RP turn it is!
Turn 0.1: When warning shots go wrong."Hey! Short-ears!"
Mira looked at the group - they all turned to face the insulter. Why did goblins have to be synonymous to elves?
"Leave the merchant alone, bandit."
Valius cleared his throat loudly, approaching the gaggle.
"What seems to be the problem here?" he asked, looking at the goblins and elf.
Valius's negotiating and Mira's demand ring out, causing the goblins and elf to redirect their attentions to the group. However...
"Now, my friends, is that a way to talk to a fellow sentient as ourselves?." the click clack of a musket echoed off the old, crumbling walls of the castle guarding the dungeon. "You goblins have thirty seconds to move away from the shopkeeper or I'm going to get impolite."
[1] You try to fire a warning shot, but something in the mechanism jams. The resulting shockwave knocks you off your feet, as smoke pours out of the barrel.
The goblins start laughing.
"Come on, fire that kzting again, I'm a nice big target!"
"That klkzer couldn't hit the broad side of a castle!"
"What a band of plkzes!"
Somewhat red-faced, you inspect your gun... fortunately the problem is just that you ended up loading a rock instead of proper ammunition. Putting a real bullet in, you can be reasonably confident that won't happen again.
Intimidate Gobs silently, drawing my sword.
[3] Sadly, the goblins are not exactly intimidated after Valkyrie's display of marksmanship.
After that bit of failure, the goblin leader calls out
"Heh, you zkters think you're so tough? We own this territory here, and no band of klxkers can take it away from us! Lucky for you we're busy dealing justice to pointy ears here, so leave now and we'll let you xtksers live."They wave their weapons around threateningly and advance, while the spear goblin stays back to guard the merchant.