Too close to shoot, Kaj takes a swing at the goblin with his bow, which the goblin just barely dodges.

06:33, Today: K'ajoranguarssuak rolled 6,5 using 2d6+2,1d8.  attack, damage.

Man, I'm going to be like Level 5 before we even leave the house.

Booker, seeing the number of Goblins reduced, presses the attack. His arm becomes a blur-slashing and stabbing with inhuman speeds. Trying to score as many damaging hits as possible. If his foe falls early, he will deal with the extra on Bricklin.

OOC: Using torrential technique. If Foe does anything but defend, they will take additional damage.

11:24, Today: Booker Magestos rolled 8 using 1d8.  Additional damage if foe counterattacks.

11:23, Today: Booker Magestos rolled 6 using 1d8.  Damage.

11:23, Today: Booker Magestos rolled 11 using 2d6+2.  Arcane Duelist.
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She took out her sword and swung ineffectively at the goblin

23:47, Today: Seraphene rolled 6 using 2d6-1.  hack and slash.

Lets say Joys attacks one of the 2 attacking Bricklin the blunt end of the weapon smashes in to its head, and it crumples to the ground


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they dont seam to be effected by your attempt.
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Arrows and weapons of all kinds flings every where some make contact and others don't
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thwe two goblins listen to Coraxa "Greedy goblins will die" as they start to swing on their own

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the goblin doges the arrow.
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Booker cleves thru 2 more goblins.

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Luckly for Seraphene and Kaj the other fighter are able to kill the remaing hostiles. the only goblins remain are your "friends?"
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Seaphene indicated the dead goblins, and spoke to the two remaining, "do you see? it's dangerous out here. That's why we told you to stay in the closet."

She then spoke with the other adventurers, "It's too dangerous for the children also. We should get them someplace safe"

In reply to Master of Tales (msg # 224):

Booker looks at the blood on his clothes. "Well, that's wonderful! Now I can never beat Bricklin at fashion! I need to make up a whole other fake duel!" He said with sarcastic annoyance, pulling out a small bit of cloth and trying to clean off the blood-but fails utterly. He looked around the room. "Everyone else alright?"

Phirosalle peeks down from the attic, long silver hair dangling.

"The miniature humans are suffering from nothing worse than the inevitable fate of mortality, but that one seems postponed for at least a little while," he reports. "They do, however, say that there might be more prisoners to rescue and ruffians to fight down in the basement."

Kaj nods toward the pair of goblins."What should we do with those two?" he asks.  "We warned them over and over not to get involved and they didn't listen.  We should just kill them and be done with it."

Kaj looks at the two goblins.  "You made a wise choice, so you still breathe.  Your friends, not so much."

"The goblins over there and the orcs over there, were they all you came with or are there more?  Think hard, because how you answer will determine what we do with you."
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"If you are volunteering to deal with the two goblins, Kaj, after they just helped us, then I won't stop you." She stepped aside and gestured toward the goblins' room. "I'm not going to help you though. Doesn't feel right. Even if it does make sense." Even lions and gazelles could coexist peacefully on rare occasions. At least for short periods of time.

"As for the young ones. Maybe someone should escort them to somewhere away from this building? Maybe you, Seraphene? I know they have taken a liking to Phirosalle, but I think they might end up smudging his robes or something." She smirked at Phirosalle. If Joy wasn't mistaken, the elf seemed averse to getting his hands dirty, let alone his clothes. And children were notorious mess-makers.
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Bricklin laughed at Booker’s comment as they wiped the goblin blood from their giant blade. “Come now, Booker! ‘Twas but a jest! I’ve told you once if I’ve told you a hundred times - it matters not if you win, but how strongly you believe in yourself!” He gave Booker a hearty slap on the lower back (as he was too short to reach his shoulders). “You are a fine specimen of battle-ready fashion.”

He paused as he heard Kaj speak to the remaining goblins. He readied his blade once more, a deadly look overtaking his face. He glares deeply at the goblins. “Friends? With goblins?” He directs his attention to the elf. “Friend elf, you’d best be careful trusting anything a goblin might say. They’re naught but liars, and even if they somehow tell the truth, they’ll alert their friends or stab you in the back at the first opportunity!”

Coraxa turns to the two goblins. " who is down stairs? How many?"

"I trust them for now," Kaj replies.  "After they saw what we did to a half-score of their friends in mere moments, I don't think they'd be foolish enough to try anything."

"Let's see what clues we can find on the bodies.  Maybe there's a map or orders or something."

In reply to Bricklin Sweetflower (msg # 230):

Booker is more or less forced a step or two forward after the friendly 'pat' on his lower back. "Oh sure, that's easy for you to say! Some of us have to learn from books and are not natural physical powerhouses!" He says with a smirk to his shipmate.

He listens to the elf speak about the Goblins. "Aye, you make a good point. I recommend we bring them along in case their 'recollections' need refreshing."

Bailor " Here i found these." in refference to message 144

Seraphene "I can take the children back to the tower.
Bailor "I can escort you M'lady. unless any one objects"

the 2 Goblins  "oh well there are... one of them starts but is interupted by the other. "Krin!." he looks the party suspition in his eyes. " Who are you exctaly? i dont remeber you in the north."  they look at each other unsure weather to flee or fight.

Joy was content to let the others answer the goblin's question. She focused her own efforts on searching the bodies for clues, as Kaj had suggested. After saying goodbye to Bailor and Seraphene, of course.

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Joy is searching the bodies:
10:30, Today: Joy Weaver rolled 9 using 2d6+1.  Discern Realities - searching bodies for clues.
I will ask, "what here is useful or valuable to me?"

HP: 14/16, XP: 4/4
-1 to casting
Prepared spells: Light, Unseen Servant, Magic Missile

Phirosalle makes his way down from the attic, brushing dust off his robes.

Kaj sigh over these goblins' implacability.  They may be cowardly in a fight but they know how keep their lips tight.

"Here are the choices you have:  one, you can cooperate with us and tell us everything you know and we'll let you go.  We'll even walk you to the city gate to be sure no one else harms you either.  Two, we can kill you.  Or three, we can turn you over to the city and they'll either kill you or they'll toss you into the dungeon where you'll rot for years before dying."

"If you don't go with option one, I suggest having us kill you over the authorities; it'll be much quicker and we'll try to make it as painless as possible.  Probably slit your throats.  One quick cut and it's over in a minute.  Slowly wasting away in prison is no way to go."

Bricklin walks over to the two goblins and stands next to Kaj. With slow, careful movements, the stout halfling points his massive greatsword at the two, holding it with only one hand - an impressive feat for one so small. He looks at Kaj.
“To be honest with you, I’d prefer second option. Are you the gambling sort? I bet that I could gut them both without looking…”

Krin: looks more puzzled by the minuet. he looks from his friend to the group. his hand on his wepon. "Brin? im not sure they were in the north at all."
Brin has taken a few steps away. " Krin kil them" he pushes Krin towards the group. and atempts to flee.


Seraphene and Bailor leave with the children

Kaj points his spear at the goblin.  "Krin, do you really want to do that?  You can see your friend wants you to die but we don't.  So think hard about your next move."

Joy kept one eye on both Krin and Brin so that she wouldn't be caught off-guard by a potential attack, but made no move to harm either one. She figured the others were perfectly capable. Instead she focused her efforts on the map she had found among the bodies. "Judging by this, it looks like they came from somewhere called Earkorti, down the Wassende South River. Milsnor Ford is circled. Anyone know anything about Earkorti?" She looked meaningfully at Krin. The goblin who had just been told to think hard about his next move.

HP: 14/16, XP: 4/4
-1 to casting
Prepared spells: Light, Unseen Servant, Magic Missile

"Earkorti?" Phirosalle produces one of his thick, important volumes out of his backpack and starts flipping through it. "Hang on... I'm sure I saw something about it here somewhere..."

Attempting to Spout Lore, spending 1 use of my Bag of Books for +1.

09:37, Today: Phirosalle rolled 7 using 2d6+3.  Spout lore.

Coraxa will chase down the goblin running away. "Wait friend. 06:48, Today: Coraxa rolled 3 using 2d6.  Defydanger dex. Trying to chase the goblin down before he brings reinforcements

Coraxas atempt at catching the goblin before he runs down the stairs fails.

Phirosalle finds in his books. "Earkorti, the twin city of Vaxandi, sits at the north tip of the Cresant Lake.it is an ancient city filled mostly with Dawarfen folk. Vaxandi is mostly Elven kind. but both are harmonious. the city of Vaxandi houses the great library. Earkorti houses a great mine of Mythril. "

Booker looked at Bricklin. "Any thoughts? We may want to stay with these folk. I don't much relish the idea of just us two wandering in a war zone." He pointed out.