>>5991969You don’t bother to reply to the hobgoblin. It’s a mixture of outrage and focus which stills your tongue, for you are focused on formulating an escape attempt, but this ‘Elak-Rak’ seems to take it otherwise.
“Translate it!” he barks in his gravelly goblin dialect, kicking one of his smaller, greener subordinates in the rear with a heavy boot. “I want to know who these fuckin’ assholes think they are, and what they’re doing here!”
It seems he only caught your interjections in the ‘Common Tongue’, the trade-language of the Northwest. That he doesn’t ask you himself implies he doesn’t speak the dialect himself… Which is rather curious. You aren’t well-versed I the lore of the scattered goblin tribes and bands, with their shifting territories and allegiance, but you’d always been given to think that the hobgoblins were not merely taller, or stronger, but generally considered WISER as well. Certainly, they’re considered more dangerous…
But no more magical, and that is your edge. While Elak-Rak's subordinate is repeating his question to you in your father-tongue, you are work still and silent spellcraft--FEYCRAFT, rather--to affect an escape.
Most of your spells require somatic components. Even <Improved Aethereal Form> typically utilizes gestures and spoken syllables of ancient elventongue to control the wavelength upon which you vibrate, and the form and frequency which your matter and energy assume. However, ever since the incident which first rendered you intangible, you have always had an easier time returning to that ‘default’ than the reverse. In the sylvan Realms in particular. You discovered that sufficient… Distraction… Could cause you to slip out of corporeality involuntarily. You’ve evolved far beyond that difficulty now, but it should still be relatively simple thing to simply let your mind wander, and your body dissipate, and…
>HP: 3/3>MP: 3/4 (+1 if you can reclaim your staff)>Attempted cast: <Improved Aetheral Form>Autosuccess, but rolling feycraft + Arcana to see how subtle you are about it.. 