Taman locks eyes with the woman and tries to sound as assuring as he can.

"We'll get your children safe or we'll die trying my lady."

He runs towards the fire with the others and grumbles to noone in particular.

"A few cattle thieving goblins huh?!"

Heeding Dreak's advice, Taman keeps his eyes on the doors, windows, rooftops and alleys that they pass as they approach the docks.

(Perception: 11)

As the group runs towards the fire the sounds of fighting die down and when you arrive at the docks you see the guard assembled outside the warehouse you had been in just last night. It appears they are preparing to forcefully enter the warehouse, the bodies of a few guards and goblins littering the ground outside.

Alan approaches the guards outside the warehouse and waves a hand. "What's the lay?" He asks, hurrying so much he forgets to conform to the local phrasing.

a grizzled old guard turns at your words and in a gruff voice says. "You from the borderlands son? We could use some capable fighters to help us get into this warehouse. They barred the door and we fear they are setting some sort of trap."

Fargrim catches his breath for a second after they arrive. Turning to the guards, he asks, "Have they barred both the entrances?" While saying this, he gestures toward the loading door and side entrance in turn.

"Haha! No problem! I'll clear the door." Alan said confidently, stowing his crossbow at his hip and shaking out his hands. He made his way to the wall of the warehouse and began to climb, looking for hand and foot-holds as he went. 

Acrobatics: 8

Unfortunately, he was incredibly inept and couldn't make it up more than a few feet. After repeatedly slipping at a certain spot, he feigned attack and hopped down to the ground. 

"They're waiting for a climb! We have to break the door down." He said, shaking his sore fingers and trying not to make eye contact with anyone who saw him failing.

The guards indicate that the loading bay door is heavily barricaded but the smaller side entrance that you all entered before is just locked from what they can tell. 

Taman has a go at unlocking the side door.

Thieves Tools: 24

(haha)

"I think it is locked tight!"

Fargrim watches Taman head towards the side door and addresses the guards quietly, "We'll head in through the side door. Focus all your efforts on the loading bay door, and make a ruckus like all the armies of the lower planes are at the gate. Green-bellied beasts won't know what hit them when we flank them"

Fargrim rushes to join Taman. Seeing him not quite get the door lock, he says "No worries... try again. Stealth will be our friends with the guards distracting them from the front. By the way,  do you think Alan and you would be able to get up on those crates that were in there last night? Assuming that's not what they're barricading with, we might be able to use the high ground  to our advantage"

"Piece of cake. I can rain death from above." Alan said, patting the hand crossbow at his hip.

"Sounds like plan. We need to get through this bloody door first though..."

(If Taman can try again then he does: Thieves Tools: 15)

(Go for it)

(If the thieves tools don't work, Alan does the following: )

"Ha! It seems like finesse isn't the answer. Fargrim! How about we kick on the count of three? With the two of us, I'm sure we could knock it down." Alan says boisterously. 

Alan Helps Fargrim as they both kick the door in.

Fatgrim nods, and at the count of three, he puts all his strength into kicking right at the top of the nob where the lock is.

(Not sure what happened with that last die roll? Anyway here is another lockpick attempt)

18

"Stop smashing the damn thing and let me... ahh I might have it..."

The lock let out a soft *click* and the door opened to the same interior you saw before. No creatures could be seen but running footprints led away in the dust. The sounds of the pounding of the guard rings through the warehouse as they beat on the much larger door.

(Sorry for lack of responses, been ill this week)

Arynn will get his shortsword readied once the door opens, keeping guard on one of the flanks of the group. (Assuming it isn't well lit in the barn, so may have hampered vision)

(it is daytime and there is light coming in from the upper windows. There are shadows but it is decently lit)

(Sounds good)

Arynn will keep an eye out to see if they have laid any traps or have any sentries set to check the side entrance.

Perception: 20

As you move through the boxes you don't see any signs of the goblins,  but as you near the place you came out of the stacked boxes near the central tower you see a trip wire set to cause the boxes to fall on anyone that stumbles carelessly over the tripwire. The footprints pass this direction and towards the tower.