Did you know: crossbows are a terrible weapon for melee combat. 

Which the goblins are finding out, to their detriment!

(Lae'zel tries and fails to scale the wall. Karlach jumps all the way up it.)

Murder murder murder the goblins until the rescuees can escape.

And they're able to run out the gates, out the abandoned village, and back to the main road.

"Hi! I'm Cayden Cailean. Pleased to meet you all."

"Well met, and thank you for the assistance."

Ow ow ow shut up hand,  she's got the message.

They should get Naked Man some clothes. Cayden heads towards where they cached their supplies.

Naked man is now no longer walking down a main road without clothes.

Halsin casts a spell and hands him a berry, and formerly naked man is now much more capable of walking.

Excellent!

Cayden says, "there are a number of interesting things happening these days."

"Do you mean the goblin army, or the mind flayer parasite epidemic? Though they are connected, I fear."

"And the druids nearly expelling the tieflings from the Grove."

"... they're doing what?"

"Doing a rite to close off the Grove and keep it safe, which means the tieflings have nowhere to stay. And also torturing random children?"

Deep breath. "I had chosen Kagha because I thought -- incorrectly, apparently -- she would treat our guests with the proper respect." He was only gone for a few days, and she always seemed sensible. "She's been torturing children."

"Is threatening people with snakes really torture?"

"Yes."

"I must apologise for what has happened."

"You don't have to apologize to me."

"I should at least thank you for rescuing and informing me, then."

"Kagha said you might be able to remove the mind flayer tadpoles."

"I don't want to make promises I cannot keep. But I can try."

"That could be worse." He quickly recaps his past few days. 

Oh gods that's so many things. Several of which he could have helped with if he hadn't been in a cage. 

"You did very well, given the circumstances."

Thanks, I was waiting with baited breath for your approval, Cayden doesn't say because he has learned something of Tact. 

"What's your name?" he says to Formerly Naked Man. "Or at least something we can call you, right now I'm thinking of you as Formerly Naked Man and that's not exactly uniquely distinguishing."