"It'll be a bit of a lower weight, but it'll also be a bit of a hassle, having to keep re-opening it for air all the time."  Rose responded, when Aria brought up the possibility of shoving the goblin into her haversack for the time being.  The talk of stripping the bodies of the fallen was typical for adventurers, of course, but the specific focus on valuables, combined with the woman's earlier precision damage to their foes, clued the shifter in to the fact that she was dealing with a rogue...  "Like I said, though, neither of you are very heavy for me at this size.  I'll toss the gear we get off them into my bag, you tie up that one, and I'll carry you both around.  We can hang him off my belt, if need be."<br/><br/>Tying up the goblin looked like it would take a minute or so, so the shifter busied herself with looting the goblin's comrade and their mounts while listening to Aria talk.  The usual bodyguards were unavailable?  The priest had mentioned out loud that he might use a recall spell in the event of an attack?  Worrying, though again, there was the distinct possibility that she was worrying over nothing.  If they turned up nothing at the residence, the wanderer decided, she would go after Garland instead.  She'd simply awaken the Goblin again and force him to take her back to wherever he had come from, to this Bikke character, who sounded like some sort of pirate...<br/><br/>"It is fairly good-quality equipment."  Rose noted, as her companion brought up sales again.  Slipping the last of the acid flasks into her bag, she stood and faced the woman.  "Probably good enough for some wizard to enchant someh-"<br/><br/>At that point, she was cut off as screams and some other racket cut through the air.  Looking around for their source brought her eyes to the likely location of the racket soon enough, that trail of smoke drifting upwards into the sky, and at that point she closed the distance between herself and the rogue, reaching out to place a hand on her shoulder.<br/><br/>"Guess we'll have to stick our little friend in the sack after all."  She commented, tilting her head towards the unconscious goblin.  Once that particular task was taken care of...  "Alright, now wrap your arms around my neck and try to hold on tight without choking me.  I don't have a clear line of sight, so this is going to be a lot bumpier than a teleport spell.  Fortunately, it should take only a little bit longer."<br/><br/>And, picking Aria up and holding her close, Rose grinned.  After a few seconds, her face suddenly took on an even more bestial cast, her eyes actually narrowing into slits like a cat's, her teeth noticeably sharpening, the muscles in her legs suddenly becoming considerably stronger and springier, more agile than before.  Taking a moment to set herself, she seemed to gather up power, and then...  Launch!<br/><br/>And then the landscape around them blurred...  And in under half a minute, she was there.  Wherever 'there' was.  And somewhere behind them were probably the startled faces of two drunken aasimar who were only just now starting to realize what it was that had just blurred past them...<br/><br/><br/><br/>Well, as I recall, taking 10 on certain skills takes about a minute.  That should be enough time for Rose to loot the bodies, since armor is quicker to remove than it is to don.<br/><br/>After that, Aria counts as a light load and the goblin isn't adding any to that, so Rose took a free action to activate Longstride Shifting and then took off.  At a run, she hits 240 feet per round, so in half a minute (5 rounds) she can cover 1,200 feet, already exceeding the distance her teleport could take her.  As for any potential obstacles between her starting and ending positions, between the size increase raising the height cap and the strength and movement bonuses to her Jump score, she stands a decent chance of jumping over any<em>small buildings</em>that decide to get in her way, auto-succeeding the check to jump over anything of 8 feet in height or less.  Between those two things and her immunity to fatigue, I'd say she'll make decent time getting to this next trouble spot.<br/><br/>You have to admit, the woman certainly knows how to travel with style. ;D