I search through the deceased dwarf's belongings and find a notebook. This indeed is Phones Starchampion, the same dwarf that the villager in Sensedied was talking about. Looks like we share the same goal, the big mountain range in the southwest. Phones got his orders from the King himself. I however, well.. ever since I had that horrible nightmare about getting killed by a band of kobolds, I've had this overwhelming feeling that I must get to those mountains. I feel it's my destiny.
This dwarf needs a proper tomb, I can't leave him down here. I'm thinking of carrying his body with me. It's a long journey, but I'm also much stronger now, thanks to my training.
But not just yet. My human companions are still somewhere in these dungeons and I think I heard some noises below. I head back to the big room with statues, and find my companions. Usmik is in bad shape, I think both of her legs are broken.
Me and Zoku decide to take a quick peek downstairs. As we enter another room, I spot a goblin axeman and attempt to sneak closer. From the darkness, an arrow flies and hits Zoku. She tries to shoot back with her crossbow. I can't see how many goblins there are in the dark, but they can obviously see the big human and they have long-range weapons. We retreat back into a smaller room. The goblin axeman follows and starts swinging his axe at Zoku, injuring her. I stab the goblin with my spear but can't do much damage. So I resort to martial arts again and quickly strangle the goblin unconscious.
A bowgoblin enters the room and starts shooting at Zoku. She's already badly injured and I try to help her by throwing sharp rocks at the bowgoblin, breaking its leg and disabling it. I grab a battle axe from the unconscious axegoblin and finish the goblin bowman, and then the axegoblin itself.
Zoku is bleeding badly and in great pain. Suddenly she calls me
a romantic virgin and something about
maws ?! I have no idea what she means by that, she's only barely conscious and probably can't think straight.
There might still be goblins left in the bigger room so I pick up a bow from the dead bowgoblin and open the door, instantly spotting a goblin maceman nearby. I don't want to go further into the dark room so I stand on the doorway and start shooting arrows at the goblin.
Then all hell breaks loose. Usmik appears from behind, she has managed to crawl downstairs, and she's got company. More goblins! Bolts start flying from the darkness, Usmik gets shot in the head and she drops her weapon. It's not looking good for her.
I've been hiding in the shadows for the whole time, but now one of the goblins suddenly spots me and soon I have three goblins all over me. In the ensuing chaos I try to disable and disarm them as fast as I can. Facing many opponents, I enter a weird trance-like state of mind that I've only heard rumors of.
A goblin maceman gets through my defences and strikes me on my right side. I'm having trouble breathing and I'm holding a pike I grabbed from another goblin and I can't figure out how to use it properly. Luckily the goblin maceman dodges away from me as I try to strike it, giving me a second to breathe and also to help Usmik by throwing rocks at her attackers. A goblin swordsman attacks me but I manage to disarm it.
I strangle another goblin unconscious, pick up my trusty spear, and start stabbing the goblins, trying to disable them by targetting their legs and weapon arms.
Finally I'm the only one standing. The goblins are all either dead, unconscious or squirming on the floor in pain. I make sure they stay down.
We regroup after the battle and head back to upstairs. Both my human companions are badly crippled. I'm not feeling so great either.
Usmik, being badly wounded, manages to crawl the stairs up and then stops breathing. Me and Zoku decide to leave her corpse behind, it's too dangerous to drag a heavy human body around, there might still be goblins here. We find our way back to the keep and rest for a few hours.
After a few hours of rest I can breath again, Zoku is also looking much better and she can stand up again. We head back downstairs in the hope of retrieving Usmik's body. When we get past the dead dwarf's body, I spot a goblin standing next to it. I quickly take the goblin down. The corpse of the previous goblin guard is still there. Looks like they got reinforcements really fast.
We decide it's best to retreat while we still can. We can't retrieve Usmik's body, but we can at least take the dead dwarf's corpse with us. We drag the body and all his belongings upstairs and place them them in the entrance hall of the keep. We'll pick them up later when we leave the town.
Yes, it's about time to leave this town, and maybe pay a visit to that outlaw hiding in the woods nearby. But first we have to restock our food supply. We head out to get some berries from farmers and suddenly spot a goblin in the middle of the town, in plain daylight! The lone goblin has no chance against both of us. We find a dead human laying in the ground nearby. I wonder what's going on in this town, goblins running around murdering people.
I relieve the dead human from her coins. Finders, keepers. Back in the marketplace, I sell my leftover plant seeds and then try to buy the crutch I was admiring earlier, but the trader only demands more. Maybe I can buy it if I sell the goblin's belongings first.
But the night is already falling so we head back to a farmer's house to get some sleep. It's been a very long day. I slew ten goblins today. The late Usmik got one and Zoku killed two goblins.
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