<strong>Who:</strong>Steve the Goblin<br/><strong>Where:</strong>Cave entrance<br/><strong>When:</strong>Grand Opening Night<br/><strong>Wearing:</strong>A Black Silk Suit<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Kayla and her team<br/><br/><strong>Match:</strong>LOT-2 (Assault on the Lair)<br/><strong>Round:</strong>Zero<br/><strong>HP:</strong>5<br/><strong>Status/Conditions:</strong>Standing in the way / Terrified<br/><br/>Roughly a mile away, carefully hidden crews uncovered their tripod-mounted crystal balls and focused them on the strike force. The cave entrance was innocent enough, the product of natural erosion as water found its way through the mountain and down to the river. Was this truly the entrance to the Lair of Tentacles? It seemed innocent enough.<br/><br/>And then a small goblin appeared in front of the cave in a melodramatic puff of black smoke. “Attention, servants of virtue!” he proclaimed, almost keeping the fear from his voice. “This is your opportunity to turn back! We know you are approaching. Your every move, every plan, is known to us. Enter this cave, and we will defeat you. There are horrors here so slimy, so disgusting, so cruel, that they will destroy your mind and crush your spirit as they ravish your bodies. Turn back! Or be forever doomed.”<br/><br/>Having delivered his speech, he pressed the button that would teleport him to safety. Then he pressed it again. Maybe it was stuck. Perhaps if he pressed it really quickly. Maybe he needed to hold it down for a while? He needed to look calm, confident, authoritative. Had he not served well? Had Egnaro not promised... oh dear. He’d been craving real danger. And now he had just provoked an elite strike force, with no backup nearby and no plan. He wasn’t as grateful as he’d expected to be.<br/><br/><hr/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC Block</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>Damage dealt to Steve:</strong> 1 (terrifying realization)<br/><strong>Status change requests:</strong><br/><strong>Notes/comments:</strong> Spend as much time in round zero as you would like. We’ll start counting rounds once fighting starts, or the assault team enters the caves. I’m not clear on whether the assault team is a tiny group of 2+ champions, or if it’s an army: the thought of slaughtering NPCs by the dozen does have some appeal, but it’s your assault team.<br/></div></div>