří zastavili náš nájezd?"
He doesn't stick around long enough for an answer, instead ducking away from Conner's advance and retreating past Mogmurch.
"Máš zatraceně pravdu jsme!" Eostre barks.
Ekan is having a devil of a time in this fight, and the most recent gouge is telling.
"I'm afraid I'm not doing well," He admits with embarrassment, and tries another flurry of blows on the nearest goblin he can hit.
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Ekan's first strike nails the pustule-faced goblin in the nose, snapping his head back as a spray of blood flies from the wound.
"Well, that explains a lot." He grumbles, eying the far door.
"Hey, pick on someone your own size," Nicat shouts at the goblins, lashing out once again with his whip.
Evelyn feels a shock throughout her body when the spiritual attack hits Ekan and she takes most of the damage.
What was that? The attack's nature was divine, but it felt evil...
"ខ្ញុំនឹងផ្តល់ជូននូវការព្យាបាលបានឆាប់។" Evelyn replies to Ekan. "ផ្តល់ឱ្យខ្ញុំនូវឱកាសមួយ។"
"Give me a moment."
Ekan doesn't understand Evelyn's words, but he adds as she takes his damage, "And you're not looking too healthy either. Apologies for that."
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Unfortunately, Nicat's efforts with his whip prove to be as fruitless as before.
The pustule-faced goblin spits a gob of blood on the floor. "Oh, no. I'm not planning on dying here. Licktoads!"
He swings once at Ekan...
...then tries to make his escape from the monk's swinging fists!
He tries tumbling away, but leaves himself open for a strike from the monk!
Unfortunately, Ekan's attack hits nothing but air as the goblin starts running away. The other goblins turn and look at him incredulously.
The female goblin shrieks, almost entirely oblivious to the fact that they're getting battered.
Evelyn moves further into the room and focuses, sending out a wave of healing energy that washes over her allies. She makes sure to exclude all of the goblins from the effects of her channel's energy.
"នេះគួរតែជួយ!" Evelyn announces, too focused on the fight to be aware that only Eostre understands her words.
The tabled had turned, and now the goblin was the one surrounded.He makes a more measured swing, aware that his friend was behind the goblin, and stabs straight down at the thing.
Eostre raises her glaive and shouts at the remaining goblins.
"Váš přítel je ten správný nápad, můžete chudáci! Lepší běh, zatímco vy stále ještě možné, protože váš spojenec, kdo jsou, není stojí za to zemřít!"
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Conner's swing strikes true, his sword slicing open the goblin woman's shoulder and wedding dress. Blood pours out of the wound as she shrieks in pain.
The female goblin finally seems to understand just how outmatched she is, having been caught off-guard and beaten senseless. She starts withdrawing from the battle...
...and manages to duck under Ekan's attack as she withdraws!
Mogmurch starts giggling madly. "Boom! Boom! BOOM! AAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!"
With a wild wind-up, the goblin throws a bomb at the wounded monk...
...but Ekan barely manages to duck it!
The bomb flies over Ekan's shoulder, landing behind him and Conner!
The bomb explodes with a *BANG!*, but Ekan is able to evade the debris flung at him with ease. Conner, on the other hand, gets pelted with shrapnel from the bomb and bits of destroyed tile from the floor.
Mogmurch snorts. "Oops." Then he takes off running, following his allies.
The goblin priest conjures a bolt of fire from his hand, aiming it at the wounded monk before throwing it!
The fire bolt collides with the table behind the monk. The table glows briefly before a blaze starts at the end where the bolt struck. The cleric then keeps running...
...past something encased in a cube of glass at the far end of the room.
"Get them!" Nicat cries out, hurrying after the goblins.
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"Tell your chieftains we're coming for them!" Eostre yells after them.
Ekan will chase after the goblins and try a kick at the one straggling farthest behind.
Ekan's kick catches Chuffy in the back, sending the goblin stumbling for another few feet.
Chuffy doesn't look back, racing forward as fast as his goblin legs can carry him--which, incidentally, is quite fast. He withdraws from combat again, racing out the far door.
Conner sets off after the goblins, but with the weight of his armor has no hope of catching them.
Eostre trundles along after them.
Realizing she won't be able to catch up with the goblins if she'd try to chase them, Evelyn doubles back the way the party reached this room. Evelyn hopes the goblins will move past the entrance the party took to enter the building, once they're outside and try to flee Sandpoint. That way she can cut them off.
With Conner & Eostre giving chase through the workroom, the goblins double their pace. Reta, Mogmurch & the cleric flee the room--the sound of glass shattering in the nearby hallway follows soon after.
It's the corpse of someone, horrendously burned.
Realizing in frustration that he won't catch the fleeing goblins, Nicat stops and calls to his friends, while pointing at the glass cube, "You guys! Come here! There's someone in this glass box! Well, what's left of someone, burned to bits..."
He moves closer and tries to guess how long the body has been there and if there's anything he might recognize about it.
The man's clothes, once of fine make and spun of silk, have been blackened and scorched from searing heat. The patches of skin on his face that you can make out have been burned, blistered and melted off his bones. His eyes are frozen open, half-melted and ruined from glass. His mouth is stuck in the middle of a scream of terror.
There's no mistaking it.
Encased in this cube of glass is the corpse of Lonjiku Kaijitsu.
"Ye gods!" Nicat cries out. "It's Lonjiku who got burned!"
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Eostre takes one look at the grisly tableau and gags.
"Soddit! Soddit soddit SODDIT!" she cries. She leans on her glaive as she starts to shake. She could almost hear screaming, even though the body was encased in glass. The burnt features reminded her of Paulinus, screaming as he burned alive. No one deserved a fate like that, not even this arse.
She suddenly doubles over and vomits on the floor.
Conner looks at the remains soberly. "We need to bring the captain of the town watch to see this. He needs to understand his forces need to be expanded."
"បុរសនោះវាមាននរណាម្នាក់នៅលើជណ្តើរបន្ទប់ក្រោមដីនោះទេ!" Evelyn yells from the hallway.
Ekan gave up his chase, realizing pursuit at this point would leave the others behind. Then he hears yelling and the sounds of wretching. He moves to Evelyn, "I'm sorry, I don't understand you, but Eostre may need you. She's sick."
"She said someone's comin' upstairs ya great knob! Learn Aklo!" Eostre bawls at Ekan, turning away from the glass cube and heading to where she heard Evelyn, wiping her mouth with her sleeve.
”Wait, what?” Nicat asks, turning away from the horrifying spectacle of Lonjiku’s burned corpse. ”Someone’s coming?” He hustles back the way he came, slipping in something wet and disgusting and nearly crashing to the ground but managing to grab hold of a workbench to right himself and keep moving.
Any retort Ekan would have dies on his lips at the translation, and he moves to see what is coming.
Trying to sneak a peek.
As Nicat & Ekan approach where Evelyn said the footsteps were coming from, a voice calls up from the stairwell leading to the basement.
"Hello? Is someone up there? Anyone?"
Peeking out from the stairwell is a half-elven man of Tian descent, his black hair tied back in a ponytail and his fine clothes stained with soot. "Oh, thank Desna--those goblins attacked my sister and I. They threw us down here--I only just escaped!" He gasps, staggering out of the stairwell.
"You Ameiko's brother, then? Why isn't she WITH you?! You didn't help her escape with you?!" Eostre barks.
The man nods. "Yes, I'm Tsuto. Ameiko's too wounded to move--she's downstairs, and I have no idea how to help her."
Tsuto leans on the doorframe. "Wait--I remember Father was here. Where is he?"
"No time! Evelyn, come on! We gotta help her!"
Eostre grabs Evelyn's arm and drags her down after her, barging past Tsuto.
"Take us to her, Tsuto! Your dad's dead, we don't wanna lose Ameiko too!"
"Indelicately put, but to the point," Ekan nodded at Eostre's words to Tsuto, "I'm sorry, but she's right. We dare not hesitate."