Episode 4: A Pretty Good Deal
Adventure Recap:
After saving the goblin children from being turned into soup, the heroes take some time to explore Black Eye Village. Lenny goes in search of work to fulfill her need for money. She encounters a goblin selling armor, and notices a shiny chain mail shirt. Using her great bartering skills, she manages to get the armor, some furs and some boots. The merchants tell her that the chief has some jobs that she could do. She goes to him and convinces him that she is a might warrior. Being impressed, he asks her to go back into the woods and investigate the infernal things that have been happening.
She finds Gerrig, who has stayed at the hut to investigate the stuff he acquired from human wizard. Lenny asks him if he would live to help her "save the world" and mentions that if they don't go on this quest the humans could be in great danger. He tells Lenny a very personal secret, and reveals that even though he may give off the appearance of a human he wasn't a human. The decided not to tell Tort about this at the moment.
Lenny and Gerrig take off to find Tort, who has been aimlessly riding her badger, Nibs, around the town. When they ask her if she wants to help them "save the world", she tells them that she doesn't care about the humans. This causes some slight awkward tension, but she agrees to go with them. The group decides to find Garthok, who they left tied up in the woods. Hoping she would have some insightful information, they go talk to the village shaman, Heglak. She is actually rather helpful, and tells them that it is against Garthok's nature to resort to cannibalism. She fondly pats Tort on the head as the group thanks her and heads off to find Garthok.
While they are walking through the woods, Lenny hears something rustling in the woods nearby. The group proceeds cautiously, but are ambushed by a small group of goblins. Brakis, the leader of the group, tells them to give them all of their weapons. Tort starts drawing her bow to aim at the goblins in the trees, and then recognizes Brakis. He tells her to stop drawing her bow or the archers will shoot. Thinking he is bluffing, she continues drawing her bow. One of the archers hits her and manages to wound her.
Lenny tries to intimidate Brakis, but doesn't succeed. She notices on that Brakis has the same infernal symbol freshly branded on his arm. The group struggles to get out of the situation. Finally, Gerrig manages to get a hold on one of the henchmen, and accidentally kills him. Seeing their comrade get killed, the rest of the goblins take off into the woods.
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