The first Goblin dies instantly as the rapier slips cleanly through its brainstem and out the front of its neck. It's dead before it knows the fight has started and simply slumps forward, landing on its face in the dirt and crushing the centipede in the process. The offhand weapon lunges out, sticking into the side of the third goblin's head in the instant before the ghost engulfs it, and then it too is face down next to its friend.
The second goblin, sitting across from Shavaris, looks stupefied as the woman materializes across from him. His eyes shoot wide open in surprise.
OOC:
Initiative Rolled
Post Order-
Aoe Ralik Two Knives Johnathan Krembleback Goblin B Shavaris Kerwyn
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Aoe watches as The throat of one of the goblins suddenly splits open gushing blood, and then an appearing out of the shadow shavaris kills another.
Acting quickly to silence the third, he puts his arm over the illusion rubble in front of him and hurls a firebolt at the back of his head, distracted by his sudden fear of shavaris in the moment.
Attack: 23 Damage: 6
Aoe hopes the group can clean up the cave quickly, in order to best utilize the bardic inspirations he has gifted his Allies, wilhile also surprised by the deadly nature of the band members he is traveling with based on shavaris’ first showing.
He ducks back down behind the rubble and hopes the others act quickly x
The sound of the fire bolt sets Ralik into motion. He darts out of his concealment and into the cave. Shavaris had two down and one stunned. He closes the distance with both swords on his right side. He slides past slashing as he goes. One sword high and one low.
He ends his attack on the far side of his opponent with a look over his shoulder to observe his opponent, and then foward, ready for more that may come.
Johnathan sees the commotion through his familiar’s sense and decides to drop the connection. With his sense returning to him he will start moving towards the entrance of the cave. Since he is 60 feet away (judging from map) he will spend his action and movement to get to the entrance of the cave. He will then look to the others in his party and will get an understanding of what is going on.
Before continuing down the cave, Shavaris uses one of her rapiers to pull back the flap of the tent to take a peak to make sure there isn't any goblins asleep in it.
The second goblin only has time to look confused and sad as he is set on fire and cut down in less than the blink of an eye. He crumples before Shavaris as Ralik moves past him.
Pulling back the flap of the tent reveals nothing. There are piles of hides and furs inside for beds, a few small stacks of coins, some liquor bottles, and some sort of black liquid in a glass bottle that looks pretty gross.
The band can see down some of the corridors leading from this front cavern. There are tents in other caverns as well that are indicative of there being more than three goblins in the cave, as well as sounds coming from deeper inside the cavern. The two rooms lateral to the front room the party is in appear to have some sort of holes in the floor.
OOC: Combat is over for the moment. You may return to posting as usual.
Aoe steps out a little from his hiding place, listening carefully (per 21) down the three halls for noise. The right hall seems silent in comparison, but the racket from straight ahead catches his ears harshest. He messages shavaris,
“hope you are still ready, remember your inspiration, but the tunnel ahead sounds like where the party is…”
Aoe is amazed by Ralik’s speed, seeming to get to the goblin almost at the same moment as his fire bolt. His belief their ability to guard the dawn brightened by the sight, he finds the best spot to assault the group while not being left vulnerable to the left tunnel…
seeing shavaris come out of the 3rd tent, he tickles his bandore and bumps shavaris with his shoulder and raises his eyebrows at her, as she goes invisibility once again.
Aoe then casts minor illusion again to hide himself just before shavaris slinks off again. (Will update map in discord)
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Shavaris stands in wonderment as for the second time in less than a minute she goes invisible. And the way they took care of the other goblin in a blink of an eye - she could get used to this. Maybe being part of a team wasn't so bad. This might, just might help with the hole she has after her sister. Damn it, she thinks, focus. Not the time to be thinking about this.
She nods at Aoe in reference to going down the tunnel ahead of her, then chuckles as she realizes he can't see her. She whispers back, "Looks like there is somewhat of a gate there with a doorway in the middle. I'll start, wait a sec, then quietly follow me to that point. I'll continue on."
She starts heading her way down, wondering if this is where they will find the bugbear.
Ralik wipes off his blades on the goblin then rises to the ceiling, with his back to it and casts Minor Illusion to create a dark shadow that he cloaks himself with. He does his best to judge Shavaris position as he creeps along the ceiling slowly. She couldn't be seen but he does his best to move at a slow pace to leave her a lead. He hoped she caught on to his intent as an additional ambush asset if the need arises. Saving his strike until she attacked or gave a signal. His actions and movements were sharp, methodical, and confident. This group was sizing up well, and he intended to keep the momentum going. The dangers in the cave had to be dealt with swiftly before any alert and before they could fully free any of the captives.
"Check for traps" Ralik suggests to the invisible Shavaris with a whisper. It wasn't his first rodeo. He knew Goblin and kabold alike loved to leave traps. Ralik did his best to look for any triggers, trips, or plates from his perspective, wondering who was actually leading these goblins.
Rolls & Resources
Rolls: Stealth Check: 22/16* (possible advantage from Minor Illusion) Perception Check to find possible traps: (14)
*Rolls posted in order of the roll. rolls are made in #dice-rolls Channel on Discord (I don't like using the one on here because it re-rolls when I make edits.)
Kerwyn has a surprised look on his face. Damn, I didn’t have to lift a finger! It looks like my companions are quite capable…. He takes a step backwards and looks out of the front of the cave and checks on Old Ironsides, near the entrance. He steps up and pats his shell, saying out loud “You stay here and guard the entrance ole boy. If any monsters come running out, you whack em, ok? That’s my good boy…”. He gives him a good scratch around the eyestalk like he likes it.
Kerwyn turns to head back inside the cave, thinking to himself I’m talking to a damn snail. I must be loosing it. He heads over to Aoe and kneels down beside him, light coming from the tip of his great sword in his left hand, his right hand on his glaive in its holder at his waist. Quietly, “Pssst. What do you think lies ahead? Is Shavaris still scouting? I lost her…”
Johnathan runs in expecting a fight only to see all the goblins dead in front of him. He watches as they quickly bleed out all on the floor. The colour green was a bit concerning but he has seen this before. Great, even goblins look tasty at this point. He takes a swig from his flask and continues to explore the cave. He notes that the two soldiers are still alive and sees everyone gathering to the middle tunnel. Johnathan considers using echo to scout ahead, but decides it’s more important to have his sensors with him when they breach the next tunnel. He instead asks echo to stay at the entrance of the middle tunnel on the ceiling and to fly back to him if they are being flanked. While Johnathan gathers at the entrance quietly, making sure to give Shavaris enough space to scout ahead, he looks at the tracks on the ground and the number of tents around. While he was outside he struggled to get a proper look at the ground, but in the dark he sees remarkable well. Johnathan hopes to gather an estimation of the number of goblins in this cave.
Stealth check: 23
Survival check (to estimate goblin numbers. If investigation minus 4 to result): 5
“A meeting, a meal, or a dance of… I couldn’t possibly imagine,” Aoe pops out his head from his illusion and winks at Kerwyn playfully before bobbing his head back under the outer edge.
Seeing Ralik spider about among the stalactites as well, he sends a message so that he need not move from his illusion as he adds to kerwyn:
“shavaris and Ralik are down this central hall where most of the noise is coming from , but beware of reinforcements from the left side cavern too.”
There is definitely a bugbear, from what Shavaris can see. Something big and hairy moves around in the edge of her line of sight as she glances through the door in the gate and looks to the left. In front of the Bugbear, who is apparently the leader of the creatures in this cave, is a group of five goblins who looked like they were completely enraptured by whatever the bugbear was saying. It seemed important by the animated way that he was moving and the way he was speaking, though she didn't understand what he was saying because it was in goblin. The others before him seemed very excited, like some good news has come to them. The whole spectacle comes into Ralik's view as he maneuvers along the ceiling behind Shavaris.
Neither of them are seen.
Johnathan has a hard time determining how many goblins are in the cave system from sound alone.
As Kerwyn, Johnathan, and Aoe crouched on the right side of the tent, there came a squeal in the cave behind them, near where the bodies of the first three goblins were. Another goblin had approached from the corridor on the left and found them and was beginning to make a ruckus...
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Shavaris waits till her party get in place and then looks at her adversaries, sizing them up and figuring it would probably be best to take out the bugbear first if possible. She does wonder to herself, what kind of story the creature was telling, but as she does she hears the rukus going on behind her. Well,she thinks, better get going if we're going to do this
She heads to the bugbear and strikes with advantage at his chest with her main rapier, Attack: 25 Damage: 12 + sneak attack 9
Then using her offhand rapier, she stabs for the neck, Attack: 17 Damage: 4
She calls her ghost again, and as she materializes, the ghost appears and engulfs the closest goblin, 4 necrotic damage
Shavaris failed to notice the other four goblins to the left of her field of vision when she attacked, and is suddenly in a room with nine goblins and a Bugbear. One rapier jams into its neck, and the other into its chest. Blood gushes over her hands, and the Bugbear stumbles back, very, very unhappy with her. Goblins yelp and holler, screaming and upset and drawing weapons as she appears in front of them after failing to kill what is obviously their leader.
The ghost reappears and dances across the nearest goblin, who coughs and sputters and backs away from her, swinging its dagger ineffectually. Both the Bugbear and the Goblin that'd encountered her ghost don't look good.
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OOC: Goblin rolled a 1. Shavaris gets a free DODGE Action.
[[Assuming Ralik gets to also act when he sees Shavaris appear and attack. If not then I will strike this out.]]
Ralik quickly descends with a sword to his chest, speaking a chant that ends in himself becoming enveloped in an orb of magical Darknessoriginating from his left sword. He darts to Shavaris and orients her to where they came from, giving her a straight shot out of the blinding Darkness if she runs forward "Trust me. Run forward, gather the others. We need the bugbear alive." he tells her before facing the group of goblins and bugbear in the Darkness that he assumed only he could see through.
Shavaris is so confused as her world goes pitch dark. She almost panics but when Ralik takes hold of her and tells her which way to go, it helps. A bit. "Why would we not take out the leader?!" she asks back in exasperation. She'll listen to him, this time anyways. Thinking that the goblin she attacked with her ghost is still next to her, she reaches out blindly with her rapiers to attack him
Attack: 13 Damage: 13
Attack: 15 Damage: 11
(If the goblin went down with the first attack, she'd try for another with the second - trying to remember where they were)
Then listens to Ralik and heads towards the others.
Shavaris's blind swing with her offhand weapon connects with a goblin. It screams in the dark.
The Bugbear, wounded but not dead, draws its morning star and swings wide. Ralik feels the wind off of it go by his face as it barely misses him. The Bugbear turns and gropes toward the far end of the room, bumbling into the blinded procession of goblins as it goes.
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Johnathan hears the goblin making a ruckus in the previous cave and decides it’s better to take him out before he alerts other goblins. He turns around and taps into his dark powers. He summons the black flames again, only this time it covers his arm. He raises his arm towards the goblin and shoots it with and eldrich blast. To hit: 18: Damage: 8.
If he kills it he will start heading towards the other cave. If he doesn’t he will stay in position and try again.
The black flames slam into the goblin that is investigating the bodies of its fallen friends. It leans back, prepared to scream a warning, call for help, whatever it is doing, and then the Eldritch Blast catches it directly in the face. It flops dead amongst the others.
The fight in the center of the darkness is quickly devolving into a disaster. Goblins are running, swinging wildly, and trying to fight and escape simultaneously. There is the sound of a crossbow being fired. Shavaris feels a breeze on her face. There is another twang of a bow string and something skitters between her feet.
The first Goblin dies instantly as the rapier slips cleanly through its brainstem and out the front of its neck. It's dead before it knows the fight has started and simply slumps forward, landing on its face in the dirt and crushing the centipede in the process. The offhand weapon lunges out, sticking into the side of the third goblin's head in the instant before the ghost engulfs it, and then it too is face down next to its friend.
The second goblin, sitting across from Shavaris, looks stupefied as the woman materializes across from him. His eyes shoot wide open in surprise.
OOC:
Initiative Rolled
Post Order-
Aoe
Ralik Two Knives
Johnathan Krembleback
Goblin B
Shavaris
Kerwyn
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Aoe watches as The throat of one of the goblins suddenly splits open gushing blood, and then an appearing out of the shadow shavaris kills another.
Acting quickly to silence the third, he puts his arm over the illusion rubble in front of him and hurls a firebolt at the back of his head, distracted by his sudden fear of shavaris in the moment.
Attack: 23 Damage: 6
Aoe hopes the group can clean up the cave quickly, in order to best utilize the bardic inspirations he has gifted his Allies, wilhile also surprised by the deadly nature of the band members he is traveling with based on shavaris’ first showing.
He ducks back down behind the rubble and hopes the others act quickly x
The sound of the fire bolt sets Ralik into motion. He darts out of his concealment and into the cave. Shavaris had two down and one stunned. He closes the distance with both swords on his right side. He slides past slashing as he goes. One sword high and one low.
Action : Attack: 17 Damage: 11
Bonus Action: Attack: 25 Damage: 13
He ends his attack on the far side of his opponent with a look over his shoulder to observe his opponent, and then foward, ready for more that may come.
"Again, to the next group"
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Johnathan sees the commotion through his familiar’s sense and decides to drop the connection. With his sense returning to him he will start moving towards the entrance of the cave. Since he is 60 feet away (judging from map) he will spend his action and movement to get to the entrance of the cave. He will then look to the others in his party and will get an understanding of what is going on.
Before continuing down the cave, Shavaris uses one of her rapiers to pull back the flap of the tent to take a peak to make sure there isn't any goblins asleep in it.
The second goblin only has time to look confused and sad as he is set on fire and cut down in less than the blink of an eye. He crumples before Shavaris as Ralik moves past him.
Pulling back the flap of the tent reveals nothing. There are piles of hides and furs inside for beds, a few small stacks of coins, some liquor bottles, and some sort of black liquid in a glass bottle that looks pretty gross.
The band can see down some of the corridors leading from this front cavern. There are tents in other caverns as well that are indicative of there being more than three goblins in the cave, as well as sounds coming from deeper inside the cavern. The two rooms lateral to the front room the party is in appear to have some sort of holes in the floor.
OOC: Combat is over for the moment. You may return to posting as usual.
Total coins inside the tent: 15 GP
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Aoe steps out a little from his hiding place, listening carefully (per 21) down the three halls for noise. The right hall seems silent in comparison, but the racket from straight ahead catches his ears harshest. He messages shavaris,
“hope you are still ready, remember your inspiration, but the tunnel ahead sounds like where the party is…”
Aoe is amazed by Ralik’s speed, seeming to get to the goblin almost at the same moment as his fire bolt. His belief their ability to guard the dawn brightened by the sight, he finds the best spot to assault the group while not being left vulnerable to the left tunnel…
seeing shavaris come out of the 3rd tent, he tickles his bandore and bumps shavaris with his shoulder and raises his eyebrows at her, as she goes invisibility once again.
Aoe then casts minor illusion again to hide himself just before shavaris slinks off again. (Will update map in discord)
Shavaris stands in wonderment as for the second time in less than a minute she goes invisible. And the way they took care of the other goblin in a blink of an eye - she could get used to this. Maybe being part of a team wasn't so bad. This might, just might help with the hole she has after her sister. Damn it, she thinks, focus. Not the time to be thinking about this.
She nods at Aoe in reference to going down the tunnel ahead of her, then chuckles as she realizes he can't see her. She whispers back, "Looks like there is somewhat of a gate there with a doorway in the middle. I'll start, wait a sec, then quietly follow me to that point. I'll continue on."
She starts heading her way down, wondering if this is where they will find the bugbear.
Stealth 28
Ralik wipes off his blades on the goblin then rises to the ceiling, with his back to it and casts Minor Illusion to create a dark shadow that he cloaks himself with. He does his best to judge Shavaris position as he creeps along the ceiling slowly. She couldn't be seen but he does his best to move at a slow pace to leave her a lead. He hoped she caught on to his intent as an additional ambush asset if the need arises. Saving his strike until she attacked or gave a signal. His actions and movements were sharp, methodical, and confident. This group was sizing up well, and he intended to keep the momentum going. The dangers in the cave had to be dealt with swiftly before any alert and before they could fully free any of the captives.
"Check for traps" Ralik suggests to the invisible Shavaris with a whisper. It wasn't his first rodeo. He knew Goblin and kabold alike loved to leave traps. Ralik did his best to look for any triggers, trips, or plates from his perspective, wondering who was actually leading these goblins.
Rolls & Resources
Rolls:
Stealth Check: 22/16* (possible advantage from Minor Illusion)
Perception Check to find possible traps: (14)
Resources:
Winged Boots - 1/240 minutes
*Rolls posted in order of the roll.
rolls are made in #dice-rolls Channel on Discord
(I don't like using the one on here because it re-rolls when I make edits.)
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Lover of lore and magic.
-The White Crow-
Kerwyn has a surprised look on his face. Damn, I didn’t have to lift a finger! It looks like my companions are quite capable…. He takes a step backwards and looks out of the front of the cave and checks on Old Ironsides, near the entrance. He steps up and pats his shell, saying out loud “You stay here and guard the entrance ole boy. If any monsters come running out, you whack em, ok? That’s my good boy…”. He gives him a good scratch around the eyestalk like he likes it.
Kerwyn turns to head back inside the cave, thinking to himself I’m talking to a damn snail. I must be loosing it. He heads over to Aoe and kneels down beside him, light coming from the tip of his great sword in his left hand, his right hand on his glaive in its holder at his waist. Quietly, “Pssst. What do you think lies ahead? Is Shavaris still scouting? I lost her…”
Johnathan runs in expecting a fight only to see all the goblins dead in front of him. He watches as they quickly bleed out all on the floor. The colour green was a bit concerning but he has seen this before. Great, even goblins look tasty at this point. He takes a swig from his flask and continues to explore the cave. He notes that the two soldiers are still alive and sees everyone gathering to the middle tunnel. Johnathan considers using echo to scout ahead, but decides it’s more important to have his sensors with him when they breach the next tunnel. He instead asks echo to stay at the entrance of the middle tunnel on the ceiling and to fly back to him if they are being flanked. While Johnathan gathers at the entrance quietly, making sure to give Shavaris enough space to scout ahead, he looks at the tracks on the ground and the number of tents around. While he was outside he struggled to get a proper look at the ground, but in the dark he sees remarkable well. Johnathan hopes to gather an estimation of the number of goblins in this cave.
Stealth check: 23
Survival check (to estimate goblin numbers. If investigation minus 4 to result): 5
“A meeting, a meal, or a dance of… I couldn’t possibly imagine,” Aoe pops out his head from his illusion and winks at Kerwyn playfully before bobbing his head back under the outer edge.
Seeing Ralik spider about among the stalactites as well, he sends a message so that he need not move from his illusion as he adds to kerwyn:
“shavaris and Ralik are down this central hall where most of the noise is coming from , but beware of reinforcements from the left side cavern too.”
There is definitely a bugbear, from what Shavaris can see. Something big and hairy moves around in the edge of her line of sight as she glances through the door in the gate and looks to the left. In front of the Bugbear, who is apparently the leader of the creatures in this cave, is a group of five goblins who looked like they were completely enraptured by whatever the bugbear was saying. It seemed important by the animated way that he was moving and the way he was speaking, though she didn't understand what he was saying because it was in goblin. The others before him seemed very excited, like some good news has come to them. The whole spectacle comes into Ralik's view as he maneuvers along the ceiling behind Shavaris.
Neither of them are seen.
Johnathan has a hard time determining how many goblins are in the cave system from sound alone.
As Kerwyn, Johnathan, and Aoe crouched on the right side of the tent, there came a squeal in the cave behind them, near where the bodies of the first three goblins were. Another goblin had approached from the corridor on the left and found them and was beginning to make a ruckus...
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Shavaris waits till her party get in place and then looks at her adversaries, sizing them up and figuring it would probably be best to take out the bugbear first if possible. She does wonder to herself, what kind of story the creature was telling, but as she does she hears the rukus going on behind her. Well, she thinks, better get going if we're going to do this
She heads to the bugbear and strikes with advantage at his chest with her main rapier, Attack: 25 Damage: 12 + sneak attack 9
Then using her offhand rapier, she stabs for the neck, Attack: 17 Damage: 4
She calls her ghost again, and as she materializes, the ghost appears and engulfs the closest goblin, 4 necrotic damage
Chaos.
Shavaris failed to notice the other four goblins to the left of her field of vision when she attacked, and is suddenly in a room with nine goblins and a Bugbear. One rapier jams into its neck, and the other into its chest. Blood gushes over her hands, and the Bugbear stumbles back, very, very unhappy with her. Goblins yelp and holler, screaming and upset and drawing weapons as she appears in front of them after failing to kill what is obviously their leader.
The ghost reappears and dances across the nearest goblin, who coughs and sputters and backs away from her, swinging its dagger ineffectually. Both the Bugbear and the Goblin that'd encountered her ghost don't look good.
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OOC: Goblin rolled a 1. Shavaris gets a free DODGE Action.
Post Order-
Goblin #5
Shavaris
Bugbear
Johnathan
Goblin #3
Goblin #4
Goblin #6
Goblin #2
Goblin #1
Ralik
Aoe
Goblin #8
Goblin #7
Kerwyn
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[[Assuming Ralik gets to also act when he sees Shavaris appear and attack. If not then I will strike this out.]]
Ralik quickly descends with a sword to his chest, speaking a chant that ends in himself becoming enveloped in an orb of magical Darkness originating from his left sword. He darts to Shavaris and orients her to where they came from, giving her a straight shot out of the blinding Darkness if she runs forward "Trust me. Run forward, gather the others. We need the bugbear alive." he tells her before facing the group of goblins and bugbear in the Darkness that he assumed only he could see through.
Rolls & Resources
Resources:
Spell Slots - 1/2 ( Casting Darkness on his physical longsword )
Winged Boots - 2/240 minutes
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Shavaris is so confused as her world goes pitch dark. She almost panics but when Ralik takes hold of her and tells her which way to go, it helps. A bit. "Why would we not take out the leader?!" she asks back in exasperation. She'll listen to him, this time anyways. Thinking that the goblin she attacked with her ghost is still next to her, she reaches out blindly with her rapiers to attack him
Attack: 13 Damage: 13
Attack: 15 Damage: 11
(If the goblin went down with the first attack, she'd try for another with the second - trying to remember where they were)
Then listens to Ralik and heads towards the others.
Shavaris's blind swing with her offhand weapon connects with a goblin. It screams in the dark.
The Bugbear, wounded but not dead, draws its morning star and swings wide. Ralik feels the wind off of it go by his face as it barely misses him. The Bugbear turns and gropes toward the far end of the room, bumbling into the blinded procession of goblins as it goes.
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Bugbear rolls with Disadvantage and misses Ralik
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Johnathan hears the goblin making a ruckus in the previous cave and decides it’s better to take him out before he alerts other goblins. He turns around and taps into his dark powers. He summons the black flames again, only this time it covers his arm. He raises his arm towards the goblin and shoots it with and eldrich blast.
To hit: 18: Damage: 8.
If he kills it he will start heading towards the other cave. If he doesn’t he will stay in position and try again.
The black flames slam into the goblin that is investigating the bodies of its fallen friends. It leans back, prepared to scream a warning, call for help, whatever it is doing, and then the Eldritch Blast catches it directly in the face. It flops dead amongst the others.
The fight in the center of the darkness is quickly devolving into a disaster. Goblins are running, swinging wildly, and trying to fight and escape simultaneously. There is the sound of a crossbow being fired. Shavaris feels a breeze on her face. There is another twang of a bow string and something skitters between her feet.
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OOC:
Updated posting order-
Shavaris
Bugbear
Johnathan
Goblin #3
Goblin #6
Goblin #2
Goblin #1
Ralik
Aoe
Goblin #8
Goblin #7
Kerwyn
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