Emerald's PbP game

[Krug]

Jarrad sides with the Kaltide. "Yes, this could all be a trap!"

 

[Capellan]

"If you're going to insist on getting involved in this domestic squabble, then the best way to do it is for us to pretend to leave. We can hide out somewhere nearby and keep an eye on the farm. If what the goblin says is true, we'll soon see the evidence. And if it's not, we'll all be together and ready to protect ourselves and the people on the farm."

 

[Emerald]

Grit will pull out a large dried leaf from a small sack and give it to Reinert. The leaf is folded, and has a grass ribbon tied around it.

"Give my words to Kyla. She is pretty. Please stop the bad man from hurting her."

Once Cid has taken the leaf Grit will run off into the corn.

 

[Creamsteak]

"If you give me a day I can prepare my detect evil spell, remove fear for Kyla, and maybe another detection spell."

 

[Capellan]

"Or I can slap either her or whatshisname with a charm person. We might learn something that way."

 

[MerakSpielman]

Kaltide eyes the folded leaf.

"You're not actually considering giving that thing to her, are you? It seems to me that we have stumbled into a situation without knowing all sides of it. If we just do as the gobbie says, we're nothing more than pawns. I say we follow him back to his camp and see what's really going on."

 

[Manzanita]

Reinert

"What would we learn at their camp? Perhaps we could open this..."

Reinert inspects the leaf. Does he think he could retie it if he opened it? Reinert has Use Rope @+4.

 

[Emerald]

Reinert: You are pretty sure you could retie the note. When you unfold the leaf, you find a very smooth, polished rock inside, oval in shape, and shot through with orange, green, and yellow of different hues. A goblin rune is carved into the rock--translated, it has a wide definition, meaning anything from "friend" to "body-shield," a term for when one goblin actually leaps over another's body to protect them from death.

The leaf has some Goblin runes written on it in spider/mushroom ink:

"Kyla, spider-silk hair
Black-stone polish eyes
Twin pumpkin breasts

Grit will eat the bad man's blows
Long before you suffer them again."

 

[Capellan]

"He needs to work on his cadence and rhythm, but that's actually not bad ... for a goblin, anyway. Except for the pumpkin breasts thing, of course. Melons would be a more flattering comparison." I waggle my fingers dismissively, "Naturally, I could do far better."

 

[Manzanita]

"I think the goblin's in love with her. Yuck. Anyway, he thinks Richard is hitting her."

Reinert carefully reties the bundle as well as possible, with surprising dexterity for such thick stubby fingers.

"What shall we do? I say we confront her. If she won't cooperate, Helfy can use the 'mellon breasts' phrase to charm her. Poor woman, married to an abusive jerk, & lusted after by goblins. Maybe we should take her with us..."