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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maerdwyn" data-source="post: 1809434" data-attributes="member: 835">Fredar rubs the lump on the side of his head. "Yeah, well, let's do it again real soon, okay?" (His tone makes it pretty clear that by "real soon" Fredar actually means "never again.") "I mean, what was that Nate? Look, uh, I think I will be allright; just might not be there quite yet.  I think the question is are you allright? You're not going to unload like that on the Seergeant if he starts acting like a bastard again are you?  I mean, if you are, that's fine, but just give me a signal so I can back away first, yeah?"  Fredar hols the side of his head again, feeling a sudden stab of pain. "Look, uh, let's  just see what our hosts want.  Hey look," Fredar adds quietly (and with a smile) as Mistress Honnis arrives, "there's your girl, Nate."  ************When the reeve begins his questions, Fredar speaks truthfully, and pretty much completely, and his voice sounds tired.  He tries to look directly at the Reeve as he speaks.  breaking eye contact from pain, if necessary only. Guile would require concentration, he realizes, and he's not up for it at this point. He stops and lets Nate speak whenever the other man has something to say.  "After the raid mentioned in the letter we delivered to you, the Seventh was sent to warn outlying farms and villages. Nate can tell you more about that - I hadn't joined up at that point. But they met more goblin parties - and we met two more parties, or goblins and their damned wolves just on the way from Seven to here. That'smore than I ever heard of outside the Forest, and too many for me to think it's just random groups of gobbos working on their own.  "So on our way into town here, we start to feel like we're being watched. We were pretty beat up then - you saw us, right? Maybe not as bad as we look right now, but still pretty cut up. So all we're thinking at that point is 'Lady, help us get to safety before they cut another of us down.' Then these goblins step out of hiding and hail us. Four or five, I think, plus a couple worgs. If they wanted to kill us, they would have. Nothing we could have done about it, the shape we were in. Could have torn up you town pretty good, too, I'd say. No disrespect intended to your guardsmen, sir," Fredar says to the Sergeant, "But they could have attacked the town before you had the warning, and done a lot of damage just with the advantage of surprise, before the guards could react." "But they wanted to talk. They weren't armed - no, that's not right - they were armed, but they didn't have their weapons up and ready - They wanted to talk. The leader was a goblin woman - a princess, a witch, whatever, I don't know what she was. But said there was this goblin leader who was uniting all the goblin tribes into an army that would sweep out form a goblin kingdom that would strech from forest to forest. She called him this leader a "heretic", and said he had many allies within the goblins, and had already united some of the tribes under his banner. But others hadn't yet joined him, and she clearly hated the idea. And there must have been some powerful goblins opposing the Heretic, too, as this witch wasn't working alone - she let slip that someone had sent her to deliver this news.  "The last thing she said was that there was someone here working for this Heretic - someone who was supposed to bring him something, or someone that would give him power. She called him a 'seeker', and said the seeker would have the heretic's symbol somewhere on him, and that the symbol was like the one on a map some goblins the Seventh killed had. She said the symbol would give the seeker free passage when he went to meet with the heretic." "We don't have proof of her claims, but we're looking to find out if there is any. They could have killed us if that was their aim, and I believed what she said.  I would like to talk - or have some of you - talk to old Jaibobi about this. His travels take him near Trolluc, where the Seventh first met a goblins war party, and found the map with the Heretic's seal. He finds 'odd bits' and other things, sometimes magical things - something that could conceivably be of value to the goblins, maybe without his knowledge. I'm not saying I suspect him of treachery. This could be nothing, and the traitor could be someone else or no one at all. Just that I just think someone should talk to him."  (ooc: I, too just put everything together to save time. Feel free to cut him off at any point.)</blockquote>

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