Log:Hallowe’en Goblins

2019/11/01 	 Adun Artemis Dark Horse Lizzy Magus Mark Natasha Patricia Ryosei Thunder Union Voyager

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The Upper East Side is mostly known for, well, not much. It's sleepy, seemingly stuck in the 20th century much of the time. But on Hallowe'en it comes alive. The whole neighbourhood seems to get into the spirit, decorating their houses, and getting candy for the kids. It's probably the most popular area of town for trick-or-treating.

It's a mild early evening now, and groups of kids and various costumes, the younger ones with adult supervision, are making the rounds of the houses.

Voyager finishes up with his second job as General Assistant Android to Elia and after watching a spot of news on her terminal heard about how the Upper East Side really gets into the holiday spirit this time of year. It intrigues the VoyagerSIM enough to prompt it to change its plans and go witness the festivities itself.

The Android scans all the faces painted, masked and otherwise shifted forthe holiday season. It notes the joyful faces had by all and it curiously wonders why humans enjoy such a holiday based on being scared or creeped out.

Patricia and Mark are not in costumes of any kind. They are carrying large candy bags, and goinhg from door to door knocking or ringing bells. Their trick, though, is they are handing out candy to the home owners so there'll be candy for the kids when the kids get to those houses.

Dark Horse has had a long day of dealing with a client in his normal job. But things have been pretty quiet for him this evening. And he has no kids, so no need to go out looking for candy. Instead, he's just seated on top of a building on the upper east side, listening to some sports talk radio in one ear while he watches people on the street. Apparently the Cleveland Browns are undefeated and looking like the team to beat this year. Pundits are beside themselves.

Natasha loves Hallowe'en: it's almost as good as Christmas. Lots of free treasure, mostly of the sweet variety! She's making her way from house to house, bag in hand, on two feet, wearing a pirate costume, complete with eyepatch, and holes in the back of her coat for her wings. It would seem Amy has put a fair bit of work into the costume, not that it disguises the fact that it's a small dragon wearing it.

Wandering around as a shiny silver friendly looking dog, Mercury relaxes for the evening after working on her newest sculpt, going up to parents first for inspection and their approval before then to the groups of children for a moment of play, never actually leaving contact with the ground as a flat mass of metal flows around like a base. Touching the silver dog yields a fine fur texture.

Artemis is flying over the city, looking out for trouble after having kept a bit of a low profile lately. She's wearing her Omega Guard uniform for the first time. No cape, more form fitting, the armor more technoloical looking. It's primarily black with red accents, and an exposed middriff. She lost the battle wtih NashCo's design team and has accepted it, for now. There's a team symbol on her right shoulder guard.

The twins seems to have picked the wrong house this time. A curmudgeonly old man shouts "go away!" at them when they knock on the door.

"Ooh, doggy!" says one little girl, dressed as a fairy. She goes up to pet the metal dog.

Lizzy is trick-or-treating, having finally decided on which costume to wear (Abraham Lincoln, rather than a current hero). She's having fun, and spots both Patricia and Mercury further up and down the street, respectively.

The 800kg metal dog takes extreme care not to apply its weight to the bodies of children. "Woof!" it declares in a voice that is certainly not canine.

Patricia and Mark do just that. They leave the cranky old man to his anger. Because the chance of a kid getting candy from him, even if he had any, seems extremely low. After a moment's reflection though, Patricia turns back, "This there anything you need, sir?" she asks.

The Model 9 Prototype watches all this unfold curiously. Its iris shifting and adjsuting to the ambient light as it notes costumes and tries to make correlations to things its sees with things its read about in its short life.

It sees the dog and begins to move to follow, wondering how such a costume was created.

The girl throws her arms around the undoggy dog and hugs.

Magus strolls through the East Side, his hands in his pockets, cigarette in his mouth. He watches a group of kids in costumes run past and knock on the door of a nearby house.

Happy to oblige, the metal dog does not try to escape the girl's grasp. leaning just slightly in her direction with gradual movement. The fur feels just like fur at least! If a bit cool to the touch and shiny.

"Just get out of here! I don't do Halloween," says the man. "And don't come back!"

The twins leave the old man's house.

Dark Horse shakes his head as he hears the confrontation below. . o O ( If the guy would leave his front light off, that wouldn't happen. He should know that by now. )

The kids Magus notices soon collect their candy and are on their way - or rather, they pause just outside the house add start shoving it in their mouths. It seems they can't wait!

Ryosei, for his part, was mostly setup with a bit of an odd attraction. For him, tradition is a bit skewed since he was born in Japan. But there's one thing that he can agree on. Costumes are fun as hell. He was currently dressed up as Samurai Jack. Complete with samurai sword. The teen wasn't out doing the trick or treating thing, though. He'd somehow managed to get an old cart together and was giving out small bags of candy while he was pulling the cart along the street, mainly the sidewalks. Obviously someone doesn't quite get the whole 'trick or treat' bit just yet if he's not working to get any, though, right?

Natasha makes her way up to a door and knocks. Only to find that the guy opening it emits a loud yelp and slams the door in her face!

Adun knows little of hooman culture, and most of what he does know is confusing and not entirely understood. When he spies so many decorated hoomans, his first thoughts are of a group dance or ritual or other similar practice. Shamans use such tools to ward away menacing spirits, encourage prey to be bountiful, and for strong children in the next generations.

What he has witnessed fo far seems very much ...less organized. As if the goal were to dash about under the influnce of some substance that granted boundless energy. It is not until he sees Artemis, then further recgnizes her by scent, that he decides to follow this direction. Ashildur is one who knows far more of hoomans than he and is wise in their ways.

The twins get a much better welcome at the next house - even though their gift is politely declined. "I'm got plenty of candy - you save that for some people who have less."

Voyager recognizes Adun and changes directions to go give the alien his greetings. It estimates its odds are good that this is not an elaborate costume but it is not certain.

Artemis slows and drops down for a rooftop landing as she hears the yelp, stepping to the edge to try and locate it. She's gotten a brief explanation of the occasion to wear masks and about ghouls and ghosts, in the hopes that she wouldn't cause too much chaos. So she remains patient before leaping into action.

The sticky-handed kids make their way to the next house and knock enthusiastically.

Mark shakes the home owner's hand, "Thank you sir and have a good evening."

Natasha tries knocking again. See also says "Trick or treat!", projecting her "voice" into the house to make sure it can be heard, realising that she may have failed to make her intent plain.

The light in the house Natasha is standing in front of goes out.

Natasha hangs her head and turns away. Maybe the next house?

Lizzy sees Ryosei with his cart and heads his way, which also brings her closer to Patricia and her brother.

A group of ghosts, or at least, people in sheets, turn a corner into Artemis' view.

Dark Horse feels a little bad for Natasha, but he's not going to be able to help her much with trick or treating. Unless she gets a costume like...one of those sheets or something.

Magus Magus stolls further down the street. A black cat steps onto the side walk in front him. He looks down at it. "Not tonight Mate. No messing with my luck eh." he says to the cat and quickly steps in front of it and passes it by.

The first group of kids come away with a decent haul again. Once again they pause to eat their gains before proceeding to the next house, which happens to be the one the twins were turned away from.

Seeing the little dragon, but not having spotted Lizzy or the brother and sister duo, Ryosei whistles at the dragon, "Nice costume, little one! Want some candy?" Then he seems to consider as he notices the kids at one of the nearby houses. His cart is just filled with candy that he's giving out to passerbys at the moment.

Natasha runs over to Ryosei, beaming. She nods enthusiastically!

Metal Dog lopes about being as friendly as she can be, nearing the more shy-seeming children to help them overcome their anxiety after ensuring the accompanying parents accept her presence.

Patricia watches the kids approaching the house Mark and her were turned away from. She hopes the old man will be gentler to the young olds.

Ryosei smiles at Natasha, reaching over to a bag of it. Assorted candies at that! He offers it to Natasha, smiling, "Here you go."

Adun does not dart about nor fly. Instead he walks with the flow of tiny painted hoomans and their gathering. Ah. Food. Maybe this is preparation for a large community feast. That would explain the painted ones and their collecting of offerings from others.

The kids get a "GO AWAY!" yelled out them through the door. But they don't. "It's Halloween - you've got to give us candy when we say 'trick or treat'! That's how it works!"

NotAbeLincoln waves to Ryosei, "Hey," once hse gets close enough. "What's up?

Voyager notes Ryosei with a cart full of candy and reaction he's getting from kids and passerbys alike. It notes that it should carry candy similarly for the holidays and that it wonders what candy tastes like.

Finally the android reaches Adun. "Greetings Adun. This Unit is glad to see you too are part of these biological festivites." It says to the alien hunter with its cheerful, pleasant & only voice setting.

Natasha stays in character. Rather than sticking her nose straight into the bag, she lift some out in her paw and bows to Ryosei.

Patricia calls over to the kids at the cranky man's house, "Hey, kids. I've got candy for you."

Just as the cranky man starts yelling at them louder, the kids hear Patricia's call and scamper over toward her at impressive speed!

Adun looks to the known rock spirit. "Veeger. Adun not know custom. Hooman gather food. Prepare feast? Dance?"

Lizzy is now close enough to spot Natasha, "Oh, how cute!"

Dark Horse sighs to himself, and decides to go down to speak with hte cranky guy. He uses his swing line to get to the street and walks over toward the door.

Natasha shows of her costume, well, hoping to get more candy from Lizzy!

Patricia and Mark hand out candy to the kids coming from the old man's house.

The kids accept the candy eagerly. They thank Patricia and Mark, and stuff the candy into their bags.

Dark Horse walks up to the cranky guy's door and knocks. He doesn't expect the door to be opened, but he wants to make sure the guy is near it so he can be heard through it.

Seeing nothing amiss, Artemis takes flight again and continues onward.

Sure enough, "I SAID, GO AWAY!" is roared through the door.

Dark Horse says through the door. "Then turn off your porch light, genius. When you leave it on, kids assume you have candy to hand out. Turn it off."

Smiling, Ryosei gives a bow as well. More formal. Then he turns to see Lizzy and smiles, "Hi, Lizzy." He blinks as he hears someone at least passingly familiar. Peering over to see who else is doing the same, Ryosei waves at Patricia and Mark. "Hey! If you need some more, I have plenty here you can give out as well." Then he blinks a few times as he hears the old man. He frowns a little, then shakes his head as he listens just in case on that one. Keeping an eye on that house is a good idea, right?

Voyager nods at Adun. Its indicator lights flash randomly across its torso. "This is also my first holiday. Though the newsbroadcast called it 'Halloween'. This date is reserved for specialized outfits refined & designed for panhandling door to door for nutrition. It is a strange custom though I admit I have nothing else to compare it to either." The ANdroid says to Adun.

"Dammit! Is that thing on again? Stupid 'smart' lights...." He opens the door to look at the light. "Ask me, we were better of when things didn't try to think for themselves..."

The kids look at the twins hopefully, as if they think they might thereby get still more.

Patricia and Mark finish handing out candy to the current batch of kids and any others who approach them. Then head to Ryosel and Lizzy. "Hi. I.. we have lots of candy, thanks. Hi, Lizzy."

Dark Horse nods to the cranky guy. "Then pull the bulb. Right now, you're just looking like a jerk, yelling at kids even though they're following the rules."

Lizzy says, "Hello, Patricia. I'm guessing this is your brother?"

Mark nods amd offers his hand, "Hi. Yes, I'm Pat's brother, Mark Quinn."

"THe brats shouldn't be allowed to beg, light or not," he snaps, slamming the door in Dark Horse's face. "Hey house - porch light off!" His garage door opens. "Damnit! What's wrong with this thing...."

Voyager takes mental note of the cranky old man who's not a fan of the holiday. "It seems not all humans appreciate the day. THe vast majority of sapient beings present are in the adolescent stages of their lifecycles while that man appears to be at the end of his. This Unit beleives there may be an age component at play." It informs Adun.

The kids who have just had a good haul from Patrica and Mark come over to Ryosei. "Trick or treat!"

Magus spots Dark Horse talking with the old man. He stands by the street corner and chuckles to himself. He calls up to Dark Horse, "You could always post a sign in front of his house that says Pedofile Lives Here."

Blinking, Ryosei looks over. Then he hums before he waves at the kids, "Hey, kids! Avoid that one, please? He's not got any. Here's some over here." Ryosei parks his cart to make sure that he's able to deter the kids from the grouchy old man. Then he smiles, moving to hand out more candy to the kids 'visiting' him. "Here you go. Nice costumes!" He says to the kids, then looks to Lizzy, Patricia, and Mark. "Nice to meet you as well, Mark. I'm Ryosei." He gives a wave one handed.

Dark Horse chuckles at Magus's comment. "No...I'd rather not do that. But I'm tempted to smash the light. I can afford the replacement." Instead, since he's wearing gloves, he reaches up to try to unscrew the light.

The light goes out.

While Ryosel is distracted Mark gets a hard toffee crew out of the bag and unwraps it. Putting the wrapper in his pocket he was just about to 'flick' the hard toffee at the light when Dark Horse reaches up to unscrew it.

Dark Horse unscrews it anyway...intending to leave the bulb in the guy's mailbox.

Suddenly the house alarm goes off. More lights come on...

Artemis gets a call on her cracked, nearly broken smart phone. She lands down on a clear part of the sidewalk and checks it. It takes a few swipes to unlock the shattered screen, which flickers, then she brings it up to her ear. "Hello?" She winces and pulls it away as something loud affects her sensitive ears. She brings it back. "Ivan, you sounds as if you have been drinking too much. Will I what?"

Alerted, Metal Dog flows toward the house of alarms to investigate!

Lizzy puts her hand in Mark's palm downward. And then the alarms go off.

Artemis drops her phone to cover her ears at the piercing alarm. CRACK! That phone is dead for sure now...

Patricia and Magus notice that, under the distraction of the alarm, the kids have grabbed as much as they can of Ryosei's candy and scarpered!

Ryosei looks up, blinking as he notes the alarms. That's something that he would rather not deal with. He hasn't noticed the kids have taken off either from the looks!

Patricia keeps quiet about the kids. Mark and she can resupply Ryosel if he's left short.

Dark Horse finishes pulling the bulb entirely. He then opens the man's mailbox and puts the bulb inside it. Finally, he waves to the security camera that's looking at him. Making sure he's seen on camera, he points to the mailbox and then steps away toward the street.

The alarm doesn't stop. Natasha cover her ears/

Metal Dog flows away!

Magus sees the kids scampering off with their stolen goods and thinks they should have left a "trick" of a flaming bag of poop on the old man's doorstep. "Kids, they've totally forgotten what Trick or Treat means." he says to Dark Horse.

Dark Horse shrugs and chuckles. He says to Magus, "I never liked the Trick part, myself. It always seemed mean."

The kids do a pretty good job of vanishing quickly.

Magus says, "Well if your crouchy old man who just bitches about technology and youth, you deserve a trick in my opinion." He says to Dark Horse. "Good job handling the situation Mate.""

The alarm finally stops. The man comes outside to try to close his garage door manually.

Adun's ears are not overly sensitive, but that doesn't make the shrill howl any less annoying. He looks around for a source, following the sound. "Find creature. End suffer." As it sounds like something surely must be in agony... and then it stops. Adun does as well. Good, someone put it out of its misery humanely.

Dark Horse nods slowly. "Thanks...but not as well as I would have liked. That alarm is flaky. I could fix it for him, but I'd rather be paid to do that kind of work."

Ryosei leaves his cart full of candy to move over to the old man. "Hey! Do you need help with that?"

Off in the darkness, there is a noise of shrieking and a scuffle. And some laughter.

"Nah, I'm fine. Just leave me alone!" says the man. Just then the garage door suddenly closes, leaving him outside.

Patricia turns to Lizzy, "Did you hear that?" she asks pointing in the direction the sound came from. Meanwhile Mark is already heading in that direction.

Ryosei nods, "Just wanted to help?" He shrugs, then blinks as he hears that noise. And takes off towards it. That didn't sound good, and Ryosei wastes no time in heading that direction.

As people are running that way, the noises change. The shrieks become more animalistic. The laughter stops. Someone swears, and shouts "Run for it!"

turns towards the sound. "Did you hear that?" he says to Dark Horse. "We might want to take a gander, make sure its nothing nefarious."

Dark Horse nods. "Yeah, I agree." He jogs over in the direction of the sounds. "It hopefully isn't something serious, but you never know in this town."

At the edge of a small, park, a teenaged boy, covered in claw marks, is fleeing!

Artemis is a little overwhelmed with the younglings all over the place, and the loud alarms and noises. She picks up her shattered, now dead phone, and flies in the direction of the shrieking.

Patricia tells Lizzy, "I think there's some kind of wild animal out there. Where the kids here went off toward." With that said she hurries off after Mark.

The alarms set the VoyagerSIM into defensive posturing as it scans its immediate area looking for the source.

It looks to Adun as it listens.

Dark Horse gets to the edge of the park and looks around slowly in the darkness. He then calls to the kid that's running, "Hey! What attacked you?!"

A struggle is ongoing in the park. Two maybe teen or adult sized figures. And three shorter ones who don't look quite human (to those with better rolls, anyway).

Ryosei moves to stop the kid, "Hey! What's going on, kid? We'll get you help, but what started this?"

Artemis lands by the park and summons her shield. Her hand goes to the hilt of her sword, but she doesn't draw yet. "Whoever doth attack the Younglings, make yourself known and face someone who can defend themselves!"

"I dunno! Some kind of crazy little monsters!"

Mark runs fearlessly into the fray.

Lizzy ducks down behind Ryosei's cart, and mutters 'E Pluribus Unum.' Union stands up and follows the others.

The VoyagerSIM detects the source of the problem and promptly tries to move through the herd of children to get to the source of the trouble. It looks to Adun and nods in the direction it is heading.

Union arrives behind the others, doesn't immediately see what's going on.

Ryosei looks concerned at that, checking the kid over to see how badly he is hurt. He reaches to pick up the kid himself, "Come on, kid. Let's get you somewhere safe. Your parents around?"

Artemis releases the grip on her hilt as she sees the short inhuman creatures and walks forward. "What mischief be this?" she asks, thinking the smaller things to be just Younglings.

The teenager looks rather offended at the mention of his parents. He tries to collect himself. "I can take care of myself!"

Magus says an incantation causing his mystics wards to surround his body and his hands to ignite with flames as he approaches the others in the park. "Those are kids, they're goblins, shapeshifters from the lands of the fey most likely."

Three short, squattish, clawed creature with terrifying visages are fighting two more large teenagers.

Frowning, Ryosei looks at the teenager. "Fine. You want to get sick from those cuts, I'll let you go." He turns to look towards the main problem dismissively as he moves to see what is going on, then turns to head away a bit. To get out of the way and leave the group. He calls towards the others, "I'll see if I can get some help." He moves off back towards where his cart is as he reaches to his PDA, initiating the call to see if he can get some back up it looks like.

The teen looks back at his friends. hesitates - and then runs off.

Mark runs in to start trying to separate goblins from teens by tossing the goblins around.

Dark Horse is a little slower to run into the fray, looking around...and half expecting there to be somethign else out here in the park as well.

Union hears what the Magus says, and rushes in to protect the children. She spots something in the shadows, "One's running off! Carrying some full bags!"

Patricia rushes up to the nearest goblin and swings around slipping beneath the creatures shoulder line before rolling the goblin over Mark's hip and sending it tumbling over and over along the ground almost ten meters.

Mark rushes up to the nearest goblin and swings around slipping beneath the creatures shoulder line before rolling the goblin over Mark's hip and sending it tumbling over and over along the ground almost ten meters.

The goblin goes tumbling - but turns into a lynx-sized cat and lands on its feet.

Dark Horse furrows his brow and darts off to the side away from teh scuffle, heading after another goblin that he spotted. He figures the fighting ones can be dealt with by the other metas responding.

The teen the goblin was attacking takes the opportunity to try to punch another goblin in its huge nose.

Union arrives where the fighting is happening.

The teen misses. "Get these ugly critters off us!" He shouts to the heroes.

Magus spots the goblin shapeshifting into a cat and says "What's with the all the bloody cats tonight anyways." He makes chants and hurls a bolt of eldritch energy at the shape-shifted cat goblin creature.

Magus says, ""

Union targets one of the goblins that's attacking the teens.

Union tries to boot the goblin in the head, but misjudges its height. Her foot whooshes over the creature missing it completely.

The lynx-goblin lets out a terrible cry, goes flying, and lands injured on the ground, eventually motionless.

Ryosei uses the excuse to get out of the way to move off into a back yard somewhere, looking for security cameras before he pulls his not so fake sword and raises it, "By the power of Ryujin! I am Tenrai!" Swinging the sword in a wide circle, a bright blue disc descends on him changing him into Thunder before he takes off back towards the fight where he saw the Goblins.

"Yeah, go it!" shouts a teen as the goblin falls limp.

Dark Horse seems to be gaining on the goblin that he's chasing through the park, but he's not superhumanly fast. He calls out, "You shouldn't steal, you know..."

Dark Horse keeps running, still gaining ground slowly on the goblin. . o O (Quick little guy.)

Union tries kicking again, this time up between the legs.

The goblin screeches! But takes no visible injury.

Voyager observes, assuming htis is part of human ritual offers Adun candy it put in its satchel since it has no mouth

Patricia catches up with Mark and moves in to guard Mark's Back. Meanwhile Mark, having seen the creature shapeshift, realises grappling would be silly and relucantly aims a blow at the next nearest goblin

This goblin, it seems, is faster than the other, and narrowly dodges Mark's blow.

Mark misses, forgoing the target of the creature's torso for a precise strike at a neck pressure point.

In the distance, the house alarm comes on again.

Magus with a cigarrette in his mouth, he mumbles and incantation and makes a gesture towards the goblin that's trying to get away.

Magus changes his target at the last minute after realizing Dark Horse doesn't need any help.

Magus hits the goblin with the spell. The goblin collapses on the ground and starts snoring

Magus the spell hits the goblin. The goblin slumps to the ground on its hunches with a dazed look on its face.

The second goblin shouts "Nai!" and throws itself at Magus, claws out.

The one pursued by Dark Horse realises it's losing ground. It stop and spins about, dropping its bags, and turns into a snarling wolf.

Thunder lands, looking around to see what is going on before moving to the only one he does know in this whole sudden scuffle. Leaping again, he lands near Union and reaches to grab the goblin in a choke hold. Remembering some lessons, he squeezes just hard enough to KO the critter before dropping it. He looks to Union. "Hi! You know, these look like something from Japan, I just can't place it. Not oni, bit too small there." He shrugs, then looks around before looking to Union. "Which one do you want to help with?"

Patricia assesses the situation. One of the creatures is clearly dazed and can likely be neutralized as an immeniate threat. Employing the same nerve strike as Mark Patricia chops down with the edge of her hand at the constunned (#3) goblin's neck.

This goblin, too, falls to the ground, seemingly without injury. "That's showing them!" exclaims the last teen.

Union says, "Where's the one that ran off?"

Dark Horse moves a bit closer to the goblin that dropped the candy, "I don't really want to fight you. But I will. Just...run off, and leave that bag, 'K?"

"No. Our food! Don't take!" says the wolf, standing its ground.

Dark Horse raises a brow, "Your food? Did you take it from the kids there?"

Mark shakes his head sadly, "You did this for food?" he calls over loudly to the wolf goblin? All you had to do was ask. You would have been given food."

"No. Our food. They hit us, steal from us!"

The wolf changes form into one of the candy-munching kids from before. "Our food!"

Patricia snaps her fingers. "They - were - the kids. That's right, isn't it. You were the small kids, and the bigger kids tried to take the candy from you."

Dark Horse straightens up, not in a fighting stance at all. "Let's sort this out. I won't try to take the candy away."

Thunder looks confused, then looks to Union. He then looks to Patricia before looking to the goblin. "Well, I doubt they are normal for here... so... my question is, how did they get here? I don't recall hearing anything about a bunch of shapeshifting food types or the like?"

"Yes! Our candy! They hurt us, try to take. We fight back!"

Union says, "They do say that Halloween is the last night of the year that spirits can cross over to the mortal realm..."

Mark says, "I think they're goblins. Dad told me about them. He used to work with the Princess Guard."

The teens suddenly realise this puts them in a bad light. "What? No way! You're going to believe those little monsters? They were stealing from us!"

Dark Horse walks back toward the others, beckoning the goblin he was chasing to follow. "C'mon. Let's meet up with your friends to get this sorted."

Natasha finally turns up, to find she's too late to join the fight, whatever it was about. But she had to hide her treasure first!

Union says, "Were they? Or did you see smaller kids with a lot of candy and try to take some?"

The goblin follows, nervously, not without carefully picking up the bags first.

Patricia points to the goblin that turned back into a kid. "I remember giving this kid candy after the cranky guy told them to go away."

"Nai! Amma!" cries the kid when he sees the other goblins. He goes and throws his arms about the third goblin.

Frowning at it, Thunder looks considerate before he looks to the two teens and moves over towards them. "You two. Your side. Now." He states simply. And folds his arms. Thunder's pretty intimidating when he can be, and the fact that he's also built like a body builder probably doesn't hurt in this case!

Mark sighs quietly, "I feel bad about fighting them now." he says sadly.

Dark Horse folds his arms and looks at the teenagers for a long moment before turning his attention to the goblins. "They going to be okay?"

The teens shuffle away. And look like they might bolt if given the chance.

The second and third come around presently, the latter putting her arm around the "kid" as she does so. The remaining goblin has been badly hurt.

Thunder doesn't take his eyes off the kids. Then he barks out, "Stop. SIT." He points down at the ground for the teens. "I will say it one more time. Your side of the story. Now. Else I will be finding your parents and explaining this from their point of view." He thumbs at the goblins. "I'm sure if I do a search on your faces we'll find who they are."

"It like we said! They attacked us, stole from us!" maintains a teen.

Union moves to stand near Patricia and Mark.

The third goblin says, "They are lying. We went seeking sweet food, according to human custom. They tried to rob us!"

"Like bullies. Trying to take from smaller kids. I don't like bullies," Union says, cracking her knuckles.

Patricia says to Union when he moves closer, "Hi. I'm just realising how silly we were. Jumping into a fight like this. We should have left it to you heroes."

Frowning, Thunder looks to the two teens. Then considers. He looks to Union, then the others assembled to stop this before he looks to the teens again. Thunder seems to consider before he comments, "Which bags are yours, kid?" He asks the teens. "Just so you know, we have witnesses to these four out and actually trick or treating. Not trying to steal them. So be honest. If not... well, the threat stands to have your parents involved."

"Bullies, yes! We try to be good, not fight, not steal. But they fight, they steal! We had to fight, or the young ones would be hungry."

Natasha says, "Um... I don't see mine. They must have hidden it somewhere!""

"Um... I don't see mine. They must have hidden it somewhere!"

Patricia picks up the large bag of candy she dropped when she acted, and hands it to the goblin who's speaking. "Here, take this instead."

The third goblin has recovered her wits well enough to look about and see what's happened to the first. "Nai!" She scurries over to check on the wounded goblin.

Union replies to Patricia, "You handled yourselves pretty good, though. I'd bet you'd do just fine if you decided to join the ranks. In fact, Thunder," she waves her hand in his direction, "and I are starting a team of younger heroes like us."

Magus says, "Well it is All Hollows Eve and all the creepy buggers like these little guys come out."

Thunder's frown deepens. He moves closer to the teens, idly picking up a thick looking branch in hand as he goes. "Fine. Here's the deal. We heroes will be watching you. Clean. Up. Your. Act." The branch is held up where the teens can see it. See it whenever Thunder closes his fist full force and shatters the part that he is holding. "If we catch you bullying, stealing, or anything like that again, your parents will be the least of your worries." His eyes look at the teens just a bit coldly. "Now, go back and try actual trick or treating for once. Got it?" He points off towards the main street with the hand that shattered the branch he did have in his hand. Sighing, he turns to walk back towards the group, dusting off his hands before he looks at the goblins. "Alright, so our problem now is this. You guys aren't from around here, right?"

She embraces the other goblin and cries.

Mark turns to Magus, "You're a mage. Can you heal him?" He points at the injured goblin.

The teens count themselves lucky to have go off with a scolding. They hurry off before Thunder changes his mind!

Magus says, "Not that kinda of mage, mate."

Thunder seems to consider, then looks to the little dragon among them. "Hey! Aren't you the one from Lucky Finds?"

Patricia tells Union, "We just a couple of normal teens. But, well, I know a couple of young metas who would be interested."

Natasha nods, stands up straight, bows.

"He needs medicines!" wails the goblin. "But there is no medicine man here."

Natasha perks her head up, goes over to the goblin, and does a little dance. pointing roughly south.

Blinking, Thunder looks to the others, then to Natasha. "Are you saying there's help that way? Where at? Lucky Finds or somewhere else?"

Natasha nods to Thunder at the mention of Lucky Finds.

Magus says, "Who's this Lucky Finds?"

Thunder looks to Magus, "It's an antique shop. Lots of magic in it. She might have someone or something there that can help. Ah... you able to move a lot of people by chance?"

Union says, "Really? How lucky for us. Have them leave a message at...Lucky Finds. With Natasha, here." She indicates the small dragon. "She knows us."

Union turns to Natasha, "Natasha, is it alright if someone leaves a message for us with you?"

Natasha nods!