Die, Dog, Die (Encounter 3)
Things are dying down around town, and despite taking a quick wander off together to seek out the increasingly rare sounds of distress, the battle always seems to be ahead of you, or behind you.
You catch sight, once or twice, of goblins, raiding food, or chasing dogs, or running across roof-tops, but before you can reach them they are gone. There is the odd lilt of goblin song that you catch in the air, and the clash of steel, or distant voices of town guards, but the fight seems to be frustratingly drawing to a close just beyond your fingertips.
As you move around the northern section of Sandpoint (the section where the festival grounds are, and where so far all the goblin activity appears to have been focused), you hear the sound of a scream and frantic barking coming from the north, near the White Deer (a newly built 3-storey grand inn with an impressive view of the Varisian Gulf to the north).
Dashing north, at the edge of an alley to the side of the White Deer Inn, you see a goblin commando mounted on a goblin dog has bravely (?) attacked a noble and his hunting dog. The nobleman cowers behind a rain barrel where he calls for help, while his dog lunges forward against the goblin commando. As you arrive you see the goblin commando slash down with his horsechopper (a small halberd), killing the loyal dog.
As the dog crashes to the ground, a cheer goes up from a group of 4 goblins who start to appear from cover. They had obviously been hiding from the frightening dog until their commando came and dispatched it for them. With the dog gone, and their commando astride his goblin dog, they have been rekindled with courage.
The goblins are completely focused on the nobleman, unaware of your approach.
OOC: You have the opportunity to attack in the surprise round as desired. Actions please!
OOC: A "goblin dog" is not a dog. This mangy creature's face has a flat nose, beady eyes, and the protruding teeth of a rat grown grotesquely large. Tiny clawed forelimbs and a long, hairless pink tail add to its vermin-like appearance. Worse than the way it looks is the way it smells. It stinks of sun-baked sewage, and has blistering, festering sores upon its head and the parts of its back you can see under the goblin commando who sits astride it.
The following link is not a goblin dog, but it gives you an idea
Mangy dog, only imagine it big and with a rats tail and goblin astride it!
OOC: Jovik - no luck so far with finding your parents. You have been popping into each inn, and can have a look inside the White Deer if you survive this fight. You will survive the fight, right?
