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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Binder Fred" data-source="post: 6493668" data-attributes="member: 63746">Elsbeth continued: "With the Warden safely rescued from the vile creature, the brave adventurers set forth to the goblin village. Upon arriving, the village was quiet, deathly quiet. The adventurers split up to investigate.....""RIGHT," agreed the young man, called back to order. "They ventured in, caaaarefully..."The wooden gate had been blasted from the inside by some humongous beast or something. (Fastus lifted a torch up to the side and blew fire across its tip to light it. Then he held it above him and hunched his head a bit as if he was exploring a low cave or something (it was Elli's idea).)"The goblins had these long houses on stilts. Low thatch ceilings -- well low for US, right? Smoke-stains all over. And these tiny window-things -- with twigs to keep the animals out, I guess?" He mimed it out, drawing it out as he looked this way and that: "Scraps of goblin things abandoned here and there. The wind. And silence.... but no goblins in the first hut they explore... or the third... or the-"A sudden *BOOM* from behind the curtain, making even Fastus jump! "AH! Uh... I mean: fireworks shot out at Suldrel and all hell broke loose!" (He'd been strongly I favour of using ACTUAL fireworks here, but had been quickly and completely outvoted for some reason. Something about Ameiko not wanting her inn burned down today.)Cowering goblins snarled at them with sharp teeth and pointy swords, jabbering in an unknown language as they shot a bunch of sparky, fireworky missiles at the party. The worst part though was that one of them always ran back towards another hut, right, shouting: "It's not them, it's not the skeletons! Come on and fight with us!" And so on, and so forth, until the party was fair overrun by a tide of green teeth and steel! Background fighting noises come from the curtain throughout this and the next part: the clash of swords on metal, shuffling and banging, and even the occasional call of " "Take THAT!", "A-ha!" or "Rally around me!".And Fastus sure was impressed by goblin teeth, if the number of time he mentions them is anything to go by, but he's doing his best to give the impression of chaos and things happening all over right now: Jariah shouting orders; Wireth and Jakira holding their own against a clawing tornado (although Sachiko, Elsbeth and Fastus seemed to be doing most of the taking down for some reason); a charge through the throng to assault and then smash through the doors of the chief's mystical hut (who'se main room had somehow acquired a pair of flaming beast idols and accompanying braziers for some reason, complete with gloating Gutwad and cronies in the center). Suldrel was badly hurt right then (by an exploding voodoo curse), but not only survived but took his bloody revenge on the bone-painted goblin priest! Fastus fell through the roof and was only saved from a grizzly death by an arrow through Chuffy's head, courtesy of a miraculously well-timed Warden! Gutwad, Jariah and Wireth traded insults! Eagles, eagles all over the place! FINALLY, Elsbeth ran up to the door and tricked Gutwad's attention away! "Just for a heartbeat, you understand?"But it was enough for EVERYBODY to SIMULTANEOUSLY plant their weapons into Gutwad's belly, ending his threat to the good citizens of Sandpoint FOREVER!A pause to let that sink in...Then Elsbeth pushed the red chest through the curtain and out onto the stage. She flipped the lid up with a piece of string while Sachiko made a subtle golden glow come out from inside..."And what's this they find in the bowels of Gutwad's treasury?" Ugh, that had sounded WAY better in his head! He shook that away, far too much on a high to care right now! "Is it a load of Tian Xe heirlooms I see there? And in them a MAP to some skeleton-guarded treasure?" A long, expectant pause... "MAYBE! See you here next time to find out!""Come out here Sachiko and Elsbeth." And when they do: "Weren't they GREAT?" Then, on impulse: "Oh, and enjoy ALL your drinks tonight, on US!"</blockquote>

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