Chapter 1: Festival & Fire

Li steps into the middle of the goblins. He kills two of the goblins, wounding the last two.

The warchanter that is able to resist the worst of Li’s attack don’t last long though, as a ball of fire from Saldrina hits it.

Khel uses similar tactic and a ball of fire escapes his hand to envelop the goblin commando. It maneuvers deftly to avoid the blast in the nick of time.

Grimwulf runs forward and dispatches another goblin by making it fly through the air from the impact of his terrifying weapon.

Aldern sees an opening, and scrambles over the dead goblins to get away from the goblins surrounding him. They slash at him, but through more luck than skills he somehow avoids their blows. Aldern sees the mounted goblin and turns to take a wide berth to avoid the goblins again.

They have a lot of fun striking at the nobleman, but sees a much bigger problem in Grimwulf and his even bigger weapon. They charge at him with a mix between battlelust and fear from their commander should they turn and run.

The first one misses, but sets up his companion to make a devastating strike. It’s dogslicer making a cut on his back. A third goblin is able to hit as well, but the armor takes the brunt of the blow.

Meanwhile the goblin next to Li os able to shake loose of his shock and tries to return the favor. It is showing signs at battle fatigue though, as the attack is sloppy and easy for Li to dodge.

Chigaru strides forward, steps on one of the goblin corpses, before knocking one of the remaining goblins over the head. Not hard enough to knock him unconscious, but hard enough to shake it.

Wess moves up on the commando and with one mighty blow sends an axe flying. It hits the goblin commando with enough force to knock it off its mount.

Luna runs up to the closest goblin and flanks it between her and Li. It has no time to react as her blade cuts it across the back and it falls down.

Two of the goblins keeps up their assault on Grimwulf. He is barely able to parry the first dogslicer, leaving himself open to the second goblins’ strike. While his armor takes the brunt of the attack, he is left shaken by the attack.

The final goblin turns his attention to Li, with a mighty swing it is almost able to get through Li’s toughness. Li is also left shaken.

Wess runs forward and with one mighty strike, beheads the commander.

Then Saldrina is able to burn the dog before it have the time to attack Wess.

With their leaders dead, the remaining goblins starts running away and is easy picking to deal with.

As you stand there panting among dead goblins, you can hear silence for the first time in a while. The fighting has died down.

The nobleman runs up to you. "Oh, thank you. How can I repay you!"

"I don't know what a hagfish is," the man says with a puzzled expression. "But you can find me at the Rusty Dragon."

Aldern is taken aback Wess comment. "I-I'm not sure. I guess I looked like a rich target. Who knows what these foul creatures thinks."