Re: Chapter 1: Festival and Fire
Seeing the goblins swarming poor Eliza, Jasna and Ophilia moved to help. Ophilia hexxed one to reduce it's danger while Jasna used an improbable surge of sea water conjured from dry land to push the other far away from the Tiefling. Rini's enchanted club crushed one of the threatening goblins, allowing her to move in on the warchanter. Meanwhile Cormac's own tripping assault left the goblin bard prone on the ground.
Leleanne channeled her healing power again, and Eliza used her extract to fully heal herself (everyone is fully healed).
The warchanter struggled back to his feet, but merely opened himself up to the arcing swing of Rini's enchanted club which very nearly took his head clean off. He certainly wasn't getting up again.
The remaining goblins, seeing their leader nearly decapitated dropped their weapons and ran. The two near Eliza got away to down the road to the south, while the one between Rini and Cormac fled to the North, narrowly escaping the diminutive halfling's own attack of opportunity on his fleeing backside.
End Combat, everyone is full health, Leleanne is down to 2 channels I think if I did my math right...
As the group catches their breath, it's clear that things at the festival itself have calmed somewhat, but that the attack isn't over yet. Here and there, the sounds of battle, clanging swords, calls of support by the town guard, and shrieking and singing goblins echo through the streets, but at the festival itself, in the courtyard in front of the new cathedral, most of the citizens have fled. One or two goblins remain behind to scavenge food in the tents at the edge of the open space, and many more lie dead, along with a few unfortunate citizens of Sandpoint.
Suddenly a scream and pleading cry for help echoes from the North end of the clearing, along with frantic barking. The opposite direction from 'Brimstone and Spirits'.