The old forest path narrows under wet branches, and Gobbo the Goblin steps into a pocket of cold daylight. A rogue leans against a milestone ahead, whistling like this is a market stroll, not a hunt.
Brush snaps on both sides. Bandits spill from the ferns and bracken, blades and hooks up, their boots making a ring around the space where Gobbo stands.
The Rogue
There she is. Easy work, lads. Keep the circle tight.
He lifts a bounty poster, and the crudely drawn face on it matches Gobbo's green grin well enough to be a curse. His smile sharpens as he gives the poster a little tap with one finger.
The Rogue
Alive gets a price. Broken gets less. Try not to spoil the goods.
The bandits do not rush. They spread, testing the circle, watching her hands, watching for the first twitch toward steel or spellwork.
The Rogue
Well? Step forward nice and slow, or make this messy for yourself.
✓ Quest Accepted
Escape the bandit trap
“*i was grabbed, a knife against the shirt of my overly sizable bosom*”
SUCCESS (Superb Agility, rolled -1)
Gobbo slips sideways under the knife, and the rogue’s hand catches only empty shirtfront. Her bulk twists free in one quick, ugly blur.
The blade hisses past where her bosom was pinned a breath ago, then the point jerks wide as the rogue stumbles to keep balance.
The Rogue
Move! Don’t let her breathe!
Gobbo is out from under the hold, clear of the knife and no longer pinned to the rogue’s reach.
The ring tightens anyway, boots scraping damp earth as the bandits close a step at once.
Bandit Two
She’s loose, get her again!
For one clean heartbeat, the path opens in front of Gobbo, but the men on both sides are already shifting to cut it off.
“i tripped, slamming into a tree. my body turning into an overly busty ball with my ears and face as i rolled down the hill in a daze”
SUCCESS (Superb Agility, rolled +0)
Gobbo pitches into the slope shoulder-first, and the impact folds her into a rolling green ball of flesh and cloth. Her ears flatten against her head as she bounces free of the path.
Wet leaves and loose dirt send her skidding downhill in a dazed tumble, the hill swallowing the bandits’ line as she drops lower than their boots can follow.
The Rogue
After her! Cut off the bottom of the hill!
The rogue lunges to the path edge, but the brush and slope keep him back while Gobbo keeps rolling, faster than his grab can track.
Bandit Two
She’s gone under the fern line!
Gobbo’s spinning form slips through a screen of bracken and disappears into the lower hollow, out of their immediate reach and off the path entirely.
Above her, the bandits’ voices thin with distance as the hill breaks their sight. Below, the hollow waits in dim green silence.
Quest Complete
Escape the bandit trap
Attribute Upgrade: Agility Superb→Legendary