Zarth sees Daniel drop and realizes their best option in the scenario is to remove the goblins from play. "Do what you can to help him, Dorian and I will try to finish off the goblins." He turns to Raven and nods. Stepping out quickly he fires a shot at the goblin he'd already wounded and returns back to his cover behind the rocks.

OOC:

Move to J15, fire, move back to J17.

12:28, Today: Zarth Willowstriker rolled 19,4 using d20+5,d6+3 ((14,1)). Shortbow Attack, Damage

Zarth's shot takes the already weakened goblin right in the throat, instantly finishing it off.

The only remaining goblin stares very briefly at its comrade's corpse, before spinning on its heels and running hell for leather back down the slope from where it came.

"Ellantha's mercy!" Behind you on the ridge, the three miners are stood, eyes wide and open-mouthed in surprise. One wields a hammer in an instinctive defensive posture; while the foreman hugs his slate to his chest. His mouth moves without any sound coming out for a moment as he glances about the scene in confusion.

OOC: I’m assuming we’re in the next round...

”Don’t let it get away!” Raven exclaimed to her two remaining conscious companions, indicating the lone fleeing goblin before she turned her full attention to the wounded tracker. ”Stay with me! You’re going to be okay! Just hold on!” She encouraged the unconscious man, unsure whether he could actually hear her or not. Using her dagger she began by cutting away the tracker’s shirt and used the rags from the ruined garment to staunch the bleeding...

OOC:  02:13, Today: Raven rolled 15 using 1d20+3.  Medicine skill check.
              (I don’t know the DC to stabilize, but hopefully that’s high enough)

Breaking off the arrow, Raven quickly staunches the bleeding and bandages up the wound well. Though still pale, Daniel's breathing seems to be coming easier.

More than enough - Daniel is stable, so no more saving throws needed, but is still unconscious

Payne smiles after successfully dodging the arrow, his reflex were still sharp, and now it was his time to knockout the goblin so it could then be forced to give some information. He readied his sword and just as he was going to move, an arrow trespassed the goblin's throat taking its life with it "Damn! Not again!" he looks furiously to the archer that killed the two goblins that Payne was hoping to get some information from. And now he was too far from the other one that started to run. But he was not willing to give up just yet, and the black-haired woman's words gave him the extra energy to go for the goblin. And so he ran. Not even paying attention to the newcomers miners.

OOC:

Spending movement and action to chase the goblin

Dorian sprints rapidly downhill after the goblin, atruggling to keep his balance as hops over sticks and rocks on the downward incline. As he pursues the goblin into a wooded patch, he is briefly distracted by a oppressive buzzing noise, and is forced to skip aside to avoid the hive of wasps he'd disturbed.

Spinning back to scan the trees and continue the chase, he can see no sign of the goblin...

Further up the hill, the three miners have overcome their momentary shock, and come running over to the rest of the group. The foreman pushes himself in front of the other two in an attempt to exert some authority. His eyes fall first on Daniel's form. "My word! That's the young man we were just speaking to. Is he.. still alive?"

Raven stood from her ministrations and faced the miners. What a sight she must look! -- white skin, black clothing, hands covered in blood and red lips the same color. But her voice was very much human when she spoke. "He'll live," she replied, taking a moment to wipe her brow with the back of a hand, heedless of the red smear it left on her forehead. "But he's still badly hurt and hasn't regained his wits yet. Have you a cart and mule we could borrow to take him back to the village?"   

Zarth stops to ponder a moment. "Since we saw goblins coming this way I wonder if the others were successful." Eyeing the entrance the four had used to descend downward he continues to contemplate. "Whatever the case the tracker is down for now and I'm a little worse for the wear, so I don't know if there's much we'll be able to help them with now." He eyes the wound on his side and decides to have a seat, lost once again in his thoughts.

The foreman's face blanched slightly as he got a better view of the blood on Raven's hands, eyes going wide in evident discomfort. "W-w-well yes of course!" he eventually managed to stammer out, waving at the miners behind him. "Heiber! Radek! Give the lady a hand!"

Before he had started speaking, the two younger men were already at Raven's side. The younger of the two, a freckly youth with auburn hair, nodded at Raven as he bent down to put his hands gently under Daniel's shoulders. "Let us help you, miss. It's a good lng walk to the big cart - the way's too uneven to wheel things up the hill."

The foreman averts his eyes from the sight of Daniel's wounds and turns to face Zarth, only to gasp as he notices the other man's serious wounds. "Oh my! What on earth is happening here, sir?"

Payne chases the goblin as fast as he can, though the creature has the upperhand. He tries his best to focus, but wasps came into play. And in that glimpse of a moment he lost the goblin. "Oh you damned creature!" he says out loud, though his thoughts were much dirtier. But it would be to shameful to go back empty-handed, so he does a quick scan around to look for the goblin's trails.

"Some goblins wandered up here and started a fight. We were watching the entryway the poor unconscious fellow saw some goblins that abducted a child run away into while some others ventured down. I'm not much help right now due to my injuries but I can still stand and move." Zarth speaks from his sitting position, not much interested in moving at least for a little while so he might regain some strength. He maintains as vigilant watch he can though, due to the sudden appearance of the goblins that they'd fought.

"You can see the goblins' bodies, yonder," Raven confirmed, waving in the general direction of the ones they'd slain earlier. "One escaped and our companion, Dorian, is chasing it."

"Careful! Careful!" She cautioned the men who began to pick up and carry the wounded tracker. "You'll start those wounds to bleeding again!"

"You're wounded too, Zarth?" she questioned, seemingly just now noticing that he had been hit with goblin arrows as well. "Here, let me see what I can do."

OOC: You're already conscious and stable, Zarth. I can't do much of anything else with a Medicine check, but just for roleplay grins and giggles...
   06:41, Today: Raven rolled 10 using 1d20+3.  Medicine skill check (Zarth).

Dorian carefully searches the area where he lost track of the goblin, but as a man more at home on the ocean's waves than tracking around the forests he doesn't know the subtle traces that indicate a creature's passage, and can see no sign of where it went.


The two young miners carefully start carrying Daniel back the way they came, the foreman looking at him with worry as they pass. "Now I see why the young man was asking about Goblins! Oh dear me - right by the mine!" He rubs his hands together in worry and looks back to Zarth, as Raven inexpertly bandages his wound.

"Let me go and summon the lads up from below - we can take you back into town for some help as well!." He starts to turn and dash away, but the two men carrying Daniel pause and look at each other.

"An abducted child? Do you know who, sir?" He nodded towards the opening "And they're in there?"

Payne searches, looks and frowns. Nothing in that area caught his attention, making him very frustrated. And still a little mad with the companion that shot the goblin next to him. He kicks a little rock and open his bottle for a little sip o wine while making his way back.He stops as soon as he can see the crowd close to the goblin's cave entrance. He recognized the new man as the miners he had seen before. They didn't seem to be looking for trouble. They were actually helping with the unconscious tracker. Still Payne decided to stay out of look just yet, observing.

Zarth grunts as he looks around at the miners. "I'll survive it, more important are the children. Two of them in fact, Ami and Todd. As far as we are aware they were taken below yes, 4 others are in pursuit of them underground." He repositions himself to be a bit more comfortable on the ground and continues to rest.


OOC

Essentially trying to toss in a short rest here if nothing else crazy happens.

The two miners carrying Daniel share another look. "Todd and Ami! We have to go and help!" They glance at the unconscious figure, and the sandy-haired youth looks back to Raven. "We can bring your friend back to town soon miss, but we can't leave the little ones down there with these animals!"

The two men nod at each other and gently lower Daniel to the ground.

OOC: No problem to take a rest, but since the party's split it will actually need some real world time to pass in order to keep you synchronised with the other half of the group.

Raven frowned at the thought of leaving the tracker out in the open, especially since the miners had just moved him, even if was just a short distance. However since she couldn't very well carry him herself, there was little she could do. "Very well," she conceded. "The goblins' hole lies yonder in the rocks," she added, pointing back to the rock pile behind them. As she looked back, she spied Dorian hanging back and waved him over. "Zarth," she continued, turning to the wounded man. "Would you be willing to stay with the tracker, while we see what's keeping the others down below?"

"Of course, I can watch him." Zarth moves closer to where the tracker is resting unconscious and prepares to be alert and attentive. "Hopefully the other 4 have fared better than us down there." Zarth appears a bit apprehensive at the state of the rest of the group, fidgeting rather rapidly with his hands.

"Well, we're fixin' to find out," Raven replied to Zarth. "You ready?" She asked Dorian (if and when) he rejoined the group. Then she addressed the two miners. "Alright, you two know this area best. We'll follow you down and see about the children and our companions."

The quieter of the two nods. "Bear with me a minute miss. Let me grab some things. The other lads will be along in a moment. They can keep an eye on your friends and your things."

He dashes off quickly in the direction of the mine, while his companion holds out a hand to Raven and nods to Daniel and the resting Zarth. "My name's Heiber. Pleased to meet you, despite the circumstances." Looking worriedly back and forth between Raven and the hole, he adds with a note of worry. "I'm not sure that's any place for a lady, miss."

The movement of the miners suggested that nothing really threatening was happening, and as Raven spotted Dorian, he saw no point in keeping the distance. So he does the walk of shame "That disgraceful thing managed to get away." he says and then turns to the miners "Hello to you all, I'm Dorian, Dorian "The Snake" Payne. Tough place to work, huh? It doesn't seem very safe with goblins wandering around, I suppose" he added ironically. As Raven asks if he is ready he replies "To go down there? I still don't know if we would be able to see far ahead, but yes, we can go. I just wanted to double check the place where I was before, I believe that one of the goblins was heading that direction. Maybe there's another entrance after all."

Heiber turned to Dorian with a welcoming nod. "Wellmet, Master Payne. Take my word, this is is not normal. Goblins are always about, sure, sometimes they might nick a sheep or two, but now you're telling us they're living here, right by a mine with a bunch of blokes carrying picks and hammers?" His brow creased in worry. "This in't normal at all."

”I’ll be fine,” Raven assured the miner, making her way over to the hole; hands still stained with the tracker’s blood. ”Let’s get this over with so we can get the injured ones back to the village.”

OOC: unless someone else decides to go first, Raven will head down the hole.

Radek, the young miner who'd dashed off, returned at a jog, carrying with him a lit lantern and two picks, one of which he handed off to Heiber. "Light won't be a problem," he said to Dorian. "Let's go get the little bastards!"

OOC: are you following Raven down, Dorian, or did you want to go in investigate where you think another entrance may be first?

Dorian was starting to move as he saw that Raven didn't seem to be interested in joining him. As the miner brought the lantern, Dorian shrugged "Huh, okay then, lets enter the hole". He grabbed his crossbow from the ground and put it back in the pocket on his back, can't shoot what he can't see, the rapier will be of better use. "After you, my friends", he says waiting to be the last one to enter.