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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 2817732" data-attributes="member: 8530"><p><strong>Chapter Six, “School Assault,” August 5th, 1018 4:00 P.M. </strong> </p><p></p><p>The School along the west bank of the Lake, situated between the central mountain/volcano and the western shore of the ten-mile-diameter island. The School is comprised of four buildings. Set approximately 600 feet west of the Lake itself is the Main House, a 15 room 3-story structure; 200 feet south of that is the Classroom Building, an 8-room 2 story structure; 100 feet north is the Craft Building, a 4-room 1-story structure; 100 feet northwest of the main house is a large Barn, with the stables and corral behind it. </p><p></p><p>As the female human fighter Jaime and her niece Janet (the 13-year-old daughter of Beulla and Phuddipeduzh) were preparing diner, Janet suddenly collapses onto the floor. Grabbing the nearest butcher knife, Jaime looks around, and hears someone speaking. She sees a strange woman dressed in splint mail casting a spell at her, and begins to let out a scream before being held. </p><p></p><p>Jamie’s sister, the female human fighter Beulla and the female elf magic-user Kharole are in the craft building working on crafts with the six youngest children (human equivalent of two to six). Kharole’s elvan hearing picks up the beginning of Jaime’s scream. She tells Beulla to watch the children, and goes to investigate. She enters the main house and heads towards the kitchen. She then hears a spell being cast from the direction of the dining room, she spots the caster (a woman in robes) and immediately lets loose her own Magic Missile spell. The Magic Missile has a quicker casting time, and the woman is struck with four missiles before her own spell can get off. </p><p></p><p>A strange man in loose cloth clothing then rushes up to Kharole from behind, and hits her with a karate chop. She draws her dagger and strikes him, as he hits her again. The woman casts another spell, which Kharole again successfully saves from. She then fails to save from the Hold Person cast on her from the armored woman at the kitchen door. </p><p></p><p>When Kharole does not soon come back, Beulla heads out the door of the craft building, and is immediately backstabbed for all but 3 of her hit points. The man who hit her is then struck in the back by four of five daggers thrown by the small children in the room (Kharole has taught them well). He slams the door shut from the outside, as Beulla retaliates by tossing her dagger up into her attacker, a skinny man in dark leather clothing. She hears distant sounds of Jamie’s husband, the rather-plump human cleric Vincenzo, Kharole’s human fighter husband Silas-the-one-eyed, and six of the older children returning their horses to the corral following the children’s riding lesson, and runs in that direction. She gets struck again by the man’s sword, but manages to continue to run away with her one remaining hit point. </p><p></p><p>The woman magician from the house now approaches the craft room, and casts a Sleep spell through the craft room window, dropping all but the youngest child (Silas and Kharole’s two-year old son Christopher). She and the man in leather begin moving the toddler and sleeping children to the back door of that building. </p><p></p><p>Beulla runs to Silas and Vincenzo, quickly telling them what is happening. Silas yells “Heal her” to Vincenzo, and charges forward. Vincenzo tells the four oldest boys to stay with her, and instructs ten-year-old Silas Junior (human equivalent of eight) and ten-year-old Tanya (the tavern-keeper’s daughter) to get horses and ride to the wizardess Fiona’s house at the other end of the lake, as Fiona can use her pegasus to quickly get the rest of the party. Vinnie then casts some cures onto Beulla. </p><p></p><p>As Silas approaches the buildings, the doors to the barn are thrown open by a large human fighter armed in Platemail and holding a large bastard sword. “Run from me coward,” the man calls to Silas. Silas turns, and answers “Come out of the barn and show yourself unless you are a coward yourself”. The man moves forward, bragging that he is “Donovan the Great”. The two start fighting. The female cleric in splint mail has now gone outside of the house, and cast a Hold on Silas, but he successfully saves (and does not hear her due to the noise from the duel). </p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, Jaime and Vinnie’s eight-year old daughter Jentile had been in the barn getting milk for dinner when the villains first appeared (having teleported into the barn itself). She was able to keep from being seen by them by successfully hiding behind the cows, and now that the last of the six villains has left the barn, she moves to a safer spot up in the loft. </p><p></p><p>Beulla, Vinnie, and the other four boys see Silas dueling with the armored fighter. Vincenzo leads them back to the craft building. Beulla warns him of the man who had attacked her. Vinnie and Beulla enter, telling the four boys to draw their daggers and go around back, two on each side of the building. Vinnie rushes through the building, finding the first three rooms empty, and then seeing the female mage in the fourth room by the back door. She casts a spell at Vinnie, but he saves, and casts a Silence back at her. He then moves back to get out of the area of effect of the silence, and Beulla charges forward. As she enters the room she spots the man in leather that had attacked her hiding behind the door, and retreats back to Vinnie. The mage then opens the back door of the building, and exits with two of the unconscious children. </p><p></p><p>Outside, two of the boys, Vincenzo Junior and Henry Junior (the tavern-keeper’s son) see the mage leaving the building, and toss their daggers into her. Vincenzo Junior then gets struck down from above by a dagger, letting out a scream as he falls. Henry Junior tosses a dagger into the man he now sees on the roof, and gets hit by one in return for three of his four hit points. The other two boys (Jaime and Vincenzo’s quarter-elvan adopted boys, Oblong and Horatio) come around the other side of the building, and throw their daggers up at the man, who now retreats to the other side of the roof. Inside, Beulla and Vinnie heard his scream and now hear movement on the roof, so they rush back to the front door. The enemy mage casts a Sleep spell on the three boys, dropping them. </p><p></p><p>The man on the roof rushes to the front side of the building just as Vinnie and Beulla come out of the front door, causing him to change his mind and rush back. They see Silas being dropped after a long duel with the Fighter, who then charges at them. Vinnie grabs Beulla and levitates up to the roof. The man on the roof climbs down from the roof on the backside of the building. They then spot the mage and man who had fought Beulla carrying the children off into the woods. Vinnie casts a hold, stopping both of these enemies. Vinnie then casts a Command on the fighter, stopping him in his tracks. Vinnie levitates himself and Beulla back down, and he heads towards the main house. </p><p></p><p>Beulla goes to the back of the craft building, and ties up the two held villains. As she heads over to wake up the boys, the woman in splint mail comes out of hiding and casts a Hold Person on her, stopping Beulla. The woman then moves to the front of the building, and casts a Dispel Magic on the fighter, breaking him from Vincenzo’s spell. The fighter charges Vincenzo as the woman begins to cast a Silence at him. Before the silence spell can take effect he manages to get off a Sanctuary spell, and runs away. He grabs a horse, and rides off south around the lake. </p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, on the north side of the lake Silas Junior and Tanya run into a large group of Bugbears. They try to sneak around them in the woods, but the superior smelling ability of the monsters detects their horses, and the monsters attack. The two children ride back to the road, and try to have the horses leap over the bugbears. Silas Junior is successful, riding past, but Tanya falls off of her mount and is captured. Silas Junior rides to the lake’s edge, and continues to ride East, as the three-dozen bugbears rush towards him from the woods and road. He is almost successful at getting past them, but the three bugbears furthest forward cut him off, and hit the horse with their weapons, killing it. </p><p></p><p>Silas Junior dives into the lake, as the bugbears throw rocks at him, one hitting. He swims down to the bottom, not surfacing until he is out of rock throwing range for the creatures. He swims East, making a direct path across the lake to Fiona’s house, which is still two-miles away. The bugbears continue East along the shore watching him from a distance. </p><p></p><p>A mile to the South, Vincenzo rides right into a large group of hobgoblins. They charge at him, and he rides down to the lake to get away. This proves to be a mistake, as another group of hobgoblins are at the lakeshore, trapping the cleric between the two groups. He surprises them by riding into to lake itself, and jumping into the water, fully armored. Falling into the lake as the hobgoblins start to organize on the shore, he casts a “Dispel Magic” on himself, transforming himself into a merman (an ability he acquired in the 1996 Module “Chariots of Water”), and he swims on the bottom away from shore, eventually spotting Silas Junior. </p><p></p><p>Vinnie surfaces by him. Silas Junior points out the bugbears on the north side of the lake and Vinnie points out the hobgoblins on the south side, both groups of enemies now heading East on opposite sides of the lake. Vinnie tells the boy to “hang on tight”, and makes like a jet ski in a bee-line towards Fiona’s, getting there while both groups of running monsters are still one-half to three-quarters of a mile away. </p><p></p><p>Vinnie cannot exit the water, as he does not have another Dispel Magic, so he has Silas Junior run up to tell Fiona what is happening. He quickly tells her, and she spots the distant groups of converging monsters, gathers up her key belongings, then the two head to her pegasus. They take off over the lake, doing a quick check at the school to confirm that it still under the control of the enemy, and then fly off towards the direction of the city on top of the mountain. Vincenzo retreats to his underwater church in the center of the lake to rest to pray for spells. </p><p></p><p>From a crack between the barn-boards in the loft, Jentile sees four of the villains gathering up the unconscious bodies of the Silas, Beulla, and the four older boys. They are joined by a few bugbears carrying the unconscious body of Tanya. Jentile decides to go for help, but stops when three of the villains come back into the barn. She stays hidden behind the bails of hay. </p><p></p><p>Fiona and Silas Junior fly towards the city. As they begin to descend into the crater they spot two large groupings of dead hobgoblins, evidence of multiple fireballs, and the burnt out Jeep. She sees no people, living or dead, and decides to fly back upward. They head off in the direction of the town.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 2817732, member: 8530"] [B]Chapter Six, “School Assault,” August 5th, 1018 4:00 P.M. [/B] The School along the west bank of the Lake, situated between the central mountain/volcano and the western shore of the ten-mile-diameter island. The School is comprised of four buildings. Set approximately 600 feet west of the Lake itself is the Main House, a 15 room 3-story structure; 200 feet south of that is the Classroom Building, an 8-room 2 story structure; 100 feet north is the Craft Building, a 4-room 1-story structure; 100 feet northwest of the main house is a large Barn, with the stables and corral behind it. As the female human fighter Jaime and her niece Janet (the 13-year-old daughter of Beulla and Phuddipeduzh) were preparing diner, Janet suddenly collapses onto the floor. Grabbing the nearest butcher knife, Jaime looks around, and hears someone speaking. She sees a strange woman dressed in splint mail casting a spell at her, and begins to let out a scream before being held. Jamie’s sister, the female human fighter Beulla and the female elf magic-user Kharole are in the craft building working on crafts with the six youngest children (human equivalent of two to six). Kharole’s elvan hearing picks up the beginning of Jaime’s scream. She tells Beulla to watch the children, and goes to investigate. She enters the main house and heads towards the kitchen. She then hears a spell being cast from the direction of the dining room, she spots the caster (a woman in robes) and immediately lets loose her own Magic Missile spell. The Magic Missile has a quicker casting time, and the woman is struck with four missiles before her own spell can get off. A strange man in loose cloth clothing then rushes up to Kharole from behind, and hits her with a karate chop. She draws her dagger and strikes him, as he hits her again. The woman casts another spell, which Kharole again successfully saves from. She then fails to save from the Hold Person cast on her from the armored woman at the kitchen door. When Kharole does not soon come back, Beulla heads out the door of the craft building, and is immediately backstabbed for all but 3 of her hit points. The man who hit her is then struck in the back by four of five daggers thrown by the small children in the room (Kharole has taught them well). He slams the door shut from the outside, as Beulla retaliates by tossing her dagger up into her attacker, a skinny man in dark leather clothing. She hears distant sounds of Jamie’s husband, the rather-plump human cleric Vincenzo, Kharole’s human fighter husband Silas-the-one-eyed, and six of the older children returning their horses to the corral following the children’s riding lesson, and runs in that direction. She gets struck again by the man’s sword, but manages to continue to run away with her one remaining hit point. The woman magician from the house now approaches the craft room, and casts a Sleep spell through the craft room window, dropping all but the youngest child (Silas and Kharole’s two-year old son Christopher). She and the man in leather begin moving the toddler and sleeping children to the back door of that building. Beulla runs to Silas and Vincenzo, quickly telling them what is happening. Silas yells “Heal her” to Vincenzo, and charges forward. Vincenzo tells the four oldest boys to stay with her, and instructs ten-year-old Silas Junior (human equivalent of eight) and ten-year-old Tanya (the tavern-keeper’s daughter) to get horses and ride to the wizardess Fiona’s house at the other end of the lake, as Fiona can use her pegasus to quickly get the rest of the party. Vinnie then casts some cures onto Beulla. As Silas approaches the buildings, the doors to the barn are thrown open by a large human fighter armed in Platemail and holding a large bastard sword. “Run from me coward,” the man calls to Silas. Silas turns, and answers “Come out of the barn and show yourself unless you are a coward yourself”. The man moves forward, bragging that he is “Donovan the Great”. The two start fighting. The female cleric in splint mail has now gone outside of the house, and cast a Hold on Silas, but he successfully saves (and does not hear her due to the noise from the duel). Meanwhile, Jaime and Vinnie’s eight-year old daughter Jentile had been in the barn getting milk for dinner when the villains first appeared (having teleported into the barn itself). She was able to keep from being seen by them by successfully hiding behind the cows, and now that the last of the six villains has left the barn, she moves to a safer spot up in the loft. Beulla, Vinnie, and the other four boys see Silas dueling with the armored fighter. Vincenzo leads them back to the craft building. Beulla warns him of the man who had attacked her. Vinnie and Beulla enter, telling the four boys to draw their daggers and go around back, two on each side of the building. Vinnie rushes through the building, finding the first three rooms empty, and then seeing the female mage in the fourth room by the back door. She casts a spell at Vinnie, but he saves, and casts a Silence back at her. He then moves back to get out of the area of effect of the silence, and Beulla charges forward. As she enters the room she spots the man in leather that had attacked her hiding behind the door, and retreats back to Vinnie. The mage then opens the back door of the building, and exits with two of the unconscious children. Outside, two of the boys, Vincenzo Junior and Henry Junior (the tavern-keeper’s son) see the mage leaving the building, and toss their daggers into her. Vincenzo Junior then gets struck down from above by a dagger, letting out a scream as he falls. Henry Junior tosses a dagger into the man he now sees on the roof, and gets hit by one in return for three of his four hit points. The other two boys (Jaime and Vincenzo’s quarter-elvan adopted boys, Oblong and Horatio) come around the other side of the building, and throw their daggers up at the man, who now retreats to the other side of the roof. Inside, Beulla and Vinnie heard his scream and now hear movement on the roof, so they rush back to the front door. The enemy mage casts a Sleep spell on the three boys, dropping them. The man on the roof rushes to the front side of the building just as Vinnie and Beulla come out of the front door, causing him to change his mind and rush back. They see Silas being dropped after a long duel with the Fighter, who then charges at them. Vinnie grabs Beulla and levitates up to the roof. The man on the roof climbs down from the roof on the backside of the building. They then spot the mage and man who had fought Beulla carrying the children off into the woods. Vinnie casts a hold, stopping both of these enemies. Vinnie then casts a Command on the fighter, stopping him in his tracks. Vinnie levitates himself and Beulla back down, and he heads towards the main house. Beulla goes to the back of the craft building, and ties up the two held villains. As she heads over to wake up the boys, the woman in splint mail comes out of hiding and casts a Hold Person on her, stopping Beulla. The woman then moves to the front of the building, and casts a Dispel Magic on the fighter, breaking him from Vincenzo’s spell. The fighter charges Vincenzo as the woman begins to cast a Silence at him. Before the silence spell can take effect he manages to get off a Sanctuary spell, and runs away. He grabs a horse, and rides off south around the lake. Meanwhile, on the north side of the lake Silas Junior and Tanya run into a large group of Bugbears. They try to sneak around them in the woods, but the superior smelling ability of the monsters detects their horses, and the monsters attack. The two children ride back to the road, and try to have the horses leap over the bugbears. Silas Junior is successful, riding past, but Tanya falls off of her mount and is captured. Silas Junior rides to the lake’s edge, and continues to ride East, as the three-dozen bugbears rush towards him from the woods and road. He is almost successful at getting past them, but the three bugbears furthest forward cut him off, and hit the horse with their weapons, killing it. Silas Junior dives into the lake, as the bugbears throw rocks at him, one hitting. He swims down to the bottom, not surfacing until he is out of rock throwing range for the creatures. He swims East, making a direct path across the lake to Fiona’s house, which is still two-miles away. The bugbears continue East along the shore watching him from a distance. A mile to the South, Vincenzo rides right into a large group of hobgoblins. They charge at him, and he rides down to the lake to get away. This proves to be a mistake, as another group of hobgoblins are at the lakeshore, trapping the cleric between the two groups. He surprises them by riding into to lake itself, and jumping into the water, fully armored. Falling into the lake as the hobgoblins start to organize on the shore, he casts a “Dispel Magic” on himself, transforming himself into a merman (an ability he acquired in the 1996 Module “Chariots of Water”), and he swims on the bottom away from shore, eventually spotting Silas Junior. Vinnie surfaces by him. Silas Junior points out the bugbears on the north side of the lake and Vinnie points out the hobgoblins on the south side, both groups of enemies now heading East on opposite sides of the lake. Vinnie tells the boy to “hang on tight”, and makes like a jet ski in a bee-line towards Fiona’s, getting there while both groups of running monsters are still one-half to three-quarters of a mile away. Vinnie cannot exit the water, as he does not have another Dispel Magic, so he has Silas Junior run up to tell Fiona what is happening. He quickly tells her, and she spots the distant groups of converging monsters, gathers up her key belongings, then the two head to her pegasus. They take off over the lake, doing a quick check at the school to confirm that it still under the control of the enemy, and then fly off towards the direction of the city on top of the mountain. Vincenzo retreats to his underwater church in the center of the lake to rest to pray for spells. From a crack between the barn-boards in the loft, Jentile sees four of the villains gathering up the unconscious bodies of the Silas, Beulla, and the four older boys. They are joined by a few bugbears carrying the unconscious body of Tanya. Jentile decides to go for help, but stops when three of the villains come back into the barn. She stays hidden behind the bails of hay. Fiona and Silas Junior fly towards the city. As they begin to descend into the crater they spot two large groupings of dead hobgoblins, evidence of multiple fireballs, and the burnt out Jeep. She sees no people, living or dead, and decides to fly back upward. They head off in the direction of the town. [/QUOTE]
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