Mordred twitches slightly, and he scowls slightly, raising his hand to his chin. "Hmm. If they only have about fifteen people, that should make this easier, if we're careful. We don't have to kill them all--just make this venture unprofitably dangerous, so completely killing even one patrol could be very significant. At least significant enough to make them more cautious, which grants us much more time. Kill two, and that's probably at least half their force dead, on an operation that was supposed to be a cakewalk. We shouldn't need to do any more than that. The difficulty is in ambushing those patrols..."
Mordred snaps his fingers "There's several ways we could do that. You two-" he points a finger at Clunkers and Terrence each "-have farseeing magic, right? Could it be used to locate them, or predict which path they will take up here? That would be the best method. I could also use this-" Mordred pulls a small gem from his coat pocket, holding it in front of his face momentarily "-to allow Jack to invade the mind of one of the commanders while he sleeps. Not to control him, though that would be very useful if he could accomplish it, but to steal knowledge of their schedule. Actually, we might want to try that even if we can use magic to predict the path a patrol will take, both for redudancy, and because we might be able to warn the goblins about any patrol that strays too close. Even if both those plans fail, we can always just have someone who is stealthy watch their camp, and warn us of any patrol that leaves. Arileth you..." Mordred looks around, and scowls "Where is that damnable elf?! Idiot. No matter, Jack, you can act as an effective scout, yes?"