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<blockquote data-quote="Greyhawk" data-source="post: 4321081" data-attributes="member: 40355"><p><strong>The Hobgoblin ambush...</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown">The road crests a small rise and descends into a dusty grove in a large, shallow dell. An abandoned farmhouse, partially visible through the trees, stands on one side of the road. Suddenly you glimpse the glint of mail through the brush by the side of the road. Fierce warriors---tall, hairy humanoids with wide mouths and flat faces---are lying wait! Also bounding from concealment in the heavy undergrowth at the top of the tree-lined gully comes a large dog-like creature with a firey bite - a hell-hound. As if the party don't have enough on there hands, along the road from the farmhouse two more hobgoblins and another hound come running - And these ones look even more formidable foes!</span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown"></span></p><p> <span style="color: SandyBrown">Feng and Elinor engaged the hobgoblins who flanked the party, while Limara attempted to hold back the new adversaries coming along the road. Unfortunately luck was not on her side and she fell in combat to one of the leaders and his hell hound pet. The two fighters despatched the two minions and hurried to the front to engage. Meanwhile a wounded Rizzit and Beltain attempted to thwart their foes with the use of magic, the kobold with Magic Missiles and the cleric with Spiritual weapons. </span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown"></span></p><p> <span style="color: SandyBrown"></span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown">Feng managed to fell the twin-bladed Hobgoblin but the cleric, Zarr, called in another squad of six hobgoblins and retreated behind them after he had been brough close to death by Feng, Rizzit and Beltain. However Zarr still had a trick or two and summoned yet another Hell hound, this time in the middle of the party. It bounded to the rear to attack and burn Beltain with its fiery bite. Rizzit used magic missiles to great effect and felled more wounded hobgoblins. Meanwhile Beltain had wounded the hell-hound with his sword and then Elinor rode to the rescue killing the beast with a few well-aimed blows, all under a flurry of arrows from the remaining hobgoblins.</span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown"></span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown">Worried about Limara's worsening condition Beltain rushed over and healed the worst of her wounds, and rising for the dust, Limara draws more healing magic to bring her into fighting form. Meanwhile Feng and Elinor, now joined by Limara, started to mop up the remaining Hobgoblins. A lucky bowshot fells the plucky kobold but he is quickly restored by a spell from Beltain. Then Limara fells one Hobgoblin and Elinor another and the last Hobgoblin, seeing death approaching, fights no more. </span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown"></span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown">The hobgoblin snarls and looks down on the party. Seeing there is no chance to escape, and the rest of his band slaughtered, he drops his bow to the floor and holds his hands up.. pleased with himself that he hurt the kobold as his last strike. Elinor moves to the Hobgoblin, and binds him quick. "WHERE....ARE....YOU....FROM?" she enunciates. "WHAT...ARE....YOU....DOING.....HERE?..And while we're at it, WHERE ARE WE?" The Hobgoblin laughs. He then talks in a gutteral common "You know not where you are human?" "What I know is that we stand here surrounded by your dead and dying companions" Elinor passes her hand across her forehead, unwittingly smearing spatters of blood across her pale skin. "So, I'll ask again, WHERE ARE YOU FROM AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" The hobgoblin snarls "You are in hobgoblin country, go back the way you came and you maybe safe... I will say nothing... What am i doing here?... Just guarding the road." "Ha, guarding, you hobgoblins have nothing of value to guard, you are the dross of life. You are nothing and to nothing you will return" exclaims Beltain in disgust as he rushes over and heals Rizzit. The kobolds eyes flicker open. The party begin healing each other. </span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown"></span></p><p> <span style="color: SandyBrown"></span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown">"Thank you all for standing over me when I fell " Limara continues "We need to search these bodies to see if they have anything on them of use to us, maybe some info... and we need to get them out of site too incase the is a patrol nearby...they must have a base around here which might hold some answers .. and a map if we are lucky " she adds. </span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown"></span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown">Suddenly, coming down the road, is a familiar character.. Limara looks around at the footsteps she hears "Hello Nos, thought you weren't coming " She says to the Mage. Elinor grins as she sees a familiar figure come into view. "That looks like someone I know" says Elinor, and she jogs up the road towards him. "Robinson. ROBINSON!" Shouts the famiar voice from the distance. "Where is that Horsie?." Elinor smiles at the wizard "I'm finding it hard to believe that you might have lost a horse......what colour is he this time?." "Elinor? Can that really be you?... Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" cries the Pacifistic prestidigitator as he spreads his arms and leaps at Elinor in joy. The mage looks round at the rest of the party. "And Beltain! And Limara! And Rizit! Can it really be my old friends?" says The Wizard Nosnibor joyfully, before noticing a hunking shape in amoungst the cadavors. "Oh. And F-F-Feng too. Oh happy days." Feng grunts by way of reply. The party strip the dead hobgoblins of thier loot, Elinor stands guard over the captured hobgoblin. The Wizard Nosnibor looks around as if he has miss placed something. "Here Pussy Pussy. Has anyone seen my Pussy?" He says innocently. Out of the bushes moves a white cat, it purrs at Nosnibor. "Pussy! Have you been having Poopies? " Says Nosnibor as he picks up his cat. "Who's a good Pussy? Hiding your own Poopies. Good girl." </span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown"></span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown"></span></p><p><span style="color: SandyBrown">Elinor looks around "Right, shall we go to investigate that building? Might hold the hobgoblin camp. Maybe there are clues there" and she rides on towards the farmhouse, dismounts and looks inside with Beltain following. Inside there are bodies...</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greyhawk, post: 4321081, member: 40355"] [b]The Hobgoblin ambush...[/b] [COLOR=SandyBrown]The road crests a small rise and descends into a dusty grove in a large, shallow dell. An abandoned farmhouse, partially visible through the trees, stands on one side of the road. Suddenly you glimpse the glint of mail through the brush by the side of the road. Fierce warriors---tall, hairy humanoids with wide mouths and flat faces---are lying wait! Also bounding from concealment in the heavy undergrowth at the top of the tree-lined gully comes a large dog-like creature with a firey bite - a hell-hound. As if the party don't have enough on there hands, along the road from the farmhouse two more hobgoblins and another hound come running - And these ones look even more formidable foes! Feng and Elinor engaged the hobgoblins who flanked the party, while Limara attempted to hold back the new adversaries coming along the road. Unfortunately luck was not on her side and she fell in combat to one of the leaders and his hell hound pet. The two fighters despatched the two minions and hurried to the front to engage. Meanwhile a wounded Rizzit and Beltain attempted to thwart their foes with the use of magic, the kobold with Magic Missiles and the cleric with Spiritual weapons. Feng managed to fell the twin-bladed Hobgoblin but the cleric, Zarr, called in another squad of six hobgoblins and retreated behind them after he had been brough close to death by Feng, Rizzit and Beltain. However Zarr still had a trick or two and summoned yet another Hell hound, this time in the middle of the party. It bounded to the rear to attack and burn Beltain with its fiery bite. Rizzit used magic missiles to great effect and felled more wounded hobgoblins. Meanwhile Beltain had wounded the hell-hound with his sword and then Elinor rode to the rescue killing the beast with a few well-aimed blows, all under a flurry of arrows from the remaining hobgoblins. Worried about Limara's worsening condition Beltain rushed over and healed the worst of her wounds, and rising for the dust, Limara draws more healing magic to bring her into fighting form. Meanwhile Feng and Elinor, now joined by Limara, started to mop up the remaining Hobgoblins. A lucky bowshot fells the plucky kobold but he is quickly restored by a spell from Beltain. Then Limara fells one Hobgoblin and Elinor another and the last Hobgoblin, seeing death approaching, fights no more. The hobgoblin snarls and looks down on the party. Seeing there is no chance to escape, and the rest of his band slaughtered, he drops his bow to the floor and holds his hands up.. pleased with himself that he hurt the kobold as his last strike. Elinor moves to the Hobgoblin, and binds him quick. "WHERE....ARE....YOU....FROM?" she enunciates. "WHAT...ARE....YOU....DOING.....HERE?..And while we're at it, WHERE ARE WE?" The Hobgoblin laughs. He then talks in a gutteral common "You know not where you are human?" "What I know is that we stand here surrounded by your dead and dying companions" Elinor passes her hand across her forehead, unwittingly smearing spatters of blood across her pale skin. "So, I'll ask again, WHERE ARE YOU FROM AND WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" The hobgoblin snarls "You are in hobgoblin country, go back the way you came and you maybe safe... I will say nothing... What am i doing here?... Just guarding the road." "Ha, guarding, you hobgoblins have nothing of value to guard, you are the dross of life. You are nothing and to nothing you will return" exclaims Beltain in disgust as he rushes over and heals Rizzit. The kobolds eyes flicker open. The party begin healing each other. "Thank you all for standing over me when I fell " Limara continues "We need to search these bodies to see if they have anything on them of use to us, maybe some info... and we need to get them out of site too incase the is a patrol nearby...they must have a base around here which might hold some answers .. and a map if we are lucky " she adds. Suddenly, coming down the road, is a familiar character.. Limara looks around at the footsteps she hears "Hello Nos, thought you weren't coming " She says to the Mage. Elinor grins as she sees a familiar figure come into view. "That looks like someone I know" says Elinor, and she jogs up the road towards him. "Robinson. ROBINSON!" Shouts the famiar voice from the distance. "Where is that Horsie?." Elinor smiles at the wizard "I'm finding it hard to believe that you might have lost a horse......what colour is he this time?." "Elinor? Can that really be you?... Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" cries the Pacifistic prestidigitator as he spreads his arms and leaps at Elinor in joy. The mage looks round at the rest of the party. "And Beltain! And Limara! And Rizit! Can it really be my old friends?" says The Wizard Nosnibor joyfully, before noticing a hunking shape in amoungst the cadavors. "Oh. And F-F-Feng too. Oh happy days." Feng grunts by way of reply. The party strip the dead hobgoblins of thier loot, Elinor stands guard over the captured hobgoblin. The Wizard Nosnibor looks around as if he has miss placed something. "Here Pussy Pussy. Has anyone seen my Pussy?" He says innocently. Out of the bushes moves a white cat, it purrs at Nosnibor. "Pussy! Have you been having Poopies? " Says Nosnibor as he picks up his cat. "Who's a good Pussy? Hiding your own Poopies. Good girl." Elinor looks around "Right, shall we go to investigate that building? Might hold the hobgoblin camp. Maybe there are clues there" and she rides on towards the farmhouse, dismounts and looks inside with Beltain following. Inside there are bodies...[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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