The BFOAGWGH

(XiaoLong)

 Roar's first strike misses the goblin, but her second slices through flesh and armour, until it hits bone. The enemy falls to the ground bleeding badly.

Now that the immediate danger of the goblins has lessened, Tallanvor rushes over to XiaLong and Gundren. Again he seeks the void and delves into the body of the wounded man searching for the wounds using the healing magic that he has found. He weaves a spell concentrated on healing the worst of the wounds.

Twiglet stares down at the dead goblin in horror, his dagger still stuck in his back. Shaking violently, he looks around for any more danger

"These creatures are relentless!"  Siloqui mutters to herself. Fueled even more so by her frustration, she sets up to fire her bow again, but this time at the Sword goblin. Multiple arrows she swiftly sends down towards her target. 

Attack: 23 Damage: 15

Humblodt hurls another stone at the goblin with the bow: Attack: 5 Damage: 6

((That screwed up somehow and missed the +4 to hit, so should have been 9))

((In answer to the earlier question about if you roll a nat 20 to hit; you roll all the damage dice a 2nd time and add them - see Critical Hits))

Tallanvor's spell illuminates Gundren, his eyes open and he puts his hand to his head obviously in pain "Oh my, everything hurts. What happened?"

Siloqui's arrows find their mark and the final goblin attacking SIldar collapses, arrow passes straight through in it's leg, through the other one tearing both off, recoils off the ground and ends up stuck in it's throat. It gives a gurgle before crashing to the ground in a pool of it's blood.  "My thanks. Gundren?", he looks up the bank and sees Tallanvor and XiaoLong beside Gundren, and appears relieved. "So that leaves one more" and he looks in the direction of the final goblin on the bank. It manages to avoid Humblodt's stone, but it looks very worried, as if it has realised the danger it is currently in .

“Don’t kill the last one”, mutters Humblodt under his breath. “We want him to talk.”

Twiglet vomits on the goblin he killed, sinks shakily to the floor and starts to cry

After finishing the first goblin Ilduarana focus on the second one with a bow and mutters and incantation inwardly hoping the rest are far enough... 

She casts another ice knife

Attack 15

Hit   1

The shard of ice hits the final goblin directly in the chest causing it to stumble and roll down the bank to where the rest of the party are standing. The goblin screams "Mercy! Mercy!" and holds up it's hands. Sildar drops to the ground and catches his breath.

Goblins give no mercy. Goblins get no mercy.

No mercy for Goblins deserving none.

Ro moves to the unconscious (and somewhat burned) goblin and raises a sword. She's about to bring it down on the goblin's neck when she sees Twiglet crying on the ground out the corner of her eye and hesitates. Lowering the sword, she steps over the prone goblin and crouches, turning her back to Twiglet so he can't see what she's doing. And with a quick movement, she slits the goblin's throat.

No mercy.

She stands up and takes a few steps towards the surrendering goblin before a sob from Twiglet makes her pause. She looks back and forth between the surviving goblin and the distraught halfling, her fists clenching and loosening around the grips of her swords.

Ilduarana looks carefully at the goblin she is sure she hides something

1

"There do be no reason for ye to attack a well armed caravan such as this. Who put yer band o ruffians up to this?" 

Perception: 13
Persuasion: 7

Elves and Dwarves too nice for this.

Ro dips a finger in the blood on one of her swords and writes a message across a goblin corpse's chest.  The one without legs. Then she grabs the corpse by its hair, drags it over to where the surviving goblin is being interrogated, and drops it unceremoniously at the prisoner's feet. * She glares at the prisoner for a few seconds **/***, spits on the ground, and heads back towards Twiglet.

The message reads: "When I come back I kill you. If you talk, these people maybe stop me."

When she gets close to Twiglet she closes her eyes and tries to force herself to relax. She lets out a long sigh and sets her swords on the ground, wiping her bloody hands in the grass. As the last of the rage drains away she gingerly takes away Twiglet's dagger and helps him to his feet. Then she leads him around the back of the wagons to a spot out of sight of the carnage. Sitting against the spokes of a wagon wheel she tries to find and sign the right words but after a few tries it becomes obvious that it's not going to happen. In the end she shows him the sign for "sorry" and gives him a weak smile - it's all she can do. He shouldn't be left alone in his current state so she sits with him while he cries.

 The goblin shrieks as it reads Roar's message. "Stop, please. I tell you everything you want." Looking at Tallanvor, "Boss Klarg The Mighty get message from Big Boss Krol yesterday. Say we hired to capture dwarf and human on way to town. We keep watch of track and lay trap like we do on all wagons. But we not told how many of you. We outmatched by your might."

Roar's investigation of on the dead goblin's teeth shows that the filing down was done a while ago. Based on the fact that all the goblins have the same teeth it is likely it is some clan marking. Looking around, the goblins are wearing a mismatch of different colours, fabrics and clothes, almost the exact opposite of a uniform. It appears that they might be wearing whatever they can scavenge from their victims.

Twiglet signs "OK" back to Ro....then "Me small", which is the closest he can get to the turmoil inside his head

Then he looks at Ro and asks (verbally) "Is Silder alright?...Gundren?"