Cat puts her spear back into its holder as she answers Garth "I'm fine, Garth.  But that man over there isn't.  Can you retrieve my sling while I go to him.  It's over there." she points to the spot where she dropped her sling, and then runs to the wounded man, arriving after the cleric.

[OOC: I can heal him, but the cleric is there first, so she has first crack at healing Talis. ]

Moving to Garth's side Naomi releases the otherworldly energies and the blue white glow leaves her hands and eyes returning her appearance once more to that of a Gnomish woman.  "Some excitement for the evening?  I wonder if goblinfight goes well with roasted chicory tea"  She says brightly once she catches up with Garth.
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Zer-wedula manages to stop the bleeding just before the cleric arrives.  "Yes, I think I can", and she says a prayer<CLW>.  Talis consciousness returns and he finds himself <at 5hp> lying on the ground with a young woman in fancy clerical vestments kneeling over him and Zer-wedula and a halfling woman standing behind her.  "You were very brave, foolish, but brave.  You were all very brave.  I must return to my post now."  As she leaves a big dog with a sling[Private to Catessa Fallowfield:  Garious]comes bounding up to the halfling woman and starts panting.

Glums stands on a table 30' S of the small gathering and attempts to establish some order, but goes mostly unheeded.  A few people point in different directions and a few people cry "have you seen Emyralda/Aeren/my child/etc...", but for the most part the people ignore him.  In fact, most people are staring at Naomi as her glowing eyes/hands fade.
[Private to Glum: Sorry, luck is not with you today. (rolled a 4 on d20) and you don't have chr or skill.]

Garth cries out to his comrades from near a fancy store(building 5) thats all locked up tight.  Then he spies a goblin looking into a rain barrel.  With the reflexes of a trained warrior, he takes advantage of the goblins distraction to attack!  As he strikes, he discovers, the goblin is already dead.  Naomi arrives to help and after a bit of pulling (his head is stuck) the body is pulled out.  This goblin apparently drowned himself in a mostly empty rain barrel.  Stupid little freak.
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   Catessa beams as the dog bring her the sling she dropped near the building.  She tanks him and takes her sling, petting and patting him.  She looks him over and says "Good job, boy!  I see you've met some of these goblins too.  I hope they didn't taste too bad."  The dog pulls his ears back, and his tongue comes out.  You could swear it was an expression of distaste.

   She then turns back to the others around Talis and speaks with a jesting smile "We are safe now.  This is Garious, my friend."  She then looks at Talis and says "Are you ok, friend?  You are still looking a bit unwell.  I have healing prayers too, if you think you need them."  She offers the prone hero a hand to help him sit up.  Cat's isn't tall enough to help him all the way up.

Glum shrugs and harumphs in the direction of the group, jumping from the table and then waddling the rest of the way.  "Who invited the goblins?" he asked.

Zer-wedula stares at the departing cleric.  "Foolish? Harrumph," he mutters quietly.

He extends a hand to help Tanis up.  "I remember you from the ship from Riddleport," he says.  "I am Zer-wedula."

Talis tried to blink away a sudden headache, the sound of his pulse throbbing in his ears delaying his usually quick reflexes. Finding a hand in his face, he grapped in and sat upright, sitting there a while longer while the strange magics mended his wounds. The rogue decided that he didn't like the sensation of healing magic, it was a bit alien. He barely noticed the cleric though before she was gone, and was still a little concerned about his wounds. Talis had seen combat before, and even once taken a nasty cut on the forearm, but never had he ever really feared a wound before.
With the second introductions, Talis seemed to find himself and realized he was being spoken too. "Talis Revain, yea, I remember you too. Not too often you see mixed folk, you stood out a bit. Do I have you to thank for my life? It's a pleasure regardless, though I feel I would make a better introduction were I less covered in blood." Seeing the halfling and her goblin eating dog, he nodded gravely. "You have my thanks for your concern, miss, though I should be alright. It was but a tactical mistake. I thought it best, at the time, to disarm the goblin with my kidney."
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"I must say Garth.  I know that these guys can be a bit... um... special.  But drowning in a Rain Barrel while on a raid?  Um... Well I'm glad that I wasn't part of their party."  She says from his side then looks around before saying "So Garth.  Would you know what these guys would be doing here?  More to the point, how they would've gotten into the town?"

   Catessa seems a bit disappointed that she didn't get to heal talis.  Nevertheless, she feels now is not the time for discussions.  She takes out her sling and loads it and she speaks her mind "I think we might be needed elsewhere.  There might still be goblins about, and people to help.  I don't know what you are going to do, but me and Garious are going to head out into town looking for anything that needs doing.  Will you come with me?"

   Cat scans the area, looking and listening for any sounds which might indicate trouble.  After a short pause to let everyone decide, she head in the direction that looks most promising.

"Yea, sure. Just a moment," Talis said while rising to his feet, careful not to injure anybody as he retrieved his sword. Wandering off for a moment, Talis spied his sheath, and put the his blade away, before rejoining the halfling lass and the elven wizard. "I don't have anything better to do this eavening, and I would like to help. Besides, safety in numbers." Talis follows after Catessa, keeping his eyes open to any potential dangers.

  Catessa smiles at the newcomer as she stops.  She pulls her spare spear from Garious and puts it in the holder with her other spear.  "I'll be grateful for your help.  My name is Catessa Fallowfield.  You may call me Cat."

Happy to see his new friends safe Garth looks back to the drowned goblin.  Shaking his head at the sight of the drowned creature, Garth bends to clean his blade upon a swath of grass before sheaving it again at his side.  The big warrior then turns to Naomi and shrugs, "These vermin raid periodically, they have a ravenous nature but all too often they fall prey to their own stupidity."

Garth then lumbers over to where Catessa's sling lays and retrieves it for her, bringing it back to where she watches the wounded Talis.  Looking to the half-elf, the soldier grins, oblivious to the goblin blood that stains his own garments.

"One day, my friend, we shall compare scars over a tall tankard of ale.  That is a good blade you wield, would that I had carried my own instead of this bodkin at my waist.  I think though that I shall retrieve my sword and mail before venturing out to be sure no other goblins lie in wait outside of the village."
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As the group is considering what to do, Catessa sees a large column of smoke begin to rise beyond the line of buildings to the south, 150 or so feet away.  The remaining crowd says "FIRE!".  Something big is on fire.
<South of building 12, where the yellow dot is on the game map.>
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"A moment's preparation would be in order before we run willy-nilly towards the fire, I think," Zer-wedula says.

He gestures and mutters, a far away look in his eye.

Casts Mage Armor on himself.

"Well, who has a plan?"

Glum grinned at Zer-Wedula.  "I think the authorities can cope with putting out the fire, but we might be best placed to take care of any goblins, particularly those who hinder the firewatch's activities.  I propose we move over there ASAP and make a plan when we get there."

  When Garth brings Cat the second sling Cat smiles and says "Thanks, but that's not mine.  Garious already brought me my sling.  But we've wasted enough time.  We can help stop the fire in our own small way.  And it's a big fire.  There may be more than goblins.  If you come, you can provide protection, your waterskins, and perhaps help knock down a building."  Cat has a serious face now as though remembering something bad.  She runs off to the south, with her sling at the ready.  She scans for trouble along the way.

[Private to DM: Ready Action: Attack any goblins along the way with her sling.]

Watching as the others start moving off Naomi grabs Garths hand and points to the south.  "C'mon, we can be of service!"  She says to the much taller human.

Glum follows close behind Catessa and Naomi, who clearly understood the situation and who he trusted to know what to do.

Garth shrugs and tosses the sling down, mumbling something under his breath.  Hearing Naomi, he nods and scoops her up easily upon his shoulder, "Up you go lassie, we'll move faster this way."  And then he is off in loping strides towards the source of the screams and smoke!
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  Knowing she cannot keep up with the others, Cat mounts up on Garious.  She urges him on.  She trades in her sling for one of her spears.  Soon the pair are riding slightly ahead of the rest towards the fire.

As the group heads out, Talis follows, not certain what he can do, but willing to help. The rogue draws his sword while they run, but makes a point to don his sheath this time.

Tactical situation round 1
<No surprise
Your voice colors match your dot colors and
goblins are;
blue  if active
black if down
gray  if out of sight
brown is a female goblin singer>

Check the game map for details on where your character is in relation to the goblins.

    As you rush down the row of buildings toward the fire, the sound of that awful goblin song becomes louder against the backdrop of fighting, dogs barking and general chaos noises.  As you approach the corner you can see down High Street and parts of Downtown spread out before you.  There are a few columns of wispy smoke, but none nearly as big as the column near you.

   As you round the corner of the building(12), marked with a weapon-smith sign, you confront 2 goblins(1,2) looting the smithy.  They have already dumped some weapons and a large shield in a pile on the ground(X) and are coming out with more.  They are 10' from the front of the party.

    About, 90' away a group of goblins (4-6) are slowly pushing a cart loaded with burning wood (for the bonfire that was planned for later) toward the slope to downtown.  Obviously they want to push a flaming cart down a hill.  Of course this would have been easier if they had WAITED to light it on fire.  15' beyond them is a goblin female(with cover from the cart) with a bow.  She is singing that awful song while trying to direct the cart pushers with gestures.  Writhing around on the ground behind the cart is a burning goblin who wasn't so careful.  If he isn't dead, he soon will be.

                      dam      status
Goblin1               0
Goblin2               0
Goblin3               0
Goblin4               0
Goblin5               0
Goblin6               0
Goblin Singer         0


ORDER
Talis
Catessa Garious goes at the same time as you
Naomi
Glum
goblins
Garth  give me a spot check of 10 to find a bastard sword in the pile
Zer-wedula


<Talis, Catessa, Naomi and Glum post round1 actions.  All the goblins are flat-footed for you.>

Sighting the presence of more goblins now sacking the armoury, Garth springs forward, forgetting as he does so that he still carries Naomi upon his broad shoulders.  "Oy!  More goblins and now they would burn the smithy down but I see a weapon that suits me in better stead then the dagger at my belt!" And so he moves to gather up the bastard sword left upon the pile of looted weapons!

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12:12, Today: Garth Oakenshield rolled 14 using 1d20-1. Spot check for bastard sword.

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[Private to DM: If he has an opportunity to also attack with it, he will.  If it requires a full action though, then he will be content merely to grab the bastard sword from the pile.]
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   Catessa remains quiet, so as not to alert the wagon goblins and their singer.  She urges Garious into a charge at the nearest goblin, since the pile blocks the other from her path, and the other goblins are simply too far.  She thinks it best to cut down these two first, so that their enemies can only attack in limited numbers.

   Cat drives a spear right at the goblin while guiding Garious with her knees.  Garious too attempts to bite, but he is thrown off by Cat's spear thrust.  Cat and Garious are still getting used to fighting while Cat rides.

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I'll roll ride checks if I need to, but they should be automatic successes, dependant on your rules:

Full Action: Charge at nearest goblin (+2 attack, -2 AC; Garious is AC 16, Cat is AC 14).

13:30, Today: Catessa Fallowfield rolled 18 using 1d20+4. Cat's Spear.
13:31, Today: Catessa Fallowfield rolled 7 using 1d6+1. Damage.
13:30, Today: Catessa Fallowfield rolled 11 using 1d20+5. Garious's Attack.

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Naomi quickly scampers down from Garths back and pulls once again on the energies of elsewhere so as to assault the goblins who had decided to attack these innocent peoples where they lived.  Her eyes and hands glowing with their celestial energies she points her right hand and fires off a blast at the nearest Goblin.  Unfortunately she was a bit disheveled from her flight down the tallfolk's back and her shot went wide.

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12:03, Today: Naomi Armastance rolled 5 using 1d20+4. ranged touch attack
Dices still hate me *pout*

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