Battle - route

The fight against the slaves was fast and furious. The four slaves were killed, and two were knocked out. One of Rosa’s warriors was wounded, it was a scratch on her arm – but soon she fell on the ground, moaning and twitching. The blade must have been coated with Goblin’s poison – she heard of those. A mixture of poison, pain inductor and aphrodisiac.

If Rosa tried to take prisoners, to spare them, the fight could take much longer.

She cursed as Lady Ruth’s army was surrounded and, piece by piece, slowly taken down. The goblins took their time as they now aimed to capture more females.

She turned to the elven slaves who were chained to the device. As she looked at the device, she realized that the sculpture on the ballista, was not artificial, but instead, a real person somewhat turned into a sculpture. She shook her head – she had no time for that.

“Which one can operate the ballista?” She asked the elven slaves. As they looked at her blankly or with fear, she snarled and brandished her weapon. She did not have time for games. “Which one of you can operate ballista?” She asked again, this time more forcefully.

Finally one looked at her, with some spark in her eyes. Rosa smiled.

“Get on and aim the goblin’s chief. The rest of you, reload the damn machine!” She ordered.

The crew quickly started reloading the engine of war. The first bolt flew – and as Rosa looked, it easily pierced one of the chief’s bodyguards. The goblin chief screamed and pointed in their direction – some goblins started advancing upon them.

“Reload and fire again!” Rosa exclaimed as she brandished sword – the first goblins arrived – only a few and she and hers cut them easily. The ballista fired again.

“Look!” Rosa turned as she heard Kari’s call. She smiled with glee as the bolt pierced the goblin Chief, killing him.

She could already see the chaos erupt in goblin ranks. Her mother’s army was breaking through the encirclement and making their way, in a panicked run, to the forest. Some of the goblins pursued, but most of them were busy **** the captives.

Rosa cursed, as she saw a large detachment making its way onto her position. There was no way she could manage to stop the crowd of about fifty goblins. She needed to run.

She bit her lip, as she looked at her poisoned warrior. If the woman was not looked at by a healer, she would die. Rosa

[A1]plunged her sabre into the woman’s chest, cutting off her suffering.
[A2]left her – she would make a good decoy to distract the goblins. Some would surely stop, to **** her.
[A3]ordered her remaining warrior (or elven slaves, if freed) to carry her, maybe she could be saved, even if she would slow them down.
[A*]write in

She looked at the downed **** elves. Dragging them would slow them down. She decided to

[B1]take the **** elves with them.
[B2]leave them as they were
[B3]finish them off, deny goblins the resources.
[B*]write in

She then looked at the elves chained to the ballista and cursed. Freeing them would take time, and would slow them down. Rosa decided to

[C1]leave the slaves as they are.
[C2]free the elves and take them with her.
[C3]kill the slaves, deny the goblins their resources.
[C*]write in

[X*]Additional actions/plans

[X1] Run ahead and use our authority to rally troops to retake the ballista