Fable - Ask Trash Goblins

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Calixtus

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"You get your filthy hands out of my pockets!" Calixtus shouted.

It didn't have the intended effect. The goblin gave him a sharp back hand. It hurt.

"It shuts it's stupid face!" the goblin spat. It finished patting down Calixtus and stepped back.

"S'not a lot," the other goblin complained, looking at the pile of coins and minor jewellery.



A few minutes ago.

Calixtus gave a snort of frustration. This was busy work. It was a waste of their time.

Beyond the city were piles of rubble. The passing of a great dragon - a species long thought extinct - had done great damage to the city.

They had been taught some simple spells to move objects. Now they were out here sorting bricks from wood, mortar from beams.

"I say we all stop," Callixtus called out to the other first year students. "No one will notice if we didn't actually get anything..."

He stopped at the sight of something moving in a pile of rubble. He caught a glint of light on the head of a spear. Not a real spear, like the guards used. It was a hatchet tied onto a gnarled stick. It was carried by a goblin.

"...oh dear. "



The present

"Psst..." went Calixtus.

His hands were tied behind his back, but the goblins had walked a short distance away.

"We need a plan to escape!"
 
Aiko's outstretched arm made motions as the bricks, rafters, soot, concrete, and other material milieu was sorted through use of a simple telekinesis spell. It was busy work to be sure, but it was a form of service the college has agreed to. It was also required of first years. While Calixtus seemed to want to skip out, Aiko was hard at work. She had already found a number of Maester's looking for any excuse to claim the elf wasn't up to snuff, and Aiko would give them no quarter.

"...oh dear. "


Aiko turned to find the group of first years surrounded by a collection of small green abominations. Each held a decidedly makeshift weapon in green bony hand. Gnarled teeth growled at the students, and Aiko shrieked. She held out a hand in defense, aiming to cast a spell. It extended outwards and no magic came. She thought of four different spells to cast, but didn't go through the motions to pick a particular one, let alone complete the ritual. One of the goblin's took note and leapt at Aiko, striking the butt of his spear against her cheek. The tall elven girl went to the ground and felt first blood leave her face, then the weight of a goblin's knee on her back. Her hands were hastily plucked off the ground and bound with rope.

"Ey, careful!"
One of the goblin's screamed. Atop his head was an odd helmet fashioned from what appeared to be the skull of a giant rat. "That one'll sell well, no need to damage 'er."

"You mongrels"
Aiko yelled, still on the ground. Another goblin came over and bound her mouth before the other released it's weight. Without the weight of the goblin on her back Aiko was able come to a seat, though the motion was considerably awkward with her hands bound behind her back.

Aiko did not manage to see the similar bindings and assaults on the rest of the students, but things did not look optimistic. The goblins began walking away, appearing to plan a route for transport.

"Psst..." went Calixtus.

His hands were tied behind his back, but the goblins had walked a short distance away.

"We need a plan to escape!"


Aiko looked over at the man, unable to wrinkle the displeasure in her mouth due to the bind. Her eyes shot a look of derision, sarcasm, and concurrence. She began looking around, seeing if there was anything the goblins had left that may help them escape.
 
She came to with a start and a low moan of pain. It was just as well she didn't wake screaming - the ghost of immobility, the crushing weight and searing heat etched into her dreams and her nightmares stirred up by the bindings she now found herself in.

When the goblins had captured them, she had gone absolutely and utterly wild. Their initial attempts to restrain her had failed. Not because she was strong or capable, but because fear had driven her to an animal state.

Nothing a good ol' clubbing couldn't fix, apparently.

Now she lay on the ground, hands bound behind her back and sticky heat running down her face and clotting in her hair. Her chest heaved with her return to consciousness and she had to struggle with the same devil as before they had subdued her. Only now, it was worse. Now she was bound and she couldn't help but feel the panic rise again. It was so close to having a one-ton beam pinning her to the ground, crushing the life out of her while the flames...

She shivered and bit her lip. Hard.

She opened her eyes at Calix' words, and they rolled towards her captors and then back to her fellow abductees. She tested her bonds and found them tight, and that only made her breathing ratchet up another notch and panic creep another step closer.

"...wha..?" Was all she managed to say in response to his statement. Her memory of the events leading to here was patchy. The deep and insistent throb in the back of her head the coppery scent in the air was enough to tell her it hadn't been good.
 
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There was something almost comforting about this kind of menial work. Yue was not a girl of manual labor by any means. She did not enjoy being made to do what was essentially free service for the college and the city. Even so there was a kind of nostalgia in it. If her old Teacher in the steps had put her to this kind of task she imagined it would have been turned into a trial to be performed until she passed out of exhaustion.
Yue assumed they were plenty welcome to take breaks or stop at any time in this case.

The small girl had positioned herself a bit on the outer edge of their little group. So she was the last to notice any signs of trouble.
She had entered an almost zen like flow state moving the rubble. Yue performed a looping tai chi like motion as she sorted the debris into neat piles. Yue had so slipped into the quiet peace that she had ignored Calixtus small distressed noise at first. While she made more effort to pay attention to him due to her father's social position as a merchant.....old habits died hard and she often found herself tunning him out.

"You mongrels" Aiko yelled

That caught her attention. He stood up a little straighter . She was about to make her way back toward the rest of the group when a nasty little green thing jumped out at her. Her face immediately scrunched into disgust. She deftly avoided it. One or two others showed up to surround her.
Luckily they were uncoordinated in their movements. He easily diverted a a club swung her way by one, stomping it's ugly face, sending it to the dirt. Simultaneously she gut punch another that had tried to leap at her again.
Despite her blows they seem to take this as lucky hits and were noisily making all kind of demands.

She attempted to use the same spell on the nearest little creature that she had used to move the rubble. It didn't budge, branding some crude spear at her. A shame she would have liked to see it go flying. No matter.
She used the spell to pull the spear from the one in front. It zipped to her open hand. With a quick decisive motion she broke it over her knee and tossed it. That caught their attention a little.

They nervously halted their attacks for a moment. They seemed to be gauging if she was worth the trouble of reinforcements.
She stepped forward planning to go look for the others. The assorted green menaces raised their weapons (and fists in the case of the one whose spear was now in pieces.)
"Give us s'mthin at good and we'll let you pass!" One hesitantly demanded.

Yue glared at them. She was short and quite frail looking by nature but the look in her eyes. That was anything but timid. It was a look that meant business.
"Show me where the others you ambushed are and I let you keep all your bones." She replied coldly.
She removed her hair pin and tucked it into her top for safe keeping. just in case one of them tried a snatch and run.
They huddled up to discuss which only made yue consider testing out other spells on them. Luckily before she had decided on one they came to a consensus.
One rubbing it's hands together gestured for her to follow them. Likely they thought she must be foolish for willingly walking into whatever trap they were devising.

It was a short walk back to the scene of the crime. Even so she had to correct with a smack to a grubby hand as one of them had tried to pick pocket her.
When they arrived she saw the pitiful state of her fellow students. Huddled, hog tied and bloodied.
Calixtus she couldn't let get too injured or it might fall ill on her house if she were deemed responsible. Even so she might have let a little bruising slide.
but the girls. that was a bridge too far.
Her expression darkened if it were possible for it to look somehow more murderous.