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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 4109897" data-attributes="member: 3448">We traveled onwards for three more uneventful days, drawing near to the edge of Shadow.  On the last full day of travel, when we could almost see the tint of light from the Shadowland on the northern horizon, a volley of spears came in out of nowhere.  One of the spears struck me a heavy blow-- had it been a short distance lower, it would have slain me beyond resurrection, but it only creased my skull.Twang responded first, although he did no more than to move away and cast mage armor.  Spring saw them before he acted. Our attackers, which appeared to be goblyns, had sand-colored robes, which partially concealed them.  They were arrayed about 35 feet away, spread out in a 25 foot semicircle.  Spring rushed off to the side and breathed a cone of steam-- I believe he used a spell but I cannot be certain.   The cone caught all of them, though they were effected differently.  One caught the full blast and broiled to death.The second volley of spears, while some of us were still stupefied, all targeted Spring-- one would have impaled him badly were he corporeal, but passed through harmlessly.Lord Varlin swept to the side opposite side from Spring and breathed a line of acid, killing one and wounding another.  Already wounded, I activated my ring to become invisible and directed Alveera to seek to gain control over their minds.  She promptly suggested one into surrendering.Twang yelled at the remainder and remarkably intimidated them into standing up, thus losing their main tactical advantage of disguise.  Spring wounded them with an earth burst, leaving one of them almost dead.At that point, I would estimate that their morale broke; two fled, while one of them died from the strain of attacking.  Lord Varlin hesitated for a second, and then flew after them and hacked the fleeing one to death.  He seemed both somewhat reluctant to attack a fleeing foe and yet at the same time, utterly brutal in his attacks.  I can only surmise that this represented a conflict between his two ancestral natures.We looted the dead and got little more than a few strips of lousy meat.  They had some badly formed weapons, but the leader had a scimitar that was well-enough made to be worth taking.  I detected magic, but the only equipment besides our own that was magical was Lord Varlin’s equipment.  I noted that in addition to the powerful dweomers on his armor and weapon, he clearly carried several potions.We interrogated the surrendered goblyn,  which revealed that there were a half-dozen similar bands in the area.  It also said that a mighty one passed over several days ago, but had not yet returned.  If our plan succeeded, it never would.  We brought the goblyn with us.  Upon my instruction, Alveera quietly commanded the goblyn into serving the Darkness, and it immediately obeyed.  Truly, one of the signs of how much greater Lord Paranswarm is then the false Shadow gods is that His servants will die rather than betray Him, but their servants quickly rally to the banner of the Lord of Orderly Darkness.</blockquote>

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