Baihu coughed and woke up as the healing potion worked its magic on her. "Ugh... Yazhu! Are you alright? Did we win? Yes we did!" It looked like the lively foxgirl was back and not too much the worse for wear! She even helped Yazhu tie Gutwad to the firework. "That's right you ugly goblin, you get to shoot all over the sky!" The kitsune got in one last insult as she helped to prop up the firework at the proper angle to launch it out the door.<br/><br/>The goblin chief kept the best of everything for himself, it seemed. While the other goblins' Desnan candles lobbed sizzling stars, this firework shot a proper rocket propelled by ignited burning powder. Even weighed down by Gutwad's rotund mass, it managed to clear a respectable height well above all the huts, visible from every angle in the village. At the apex of its trajectory, it exploded in a blossom-shaped pattern of green stars that caught the attention of everyone below.<br/><br/>There was a lull in the fighting as all eyes looked upward - and saw the limp form of the late Chief Gutwad falling from the sky! The explosion blew him free but wasn't strong enough to blow him apart, though there was no doubt about his fate when he crashed into the muddy ground in the middle of the village with a loud splat.<br/><br/>A moment of stunned silence later, the panicking goblins were scrambling over each other in their haste as they ran away from the village into the questionable safety of the marsh as quickly as their short legs could carry them.<br/><br/>"Victory!" The cheer went up from the Jade Whores (plus Marcius)!<br/><br/><hr/><br/>"Good, there's nothing life-threatening now," was Sandra's diagnosis after looking over Yazhu's and Baihu's wounds, partially healed by the potions they quaffed. "But I can close up those scratches and make sure you won't have any scars, if you want."<br/><br/><em>Sandra has 2 spell slots that can be converted to Cure Light Wounds and 4 uses of Channel Energy 1d6.<br/>Baihu: 6/11 HP</em><br/><br/><hr/><br/>In the back of the chief's hut was their goal - the treasury! It held two chests. The first was a common merchant's chest filled with the massage oils they were looking for! The second, a beautiful red chest, was itself a work of art with a velvet interior and lacquered sides depicting delicate etchings of cranes and frogs playing along a beach.<br/><br/>"That make and style, it's of original Minkai manufacture, no doubt. It should fetch a pretty penny on this side of the world," Ameiko noted.<br/><br/>Inside the chest was the treasure of the goblin tribe: six masterwork shuriken, 329 sp and 112 gp in loose coins, a long hairpin with a red pearl at one end, and a gold-and-ivory fan depicting a gecko walking amid cherry blossoms. On the reverse side of the fan, a crude map had been painted, its shoddy work the mark of a goblin. It showed Brinestump Marsh, including the goblin village and the way to another location in the marsh close to the coast, marked with an X.<br/><br/>"A treasure map," Shalelu said tersely after a glance, and returned to the task of stripping down Gutwad's body. He had a finely crafted chain shirt and composite longbow sized for a halfling or gnome, no doubt taken from some unfortunate adventurer in the past.<br/><br/>"Ooh, I bet that's where the goblins found the treasure in the first place!" Sandra suggested.<br/><br/>"Look, there should be one more chest here, but it was removed," Baihu pointed out a rectangular spot noticeably cleaner than the rest of the floor, as if something had sat there until recently preventing dust and grime from accumulating under it.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Treasure Inventory</div><div class="spoiler_body"><em>The Treasure Inventory keeps track of communal treasure found but not yet distributed to a specific party member or not yet sold off for coin. Yazhu can withdraw equipment for herself or to assign to a specific girl. However she can't withdraw coinage without the permission of the others.</em><br/><br/>Massage Oils<br/>Red Minkai Chest (150 gp)<br/>6 masterwork shuriken<br/>329 sp<br/>112 gp<br/>Long hairpin with a red pearl at one end (150 gp)<br/>Gold-and-ivory fan depicting a gecko walking amid cherry blossoms (80 gp)<br/>Small masterwork chain shirt<br/>Small masterwork composite longbow<br/></div></div>