Theos takes a moment to inspect your rapier without a word. "I don't have any real doubt that you could skewer your choice of goblin in duel... maybe even three or four," he says at last.  "So tell me, how about forty or fifty?  With perhaps twenty other pouring arrows at you from overhead.  Chances are they'll also have some beasts or other.  Sorry, I'm being coy - point being, unless we have some way to do some damage hard and fast, chances are, any attack we make on a goblin village will end up with us roasting on a spit."<br/><br/>He takes a moment to consider you.  "You fancy yourself an assassin perhaps?  I suppose we can always sneak in and kill the chief, but unless we can do it quickly... we'll the result is likely to be the same, and we're not even sure these goblins may be the right ones.  Tell you what: we can go and find where this trail leads and if we find a village at the end of it, we can note it and come back tomorrow better prepared; if it's a small group of stragglers, we can decide whether to ambush them or not and see if we can pull some info on them as to where we can find the big chief."