Foursday, 4th Hand of Reaping, AN263
The battle was short, but brutal, after throwing a single sling bullet, I was immediately pelted with an arrow, which sheared through my left side and left a gaping hole. Using my robes to slow the bleeding, I laid low for the rest of the combat, not wanting to exhaust precious spells. Before long the rest of the group had mopped up the rest of the goblins, and Vissia took care of my wounds. Then, before we could proceed further, we heard footsteps, so we took positions to deal with the next wave. I saw a huge gnoll, the fattest, stinkiest, goblin ever, along with another, I let loose a color spray hoping to knock them out, only the spell only blinded the fat one, looks like I had a long way to go to master the spell's strength.
Right after that the strangest thing happened, Vissia planted herself in front of the gnoll screaming “If you wish to harm the Earl, you will have to go through me first!” and then the gnoll clocked her on the head sending her to the ground like a rag doll. It was not a pretty sight. Not too much longer then earl (insert name) showed himself, and put a stop to our battle. After healing Vissia and putting forth the truce, eventually the Earl's subordinate came out to talk to us, and then eventually the earl himself. Explaining he was negotiating with the goblins, he invited us back to his camp, where we explained to him what had happened recently with the kingdom, extremely distraught by all the news, he bade us kill the goblins as they had not acted in good faith, and that he had to immediately return to the capital.
Fivesday, 4th Hand of Reaping, AN263
The next day, with a new task set before us, I couldn't help shake the feeling something was wrong about this whole encounter. We still couldn't explain what had made Visia defend the earl like a zealot, and she even let the Earl bed her that night, even I had this immense feeling that the Earl should have been the next king, but I've never thought like that before. It all just didn't make much sense, but we had no choice but to accept it.
After accepting the Earl's subordinate to help us, we headed back for the Goblins camp, Callisto was lagging behind so I moved further behind to figure out what he was up to only to find out he had a communication device with the Wardkeeper. We explained what we had found out, and the Wardkeeper told us to be wary as we dispatched the goblins.
We decided an ambush was our best bet, so we entered the goblins hovel pretending we were going to be paying them, and then right when they were close together, we sprung our trap! Using my color spray I subdued several goblins, and the fight with the gnoll was on. He nearly cleaved Vissia apart, but after a couple of my magic missiles, and several other attacks from the others, he went down. Everyone else rushed to defeat the rest of the goblins, but Visia walked up to the unconscious Gnoll, and healed him! It was unbelievable! I called out to the others, and Siegfried rushed back in, knocking Vissia into the water of the goblins den, she then proceeded to touch him and Siegfried visibly shriveled up and fell in a heap. She then started making a weird face and stroking the gnolls snout as it woke up.
The rest of the group arrived as Vissia told us she had entranced it, and we began questioning the gnoll. We learned a few things, the most interesting that the Earl's daughter had set up the attack on our caravan, and that there was plans for the Earl to take the throne, not the rightful heir. Soon after, we learned the goblins leader had escaped. It was a lot to take in, and now, we had to try to put the pieces together.
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