OOC: rpol is killing me with maps. See the map in group B now, hopefully all can see it.

Round 2, first half goblin moves:

The  warchanter moved a little closer and fired an arrow at Jasna, missing. The goblin with the torch crits her (AGAIN! You are a crit magnet! I promise I'm not intentionally picking on you!) for 4, she's at 1/10 hitpoints. The other goblin hit Flint for 2.

Further south, one hit Eliza for 3 (she's at 8/11 with goblins between her and where she wants to go) with his torch, the other missed.

Flint begins to circle the goblin, growling and snapping but to little lethal effect.

Rini spoke a word of magic and watched as wicked looking black thorns sprouted from her club.

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Rini
Move - depends on goblin turn. If Rini is being threatened by a goblin she will 5' step out of danger before casting her spell. If she is not being threatened by a goblin, she will 5' step into combat after casting her spell.
Action - cast shillelagh (club is now magic +1 and does 2d6 damage)

Flint
Move - 5' step to N16
Action - attempt to bite goblin, miss.

00:09, Today: Rini rolled 3 using 1d20+2.  Flint bite.

It looked like Leleanne's new companions were in trouble again, and that Shelyn's healing power was required. The priestess moved to where she thought was the best chance of healing all of her companions, then grasped her holy symbol once more.

A moment later, a burst of healing energy radiated away from Leleanne.

Move to J20 (if I have that right)
Channel energy, selectively avoiding goblins
08:49, Today: Leleanne rolled 5 using 1d6.  Channel energy (heal)

Focusing on the Goblin at N 17 and levels her gaze.
Ophilia says to Rini, "That one should be easier to hit."


Focusing on the Goblin.
[Private to GM: Evil Eye to Lower it's AC. DC 15 Same as previous evil eyes lasts 1 round if they may save or longer if it fails.]

Coughing at the blow, Eliza stabbed wildly with her dagger. Reason would dictate that she should retreat, reconsider her options. Reason went up in smoke with the possibility of her shop being in danger;


23:55, Today: Eliza rolled 10 using 1d20+3.  Dagger attack. Probs a miss.

"Augh!"  Jasna flinches away from the flames, but not quickly enough to avoid a nasty collection of burns.  Leleanne once more helps keep her upright, though, and mostly out of instinct, she takes a powerful swing at the offending goblin.

Attacking the goblin in N19, five-foot step to M17 afterwards.
10:13, Today: Jasna rolled 8 using 1d8+3.  Damage, Morningstar.
10:13, Today: Jasna rolled 12 using 1d20+3.  Attack w/ Morningstar.

Cormac leapt into the fray as Jasna stepped back.  He whirled his sling as he came, but it was only a distraction as he went low with a snap kick to the goblin's leg....

Move to Jasna's former spot at N18.

Trip vs. N19 Goblin - 18

Just in case he tries to get up - 18 to hit while Prone, 4 Damage

00:56, Today: Cormac rolled 4 using 1d4+1.  JiC-AoO Damage!
00:56, Today: Cormac rolled 18 using 1d20+3.  Just in Case - AoO vs. Prone Gobbo Trying to Stand.
00:54, Today: Cormac rolled 18 using 1d20+7.  Trip vs. N19 Gobbo!

Jasna swung but missed the foe before stepping out of the front lines of battle to catch her breath. Ophelia successfully hexxed her goblin, making him clumsy and unlucky, but Flint still missed him badly when he lunged. Rini enchanted her club into a fearsome weapon and stepped in to hold the line. Eliza swung wildly with her dagger and missed the goblin she was attacking. Cormac had better luck. Moving into Jasna's spot in the line, he tripped one goblin, laying it flat on it's back. Leleanne then stepped forward and channeled Shelyn's divinity once more, healing all of her new comrades fully except Jasna (who is 6/10 again)

Seeing that they were in a real fight, and that the fun with fire was probably over for now, the goblin warriors dropped their torches and pulled out their dogslicers. The warchanter moved forward. Seeing Leleanne negate his horde's hard work he put his short bow away and drew his whip, attempting to trip her, but missed badly. As predicted the goblin cormac had tripped tried to stand, only to have a halfling foot planted firmly in his face. He staggered, but wasn't quite out of the fight yet. The two goblins at the front line swarmed around Cormac, but he avoided them neatly.

Eliza wasn't so lucky. Apart from the group, the goblins took advantage of her isolation and each of them cut her deeply (she was hit once and crit once for a total of 7 damage, leaving her at 4/11) They cackled evilly as they swarmed around her, ready to finish her off if they could.

I've done round three for the goblins, you all can go and finish it up. They rolled well to hit eliza, but fortunately rolled poorly to damage! Everyone is at full health except for Jasna (6/10) and Eliza (4/11)

Flint circled the goblin, snapping and growling. While the wolf didn’t bite the green skin, he made the goblin take its eyes off Rini.

Rini’s magically enhanced club connected with little goblins bulbous head. There was a sickening crunch and the creature lay still.

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Rini
Standard - attack with shillelagh. Hit AC 25 for 15 damage
Move - into melee with warchanter if possible with AOO

Flint
Move - 5’ step into flanking w/ Rini’s Target
Standard - bite. Miss

22:32, Today: Rini rolled 6 using 1d20+4.  Flint bite w/ flank.
22:29, Today: Rini rolled 15 using 2d6+4.  Shillelagh damage.
22:28, Today: Rini rolled 25 using 1d20+6.  Shillelagh attack w/ flanking.

Cormac weaved and shifted his feet carefully.  Sidestepping here.  A slapping away of the goblin's attempt to slice him open there.  He took a chance and grabbed the arm of one of the goblin's as it lunged, yanking it forward and down hard.  He spun away then, neatly stepping around his foe and lashing a foot around low to hook the ankle of the goblin chanter...

Flurry of Trips # 1 on N17 Gobbo - 27
Flurry of Trips #2 on M19 Gobbo - 11 (Bah!)

Just in case AoO....7 (Bah again!) to Hit for 3 Damage.

01:41, Today: Cormac rolled 3 using 1d4+1. JiC AoO Damage.
01:40, Today: Cormac rolled 7 using 1d20+3. Just in case AoO vs. Prone Gobbo Trying to stand.
01:39, Today: Cormac rolled 11 using 1d20+7. Flurry of Trips #2 - M19 Gobbo.
01:39, Today: Cormac rolled 27 using 1d20+7. Flurry of Trips #1 - N17 Gobbo.
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Leleanne stood in the centre of the skirmish, as her new companions and the goblins fought each other. Then, the fight came to Leleanne as a goblin, who appeared to be their leader, targeted her with his whip. Fortunately it was a clumsy attempt, and she was able to nimbly sidestep it.

The grunts from two of her allies forced Leleanne to continue to channel healing energy, despite the potential threat to her personally. She knew her role was to protect others, even at the cost of herself. Eliza in particular was outnumbered.

08:19, Today: Leleanne rolled 4 using 1d6.  Channel energy (heal).

Seeing Eliza in trouble, and judging by the crunching sounds and squawks of pain that her companions had the other half of the battle in hand, Jasna dashed towards the tiefling.  "Hang on, I'll get ye free of that mess!"

Jasna raised a hand to the sky and clenched it into a fist.  From a flat patch of dry ground, a mighty wave erupted, sending one of Eliza's assailants tumbling away in the surf.

OOC: Move to G20.
Using Surge on the goblin in G25.

If successful, Jasna will use the Bull Rush option and push the goblin back (off the current map, I suppose), away from Eliza, as far as she can. (For every 5 by which your attack exceeds your opponent’s CMD you can push the target back an additional 5 feet.)

01:39, Today: Jasna rolled 23 using 1d20+4.  CMB check for Surge.

Yay!  I'm actually helping!

Ophilia rushed to help her friend to H 18 realizing she wouldn't be able to arrive and swing her walking stick in time she hexxed one of the goblins that was in battle with Eliza attempting to cause it to be clumsy with it's swings.

Panicked, Eliza takes a quick step back and swipes an emergency potion from her vest. The tiefling dumps the vial over her wounds, the cuts fizzling as they sealed back up.

"No no no no no..."

[Free] 5ft back
[Move] retrieve extract (Cure Light Wounds)
[Standard] Drink Potion

00:11, Today: Eliza rolled 8 using 1d8+1.  Cure Light Wounds.

Seeing the goblins swarming poor Eliza, Jasna and Ophilia moved to help. Ophilia hexxed one to reduce it's danger while Jasna used an improbable surge of sea water conjured from dry land to  push the other far away from the Tiefling. Rini's enchanted club crushed one of the threatening goblins, allowing her to move in on the warchanter. Meanwhile Cormac's own tripping assault left the goblin bard prone on the ground.

Leleanne channeled her healing power again, and Eliza used her extract to fully heal herself (everyone is fully healed).

The warchanter struggled back to his feet, but merely opened himself up to the arcing swing of Rini's enchanted club which very nearly took his head clean off. He certainly wasn't getting up again.

The remaining goblins, seeing their leader nearly decapitated dropped their weapons and ran. The two near Eliza got away to down the road to the south, while the one between Rini and Cormac fled to the North, narrowly escaping the diminutive halfling's own attack of opportunity on his fleeing backside.

End Combat, everyone is full health, Leleanne is down to 2 channels I think if I did my math right...

As the group catches their breath, it's clear that things at the festival itself have calmed somewhat, but that the attack isn't over yet. Here and there, the sounds of battle, clanging swords, calls of support by the town guard, and shrieking and singing goblins echo through the streets, but at the festival itself, in the courtyard in front of the new cathedral, most of the citizens have fled. One or two goblins remain behind to scavenge food in the tents at the edge of the open space, and many more lie dead, along with a few unfortunate citizens of Sandpoint.

Suddenly a scream and pleading cry for help echoes from the North end of the clearing, along with frantic barking. The opposite direction from 'Brimstone and Spirits'.

“Flint, heel.”

Rini barked the command as she sprinted toward the cry for help to the north. She hoped the others followed but didn’t have time to discuss the matter.

Leleanne's relief the second battle was over was shortlived. The cry for help spurred her into action once more, and she ran after Rini and Flint.

As the goblins scattered, Jasna put her hands on her hips and glanced about in relieved satisfaction.

"Uff.  Well, we're all whole an' livin', could've been... aw, hellsteeth."  The scream rouses her to action once more.  "Right back at it.  Come on!"

"We have to check our shop, we will be right there as soon as we can."

Ophilia ran with Eliza knowing that Eliza would want to check on her mom's shop.

Cormac didn't need much discussion either.  He sprinted off after the others towards the sounds of the screams.  Hearing Ophilia, he turned to jog backwards for a moment and gave a wave to indicate someone had heard.  He then spun back around without missing a step and hurried on.  His sling was reloaded on the run, allowing him the chance at potshots and any of the goblin fanatics as he went...

Eliza almost dashed straight back to the Brimstone, but the cry for help caused her to freeze. The tiefling's face screws up in a rictus of uncertainty as she glanced back between the alleyway and the direction of her home. Seeing the others immediately respond though, eases the guilt in her heart, and her face smooths itself back to its original...slightly less panicked expression.

"Ophelia, everyone, I-" she splutters outloud, then calls back, "thank you. P-please keep helping the townsfolk!"

Having said that, Eliza continues her sprint back to the Brimstone and Spirits, praying to Desna and all the deities of the Inner Sea that things would be all right-

Before the group split up Father Zantus rushes to their side looking to help. Seeing the group is unscathed, he thanks them for what they’re doing to help fight the goblins and encourages them to continue. He speaks to Leleanne directly smiling and saying, "Go! Yes, Keep helping them," he echoed Eliza. "Keep them safe. Keep Sandpoint safe! Perhaps this is why the Rose brought you to us?" Then he rushed back to the hastily assembled clinic on the temple steps.

Pausing updates in this thread for now, while I split into two others, one for Eliza and Ophilia and one for the rest. Threads should be up soon :-)

At the temple, Leleanne was quickly put to work. Though her magic was almost depleted and her legs were shaky after nearly dying herself twice in the fight, she did what she could. Her healing was greatly appreciated by all who felt it, but even more so, she found herself being addressed almost reverently, one of the brave souls who confronted the deadly goblin threat.

Cormac and Rini found little on the goblins. Certainly no clues as to what motivated the attack. They found a small purse with 20 gold on the warchanter they had defeated, and enough short bows and arrows that anyone who wanted could take one. Otherwise it was all dogslicers and goblin-sized leather and studded armor. Though the commando they'd fought from his mount had a masterwork horsechopper.

They too heard whispers of awe and respect from the townsfolk about the heroes of Sandpoint who saved them from the goblin menace.

OOC: Not much loot at this point, but everyone gets 500 exp for goblin fights, or in Eliza's case retrieving her mother's books. Take a little down time, regroup and react to the attack. Events will continue on script soon.

Cormac made his search of the goblins for any useful clues, but came up with nothing of particular note.  Along the way he helped where he could, directing any injured to the temple where he assured them that help was waiting.  The goblin weaponry was set aside for, likely, scrap.  He did not bother removing armor.  Whenever Rini caught up, came by, or was generally in conversational distance, he offered, "No hint as to why they decided to pull the stunt.  Found a bit of gold though.  Not much, but might be a  help to those that have lost."  He gritted his teeth and tried to resist scratching....for a bit...

Failed the Fort Save.  EW!  cooties

13:46, Today: Cormac rolled 6 using 1d20+4.  Fort Save vs. DC 12.

There was little to be found on the goblins, but it was clear that the town was grateful for their actions in the fight against the goblins. At one point the baker, Alma Alvertin rushed out to give Cormac a loaf of bread, telling him he was too thin and had to take care of himself.  Leleanne found herself held in almost reverential awe by her superior Sister Celia and her friend Giulia the priestess of Gozreh. Even Father Vanthus seemed impressed with her bravery and the way she risked her life to confront the menace. Rini, often seen as an outsider in town found strangers approaching her with waves, smiles and in a few instances, admiring winks.

[continued in Chapter 2: Local Heroes]