2012-02-27 - Ulfgar's Journal
Part of the Story So Far, this is an excerpt from the journal of Ulfgar Firehands.
Ulfgar’s Journal
27/02/12
"After thoroughly ruining the spiders’ nest, we continued on our journey towards the supposed goblin encampment. We ascended a hill at dusk to discover a stone defense with several short figures manning the wall. I watched on as the members of my party discussed how to approach the situation. After rejecting my more subtle suggestion, that other... dwarf... proceeded to throw himself dramatically to the ground several feet from the undergrowth we were occupying. His performance included moans, cries, screams and belches, along with a hand clutched to his heart, and another raised raised to the heavens in supplication. I wasn’t sure that they had bought it. My suspicions were confirmed when they began shooting arrows at his ‘corpse’. I continued to watch on in morbid fascination as Brannok got back off the ground, placed his tower shield in front of him, and then proceeded to have a whispered conversation with the cleric. The conversation went along the lines of:
“So, what now?”
“Balls if I know. Try for a parley.”
At which point, Brannok yelled “Please stop shooting at me!” Which... Did not work. Or so the continued release of arrows would suggest. Having finally shouted the word ‘parley’, the arrows stopped, and there was silence for a short time. The ‘short time’ ended when a pack of three hulking dark worgs slammed directly into the unwary fighter who, to his credit, took it like a champ, while the monk proceeded to hurl out of nowhere into one of our assailants. At this development, I charged forward to the closest beast and shouted a blessing of our god of fury and strength at my brother in arms. This did not apparently help, as his next swing went wildly, and he lost his axe to the mud. In response to this, the worgs took another go at him. By then, the rest of our party had engaged in the fun, and we were able to kill two and wound the third before it got away, and we retreated from the wall, for the moment."
