[Game Thread] Whomping Goblins

[The Fool]

Mihai gives Morgard a lopsided look, amused by the sight of him lifting up the paladin with one hand. "Oh, there you are, Morgard," he says cheerfully. "And here I thought we'd lost you. Yes, you did mention goblins back in Sandpoint, but we were all distracted by the allegedly evil moose. They reinstituted the bounty? Do you know what for?"

[Ehlana]

"Why do people listen to Morgard when he says "Geev me de moose?" but not listen to -me- when I say "Give me the moose."?" Sayuri inquires, though she's not actually in the least doubt as to why. She can't pick up Reon in one hand, for starters. "And don't you start with the "allegedly" on me, Spooky." She gives him a small playful shove, which is probably not even enough to make him wobble. Minx's head swings around, golden gaze fixing on the tassels of Morgard's hat. He kneads Sayuri's shoulder padding excitedly.

[Caput]

"Gdah! Oh, hi." Reon wobbles for a moment after being set down. "To be fair, Sayuri, you never asked me for it, and he technically stole it from me. Thanks for that, by the way Morgard. Evil is heavy. I learned that in paladin school."
He gives the tiefling the kind of thunderous pat on the back that most of his friends learn to dodge. "So yes, the goblins. I'm half expecting them to turn up once we've got the fire lit. Wouldn't be a bad thing to smack 'em around, since they're getting so brave. Gotta remind them that hideous violence is our job."

[Admin RonarsCorruption]

"Hoy, hyu alvays come all die way out to die marsh to hunt goblinks vithout knowink vhy goblinks need huntink?" Morgard rolls his eyes exaggeratedly, not quite sure what he had gotten himself into, "Die goblinks, deys been huntink carafans. Vit fireverks. And vhile die bounty may be all vell and goot, I vant me some excitink fireverks."

A large blackfly had landed on Morgard's outstretched arm while he was talking, but found his red skin far too touch to actually bite through, and flew off once more, back towards the river.

[The Fool]

Mihai gives Morgard a bemused look. "Who said we came out here to kill goblins? We came out here to dump that moose head." As he walks, he scratches the side of his head with a gauntlet-covered hand, then glances at Sayuri, his feet squelching and clanking as he treads through the swampy road.
"But if they've been hunting caravans...we are already out here...what do you think, Sayuri? I mean, Ameiko's already going to kill us...."

[Fragmaster01]

"Now see, there is no reason why we should let some perfectly good fireworks go to waste. We can join in, and convince them not to shoot it at the people. Then everyone can enjoy the show. Right?"

"...right?"
Skieyl is still not entirely convinced on the fact that goblins don't like the Sandpointiers, having never met one himself at a close distance(just that one who's head was stuck in a treehole, which Fuzzbutt found hilarious), and that they consider pointing the *kerblooey*s at people the best of both worlds already. He'll have to be convinced of the necessity of Whomping firsthand, it seems.

[Caput]

Reon facepalms. "Nah, you see, what I keep trying to explain is they're jerks. Crazy jerks. They'll just try and shoot them in your face and eat you. A couple tried to stab me once, for no reason at all. They just keep hitting you until you hit back. Oh, and they think fire makes them invincible, which is pretty hilarious, if you think about it." He brightens up somewhat as he recalls that last nugget of information.

[Ehlana]

"If I had asked you for it, would you have given it to me?" Sayuri asks the aasimar skeptically, giving him a long look. She doesn't even wait for him to answer before turning to Mihai. "Of course. These boneheads would be lost without us." She waves a hand airily at the three "boneheads" in question. "We can't let them go off on their own. It would be irresponsible. Ameiko's always telling me that I need to be -more- responsible, so I don't see where she can complain." She grins impishly and then adds. "So long as we take care of the moose first."

[Caput]

Reon cracks into a cheesy grin. "Of course, Sayuri. How could I ever refuse you?" As she waves her hand to indicate him, he leaps sideways to avoid the gesture, thus escaping his fate as a designated bonehead. "Being lost is a state of mind unique to those with no spirit of exploration. And even if I did get lost, I could always ask Skieyl to take me to Trouble. He always finds his way there."

[Ehlana]

"Ok then, I'm asking you to strip down to your undies and act like a chicken for us." Sayuri retorts, nearly always ready to argue on almost any subject. She could probably be induced to argue for an hour over whether a rainy day sky was gray-blue or blue-gray, under the right set of circumstances. "Really and truly asking you. Now you can tell -me- how you can refuse me. Call me crazy, but I have the feeling you'll find it very easy. Of course, if you're wrong, I'm going to really enjoy the chicken act. Be careful though, Minx or Skieyl might find it -too- convincing and try to eat you."

[The Fool]

Mihai laughs, and he reaches over and gives Sayuri an affectionate pat on the shoulder with his gauntlet-covered hand. "Now I find myself glad you've never asked me to do that," he muses with a grin. Mihai tends to talk with his hands, and his free hand gestures outward as he speaks. "I'd probably do it. Not that it'd be anything you'd never seen before, but still...."

[Ehlana]

Sayuri grins up at Mihai, grabbing hold of his hand for a moment. "Don't -you- start pretending you'd do anything I ask because I know better. You've got better sense. And to prove it, I'm -asking-. Will -you- strip down to your undies and do a chicken dance with Reon? Pretty please with chocolate frosting on top?" She giggles and hugs his arm before letting him go, confident of her victory in the argument.

[The Fool]

He laughs again. "Well, when you put it that way," he concedes with a grin. He then scowls and waves his hand, shooing away more mosquitoes. "And I'm pretty sure a person would shrivel up like a prune from getting all the blood sucked out if they stripped down here. I hate mosquitoes...."

[Admin RonarsCorruption]

"Hyu yust haff veak skin." Morgard taunts. He knew his skin wasn't actually that much thicker than the others - but certainly enough thicker that he has yet to feel a single real bug bite while they've been out here.

[Mal Radagast]

Whew...it's early still, an on an early April - I'm working on a calendar, by the way.Gozran day - if it's this hot now, there's sure to be a hard storm later. A few heavy-looking clouds are sailing slowly in to shadow that thought. While Gozreh's blessing may not please everyone, it certainly helps Mihai to No penalties from Albino, for now.see, and reduces Reon's shine to more of a burnished gleam.

All around the banks of Cougar Creek had turned to a marsh of its own in the recent snowmelt months - each thicket becoming a dangerous bit of swamp - but the bridge is past now, and the marsh recedes for a while. Ahead, the Lost Coast Road runs dry and wide, before it swerves to avoid the great muckle of the Brinestump Marsh. What lies behind you seems positively tame by comparison - flies and mosquitos, psh. Not even dire mosquitos. This place up ahead looks like it ought to have a sign on it - something like 'Beware the Marsh' or 'Enter at Own Risk' - only that would be foolish, because anyone who couldn't already tell that by looking at it probably wouldn't benefit from a sign.

Where the Road swerves, a small offshoot runs up along a rough sandstone ridge. 'Trail' is probably more accurate a word than 'path,' but whatever it is, it does present the least obstruction to the best view of the place. Hiking up along the gritty trail, you get the feeling that those little tufts of dune-grass are the only things keeping it from dissolving down into the basin...that it wants to, even, being so dry up here and so very wet down there. Still, the ridge does not dissolve, and our five hearty adventurers - six, if you count the moose - have a clear-ish (which is to say, murky) view of Marsh at large.

DM So, you're standing somewhere along the southern ridge of the marsh, which is raised up considerably from sea-level. You can see the Road behind you, winding away further south, as well as the Soggy River, doing the same. The river then breaks up all along the marsh and empties into Sog's Bay, which empties into the Varisian Gulf, which empties into the Arcadian Ocean (or the southern bit of the Steaming Sea, depending on how you look at it). Two of you have been this way before, I believe - that would be Skieyl and Sayuri - and have that information in your private threads. Hence, two paths are un-blurred.