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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Morrow" data-source="post: 649056" data-attributes="member: 301">Against the Elves Session 2Session 21st of Charder (the month of servitude).A day after passing the final toll booth, Thar and Rhunn entered Freetown.  They entered the cavern system invisibly and quickly discovered several dead kobalds being feasted on by strange, fast moving creatures who appeared to be kobalds with rat-like snouts and sharp claws.  The goblins, disconcerted by these fast moving predators, snuck past them and moved deeper into Freetown.At nearly the same time Atarax, Krikara, and their companions, including the pair of cat-demons, Solon and Curuscan, were approaching Freetown from another direction.  Krikara ,who was scouting well ahead of the others, heard an approaching goblin patrol.  She silently moved back to warn the others.  In the blink of an eye the cat-demons turned into a pair of fiendish looking bugbears.  The patrol of four goblins quickly came within sight of the party.“Halt!” cried one of the goblins.“Halt!” cried Atarax.  He hoped for peaceful meeting with the goblins, but his companions weren’t so sure. Krikara had already disappeared somewhere and Kriggle loudly began casting a spell.“Identify yourself,” demanded the goblins.The ‘bugbears’ weren’t about to let a group of goblins delay them.  “Out of our way, food!” cried one.  They then looked expectantly at their new lackeys to resolve the situation. Atarax attempted to smooth things over with the goblin patrol, “I am Atarax, a traveling minstrel.”The goblins demanded to know who the others were, and Foleful, who had spent time in Freetown before, demanded to know when they had started sending out patrols.  Again Atarax attempted to answer the patrols questions, but it was not to be.  Everyone was taking at once when Krikara had decided to take matters into her own hands.  An arrow sailed out of the darkness, grazing the first goblin. Artax, apparently giving up on negotiation, attempted to cast a spell, but was hampered by his armor.The goblin patrol turned to run, and the party followed.  Krikara, aided by her slippers of spider climb scampered along the wall of the tunnel.  Foleful cast a spell, summoning solid fog around the patrol.  The thick magical cloud slowed the goblins run to a crawl.  Kriggle attempted to fire an arrow at the goblin patrol, but it stopped and hung suspended a few inches into the cloud’s surface.  Foleful continued to cast spells, summoning one and then another water elemental dire wolf into the cloud, in front of the patrol.The party could see nothing through the cloud, but could here the wet snarls of the wolves.  Atarax cast another spell to create a web further down the tunnel beyond the fog.  Foleful sent his familiar, a small air elemental to scout inside the cloud.  Through his connection with the elemental Foleful watched the last goblin fighting a rearguard action against the two summoned wolves, and eventually tear through the web and escape.  The party waited dejectedly for the fog to disperse under the  disapproving gaze of their cat-demon ‘companions.’</blockquote>

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