Hey! We're here! Halmir!

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We're here! There is a goblin town! What are we gonna do?
When the locals are asked, they recommend the Silent Dancer or the Wheezing Dragon to stay.
We decide to stay at the Wheezing Drake.
 
We chat with the crier and hear a bunch of crap.
And a sick goblin, but nobody knows what. Because they're goblins.
The Goblin quarter is south of the chest & bakers guild.
 
It's a freezing ass Thursday. We warm up and go to the goblin area.
We get jumped by more of these mud guys. We sure do see alot of them.
They seem to be ganging up on me this time.
Wha'd I do?
 
We beat the muddies, and get to the goblin area. Jox is very old and sick. Alot of pain. Suffering a great deal.
He seems to be about 90. Which is far older than a goblin is supposed to live.
While Lightface is checking him, he grabs me and says "kill me"
 
I ask if he's seen my symbol. He obviously recognizes it, touches it, and fell asleep.
Like he touched the holy man. Lightface tells him his story. Old man falls asleep.
Bogdan goes to get a bottle of booze, and Yopo tries to ask around about medicine.
 
He says that I'm doomed. "You are trapped between the divines"
"You'll start yearning to do their work, be careful, you're teammates will suffer the same fate as you."
"Be careful, they're drawn to you, they'll demand your attention"
"You don't understand...hand me my dagger"
"May become violent if you don't help them. You must hide in public."
 
Jox grabs me, and struggles to say the words "Seek the warsong, bring our people to power...."...and he dies.
 
A goblin tells us " It's the tribe we escaped from. The Warsong is a warband. They're in Warsong Mountain.
Follow the cold wind. they're northeast of here."
 
We drink rum. We fall down. We wake up cranky.
 
We return to the goblin area, and try to learn the funeral rituals.
They burn bodies here.
"We're aware of the blood ritual, but Elder Jox said we should do that ritual anymore."
 
They light the funeral pyre, and they push it to the side once it's out. They don't say anything. They just light it up and walk off.
They don't know the cities ways, they just live next to it.
 
We wander around Halmir looking for bards, knowledgeable people....even old folks. Asking about the Warsong.
We get nothings, and end up at the Thugs Greatsword.
Human Female "Marny" 5'8 - 130lbs - strawberry blonde hair.
She sings us a song....in dwarven...a battle of dwarves and goblins... the dwarves slaughtered the goblins. It was the Warsong Tribe. Duren's Rangers were the dwarves.
 
I go to the church of light - meet Evartus - I am the bishop here.
"Val had a great burdon."
"Goblins used to talk to their ancestors through their family spirits."
 
We return to the goblins to see if they have a shaman.. it was Jox. He's dead.
They don't have a new Shaman. They're leaving all their older ways behind.
 
I sneak away, and root through the funeral pyre ashes. I grab a bone fragment. I eat it to honor my goblin rituals.
I grab bone chunks for Yopo and the rest of the group.
As I eat it, my green symbol fades away even more.

We return to the Wheezing Drake.
Marny is here playing the warrsong song. The innkeeper loves it. Because he's a dwarf.
 
There's a goblin drinking here. He looks tough. He's wearing bracers and a wizardy hat.
I am from Dragons Gate. Mik Mik is his name.
He tells us his tale, and we tell him our tale.
He fought in the war, fought in the Zot war.
I show him my symbol. He doesn't know what it is.
He runs the pet store here in town. He tells us his story.
He's very "eeyore"
 
If we go back to goblin town, tell them all I'm okay.
"I you can stay you can help them find a purpose."
With Jox dead, they'll fade away into nothing. Their souls are lost.
Jox took their purpose away, but never gave them any new purpose.

We go back to the temple of light. Ask about our blood ritual.
It's not canabalism.
 
"Always talk to the light, never to the dark"
Lines/runes glow on her neck.
"they are personal"
 
We go back to the goblin area, and we buy lots of food that isn't garbage.
We spend time with the goblins. A week or two.
They're grateful. They take our food.
 
They talk about life is ho-drum. Some get work as laborers.
We talk to them.
We get caught in the rain. We shelter what we can, and keep people dry.
 
We spend time down there, and spend money to fix up some buildings.
Build them shelter. We spend 5 days and get a big building for them to stay in.
We get help over the period of days.
 
A guard comes over and tells us not to tell the nobles. If the nobles find out, they'll tax it.
The Goblins move in to the home.
We put up rain barriers, and make it dry.
We dig a his and a her hole.
 
We take up a task from the Adventurer's Guild "Clear a cave of baddies"
We're attacked near the caves! By Frog Creatures!
Lightface gets affected by the frogs skin poison and becomes afraid of the group.
The rogue & barbarian grab the frogs, and their skin poison causes them to be afraid of the rest of the group.
They run! The rogue runs into another encounter!
A Black Orc attacks Bogdan! A second joins in the fray!
We defeat them, and return to town to return the armor Yopo built.