<div class="floatleft">(https://www.withanaccent.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Ben-Barnes-joins-The-Punisher.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Collin Whoreson</strong></span><br/>Human Paladin 1<br/>HP 10/10<br/>AC 15<br/><br/><hr/>Had Rat heard the milksop insult that the changeling impersonating the half-orc had hurled his way, he would have laughed.  He was many things but a milksop was none of them. He was running through all the knife fighting he'd been taught: keep the wrist of the knife hand bent to protect the tendons and veins, don't expose the thumb of the other hand but be prepared to use it to possibly grab an opposing wrist, things like that.  Except now he didn't need to.  Not only had Lynnara appeared to offer the use of a short sword, a crossbow bolt had pinned his opponent to a tree.<br/><br/>"Thank you for the offer," he said.  "I think we're good."  By the time he'd picked up the goblin's fallen bow and fitted an arrow, the fleeing goblin had disappeared into the forest.  He loosed the arrow anyway, as much to keep the goblin running as for any other reason.  Then he went to his dropped crossbow and picked it up.<br/><br/>"Anybody hurt?" he asked turning to the others.  Burdock was notably his absence.    Quite likely he was the figure lying near the wagon.  It was too far to see details, with so many people clustered around the body.  The way they seemed to have no interest in helping told him all he needed to know; the half-orc had fallen.  He began to approach.<br/><br/>"What happened?" he asked.  "How did he die? Wh-" He stopped mid sentence.  "What the fuck is that?" he asked pointing at the changeling's corpse.