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<blockquote data-quote="wsclark" data-source="post: 798" data-attributes="member: 97"><p><strong>Session V - Rescued!</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Harvest 28th, 744 YND</strong></p><p></p><p>When we last left our heroes (?), they were all unconscious in a rickety shack having been subdued by a particularly ferocious group of goblins. That is, all but one, Thalen, who is in the woods behind the shack looking after the group's gear. <em>(DM's note: This is the Half-Elf Fighter whose player had not been able to make the previous session.)</em></p><p></p><p>After hearing the noise of battle dying down and eventually stop, Thalen listened for his comrades. Unfortunately, he didn't hear them at all, just the garbled language of the goblins. Trying to find out what happened to his fellow adventures, he creeps to the edge of the forest behind the alchemists shack. Once he finally makes out the details, he sees, to his horror, the entire band of adventurers, as well as the guide Girion, being carried, bound with ropes, off to the cave directly opposite the shack. None of them are moving. Thalen wants to investigate further around the shack, but several goblins come up from the crater with wood and tools.</p><p></p><p>In order to avoid being seen, he goes through the woods, very carefully, around to the other side of the shack for a better vantage point. He looks out from the forest and sees that the goblins are apparently rebuilding the front door to the shack. "No use trying to find out what's happening inside the shack," he thinks to himself. "Gotta do something to get my new friends back." he decides. Thalen goes back through the woods once more to the place where the groups equipment lies.</p><p></p><p>He rummages through all the equipment stashed there, hoping to find something useful as well as any kind of idea as to how to rescue his companions. The only thing he finds is the groups traveling gear, nothing that might help. "Well," he thinks, "I better do some recon before trying anything." So, one last time, Thalen travels slowly through the woods, halfway around the crater, to a point where he is about as close as he can get to the cave entrance his friends were carried in.</p><p></p><p>Looking out from the woods, he sees two goblins guarding each cave. Thalen is getting very nervous and afraid, for there is no way he can handle four of these wretched creatures alone. "I need some kind of distraction, what can I do?" he ponders. "Let me see if I can get a little closer." and Thalen very carefully comes out from his cover, inching his way over to the top of the crater, right to the side of the cave entrance. A goblin looks in his direction, but does not see him.</p><p></p><p>"It's only the four guards in the crater, maybe if I throw a rock to the other side, some of them will go and check it out." Thalen searches around and finds a rock that he can throw the distance he wants to. He prepares his bow for easy reach and is about to throw the rock, when some noise comes to his ears. Quickly looking around, he realizes that the noise is from the tree line on the far side of the crater between the shack and the other cave. The guards are looking in that direction.</p><p></p><p>Seizing the opportunity, he throws his rock in the direction of the sound. What he hears next is totally on expected. Some creature has howled in surprise. The goblins start preparing their weapons in earnest, looking nervously towards the woods. All of a sudden, two eight foot tall, maybe taller, very ugly humanoids with large heads come out of the woods, staring down at the goblins in the crater. A look of glee appears on their misshapen faces, almost like they are looking to have some fun. One drops what looks like a tree trunk it was carrying like a club while the other drops a large sack on the ground. Thalen notices two of the guards, one at each cave entrance, run into the caves as the two large creatures start to pick up boulders. As goblins come pouring out of the caves, the hideous monsters on the craters rim start throwing boulders at them.</p><p></p><p>Thalen picks up his bow, thinking "Now's my chance." He climbs down the crater next to the cave entrance, where only one goblin remains. His luck, which has been holding out, escapes him as he gets down to side. The goblin has seen him. Quickly, he fires an arrow at the goblin, missing him. The goblin takes the javelin he's holding and throws it at Thalen, hitting the ground off to his right, while yelling for support. But the other goblins are too busy dealing with the playful antics of the two ogres. Thalen fires off another arrow, this time slaying the guard. He quickly climbs down, and after briefly checking out the cave entrance, drags the dead guard inside.</p><p></p><p>After quickly surveying the room, the only thing of note is a door in the rear. He gently tries the door, finding it locked. Listening intently, he hears some noise on the other side of the door. Thalen searches the body of the dead guard, hoping to find the key, but he has no luck. He needs to get beyond that door, so he pulls the dead body in front of the door but far enough away so that the door will open and whoever is on the other side will see it even if the door is only cracked opened. He prepares his bow and determines a position to get into so that he can fire into the doorway as soon as the door opens. All is ready and he pounds on the door, with the strikes getting softer ending as if someone had just fallen down. Thalen jumps into position as something the vile creatures call a language is spoken from behind the door. Thalen, murmurs and moans before he finally slaps the floor with his foot. As silence descends on the room, it feels like an eternity before the voice behind the door stops. The silence continues for a while longer before Thalen finally hears the key in the door...</p><p></p><p>As the door starts to open, Thalen fires his bow through the opening and a sound of surprise issues forth. The door swings open a little bit more as the goblin accidentally lets go of the door. Thinking quickly, Thalen drops his bow and dives for the door, to prevent it from closing. The goblin is unable to stop Thalen from getting beyond the door and tries to bash him, missing. Thalen pulls out his sword and makes short work of the goblin. After listening for any noise coming from the corridor beyond the door, he gets the key from the door, pulls both goblins into the corridor, and goes to the cave entrance to make sure that no other goblins are coming this way. He sees the ogres having a huge amount of fun, bashing the goblins around, even using some of them as boulders. Going back into the cave and the corridor beyond the door, he closes the door and locks it. Taking stock of the situation, he counts himself fortunate to have made it thus far.</p><p></p><p>"Ok," he says to himself, "time to find the others." as he slowly travels down the corridor eventually coming to a T-intersection. The passage leads straight ahead and to his left. About 20 feet or so down the left corridor is a door on the right, while about 40 feet straight ahead there are two doors, one on each side of the corridor. He decides to go down the corridor to the left. After cautiously approaching the door, he listens and hears a lot of talking going on, but in a slightly high pitch than he heard the other goblins speaking. He decides to bypass the door, keeping an ear out to any sound from behind him, and continues down the corridor to the point where it turns to the right.</p><p></p><p>Peeking around the corner, he sees the corridor continue with no doors in sight, for about 60 feet, before it turns to the left again. Slinking down the corridor, he reaches the end where it turns to the left. Thalen carefully looks around the corner and sees to goblins standing in front of a door. Hoping that his luck has held out he fires an arrow at one of them. Unfortunately, the goblins have seen him and Thalens shot misses. One of the goblins throws his javelin at Thelan glancing off the wall corner right in front of him. Thalen does not believe it would be good to let these two past him, where they might get reinforcements from the room he past, so he draws his sword and charges at them, hitting one of them enough to severely hurt, but not take him out of the action. The other goblin grabs his morningstar and swings at Thalen. "Ow, that hurts." Thalen cries to himself as blood flows from his side, "I must take the two of these out."</p><p></p><p>He swings at the one he hit previously, dealing a mighty blow that collapses the goblin. The remaining goblin attempts to deal the final blow to Thalen, but misses wildly, providing Thalen with an excellent opportunity which he takes advantage of to dispatch his remaining foe. Tired but triumphant, he checks the corridor he came down, finds no one coming and goes to the door. With the key prepared, he tries the door, finding it unlocked. Slowly and carefully opening the door rewards Thalen with the sight of his very groggy companions all tied up on the floor. The only one still unconscious is the guide, Girion. Everyone is glad to see him.</p><p></p><p>Moving quickly, he cuts the ropes binding his friends and tells them to follow him, carrying whoever cannot walk by themselves. They have their armor on, but not their weapons, and pick up the morningstars and javelins the goblins were using. Slowly creeping back the way he came, Thalen pauses at the door he listened to once more. Chin and Daloren also listen at the door, but cannot make out what is in the room. They need to get out quickly, but really do not have enough weapons to go around. Thalen leads them to the T-intersection and tells them to quietly wait. But they are not quite enough. Some smaller goblins come out of the door down the other corridor off of the T-intersection. Thalen starts running at the yelling like a mad man. They turn around in fear, back into the room, with a resounding slam of the door. Thalen checks the door and finds it locked, with the sound of things being piled against it. Turning to go back to the rest of the group, he finds that they have followed him.</p><p></p><p>"I told you to wait back there," he says. Lulla replies, "I thought you were leading the way out and so we followed you to help you." "Alright," Thalen states, "wait hear until I check out the end of the corridor." So Thalen goes down the corridor further, finding that it turns to the left and dead ends. "Great, now what. I really need to find more weapons, but I don't think they are in here. They're probably in the other cave." Thalen calls out softly to the group, "Come down here." They arrive in the dead end. "Wait here until I check the other end out. It's the best defensible position, and I don't think they will come looking this way." and off Thalen goes.</p><p></p><p>He unlocks the door he entered to get into this cave and then locks it behind himself. Carefully, he looks out the cave and sees that the goblins are taking a beating. Almost half of them are down with some of those not moving. The ogres, on the other hand, are starting to be worn down as well. Looking over to the other cave entrance, he sees only one guard, nervously watching his comrades. Thalen knocks and arrow and fires at him, and with his continuing luck, misses. The guard is caught unaware, but spots Thalen, who quickly knocks another arrow, fires and finally hits his target. The goblin falls, no longer moving.</p><p></p><p>With as much stealth as he can muster, Thalen winds his way to the other cave entrance, unnoticed. He pulls the body of the guard into the cave, leaving him out of sight. Looking down the corridor out of the back of the entrance, he goes to the first door on the right. After listen, hearing no sounds, and checking if the door was locked, he enters and his luck finally returns in full force. For what does Thalen see but a pile of weapons on a table, the weapons that belong to his friends. Grabbing a tattered blanket off of a bed, he puts the weapons into it, wrapping them up so he can carry them.</p><p></p><p>Back to the cave entrance he goes. Looking outside, he sees that the battle looks like it will end shortly, but no one is looking this way. Back to the other cave entrance, completely without notice, Thalen carries the weapons. Unlocking the door, he brings the weapons down to his friends and explains to them that they have to get out of here now, as the distraction to the goblins outside might not last much longer. They all hurry to the cave entrance and once everyone is through the door, Thalen locks it.</p><p></p><p>Looking at where the battle has been raging, Thalen sees that the ogres have left and that the goblins are starting to carry their fallen comrades down the crater, back to the caves. "Ok, we are going to have to make a run for it. I'll stay here in the entrance way to cover you and then follow behind." So the group bolts out the cave, running up the side of the crater, to get to the forest. The goblins see them. Thalen yells "Run faster!" and lets loose with an arrow, actually hitting for the first time, slaying one of the remaining eight goblins, who drops his fellow goblin he was carrying. The others each start to drop the goblin they were carrying and draw weapons.</p><p></p><p>Pug turns and lets loose with a javelin, slaying one more goblin and then starts down the crater. There are now six left. "Great," Thalen is now thinking, "now's my chance to get out with the others." But before he can move, Chin turns around a runs down the crater side towards the area to the side of the goblins, between them and the meteor. "No!!" yells Thalen. "Those idiots, now I have to stay to cover them." He fires another arrow, missing this time. Shaedra turns, hesitates for a moment, but then charges down to engage the goblins. Daloren throws a javelin, missing and moves down towards where Thalen is. Lulla stays with Girion.</p><p></p><p>The goblins are now attacking, two each at Chin, Shaedra and Thalen, with Pug heading towards Shaedra and Daloren towards Thalen. Shaedra swings mightily at one of the goblins in front of her, almost completely taking it's head off with her great sword. The other goblin in front of her connects with a morningstar, however, and even the slight hit is enough to take her down. Thalen is now using his short sword, missing completely. Daloren throws the other javelin at one of the goblins in front of Thalen, spearing it to the ground, while Pug does the same to one attempting to approach Chin, who is trying to lead the two chasing him away from the rest of the group. Unfortunately for Chin, the remaining goblin nails him hard with his morningstar, bring him down. Pug has now reached Shaedra's side and Daloren has ganged up on the goblin in front of Thalen. The goblin who brought Chin down is turning to help his comrades. Unfortunately for him, Pug takes out the goblins in front of him, Daloren takes out the one in front of Thalen and Thalen picks up his bow shooting an arrow in the returning goblin. There are no more.</p><p></p><p>After ensuring that all the goblins are dead and their fallen comrades wounds are tended to, the group heads back to their gear, carrying Girion, Chin and Shaedra. While Thalen looks after the groups unconscious fellows with Lulla, Pug and Daloren go back to the shack, bashing down the rear shutter window. They enter the room where they were captured, to find Arowain still there but this time with his jaw almost to the floor. Arowain says "I thought you were all done for." Pug responds, "No quite yet. How come the goblins didn't attack you?"</p><p></p><p>Arowain goes on to explain: "The goblins are there to mine the mithral from the fallen star. I am using the mithral to create, what is called, a Coin of Power. Unfortunately, the evil witch Daresh is forcing me to do this. She promises to let me go once I have finished with the work, but I believe she is just going to kill me. The Coin of Power is a very powerful thing, and very evil. The goblins also are here to make sure that nothing happens to me, although after bashing a few heads in I'm sure Daresh is going to let them have their way with me once my work is done."</p><p></p><p>As Arowain finishes, the front door swings open violently and there is a Dejy woman standing there. "What's this I see? Intruders. Well, you will never have the Coin. It is mine." And with that, she levitates the coin to her hand crying "Mine, MINE, MIAWWEEEWEEE". Arowain yells, "Wait, the final ingredient. I haven't finished yet." Meanwhile, as Daresh closed her hand on the red hot coin, it burned, melting her skin, grafting itself to her palm. She reels in agony.</p><p></p><p>Thalen has, at this point, crept around the shack to the front, bow ready. He fires a shot a Daresh, totally missing. Daresh points a finger at Pug, saying "You will pay for this, you slug". Pug starts to respond with "That's Pug, you ugly...." when Arowain screams "No!!!!" pushing Pug out of the way. A bolt of black shoots forth from Daresh's hand where the coin is now pulsating as if it were alive, hitting Arowain in the shoulder. Arowain's shoulder explodes, as his arm is ripped off, while his body suddenly starts withering. Daresh gestures with her hand, steps forward and disappears.</p><p></p><p>Pug rushes over to Arowain who cries "Don't touch me or you will die as well. Listen carefully. The final ingredient for the Coin was blood. Unfortunately, when Daresh grabbed the coin and it fused with her, it got the blood from her. They will now fed off of each other, gaining more and more power, until they cannot be stopped. Only another coin can stop her and the only other person I now who can make one is Halaan. Go to Veoden and tell him what has happened." With that, Arowain dies, as a severe storm starts raging outside.</p><p></p><p>What will the group do next?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wsclark, post: 798, member: 97"] [b]Session V - Rescued![/b] [b]Harvest 28th, 744 YND[/b] When we last left our heroes (?), they were all unconscious in a rickety shack having been subdued by a particularly ferocious group of goblins. That is, all but one, Thalen, who is in the woods behind the shack looking after the group's gear. [i](DM's note: This is the Half-Elf Fighter whose player had not been able to make the previous session.)[/i] After hearing the noise of battle dying down and eventually stop, Thalen listened for his comrades. Unfortunately, he didn't hear them at all, just the garbled language of the goblins. Trying to find out what happened to his fellow adventures, he creeps to the edge of the forest behind the alchemists shack. Once he finally makes out the details, he sees, to his horror, the entire band of adventurers, as well as the guide Girion, being carried, bound with ropes, off to the cave directly opposite the shack. None of them are moving. Thalen wants to investigate further around the shack, but several goblins come up from the crater with wood and tools. In order to avoid being seen, he goes through the woods, very carefully, around to the other side of the shack for a better vantage point. He looks out from the forest and sees that the goblins are apparently rebuilding the front door to the shack. "No use trying to find out what's happening inside the shack," he thinks to himself. "Gotta do something to get my new friends back." he decides. Thalen goes back through the woods once more to the place where the groups equipment lies. He rummages through all the equipment stashed there, hoping to find something useful as well as any kind of idea as to how to rescue his companions. The only thing he finds is the groups traveling gear, nothing that might help. "Well," he thinks, "I better do some recon before trying anything." So, one last time, Thalen travels slowly through the woods, halfway around the crater, to a point where he is about as close as he can get to the cave entrance his friends were carried in. Looking out from the woods, he sees two goblins guarding each cave. Thalen is getting very nervous and afraid, for there is no way he can handle four of these wretched creatures alone. "I need some kind of distraction, what can I do?" he ponders. "Let me see if I can get a little closer." and Thalen very carefully comes out from his cover, inching his way over to the top of the crater, right to the side of the cave entrance. A goblin looks in his direction, but does not see him. "It's only the four guards in the crater, maybe if I throw a rock to the other side, some of them will go and check it out." Thalen searches around and finds a rock that he can throw the distance he wants to. He prepares his bow for easy reach and is about to throw the rock, when some noise comes to his ears. Quickly looking around, he realizes that the noise is from the tree line on the far side of the crater between the shack and the other cave. The guards are looking in that direction. Seizing the opportunity, he throws his rock in the direction of the sound. What he hears next is totally on expected. Some creature has howled in surprise. The goblins start preparing their weapons in earnest, looking nervously towards the woods. All of a sudden, two eight foot tall, maybe taller, very ugly humanoids with large heads come out of the woods, staring down at the goblins in the crater. A look of glee appears on their misshapen faces, almost like they are looking to have some fun. One drops what looks like a tree trunk it was carrying like a club while the other drops a large sack on the ground. Thalen notices two of the guards, one at each cave entrance, run into the caves as the two large creatures start to pick up boulders. As goblins come pouring out of the caves, the hideous monsters on the craters rim start throwing boulders at them. Thalen picks up his bow, thinking "Now's my chance." He climbs down the crater next to the cave entrance, where only one goblin remains. His luck, which has been holding out, escapes him as he gets down to side. The goblin has seen him. Quickly, he fires an arrow at the goblin, missing him. The goblin takes the javelin he's holding and throws it at Thalen, hitting the ground off to his right, while yelling for support. But the other goblins are too busy dealing with the playful antics of the two ogres. Thalen fires off another arrow, this time slaying the guard. He quickly climbs down, and after briefly checking out the cave entrance, drags the dead guard inside. After quickly surveying the room, the only thing of note is a door in the rear. He gently tries the door, finding it locked. Listening intently, he hears some noise on the other side of the door. Thalen searches the body of the dead guard, hoping to find the key, but he has no luck. He needs to get beyond that door, so he pulls the dead body in front of the door but far enough away so that the door will open and whoever is on the other side will see it even if the door is only cracked opened. He prepares his bow and determines a position to get into so that he can fire into the doorway as soon as the door opens. All is ready and he pounds on the door, with the strikes getting softer ending as if someone had just fallen down. Thalen jumps into position as something the vile creatures call a language is spoken from behind the door. Thalen, murmurs and moans before he finally slaps the floor with his foot. As silence descends on the room, it feels like an eternity before the voice behind the door stops. The silence continues for a while longer before Thalen finally hears the key in the door... As the door starts to open, Thalen fires his bow through the opening and a sound of surprise issues forth. The door swings open a little bit more as the goblin accidentally lets go of the door. Thinking quickly, Thalen drops his bow and dives for the door, to prevent it from closing. The goblin is unable to stop Thalen from getting beyond the door and tries to bash him, missing. Thalen pulls out his sword and makes short work of the goblin. After listening for any noise coming from the corridor beyond the door, he gets the key from the door, pulls both goblins into the corridor, and goes to the cave entrance to make sure that no other goblins are coming this way. He sees the ogres having a huge amount of fun, bashing the goblins around, even using some of them as boulders. Going back into the cave and the corridor beyond the door, he closes the door and locks it. Taking stock of the situation, he counts himself fortunate to have made it thus far. "Ok," he says to himself, "time to find the others." as he slowly travels down the corridor eventually coming to a T-intersection. The passage leads straight ahead and to his left. About 20 feet or so down the left corridor is a door on the right, while about 40 feet straight ahead there are two doors, one on each side of the corridor. He decides to go down the corridor to the left. After cautiously approaching the door, he listens and hears a lot of talking going on, but in a slightly high pitch than he heard the other goblins speaking. He decides to bypass the door, keeping an ear out to any sound from behind him, and continues down the corridor to the point where it turns to the right. Peeking around the corner, he sees the corridor continue with no doors in sight, for about 60 feet, before it turns to the left again. Slinking down the corridor, he reaches the end where it turns to the left. Thalen carefully looks around the corner and sees to goblins standing in front of a door. Hoping that his luck has held out he fires an arrow at one of them. Unfortunately, the goblins have seen him and Thalens shot misses. One of the goblins throws his javelin at Thelan glancing off the wall corner right in front of him. Thalen does not believe it would be good to let these two past him, where they might get reinforcements from the room he past, so he draws his sword and charges at them, hitting one of them enough to severely hurt, but not take him out of the action. The other goblin grabs his morningstar and swings at Thalen. "Ow, that hurts." Thalen cries to himself as blood flows from his side, "I must take the two of these out." He swings at the one he hit previously, dealing a mighty blow that collapses the goblin. The remaining goblin attempts to deal the final blow to Thalen, but misses wildly, providing Thalen with an excellent opportunity which he takes advantage of to dispatch his remaining foe. Tired but triumphant, he checks the corridor he came down, finds no one coming and goes to the door. With the key prepared, he tries the door, finding it unlocked. Slowly and carefully opening the door rewards Thalen with the sight of his very groggy companions all tied up on the floor. The only one still unconscious is the guide, Girion. Everyone is glad to see him. Moving quickly, he cuts the ropes binding his friends and tells them to follow him, carrying whoever cannot walk by themselves. They have their armor on, but not their weapons, and pick up the morningstars and javelins the goblins were using. Slowly creeping back the way he came, Thalen pauses at the door he listened to once more. Chin and Daloren also listen at the door, but cannot make out what is in the room. They need to get out quickly, but really do not have enough weapons to go around. Thalen leads them to the T-intersection and tells them to quietly wait. But they are not quite enough. Some smaller goblins come out of the door down the other corridor off of the T-intersection. Thalen starts running at the yelling like a mad man. They turn around in fear, back into the room, with a resounding slam of the door. Thalen checks the door and finds it locked, with the sound of things being piled against it. Turning to go back to the rest of the group, he finds that they have followed him. "I told you to wait back there," he says. Lulla replies, "I thought you were leading the way out and so we followed you to help you." "Alright," Thalen states, "wait hear until I check out the end of the corridor." So Thalen goes down the corridor further, finding that it turns to the left and dead ends. "Great, now what. I really need to find more weapons, but I don't think they are in here. They're probably in the other cave." Thalen calls out softly to the group, "Come down here." They arrive in the dead end. "Wait here until I check the other end out. It's the best defensible position, and I don't think they will come looking this way." and off Thalen goes. He unlocks the door he entered to get into this cave and then locks it behind himself. Carefully, he looks out the cave and sees that the goblins are taking a beating. Almost half of them are down with some of those not moving. The ogres, on the other hand, are starting to be worn down as well. Looking over to the other cave entrance, he sees only one guard, nervously watching his comrades. Thalen knocks and arrow and fires at him, and with his continuing luck, misses. The guard is caught unaware, but spots Thalen, who quickly knocks another arrow, fires and finally hits his target. The goblin falls, no longer moving. With as much stealth as he can muster, Thalen winds his way to the other cave entrance, unnoticed. He pulls the body of the guard into the cave, leaving him out of sight. Looking down the corridor out of the back of the entrance, he goes to the first door on the right. After listen, hearing no sounds, and checking if the door was locked, he enters and his luck finally returns in full force. For what does Thalen see but a pile of weapons on a table, the weapons that belong to his friends. Grabbing a tattered blanket off of a bed, he puts the weapons into it, wrapping them up so he can carry them. Back to the cave entrance he goes. Looking outside, he sees that the battle looks like it will end shortly, but no one is looking this way. Back to the other cave entrance, completely without notice, Thalen carries the weapons. Unlocking the door, he brings the weapons down to his friends and explains to them that they have to get out of here now, as the distraction to the goblins outside might not last much longer. They all hurry to the cave entrance and once everyone is through the door, Thalen locks it. Looking at where the battle has been raging, Thalen sees that the ogres have left and that the goblins are starting to carry their fallen comrades down the crater, back to the caves. "Ok, we are going to have to make a run for it. I'll stay here in the entrance way to cover you and then follow behind." So the group bolts out the cave, running up the side of the crater, to get to the forest. The goblins see them. Thalen yells "Run faster!" and lets loose with an arrow, actually hitting for the first time, slaying one of the remaining eight goblins, who drops his fellow goblin he was carrying. The others each start to drop the goblin they were carrying and draw weapons. Pug turns and lets loose with a javelin, slaying one more goblin and then starts down the crater. There are now six left. "Great," Thalen is now thinking, "now's my chance to get out with the others." But before he can move, Chin turns around a runs down the crater side towards the area to the side of the goblins, between them and the meteor. "No!!" yells Thalen. "Those idiots, now I have to stay to cover them." He fires another arrow, missing this time. Shaedra turns, hesitates for a moment, but then charges down to engage the goblins. Daloren throws a javelin, missing and moves down towards where Thalen is. Lulla stays with Girion. The goblins are now attacking, two each at Chin, Shaedra and Thalen, with Pug heading towards Shaedra and Daloren towards Thalen. Shaedra swings mightily at one of the goblins in front of her, almost completely taking it's head off with her great sword. The other goblin in front of her connects with a morningstar, however, and even the slight hit is enough to take her down. Thalen is now using his short sword, missing completely. Daloren throws the other javelin at one of the goblins in front of Thalen, spearing it to the ground, while Pug does the same to one attempting to approach Chin, who is trying to lead the two chasing him away from the rest of the group. Unfortunately for Chin, the remaining goblin nails him hard with his morningstar, bring him down. Pug has now reached Shaedra's side and Daloren has ganged up on the goblin in front of Thalen. The goblin who brought Chin down is turning to help his comrades. Unfortunately for him, Pug takes out the goblins in front of him, Daloren takes out the one in front of Thalen and Thalen picks up his bow shooting an arrow in the returning goblin. There are no more. After ensuring that all the goblins are dead and their fallen comrades wounds are tended to, the group heads back to their gear, carrying Girion, Chin and Shaedra. While Thalen looks after the groups unconscious fellows with Lulla, Pug and Daloren go back to the shack, bashing down the rear shutter window. They enter the room where they were captured, to find Arowain still there but this time with his jaw almost to the floor. Arowain says "I thought you were all done for." Pug responds, "No quite yet. How come the goblins didn't attack you?" Arowain goes on to explain: "The goblins are there to mine the mithral from the fallen star. I am using the mithral to create, what is called, a Coin of Power. Unfortunately, the evil witch Daresh is forcing me to do this. She promises to let me go once I have finished with the work, but I believe she is just going to kill me. The Coin of Power is a very powerful thing, and very evil. The goblins also are here to make sure that nothing happens to me, although after bashing a few heads in I'm sure Daresh is going to let them have their way with me once my work is done." As Arowain finishes, the front door swings open violently and there is a Dejy woman standing there. "What's this I see? Intruders. Well, you will never have the Coin. It is mine." And with that, she levitates the coin to her hand crying "Mine, MINE, MIAWWEEEWEEE". Arowain yells, "Wait, the final ingredient. I haven't finished yet." Meanwhile, as Daresh closed her hand on the red hot coin, it burned, melting her skin, grafting itself to her palm. She reels in agony. Thalen has, at this point, crept around the shack to the front, bow ready. He fires a shot a Daresh, totally missing. Daresh points a finger at Pug, saying "You will pay for this, you slug". Pug starts to respond with "That's Pug, you ugly...." when Arowain screams "No!!!!" pushing Pug out of the way. A bolt of black shoots forth from Daresh's hand where the coin is now pulsating as if it were alive, hitting Arowain in the shoulder. Arowain's shoulder explodes, as his arm is ripped off, while his body suddenly starts withering. Daresh gestures with her hand, steps forward and disappears. Pug rushes over to Arowain who cries "Don't touch me or you will die as well. Listen carefully. The final ingredient for the Coin was blood. Unfortunately, when Daresh grabbed the coin and it fused with her, it got the blood from her. They will now fed off of each other, gaining more and more power, until they cannot be stopped. Only another coin can stop her and the only other person I now who can make one is Halaan. Go to Veoden and tell him what has happened." With that, Arowain dies, as a severe storm starts raging outside. What will the group do next? [/QUOTE]
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