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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DemonZero" data-source="post: 2952724" data-attributes="member: 42172">Eight Goblins, One Idiot, and a KittyThe six become five. Estacia walks off into the woods when they were traveling down the road and did not come back (the player was dating one of the others, they broke up, it was unfortunate, <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />). The rest of the group wonders why Estacia walked off. She didn’t say anything, just kind of left. They shrug and continue along the road.The rest of them continued on to the point in the road where Alexis had told them they’d have to leave and enter into the woods. Very soon after entering they found themselves being shot by creatures they couldn’t see. It took a little while, but they eventually managed to spot all their attackers and either kill or scare them off.The goblins who were shooting at them were not very good at hitting things through the cover of the trees. They work for Negredo and mostly their shots are meant to scare off travelers and keep them from entering the woods. Negredo and his stronger henchmen were not with them, so they were not looking to draw out the fight. When the party found some of the Goblins and fought back the ones who survived ran away. They left behind their dead companions and a large burlap sack two of them had been dragging along.The party searched the bodies of the Goblins and found a few coins and some small-sized equipment. Upon opening the sack they found something entirely different. An Elven woman was unconscious within it, her hands tied together and mouth gagged. The party stopped for a moment to wake her up and find out what had happened. The woman’s name is Mielianna Silvertree and she is a librarian from the nearby Elven Kingdom. She had never been outside the Elven lands and thought it would be a good idea to expand her knowledge by actually going out into the world and getting some “field data.” Joining her in her journey is her familiar, a cat named Ms. Kitty Softpaws. She thought it would be interesting to have a conversation with the Goblins and came to the conclusion that they are very hostile toward Elves for some undetermined reason.Mielianna agrees to help the party out for rescuing her. She has some skill in magic and all sorts of obscure knowledge in her head gained over 110 years. She utilized this knowledge for the group almost immediately by forgetting that krenshar hunt in packs. About half a mile into the woods one of the feline creatures sneaks around behind them and jumps into view, pulling the skin on his head back and screeching horribly. This sends Shinobu running into the woods screaming. The rest of the party draws their weapons to fight the krenshar, not terribly concerned since there’s only one, but it immediately runs back into the woods and they lose it.Shinobu, on the other hand, soon finds himself surrounded by three other krenshar. They bite and claw Shinobu and he loses consciousness just as the other party members arrive. A battle naturally ensues in which most of the krenshar are brought down by Kaori (she truly is the most powerful of the team, wielding a greatsword with two hands and power attacking for massive damage. I’m hoping the rest of the party can outshine her when they reach higher levels). Glim sings and they are inspired. Aurora quickly stabilized Shinobu and joined in the fighting (the other powerful character, good fighter, good spells, and the hardest to hit of the group). Alonso also joins in the fighting. Mielianna, after seeing the three other Krenshar, remembers that they tend to hunt in packs and announces this to the group. They all give Mielianna a cute “you’re such an idiot and I hate you” look.A few more krenshar arrive, are quickly put down, and finally the big mamma krenshar arrives. She is a large-sized version of a krenshar, sees her fallen children, and promptly attacks the party. Already weakened from fighting the other cats, a few of the heroes are knocked out, but the party ultimately they overcome the beast.With this battle done with, everyone decides to rest for the night and heal up before taking on Negredo and his gang. Their sleep is not interrupted and everyone wakes up the next morning ready to continue. Aurora and Mielianna prepare their spells and the party sets off.</blockquote>

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