Honour is an ephemeral thing...

Next thing I know Vistar is shaking me awake whispering he heard something out in the scrubland.
I wake Ofa while Vistar tries to wake Jiak and Callista. Enora is nowhere to be seen.
Suddenly a voice speaks out from the night, in an odd accent. My Elven heritage pays off as I see a few Hobgoblins standing just out of bow range.

They demand our maps and notes and money. Or we die. I've had better offers to be honest. Vistar sidles up next to me and says that Callista won't wake up. Apparently she and Jiak were smoking some of Valthruns pipeweed last night and its affected her badly... wonderful.

Jiak opens with an acid arrow splashing three of the Hobgoblins, I think they blamed me for that as one of them then charged me and smacked me in the face with an axe, I was really injured by that and had to expend my healing energy just to keep myself alive.

Vistar gets revenge for me and uses a new technique he learned and smashes them all senseless. Ofa then took an almighty swing at the nearest Hobgoblin... and missed! But it must of scared the Hobgoblin having an axe swing that close because he convulsed and died on the spot from fright!
Jiak decides to forgo fire and uses his magic missile at another Hobgoblin, but out of the shadows Jiak is hit by an arrow. Vistar seeing this erupts in a fit of rage and attempts to use his bloody ending attack to take down the Hobgobs....

Which would of been brilliant....except I think his new earlier attack made him just a little dizzy and so he pretty much missed all the Hobgoblins! Ah well better luck next time. I decide to help out rather than heal people and asked Bahamut to give me the strength to blast the Hobgobs with a lance of faith and for some strange reason it worked!!! I was stunned! I didn't have long to celebrate that fact as Jiak sent up a flare to reveal the creatures shooting us in the shadows, more goblins. Jiak then flames one of the Goblins...ok well he lasted almost an entire fight! Luckily this time the fire worked and he fried the goblin, enough to scare him and his mates away! Face the fury of Bahamuts divine wrath cowards!

Vistar manages to kill another one and I run round to mortally wound the last one, this generated a feedback for Ofa so when she killed the Hobgoblin it healed her of her wounds. With that the blood is wiped of our weapons I heal the party and we carry on our way to the Six Kings.

Oh by that point Callista wakes up and vows never to take pipeweed again!

It takes another few hours and the view of the statues grows with every mile. Until we see a cave in the foothills with some Goblins.

Great more Goblins.

Actually closer inspection reveals that these are the "good" Goblins as we approach them we are challenged to reveal our identities. By a goblin with heavy tattoos and a gold hilted sword. Hmmm this must be the contact we were told about.

They know we have the dagger and are looking for the other pieces of the crown, they demand we leave the dagger and return to Sharn. I was under the impression they wanted our help!
It takes a bit of persuading to get them to even accept we can help and it seems that to seal the deal we need to take part in an honour duel... ok, different.

So Vistar steps up first and in about two seconds bullrushes the Goblin leader out of the ring! Impressive!
Callista was next and it takes longer but she also throws her opponent out the ring. Then to win the contest Ofa needed to beat her opponent, which would be good as this was a contest of strength and I'm not that strong. Luckily Ofa threw her guy out of the ring after it finished jumping around her. I think she just got bored and booted it out!

Well job done, we, sorry they, won the contest. Thanks to Bahamut giving us strength! The Goblin leader seemed pleased with our win and then allowed us to join the hunt for the pieces. She told us that two pieces resided in Six Kings. We would find one piece, her party the other.

The hunt was on....