Ptolus- Palace of the Silver Princess (Campy)

"It is unfortunate that we do not find ourselves providing entertainment for survivors, but rather the castles new inhabitants shall have to provide us with entertainment." says Thym rather circularly as he chucks a frightening spear at the crossbow wielder.
 

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Guy stares at Thym for a moment, obviously trying to puzzle that one out, before shrugging his shoulders and drawing his rapier. He steps to the edge of the butter and waits for someone to come within stabbing range.

The smell is intoxicating. "I don't suppose you have any lobster in that bag?" he asks, pointing with the tip of his sword. "No? Well then, have at you!"
 

"Ooh! Lobster and butter and hobgoblin... Yummy!"

Thorg carefully gets his shield and mace ready. He joins Guy at the front line. "I kick it up a notch. BAM!"
 

Initiative Order:
Hobgoblin Fighter #1
Thorg
Hobgoblin Fighter #3
Hobgobling Rogue
Samuel
Renard
Thym
Carl
Hobgoblin Cleric
Guy
Hobgoblin Mage
Hobgoblin Fighter #2
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The room isn't the largest, and the first armored hobgoblin reaches Renard before he can back away and fire an arrow, but his thrust fails to hit the nimble fox-man. Thorg barrels his way into the front as he swing his mace hard while shouting 'Bam!' Sure enough, his strike easily hits the half-orc has the satisfaction of hearing several hobgoblin ribs break. The second hobgoblin rushes forward, its blade singing as it nearly gets through Thorg's tower shield. The satisfaction is short-lived, however, as a bolt slips by the heroes and strikes Samuel on the shoulder (-5 hps to Samuel). The hobgoblin in leather and wielding a crossbow nods in satisfaction and reloads. In anger, Samuel fires back with a sling stone of his own and slightly injures the creature.

Renard sees his friend become injured and retaliates, both his arrows screaming across the scene of turmoil and striking the leather-clad hobgoblin in the leg and side. She howls, yet refuses to fall although shock reaches its face at the surprising accuracy of the group. The hobgoblin's luck finally holds, however, as Thym's eldritch blast shatters the stone behind her while leaving her unharmed. Carl casts his grease spell in between the armored forms of Guy and Thorg before taking a step back once more and quickly wiping his hands in a failed attempt to get all the butter off.

The robed hobgoblin isn't affected by the spell, although his armored, sword-wielding companion trips and falls before he can join his two fellows at the forward edge of the battle. The armored hobgoblin with the mace casts a spell while touching an amulet, and suddenly he and his allies seem morally bolstered to fight harder. Guy doesn't seem to mind the enemy's newfound courage, as he barely finds hobgoblin flesh with both blades while shouting about lobster. Deep gashes appear alongside the fighter's side and neck, although the hobgoblin surprisingly doesn't fall.

The last hobgoblin that is able to act casts a spell and looks to Thorg, who sighs comfortably and collapses into a heap asleep. The fighter that he had wounded looks down upon his fallen body with a wicked grin.
 

Taking a step away from the battle, Carl grabs his lute from his back and starts strumming as his golden voice bolsters the party.

ooc - Bardic ability (Inspire Courage) - +1 to attack and damage for all allies.
 

Guy's eyes go wide as his stalwart companion hits the ground. "Wake up, you big oaf! This is no time for a nap!" He wracks his brain, trying to think of anything that would wake the sleeping beast. What does he love most in the world? "Its, uh... it's your birthday! Yeah! Happy Birthday, Thorg! You have to wake up now and open all these presents. And cake! Yeah! Lots of cake! WAKE UP AND BLOW OUT THE CANDLES!"

Meanwhile, he steps closer to prevent the wicked looking fighter from making good on his obvious intentions.

OOC: Not sure of the exact position, but hopefully Guy already threatens Thorg's opponent and will attack him reducing his attack bonus by 3, increasing his AC by the same, and using only his rapier this round. With Carl's song, that will make him: Rapier +6 (1d6+3, 18-20/x2) & AC 21.
 


The first hobgoblin fighter strikes at Thorg's unconscious body, but only wounds the half-orc instead of landing the aimed killing blow (-6 hps to Thorg). Thorg screams in pain as the creature's longsword slashes a gash along his cheek. As he hears Guy's shouting he recovers, but is barely able to stand as his head still feels fuzzy. The hobgoblins in front of him take the opportunity to try and make another strike, with one able to drive his blade into the cleric's less armored armpit (-8 hps more to Thorg). The third hobgoblin fighter recovers from his missed opportunity, but misses a second time as a now-fully conscious half-orc successfully beats his attack with his shield.

The hobgoblin rogue takes another shot, this time at Thym, but barely misses the warlock since bloodless is making it hard for her to concentrate. Samuel's return shot glances off the brow of the hobgoblin rogue, causing a gush of blood that is visible from across the room. Renard follows Samuel, and his two arrows find and finish the hobgoblin female off (overkill, one rogue hobgoblin).

Since Thorg is now conscious, an unready Thym fires a spear at one of the lead fighters but fails to connect. Soon after, Carl strikes up a tune that touches the soul of his allies that recalls many of their past, exaggerated victories. The hobgoblin with the mace takes several steps forward without encountering the grease and touches one of the more injured fighters, who instantly looks as if he has recovered somewhat from his wounds. Seeing this, Guy decides to bring back some of those lost injuries, but only succeeds in striking with one of his blades. Still, that's enough to injure the hobgoblin to exactly the same amount of physical damage he had sustained before his party's cleric healed him.

Seeing the amount of damage Thorg has taken, the robed hobgoblin casts a spell and a magic bolt shoots forth and strikes the half-orc though the magic missile fails to cause the priest to die as the mage had hoped (-5 more hit points to Thorg who is barely standing. Finally, the second hobgoblin fighter regains his balance and stands, but is only able to move to the front lines near Guy and cannot yet attack.

OOC: Sorry, Thorg. Nothing personal.
 

Seeing how injured Thorg is, Carl stops playing his song,but the tune still seems to echo in the minds of his allies. Drawing a wand from his backpack as he moves carefully over to the half-orc,Carl touches it to Thorg's flesh and the wounds seem to close up slightly.

ooc - Stopping Inspire Courage (effects last for 5 more rounds) and moves to Thorg and uses his Wand of Cake Cure Light Wounds
 

Almost oblivious to the profuse bleeding, Thorg smiles at Carl. "Aw, gee, thank you, Carl. I had this terrible nightmare where it was my birthday, and nobody came but a bunch of goblins, and they all got me ugly swords that they stuck me with, and I had to say no thank you, I already got an ugly sword, and I kinda liked that spleen, and maybe a new spleen would be a better gift than another ugly sword, but they said Gob-Mart can't take the swords back, but then they got me a magic sword to the spleen, but it kinda went away after that so I couldn't take the magic home. And they broke my spleen. They didn't even stay for cake."

Thorg, realizing something was wrong, looks down. "Aw, nuts, they really did break my spleen! O Pelor, I kinda liked that spleen I had, and I can't remember how it gets put together. Could you help me get it all together again? Thank you."

(Cast a Cure Light)
 

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