Shavaris looks around at all the different creatures gathered in the space in wonder.  Was Jareth actually able to lead all that have gathered?  He possibly had more to him than she had given him credit for.  As they get closer and Jareth announces them, she wonders if that is a good thing.  She looks over to the goblins and back to Travin, could one of them be his brother?  How would they ever find out?  

She sees Hoggle and slowly walks over to him.  "Do you mind if I sit next to you?"  if he doesn't protest, she sit next him, but if he does she'll remain standing exhausted as she was.  Still addressing Hoggle, "I am sorry for all that we put you through, I really am."  she sighs, then looks up to Jareth. "Well I am glad you have confidence in us, any way you could get your crystal ball back from him?  Or let us know how to stop him from teleporting away?  I think its going to be quite a fight against that one, and we need any help you can give us."

"An invitation is being extended, but they don't seem to be willing to intervene in a fight that isn't their own.  Guess they didn't want the shitake kicked out of them."  Jareth said to Ward.  

Hoggle raised his eyebrows in surprise when Ward demanded a map, and then furrowed his brow in frustration.  

"No way!  I wouldn't trust you people with firecrackers, let alone a store of gunpowder!  And if it exists, it exists somewhere that Hoggle doesn't know about!  And you're damn right I won't be traveling with you again!"  

"Oh they have it."  Jareth says about the gunpowder, ignoring Hoggle's outburst.  "But it's inside the Goblin City.  I know, I know, surprising, right?  Well.  You'll have to sneak in to get to it.  So good luck with that.  As for the death trap, dear Dhampir, I didn't send you.  I only afforded the opportunity, and you took it."  

Hoggle looks warily at Shavaris as she asks if she can sit next to him, then nods his head to the side, indicating for her to sit.  He nods when she apologizes, then looks away, too hurt or prideful or spiteful or something to acknowledge her attempt at the moment.  

"Well, now there's a question."  Jareth says, shifting his attention to Shavaris.  "And a good one.  My honest answer is....I don't know."  

Jareth opens his hands in an 'I don't know gesture' to match his words.  

"When he stormed the castle he nearly killed me.  I dropped one of my Crystal Balls as I fought to survive and escape.  Then he picked it up.  That hasn't happened to me before, and I'd never considered the consequences of having something like that fall into someone else's hands.  And now that I only have one..."

He produces the remaining ball, showing it off, letting it glide across his fingertips.  

"...it makes Blix and I equal, as far as our mastery of the Labyrinth anyway.  And he's learning the Alicorn too, and that makes him dangerous.  If I could think about it for a bit, perhaps I could come up with something...but I didn't know he'd figure the ball out so fast.  But then, that would also mean I'd have to be there for the fight." 

Jareth doesn't look enthusiastic about that concept at all.   

Ward mumbles to himself as Jareth speaks, almost mapping out a plan in the air “wizard of oz…” is the last thing heard before Ward face lights up (literally) and he cuts in. “Jareth you know where there is gunpowder then. Would you be able to teleport me around a bit, similar to how Blix does it. If so, I think I know how to make his ego, and thirst for that crystal ball of yours be his downfall.” Ward says, standing up straighter as he waits for Jareths response.

"I sliced that punk up, but good."  Kerwyn says, interjecting with Jareth.  "Any way you could ah, stop him from becoming invisible and jumpin all about?  I had the drop on him, and then he dropped me, it seems.  Frickin pansy.  Didn't want to stay and fight."  Kerwyn muses, stroking his chin and his burned off chest hairs.  "Right after I got pumped up with a righteous tune as well.  Get me within 30 feet of the creep and I'll tackle the little bastard next time." 

Kerwyn watches Jareth twirl his crystal ball, thinking about whether he saw it on Blix.  

Now that Travin has led Gorky to the festivities he looks around for Gavin a little, even asking Gorky if he knows a goblin named Gavin.

When Jareth finishes prattling on, Travin lifts up his head and addresses the former king loudly. "Yeh yeh yeh, Travin hears your pretty wordses but no real answers eh? Hmmmm? Is there a plan the Dawn Guard should knows about or not? Yeh yeh! Is the Jareth as directionless as it would seems? Perhaps the Jareth really is dead and this is the Blix in disguise planning to stops us at every turn, hmmm?" The rasp of Travin's accusations and ponderments cut through the crowd a little too much as he goes back to looking around and into the faces of each goblin he can find... "Gavin?.."

Your gonna join the fight? This should be good. I have an idea Jareth. If Blix were to see you would it not try and attack you? If you are both equals here it makes sense that it would try and take your last orb. I might have a way to draw Blix into a fight but it won’t last long. Johnathan summons the shadows around himself and disguises as Jareth. When he speaks he sounds exactly like him. I could pretend to be you, as much as I don’t want to. I might be able to get it into a conversation as well, maybe we could try and steal the alicorn off him while it is distracted. If you surprised attacked him and stole the alicorn you would have more power than it. Johnathan reverts back to normal. Just an idea, kinda relays on how sneaky you are.

"Hoggle?  We're here to help and hopefully get Jareth back on the throne and get your life and the labyrinth back to normal, and then we'll leave this place.  And we won't come back, ok?  It really bothers me how you were treated and if there is anything I can do to make up for it, please let me know."

Listening to the others talk with Jareth, it gives Shavaris a small idea, "If I could get some rest, get rid of this exhaustion, I'm pretty damn sneaky.  Johnathan if you want to distract Blix, and turn me invisible, that might work?  I might be able to get close enough to him to get the alicorn and the crystal ball?  Figure its worth a try, unless someone else has an idea?"

She starts feeling a little hopeful with the crowd gathered and everyone actually listening so far to everyone else.

"I could, I suppose, but when do I ge..."

Jareth stops and stares at Kerwyn for a moment as the fighter has his cute little outburst about throwing his shuriken thing, and then looks back at Johnathan and makes a 'well that happened' face. 

"...t to know what you're plan-ning."

Travin's backlash seems to rub the Goblin King the wrong way, which seems unusual.  He's been weirdly upbeat during most of their talks, but this suddenly takes him down some angry and dark path.  

"What?  Do you think you are somehow entitled, Travin?  That any of you are somehow entitled?  Would you lot rather, instead, that I just send you back to the beginning of the Labyrinth?  It'd be this easy!" 

Jareth pulls the crystal ball back up to his fingertips and worms it back and forth for a second and snaps his fingers...and suddenly the Dawn Guard, for a brief moment, can all see the world wiggle, wobble, and flux as they disappear from the enchanted woods to the strange de facto camp outside the gates of the Labyrinth where they had first met Jareth just days ago.  The world begins to take shape...

And then they're back in the enchanted forest with Hoggle, Jareth, Sarah and company.  

"How about instead of coming whining to me about what your feeble little minds can't comprehend you instead adjust your edgelord attitudes and get through this, hm?  You want out of the Labyrinth so bad but you make it impossible to work with you?  What's it going to be then, Dawn Guard?"

He leans close, looks into Johnathan's eyes, grins.  

"Ah, see, there's an almost constructive idea!  But let's not forget...he almost killed me last time he caught me out.  I know what I'm capable of, and what I am not.  I either take this lot to confront him..."

He points to Hoggle, Didymus, Ludo, and Sarah.

"...or I take you misfits.  You might be on to something, Dhampir, with luring him out with my likeness though.  Well?  Everyone clap!"  

The Goblins clap.  The Fireys clap.  Even some of the Lupines, Horned Beasts, and Dwarves clapped.  

He then points at Shavaris. 

"There, see?  See where we can get when we're not edgelording ourselves?  And to think I was ready to leave you at the beginning of the Labyrinth."  

Hoggle turned his back to Shavaris as she tried to reason with him, and instead watched Jareth give them grief, which, for Hoggle, was probably the first time it had happened to someone other than him.  His eyes float up to Sarah and he looks almost ashamed for a moment.  

Gorky spends some time with Travin looking for Gavin, but they aren't successful.  There are only a handful of Goblins assembled for the battle and it seems that these are acting in the fashion of double agents, meant to get into the Goblin City for some clandestined activity...and everyone waits with crossed fingers and baited breath hoping they can pull whatever these actions are off.  

Ward rolls his eyes as Jareth threatens to teleport them away again.”Jareth we both know you don’t want this place to burn. We don’t have to like each other much to be on the same side. But, following with what Johnathan said, I think we can expand on it a bit more. Blix got that fifth crystal ball after you dropped it yes? Why don’t we drop it again, only this time, that “crystal ball” was a large amount explosive, and you or Johnathan disguise it then as the crystal ball. Then Jareth, you teleport me away whilst I drop the crystal ball. He will go after it, then, as he holds it up in victory he will be showered in poisonous shrapnel and napalm. If that doesn’t finish the job, you can teleport me on top of him with the rest of the explosives strapped to me chest, and I will finish the job.” Ward says looking at Jareth then Hoggle. “This mission will be finished, one way or another. Blix will not leave this place alive. Jareth as well, do you happen to have a potion of fire resistance, the rest of the Dawn Guard are a bit hesitant about the explosives and would rather me have some protections against it.” Ward says, first hoping that Hoggle realizes that Ward does truly want to do anything to help them out, and then asking Jareth about the potion.

"entitled? Hmmm? The Jareth thinks the Dawn guard is entitled huh?... All we have dones is try to get to the Blix, and the Jareth has only been unhelpful, yeh yeh! Like always, forever gloating hmmm? Telling of skewed veiws and manipulation. But nots helping, nots in any way that matters..."

Travin now addresses the congregation, "we haves fought our way, many of us, hmmm? toward the castle beyond the goblin city, through dangers and hardships, both untold and unnumbered, to free ourselves? To free our brethren? to take back those that have been stolen from us! Yeh yeh yeh! in his time as king, it's was better than now yes, but we knows, that the lesser of two evils is still a smug, self satisfied, delusional cockend!"

He turns back to the 'offended' Jareth.

"So go ahead hmmmm?, threaten the Dawn Guard's all you like, but you cannot threatens Travin in any way that truly matters, because Travin's will is as strong as the Jareth and Travin's shinies are as great. Hmmm?

Jareth has no power over Travin!"

There is a realisation that spreads itself slowly over Travin's face, and he relaxes slightly, happy to have gotten some metaphorical weight off of his shoulders whilst attempting to give the congregation a pep talk in the meantime. 

Johnathan slaps his forehead when Travis starts insulting Jareth. This wasn’t helping. Travin I know you have some opinions of Jareth but please don’t taunt him. We need all the help we can get. You saw what happened when we went it alone. Blix is too strong. Can you work with him until we end Blix’s reign, after that you can do what you want. He was surprised to see that Jareth could’ve teleported the group this whole time but decided not to raise it. The Goblins clapping didn’t make an impact to Johnathan what so ever. As for the illusion Ward I can control a 20 foot cube so we could fit a lot of explosions in an area, but if it touches it then it’s over. Well how about this. I like the plan to blow him up, no way we are gonna let it survive to strike some other day. This will take some setting up but it may work. I pretend to be Jareth and draw it out. I’ll get it to talk, while I do so we have a sneak team stand by. He gives a nod to Shavaris. Then while it is distracted we have someone pick the alicorn off it. If we get it then we teleport away. If we don’t manage to get the alicorn then we pretend to run away, maybe teleport if Jareth can manage it and I’ll drop an illusionary orb where Ward will have placed a bomb. Once Blix sees the orb he will approach and then we set it off. Then we can teleport to his location again and finish it off, however we deem fit. He gives a quick look to Ward, then looks to the army of races nearby. While this is going on we can have an army attack the castle. While Blix is distracted the castle will be vulnerable. The army will attack the things that are loyal to Blix and reclaim the throne for Jareth. If we fail to kill Blix it will most likely teleport to the throne so if we can have a fighting force there we can finish it off while Blix is weak. What does everyone think of that?

The fairy has been unnaturally quiet as the conversation evolved.  They wanted to let their friends learn how to behave properly around people you don't like.  IT was better then before but... they still had a long way to go in Delphinium's opinion.  The tiny fairy having been sitting on Jerath's shoulder the entire time watching their friends try to come to an understanding.  They smile as Shavaris apologizes and Johnathan puts aside his dislike for Jerath to work with him.  Travin seems to still want to argue and not work together which surprises Delph as they have the most invested in saving the city.  When Johnathan says something similar to what Delph wanted to they smile and say "Oh!  Johnathan, that was very fey like thing to say!  I love you're learning more everyday!  I like parts of your plan.  Lure him out and with Jerath's help we get the alicorn and maybe the orb too.  Do we really need to start a war though?  Hmmm... I bet the others can just lure the goblins away but not fight them while we sneak in with help,  Then we lure Blix out just like you suggested.  I do have a question though... umm... what happened to the fairies here?  I feel like a lot of flying fairies keeping a sky view from above could help with keeping track of the goblins and then our people could just focus on taunting and avoiding the goblins so a real battle never happens and buys us plenty of time to get into the castle and stop Blix.  I bet he's expecting a fight too!  Imagine his face when we threaten one but don't deliver!  I bet he gets really flustered, I know I would!  Like when he teleported away!  So annoying!"

The fairy then flutters up and looks over all the people gathered here.  There are a lot of faces they don't know but they like the labyrinth and the denizens of the place.  The fairy thinks of all the crazy weapons the goblins have that go boom and bang and they just don't see this ending well without some help for them.  They know that Hoggle was part of an anti-fairy force and wonders very deeply what happened between the denizens of the labyrinth and other fey creatures.  Either way, they nod to all the people gathered then flutters back down to the main speakers and says "I want to be able to return someday.  Show my sister around and have some fun!  I don't want this place to get all blown up or a lot of people to get killed in a bloody battle.  This place is supposed to be fun right?  Well, whatever we all decide I'm sure we can beat Blix as long as we work together."

Jareth tries to listen to everything that is happening around him.  Ward trying to reason.  Travin being indignant.  Johnathan not being Johnathan.  Delphinium bummed out.  He listens to all of this and his facial expression crawls closer and closer to what appeared to be a broken edge.  

"And this one is the voice of reason..."  Jareth says, motioning to Johnathan with one hand.  "You know, you're all very interesting.  More interesting, in fact, than I would have ever previously given you credit for."  

Jareth starts to say something else.  He looks around, looks at the dozens of eyes turned toward him as he addresses the Dawn Guard...and he has restraint.  He stops himself from whatever he is about to say.  He looks at Delphinium, starts to speak...then ignores the Fairy's good will entirely.  

"Yes, Travin.  It's me."  He says, calmly.  "You know how I act.  You know how I walk and talk, and all the bells and whistles.  Did the junk fields rot your mind so much you can't tell it's me from one moment to the next?  You can try your mantra all you want, my soot blackened little friend, but beneath all that junk you're just the cold hearted child who asked me to take your brother.  I only did what you asked.  I assure you, though, you are nothing like Sarah.  Tell me, why should I help you?  Everyone who has tried to help you has had the unpleasant experience of being around the Dawn Guard!  We've all but laid the easiest routes through the Labyrinth in your laps and have been spurned over and over again!  I am a King!  ...and yes, Ward, you are quite correct, this little slice of the world is all I care about...  Why would I want the Alicorn?  Why would I want anything but what I came to this plain of existence for?  You need a foe?  You need a 'bad guy'?"

He holds his hands up and makes air quotes at this.  Sir Didymus looks at Delphinium and shifts uncomfortably. 

"You have one!  Blix, in my castle, of all places!  Let us get you there, for goodness sake, so you can sweep that vermin away and get out of our lives!  Because let me assure you...we don't want you here!  And don't flatter yourselves; hate me, call me smarmy, whatever you like.  I want you out of here once you have the Alicorn.  I don't need your playtoys when I have my Labyrinth." 

There was an awkward silence as those gathered before Jareth looked around.  No one said anything to confirm what he said...but they sure didn't try to deny it either.  The people in the circle around Jareth began to whisper.  Strangers.  Interlopers.  Vampires.  Bullies.  Biting Fairy.  Unwanted.  Go away.  

Sarah looks on, her mouth open.  She looks floored by what is happening before her.  Sir Didymus and Ludo look at her uncomfortably.  Hoggle stands, dusts his lap off, and then steps away from Shavaris.  

"Well, go on then."  Jareth says, turning his attention from the Dawn Guard to the others there.  "They want to help, they don't want to help, we have our home and our lives to get back to.  Sir Didymus!  You've offered to lead the attack on the Goblin City!  What says you?" 

"My smell is keen."  Sir Didymus replies, standing.  

"Hoggle, wait..."  Sarah says meekly as she steps toward him.

Ludo's ears dip.  

Johnathan gives a slight sigh as Jareth speaks the truth. It’s true that the Dawn Guard wasn’t very popular here, and they made some mistakes. But at least they tried. Johnathan doesn’t seemed bothered by the circle of people talking badly about them. They are just doing what their king tells them to. Johnathan gives a tired look to Dawn Guard before returning to Jareth. Fair enough. We tried it our way and it didn’t work. He turns to the Dawn Guard. We have fought Jareth on everything on this labyrinth and where has it gotten us? We got lost in the labyrinth, we lost a friend to a stink monster, we barely managed to scratch Blix and that’s all in the last 24 hours. I say we go with the assault, regardless of our feelings. I just want things to get back to normal where Delphinium is positive and I am the silent loner who doesn’t have to make long speeches. I’m tired of this place, and they are clearly tired of us. Let’s just do what Jareth wants so we can leave. Johnathan has lost the will to fight about Jareth anymore. It’s just to damn tiring.

“Yeah well, no love lost here pally.  Just want to get the Alicorn and then make like a tree and leaf.  You got a weirdo little kingdom here with your weird little crystal balls.  Yeah we’ll help you get your balls back tough guy, and your little throne so that you can sit your cushy little ass on it.  Just get me next to him and this is all over with.  You really need to get some better hobbies, than playing with your little balls.  Do some good for the world or something.  Instead of kidnapping children and turning them into goblins or some shit that you twisted f%*^s do around here.”  Kerwyn meets the eyes of some random Jareth toady and says “Yeah you, I’m talking to you nutsack.  Just get me outta this crazy friggen place, sheesh!”  Kerwyn strides over and sits on Ironsides, pats one of the offspring on the head and nudges them away from her mouth.  

As Shavaris tries to make heads or tails of what is going on, she notices things are starting to move on without her.  She wills herself to stand up and face the Dawn Guard as they continue to argue and throw insults for no damn reason.

"Look.  We all have the same goal, correct?  We all want Blix out of here and the alicorn in our possession.  Why are we fighting?  Why are you all being a**holes to everyone we meet in the labyrinth?  Yes, it can suck in here, but it can also be fun and whimsical if you actually look around.  But seriously.  Enough.  Jareth is about to send Hoggle, Sir Didymus and Ludo in to meet Blix when we just had a round with him and barely made it out.  You know he is doing it because at the moment all we are showing him is the sh*tshow that we can be.  I don't want to hear another word about Jareth or how you feel about anything.  We have a job to do, and we are going to do it.  And I am not going to hear another word about it."

She turns to Jareth, "Please, we are here to do this.  We had the beginnings of a plan, please, I would like to hear your thoughts on it and how we can work together to get you back on the throne and the alicorn in our hands."

"I agree with Shavaris. With you and Johnathan running illisions to get Blix to go after the bomb we can hurt him, and a lot. With gunpowder, I can at least make two bombs with Catalobeas poison, and especially if we can reduce Blix's ability to fight the poison, could kill him with the two of those alone. Much less with the rest of the explosives I have with me." Ward says, opening his bag to show all of the firebombs and napalm. "I can disguise myself as you Jareth, which if I have any sense of Blix's feeling towards you, will be some effective bait. Then if you could teleport me, and Johnathan disguises the explosives as the crystal ball, should be enough to make him go after it. In turn, bringing him towards his own demise. Jareth, would you be willing to be just close enough to do that? Then, if he is even able to survive, the rest of us can finish him off. The sooner he dies, the fewer casualties of the Labyrinth, our people, and his. Would you all agree to that?" Ward says looking out towards the group of people before him.

"...the labyrinth is all Travin knows anymore." Travin folds his arms as he surveys the swayed mass of Labyrinth residents. "...and the junk fields rot everything within them, yeh!? but won't let death in, Jareth should know! Jareth made that place, hmmm?" He shoots a scowl at Jareth once more.

After hearing Shavaris and Jonathan's plea for some order and teamwork for once, Travin can't help accept the necessity of the need. At Ward's continued suggestion of high explosives, Travin has a thought "...doesn't the dawn guard needs information from the blix, hmmm? Needs the alicorn yeh, and the Blix dead yeh yeh, but also knowings about unicorn and the red bull? Hmmmm?"

He looks to Sir Didymus, Hoggle and Ludo as they answer Jareth's call "we will protects the labyrinth too."

“I just don’t believe this friggen place.”  Kerwyn says from atop his snail.  He hops down and walks over to Shavaris, giving a sideways glance to Jareth.  “You know what, I don’t believe in half of the crap that we’ve gone through in here.  I think this is all a huge illusion dreamed up by this ******* (points to Jareth), we are his amusement, we are his playthings.  But all of this is powered by his magic and the crystal balls out of his crystal ball nutsack and he’s missing a couple of balls (missing a few cards in his deck too if you know what I mean), so we are supposed to play along and go find them for him.  I betcha Blix isn’t how we imagine him either, he’s probably some other little kid that this guy transformed so that he can have someone to fight against.  So we’ll all strut and fret our hour on the stage, full of sound and fury, but in the end, signifying nothing.  Prove me wrong.  This ******* is damn good at illusions.  This is all fake news.  Prove me wrong, that we are not in one big ass illusion … right …now.”  

He turns his attention to Shavaris and points to the Auryn medallion she has under her shirt.  “Hey Shav, give me back my cell phone… (I had a great idea for the Auryn, it’s like a way we have for calling people and tellin em what is going on here!) I need my cell phone to call this in, that Greko guy is never gonna believe this.  He’ll probably crap his diapers when I tell him.”  Kerwyn makes a “gimme” hand gesture, pointing at the Auryn.  

 Delphinium seems a bit perturbed at being ignored.  They had a perfectly good idea.  Also, biting fairies?  Delph hasn't bitten anyone in the labyrinth at all!  Then Jerath declares that he doesn't want them here.  Delphinium droops a bit.  They wanted to return but as Jerath said, no one has been treated kindly by the dawn guard.  They are not welcome anymore... which means that Delph isn't either.  Looking back on how everyone has behaved, the fairy had to grant that most fey would of attacked them already for the numerous insults given.  Delph was definitely a failure at teaching fey ways to the dawn guard.  The tiny fairy flutters down to Sir Didymus and looks at their friend and says quietly so only they hear them, "I'm not trying to find a bad guy.  I just want to help... I guess I'm not welcomed here... I'll try to make this place better for you all before we go.  Sir Didymus, what do you and the others here want?  Not, who's bad or good or in charge just... what do you all want for the labyrinth?  you know what we want but other then that I've only been hearing what Jerath and Blix wants but... I want to know what you all want."

The fairy gets a reply from them and Delph looks to the knights all gathered and looking eager for the battle but something else is there too.  They also look at the rest of the people gathered and the fairy seems very solemn.  The fairy looks to the gathered Dawn guard and says to them "Johnathan is right.  We need to just do it.  No more fighting the polite people around here. They are not even sure who the enemy is they need to fight.  I'll clear that up in a moment.  You all need to get yourselves together though.  We got a plan.  Sneak in with help, lure Blix away from whatever forces he manages to organize in the short time he's had and take him out fast so we can end whatever fighting might start, ideally before the fighting starts.  Throw your bombs and stuff or whatever, If I knock him out though lets take him alive and let the others judge him and then we can ask whatever questions we want too.  Lets stop arguing about it and just get going."  They turn to Kerwyn and pick up a piece of the labyrinth from the ground and chuck it at them with no warning.

Attack: improvised weapon, Throw a rock at Kerwyn - 20 to hit 4 damage.

If it hits: "Problem solved, it is not an illusion!  Now shut up and help!"

If it misses: "If it's an Illusion why did you dodge?  Now shut up and help!"

Once the fairy has said their piece they look to the group gathered and flutters up high in the sky.  They are not letting this war happen the way people expect.  Looking at the faces of most gathered here the Fairy is certain most don't even want to fight.    They glow bright blue and this time instead of summoning the form of astral arms they summon something else like a mask but large and making them look like a giant talking head that glows blue.  It has Delphinium's features but more heroic in design as if trying to look as dashing and inspiring as possible with the blue form.  As they talk it's a big booming voice (Ability used Word of the Spirit to amplify their voice) that easily everyone gathered can hear "LISTEN UP!" they thunder and then give those gathered a moment to pay attention to the giant floating head.  "Most of you don't seem to want to fight.  I say, GOOD!  We need a distraction not a war!  Not a battle!  This isn't going to be decided by some big dumb war thing.  Most of you probably don't know what we are fighting for.  The goblin Blix has a thing called the Alicorn.  They want to use it to kill the last unicorn.  If they do that... no more sunlight.  No warm days, no summer breezes, no plants, no food, then there will be no life.  I don't seek bad guys.  I want to stop bad things!  We fight to stop that bad thing!  Getting the Alicorn stops that bad thing.  We need your help not to fight but to assist.  We need time to stop Blix and his insane plan to end sunlight.  You don't have to fight the goblins.  In fact, I'd prefer you didn't fight them at all but we need you to distract them.  This battle is won by surviving and buying more time for a few skilled individuals to get to and stop Blix.  You gain honor and glory not by fighting but by living and luring as many goblins away as you can!  You don't need to attack any goblins.  I'm sure many of them are kind.  We just need them distracted for a bit.  Clear the way for us, please."

Delphinium floats down more eye level with the folks gathered and can do nothing but wait and see what they want to do.