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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jon Potter" data-source="post: 1503840" data-attributes="member: 2323">[PLAIN][Realms #266a] Exchanging Glances[/PLAIN]Vade activated the Ring of Invisibility and did his own disappearing act. Moments later, safely cloaked by magic, he raced down the side of the wall and headed toward Ixin and Morier - the only two of his companions he could see in the darkness. He could dimly make out Ledare moving toward an opening in the ruined wall and saw her bat away another arrow with her shield. Draelond's big, jagged sword was in her right hand.Ixin worked to pull back the string on her crossbow, and the weapon slipped out of her hands, launching itself up and over her head by the very tension in its bowstring. It nearly clipped her nose as it went flying to land with a thud ten feet behind her."Nothing fancy, Ixin," Morier deadpanned and raised his borrowed crossbow. He fired into the trees, hitting nothing.Karak, had no such trouble. He closed quickly with the goblin in front of him, striking true with every ounce of his strength and every bit of his race's contempt for goblinkind. It was difficult to discern just where the blow had landed on the creature; there was more of the goblin splattered on the nearby trees than was left inside its ratty leather armor.Ledare saw her quarry dart away from the narrow gap in the ruined wall and she altered her course to intercept. She stepped up onto a bit of fallen rubble and vaulted lightly over the wall, landing easily five feet away from the startled goblin. It didn't get a chance to cry out, however, before Ledare brought Ravager up in a cruel arc. The sword split the creature literally in half, its saw-toothed blade seeming almost to relish the carnage."Dakar ot, kez," the goblin who had already injured Karak hissed as he nocked another arrow and sent it the dwarf's left bicep."Not today," Karak answered as he fixed the goblin with his steely gaze. The creature moved off into the underbrush and disappeared from Karak's sight.Ixin cried out as she moved to retrieve her crossbow and suffered an arrow to her left fore arm.Glub the goblin put down his crossbow and drew his shortsword and dagger. He knew well, the way of the hunt, and knew that the half-orc would be closing with him to engage in hand-to-hand. That was the way of orcs. But Glub was a goblin and he preferred the silent and swift arrow to the messy complication of-His thoughts were cut short by Feln's foot slamming into the back of his head. The goblin cried out and pitched forward, but recovered quickly enough to slash the half-orc's shin with its shortsword.Ledare dodged an arrow meant for her head. All it did was mark the archer in her sight and she moved toward the goblin with her sword ready.Ixin reached her crossbow and was reaching for it when she heard the whirring sound nearby. An instant later, Vade appeared from nowhere with his sling extended in his hand. The sound of breaking glass followed by the horrible wail of a creature in mortal agony alerted her to the goblin archer that had been shooting at her from a breach in the wall. Vade had made use of his last glass sling bullet and the goblin was quickly reduced to a pile of steaming goo by the concentrated acid within the missile."That is what they get for messing with my friends," the halfling said grimly."Thank you," Ixin said, somewhat taken aback by the halfling's attack. She stooped to pick up her crossbow and then moved to return to her position on the wall when Morier fired an arrow through the throat of the goblin Ledare had targeted.Suddenly without any obvious opponents, Ledare called out to Karak, who she could see nearby. "Are there more?" she asked."I lost one o' the wee buggers," the dwarf crumbled, sweeping his axe through the underbrush in the hopes of drawing the creature out. "It got away.""Ixin? Morier?" Ledare shouted, moving back toward their campsite. "Are you alright?""We're fine," Morier called back. "Battered a bit, but otherwise fine.""What about my buddy Feln?" Vade cried out and a goblin head thudded to the ground near the halfling's feet. The goblin's head had been twisted off its body.Feln dropped down from the top of the wall and moved easily toward them."That's the last of the ones on my side," he told them before looking pointedly at the halfling. "No more talking while on duty, Vade," he said with a frown.</blockquote>

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