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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jon Potter" data-source="post: 1503131" data-attributes="member: 2323">[PLAIN][Realms #265] Goblins in the Night[/PLAIN]Thinking quickly Vade shouted in his most authoritative voice, "Gej-jez! Kot rargad!" He then vanished from the wall beside the slightly dazed Feln. Ledare heard the halfling's words and, since she spoke gobbledy herself, understood that he had just shouted the command to stop shooting and charge the enemy."Zozgat!" another voice from over the wall protested. "Jez rargard!" Moment's later, another flask of alchemist's fire sailed out of the darkness shattering on the ground beside the Janissary, coating her in a sheet of liquid fire. She couldn't hear any more over the sounds of her own cries of pain as she began to roll furiously in the dirt."Oi, from wherst dost those fire globes be fallin'?" Karak grumbled as he scrambled to his feet, instantly awake. He slammed his helmet onto his shaggy head and hefted his waraxe. "Let's ready all, up and up. We are being attacked."As if to lend further credence to his warning, an arrow lanced out of the darkness and buried itself in the dwarf's left calf. Karak looked down at the shaft and scowled.Ixin awoke to find herself on fire! Of course, this was of little concern to her since she carried the blood of red dragons in her veins and was therefore resistant to all but the hottest of flames. Still it was startling and she looked around at her companions. Ledare had already rolled well away from the sorcerer, but Morier was rolling back and forth ineffectually beside her. Ixin reached out with her bare hands and began to beat at the flames that were burning the eldritch warrior."Take cover, Ixin!" Morier warned even as they worked together to smother the flames burning on his chest and shoulder.Karak reached down and yanked the arrow out of his leg and sniffed it once before tossing it aside. "Poison!" he growled. "Gobbo poison! Seems like there be 'ere gobbos in these 'ere woods.  I will attempt to snuff 'em out." He cast a single glance back at Morier, Ixin and Ledare before charging toward the nearest breech in the crumbling wall. "Watch me back, lads. I be goin' in!" and with that, he disappeared into the underbrush with his waraxe gripped tightly in both hands.The nearest goblin let out a warning yelp and fired an arrow at the dwarf, but it struck the tree a full foot above Karak's head.Ledare managed to put out the fire that was threatening to consume her only set of decent sleeping garb. Without getting up, she looked back toward the camp, spied Ravager and her shield balanced against her shiny new breastplate near where she'd been sleeping. She started to belly crawl back toward her equipment even as an arrow thudded into the ground where she'd laid moments before.Finally regaining control of himself, Feln slipped into a state of eerie calm. Without a word, he back-flipped off the top of the wall and landed on his feet below where he proceeded to slap out the flames that were blistering the flesh on the side of his head. The smell of burning hair was horrible. He had time to see, but not react to a goblin who popped up from the underbrush long enough to lob a flask of alchemist's fire in the half-orc's direction. It shattered harmlessly against the wall to his right.Ledare had just reached her weapons when another arrow struck the ground a few feet away, but who it was aimed at was unclear."Cover your ears everybody!" Vade's disembodied voice screamed from somewhere above followed by a grunt as he heaved a thunderstone with all his might toward the source of the voices he had heard. The area he was targeting was pretty thickly overgrown, and very dark, but the thunderstone struck against a tree trunk in the area and shattered. A colossal BOOM! resounded in the forest, sending flocks of birds flying from the trees nearby and causing a scream of goblin pain to rise up in its wake. This, of course, prompted Vade to become visible in the process and anyone who had cared to look would have seen a mischievous grin splitting the halfling's face. That is until the arrow whistled passed his head and the little rogue suddenly realized what a nice target he made now that he could be seen. As he went to activate the Ring of Invisibility, a second arrow graced his right hand and he squealed in pain."Are you alr-" Ixin started to ask and Morier pushed her away as he struggled to get up."Grab your crossbow and take cover behind the wall," the albino insisted as he scrambled over to Karak's bedroll and grabbed the dwarf's light crossbow. "We need to return fire!"The two of them made there way at a stooped run to the edge of the ruins and fired into the woods, hitting nothing.As arrows hissed through the branches above, Karak watched as the goblin struggled nervously with its quiver. The dwarf grinned back at the creature ferally and raised his waraxe. "I ask here an' now for the aid of my ancestors. May they guide me," Karak muttered and brought the blade affectionately to his lips. After planting a kiss, he took a step toward the goblin. "Come 'ere, me wee gobbo. I got a present for ye!"The goblin finally managed to put arrow to string and fired a shaft straight into Karak's torso at point blank range. The dwarf's scowl deepened slightly as he continued to advance on the creature. He didn't spot the second goblin until after the foul creature had sunk a second arrow into the dwarf's already injured leg. It was a much stronger shot than he'd received previously - not enough to truly worry him, but it gave him pause.Ledare snatched up what gear she could and raced for the cover of the ruin wall. With her back pressed against the cold stone, she strapped on her crossbow belt and secured her shield just in time to block another arrow aimed for her chest. This time, however, she saw the breech in the wall that the goblin was using as an impromptu arrow slit, and her eyes narrowed as she unsheathed Ravager.In the darkness behind the ruin, Feln popped a healing draught and brought it to his lips. As the elixir eased his pain, he fixed his eye on the goblin who had thrown the alchemist's fire and dove behind the nearest tree.To Glub, the goblin that had been readying his bow to attack the half-orc, it was as if the forest had drank the martial artist in one silent gulp.</blockquote>

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