Today we have had a tough day in the forest. The wind is pretty cold and the snow does not let us keep the speed we would like to. At one point, we have found the tracks of a big group of goblins (at last!). We were tracking the goblins, when suddenly, a voice comes out of some trees: two elves were blocking our way. They seemed quite nervous and hostile. At first I was happy to see two elves (I do not like the nasty smell of humans), but their aggresivity was growing fast. Some seconds afterwards, a group of elven archers was surrounding us. All of them were very nervous and did not believe we were hunting the goblins. It was pretty obvious they had somthing to hide...
The fight was fast. These archers were not very brave and after we hit their chieftain a bit hard, they decided to surrender. At this moment I realized their commander was hiding some kind of document from us so, with all my diplomacy and tenderness I took it from him. It was some kind of map, but I could not recognize the area. The elves had not heard anything of any goblins and they were very hostile to us... and they wanted to hide the map. What could that be? We told them to take us to their camp. They might have something we could find useful (food, equipment or even information they might drop in our way to the camp). However, by the time we got there, the camp had been obviously attacked and plundered. Someone (the goblins?) had taken everything and burnt the tents. However, in their escape, they have not bothered erasing their track.
We rushed after the raiders until we found them. They were very strange creatures (it is the first time I have ever seen a blue goblin!!) that were carrying all the goods of the elves. We attacked them and managed to take all the food back, but the goblin commander managed to scape.
After the fight, the elves finally believed that we were tracking the goblins and, in their conversation, they suggested that the map was leading them to a treasure (damn, no "X" showing the place in the map; anyway, we should have known) and offered us to join them in a 50% - 50% basis. After a tough negotiation, we agreed on a 70% - 30% of the treasure (yes, I know, we can also be terribly convincing if we try). Tomorrow we will go on looking for the treasure (and the goblins' liar) if this stupid snow does not kill us first.
