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Message: <blockquote data-quote="diaglo" data-source="post: 433190" data-attributes="member: 2885">Home again home again...During the night one of the goblins summoned Van Dekk and the party. The remaining free hobgoblins were attempting a break. With little sleep and not enough time to regain spells the party agreed to join. But any prospects of battle seemed deadly."We are taking our slaves and leaving," Chief Grokk called out from the cave. "Any attempt to stop us or follow will result in their deaths.""We will kill you when you leave," Van Dekk answered."Wait," Bernedette interrupted. "Let me see the prisoners.""Come inside little girl," Grokk offered. "If you try anything funny we will kill the slaves.""No wait," Timmay said too late, as Bernedette entered the cave.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":eek:" title="Eek!    :eek:"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":eek:" /> After a few minutes a scream and a thump were heard from inside."Foolish girl," Grokk said. "We are coming out. Move aside.""Let the slaves go and we will not trouble you again." Timmay tried.The hostage negotiations continued. It was agreed that the party would collect the slaves from the roadside in 2 hours time. Meanwhile, Van Dekk went to prepare an ambush. The party would follow the Hobgoblins out of missle range and let them go.Six slaves carried by 8 hobgoblins left the cave at the agreed upon time. They used a forced march. The party trailed them. Marcus of Tyr and Valgrim lagged behind.At the roadside, the hobgoblins let down their packages. One of the hobgoblins lingered a few moments longer. A flash of steel could be seen. He then fled.Bartol pulled his bow and sprinted to the rescue. One of the hostages pulled an axe off the ground and buried it in the neck of another of the hostages.Although an incredibly hard shot on the run at the limit of his range with his many injuries and only moonlight to see by Bartol brought the attacker down with one shot. As he drew near he saw the attacker was a crazed gnoll. His arrow lodged in its heart.The dead hostage was an orc. Of the four remaining hostages, all humans, only one was awake. Bernedette and the other two were starting to come round when Bartol bent to free them."Praise Chauntea," the awake one said."Screw Chauntea," Bartol huffed. "Thank Torm."</blockquote>

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