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Captain's Log. 16th of Moonstone.
Today the goblins brought a proper army. I've ordered the gates sealed and have equipped myself and all soldiers with crossbows.
Unfortunately, Eden, Nok and Doren were outside at the time.
Rather than wait for us to open the gates, they engages the goblin threat head on.
Events of the 16th of Moonstone.
With Doren leading the charge, they rushed towards the nearest group, containing mostly goblin hammermen.
Dodging two arrows on the way in, he stabbed the first goblin he came to through the head.
With Doren causing a major disturbance in the goblin ranks, Eden and Nok rushed forward to assist.
Doren at this time had lost his spear in some goblin, and was now actively involved in punching them and twisting them into brutal shapes.
He barely noticed the other two joining him as he retrieved his spear from the goblin 'holding' it.
The remaining goblins of that squad broke moments after their comrades began being hacked apart by Eden and run through by Nok.
The trio chased the squad until satisfied the next group could be targeted, but found they had been discovered rather sooner than they had anticipated as a bolt zinged past them.
"Eden, there's like... twenty of them." noted Nok.
"Not scared are you?" asked Eden, smiling.
"No, I just thought we should move towards them. This area is full now." she replied, pointing at the mounds of goblin corpses now surrounding.
Doren guffawed, and said "That's the spirit. There's only twenty of them... or so!"
Once more the trio charged the goblins. This time facing two whole squads on their own.
Goblin axemen and lashers swarmed them, and they were in the midst of a sea of green bodies, all trying to kill them.
The goblins had come at them in spear formation, which, Doren later noted, was ironic, because of the extreme number of deaths he himself had caused.
It took no more than the deaths of half the goblins to drive them off, and the trio of heroes were saturated in goblin blood by the end of it.
"I feel... sticky." said Nok, conversationally.
"Yes." grumbled Doren, "Can we go inside now?"
"Very well, comrades," said Eden, "lets go wait by the gate. Surely this siege must almost be over."
They returned to the gates to find themselves mistaken.
Captain Ironblood spoke to them from on top of the fortifications. They were, it seemed, preparing for an offensive against the crossbow goblins to the southeast, and Eden and his men were more than welcome to join the combined front as evening took the field.