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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarauderX" data-source="post: 1381875" data-attributes="member: 9990">Session 3As the party huddles in their respective positions, it is not hard to battle sleep knowing that the goblins are still out there in the night, hidden by the darkness of the woods.  A woman's muffled screams are heard over the bridge, and soon a figure can be seen to be dragged around across the path to the bridge.  She is wearing a blue dress, and can be heard clearly over the drums and chanting.  Darya streaks down the tower steps to Pyotr, insisting the screams are those of Grisha, her cousin from the Cherkass homestead.  Darya says that only Grisha wears a blue dress like that, and it must be her.  Taras says they can't be certain, but would be willing to cover anyone should they wish to investigate.  Two of the party members manage to sneak out of the homestead, and begin looking for clues as to who is wearing the blue dress.  Just as they make it to the river, Thovaas sees movement out of the corner of his eye.  From his vantage point in the tower, he spots a group of stealthy goblins crossing the east clearing towards the homestead.  He immediately yells an alert, which brings everyone's attention whirling around to face the new threat.  The sly Red-Blade goblins run straight for the east side of the homestead as arrows begin descending on them.  A wolf howl pierces the air from across the river, and soon enough a squad of Wolfskull goblins begins to make its way to the bridge.  Once the Red-blades reach the east wall of the homestead, they begin emptying skins full of oil and a few throw oil-filled gourds at the windows on the second floor.  More missle fire is launched into the Red-Blade goblin ranks as they empty more oil onto the homestead wall and ground next to it.  Dian manages to climb up the other side of the palisade from the goblins and jumps from the top of the palisade through the second floor window just as a goblin throwing axe zips by him.  Thovaas sinks another arrow into the large goblin barking orders at the others as Jerrin throws a torch out of the window to start an eventual fire prematurely.  The Red-blades step back from the oil-soaked area and a few of them toss a type of clay pot at the second floor, again missing the windows.  The fire spreads down the outer walls of the east wall, and soon the whole wall is engulfed in flame and thin smoke.  Brathas drops to his knees, then slumps to the floor of the balcony as he clutches his chest where a dagger had pierced his lung.  More and more missle fire hails down on the Red-blades, and seeing that they have accomplished what they set out to do, the goblins retreat back to the darkness of the woods.  Meanwhile, the Wolfskulls had cross the bridge and begin hacking at the kitchen door again, and one of the wolves and it's rider are dropped by the defenders above the door with help from the snipers in the tower.  Aerial falls in the far room on the second floor as one of the goblin's sling stones connected with her head.  The door eventually gives way, and the furniture stacked behind it gives way as the other wolf rider urges his mount through the doorway.  Stellios, who had been bracing the door with is single arm, is buried beneath the door and stacked furniture.  On the other side, Jerrin and his mount were waiting to meet the remaining attackers.  The wolf was felled before long, and the rider was dropped by Jerrin's dagger.The fire raged on the outside of the east wall, but already it was getting warmer on the inside despite the cool night.  Smoke was beginning to gather, and the defenders began to organize a fire line once the goblin threats were gone.  Alex immediately began by bringing buckets and dumping them out the windows down the wall as Thovaas used soaked blankets to subdue the leaping flames.  Pyotr, Dian, and Taras had to sit down for a while as smoke had overwealmed them briefly.  Many bucket fulls of water later, the fire was merely sizzling and the defenders went back to their keeping vigil on the clearings around them.</blockquote>

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