Vong’s words propel the others into action and the group starts shambling over toward the captives. I’m standing in the way, suddenly feeling as though I need to protect the goblins from a fate worse than death. If we return to town now, we will have failed to patrol our area for a second time. We’d be showing up four… Read more →
Vong’s curiosity seems to have got the better of him and he comes up beside me and asks, “What are they saying?” “I’m not finished. Go,” I command, but he stands there gawking at the goblins. “Hey, the other one is awake. Should I try to wake up the last guy?” he asks.Is he trying to be helpful to me… Read more →
Vong shrugs at Ralith’s suggestion to take the goblins into town and says, quite non-committally, “It’d be nice to know that they know something before walking all the way back. And since Zer can—,” “Zer Khaldun.” “—talk to goblins it’ll save us a lot of trouble, you know?” He looks at me like a friend and asks, “What can we… Read more →
Without conferring with the party, Vong ties up the goblins that are still alive: four in total, though I’m not sure the one that was incapacitated from a blow to the head will pull through. Ralith tends to the relatively minor wounds that Vong, Pil, and Twitch received in the melee. Rakatha and myself are unharmed. The two conscious goblins… Read more →
Once the canopy of the trees encloses us, it’s much easier to see through the shadowed underbrush. What’s more, the tunnel created between the treetops and the ground echo the sounds of the forest more readily. Not long after entering the forest, I begin to hear something that sounds like voices, however it’s too indistinct to tell anything about the… Read more →
Morning comes with a blanket of fog. Ralith prays to Risha to receive her blessing and her magic. He is able to finish administering healing to the group. After a good meal and night’s rest, we are all brought back to full health. My salve had done quite a nice job soothing the infection on my cuts, but I am… Read more →
Before I even get close enough to peer down into the well’s depths, the spell reveals that it, and the ground surrounding it, is contaminated. It cannot show me if the poisons are the same, so I cannot totally rule out the possibility that the well simply became septic or putrefied by some natural process. As I gaze past the… Read more →
As Twitch and Vong gather materials for the fire, I decide to look for more clues among the burned out husk of the farmstead. Taking in the scene from close-up, something is nagging at my mind. There were human victims in both of the farm houses, but there was no pile of bodies by the door like one would expect… Read more →
We circle back around to the far end of the northern field just in time to see an ashy-green head bob through a thicket. I am not the only one who saw it, it seems, as Rakatha and Vong draw their swords quietly. Twitch goes low and rushes to the far side of the brush to flank. Just as she… Read more →
My gaze wanders through the campsite and I notice Ralith looking possibly more lost than Pil. Is it his first time outside of the city walls? I make a note not to get injured. Twitch is hunkered down awkwardly next to Vong looking, for all intents and purposes, keen on shanking and robbing the young aristocrat for nothing but his… Read more →