Goblins? What a Joke!

We left the village and started heading to where the villagers were known to be last spotted. The sun is still up and I know that we would take hours to reach our destination. It was quiet trip, since we're rogues. We stay quiet for the stealthy travel.

After just travelling for hours. Ravenna signals us to stop then points up to the trees. We immediately know what it meant, so we started climbing the trees. Then she signaled us to stay hidden. Which is pretty easy since we're rogues and hiding is something we're good at. The closest to me was Sephsevel. The tree she's on is literally beside my tree. While Razz and Domotraus are 40ft away from me. We traveled in a two-one-two formation. Ravenna being in the middle while Sephsevel and I are on the right side, and Razz and Domotraus are on the left side. So while on the trees, we still kept formation. I had my eye on Ravenna to see her next signal, and it was to watch around. I watched around for quite a while and started hearing rustling in the bushes nearby on Razz's side. Soon two humanoid creatures in green coloured skin. With like a sharp chin and pointy ears. They would both be holding short swords and wearing leather armor. I looked at Ravenna waiting for the signal to attack. Instead she gave a signal to stand by. Soon after, 2 more goblins join them with the same equipment. This confirmed that there was a goblin hideout nearby, and they did kidnap the other villagers. Well, that is what the village elder said. Usually as rogues we wait for the right time to strike them, and we'd attack them at their weakpoints. But knowing that they did take the villagers, it made me have this weird urge to play the offensive and take them down at this spot. I was confident that we could, since it's a 5 on 4 with all of us being rogues. We didn't do anything and stood by. After some time, the goblins left heading south, which is where we came from. We assumed they were gonna attack the village. We let them off the hook knowing the village can defend itself from mere goblins. We started climbing down and continue heading north to the goblin hideout.

That was our very first encounter of goblins. Was it the right decision to not attack them? I honestly really wanted to make the first strike, sadly we at this point in the quest we have to make the right and best decision that will benefit the whole squad. As we travel I started noticing traces of muddy footprints. We decided to follow it then it lead us to the cave of where the goblins are known to be hiding. There would be two goblins outside the cave, but they look asleep so I went ahead and did the honor of putting their soul to rest.

"So do we still put up a camp?" I ask

"No, change of plans, we're going in. These goblins must be asleep while it's still day. We can take them out while we can." Ravenna replies back.

I was so in agreement to the plan. I glance towards Razz because I had a feeling he'd be into the plan, but he seemed to be distracted once again. Staring into the sky again. I approach him and give him a tap.

"Stay focused on the quest." I say to him.

"Right. Will do." He replies back

Sephsevel casts the Light spell, then a small orb of light appeared in front of the party. We enter the cave with the light shining 30ft away from us.

This is the part where I hate being human, I can't see anything in the dark. Only the girls in the group can see in the dark, while we weak guys can't. We all stayed quiet, which was pretty boring but then again, we are rogues after all. We can't be rogue if we're noisy right? Anyways, we've travelled for about a few minutes, and hello path. The path split into two. One going left and one going right. I waited for Ravenna to decide where we go. Just imagine what this group would be without Ravenna's leadership, we'd be so done for.

I took a peek at the right path and saw a bit of light. It was a Goblin carrying a torch heading towards our direction. The goblin had a short sword ready on his other hand, while walking towards us. We were pretty used to this kind of situation. Sephsevel aimed her hand crossbow at the approaching goblin while I prepared my 50ft rope. As soon as Sephsevel made her shot. As the bolt flew across the cave. Domotraus and Razz rushed towards the Goblin. The Bolt hits the Goblin's right eye. As soon as the bolt Domotraus and Razz did a cross slash on that Goblin with their Daggers. The Goblin falls to the ground and dies.

I picked up the torch and noticed something strange from the sword of the goblin. It had blood on it, fresh blood.

"Looks like we weren't the only intruders here." I tell to the group and I show them the bloody short sword.

"Or they just recently killed off the captured villagers." Sephsevel remarks.

"Let's be optimistic about this, who knows maybe they killed each other off! They are goblins after all." Razz mentions jokingly.

Ravenna stays quiet and continues moving forward. We follow behind her as she walks. And there we find something horrible...