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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 1250018" data-attributes="member: 8530">Game #8 - 11/30/03Chapter 26, “I guess he knows we’re here,” September 13th, 1019, 8:15 P.M.Narg reaches the door, opening it out a crack to glace inside.   Two gnoll fighters were waiting just on the other side of the door for them.  One pushes the door open wider as his partner successfully jabs a spear into Narg.    Mojo had taken a Button of Blasting out of his pocket before, and says to Narg “Get out of the way,” as he tosses the button into the room.   The button hits the floor between the two gnolls, setting off a 15-point explosion that knocks both of the gnolls down.   It also blasts the door off of its hinges and knocks Narg back for some damage.  “Give me more warning next time,” Narg complains. They look through the doorway back into the 20-foot diameter room.   The room is barren except for the two gnolls and a now damaged ladder in the center of the room (in fact, the explosion destroyed the bottom foot of the 50-foot high ladder, its entire weight now being held up by a pair of clamps at the very top).    They are surprised when the two gnolls stand up, having been only wounded by the blast.   The gnolls charge forward, chanting “Death to the elves,” in gnollish.  Narg replies in the gnoll language, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, we’ve heard that before.”   Narg meets the first one in the doorway, skewering him with the Nargblade, as Mojo tosses his hammer full force into the room at the other one.    The hammer misses, but strikes the ladder hard, swinging it back into the far wall (as the DM rolls a “1” for the ladder’s saving thrown).   The ladder splits, with one side coming apart from the rungs.   It also breaks loose from the clamps up above, and comes crashing down into the room below in sections.    The remaining gnoll falls under the cascade of lumber falling on top of him.  Mojo enters the room and bludgeons the gnoll with the hammer to ensure his demise.  The shaft goes up for forty feet before reaching an opening in the room at the top and another opening to the crow’s nest ten feet about that.   There are ledges fifteen and twenty feet above them, but no way of reaching them.  Narg complains,  “Oh great, you just had to take out the ladder didn’t you?”    Narg takes out his rope of climbing and looks for something to have it attach to.  He spots a metal clamp at the crow’s nest level that had previously been used to secure the ladder.   He has the magical rope levitate up to that point and attach to the clamp.  Meanwhile, Purge has now helped lower Cassie down to the lower deck, while Alton headed straight over to the tower and has been climbing up the outside.    The druid in the form of an invisible chimpanzee has no difficulty scaling the 25 feet from the upper deck to the room at the top.  He reaches one of eight windows on this upper room and looks inside.   There are five creatures in the room.  Three are gnolls, one dressed as a shaman, one dressed as a fighter, and the third wearing a fancy uniform and cloak while sitting in a chair.  The seated gnoll is wearing the bone helmet.    The other two individuals are the head gargoyle and the creature claiming to be the gnoll god Yeenoghu.   The DM asks Alton’s player if he is going inside.   The player replies “You expect me to go up against all of them by myself?  Alton may be brain dead but he’s not insane.   I’ll climb up higher.”   As Alton reaches the crow’s nest he sees the end of the rope of climbing as it attaches to the metal clamp.    Alton glances down into the room below, and mutters to himself “If only I had a dog whistle.”  He then looks back over the railing to see what has become of Purge and Cassie, seeing them on the lower deck, checking something between the two decks.  In the room below, the creature claiming to be Yeenoghu notices the magical rope shoot up through the room and then go taut.  He looks down the opening, seeing Narg and Mojo climbing the rope.   He gestures to the gargoyle to take out its magical sword, and waits until the elf and half-elf are thirty feet up before signaling the gargoyle to act.   The powerful monster swings his magical blade with full force, hitting with enough power to sever the rope before him.  As soon as the rope is cut the two brave fighters fall.   Narg is able to grab the corner of the ledge at the twenty-foot height, and Mojo is able to grab onto Narg’s legs.   They climb up onto the ledge.   Narg tests his rope, finding that in addition to being cut along the final five feet it is no longer magical.   He curses about what could have done that.    Mojo has a hunch, and strikes his magical Medallion, with the shining holy platemail now magically appearing again over his other armor.   Narg does the same, his armor also appearing.   Mojo comments, “Uh oh, it would have only done that if there is unmistakable evil around, besides you and me.”  They find out soon enough, as the Yeenoghu creature appears in the opening above, holding some type of crossbow.   A screaming crossbow bolt flies towards them, bouncing off of Narg’s holy armor.   Mojo mutters, “I guess he knows we’re here,” as he tosses up his hammer, which strikes the creature for no effect before returning to Mojo.   It’s second screaming bolt bounces off of Mojo’s armor.  Alton concludes that his friends are in trouble, and casts a heat metal spell down into the room, which the enemies do not hear due to the echoes from the screaming bolts.  The Yeenoghu creature then fires again at Narg, this bolt actually penetrating the armor, but not deep enough to cause Narg damage.   Mojo tosses his hammer again, and is very surprised when the Yeenoghu creature reaches out and catches it.  The sound of the screaming bolts has drawn Cassie and Purge over to the doorway and into the chamber.   At the sight of the two gnoll bodies and destroyed ladder Cassie mutters “Fighters, can’t do anything right.”    She and purge move forward and look up, seeing the major bad guy forty-five feet above them and holding onto Mojo’s hammer.   It lifts up the hammer, and tosses it downward with full force directly towards Cassie.   As it sails past the ledge Mojo mutters “He missed us”, not realizing the intended target.   Below, Cassie’s hands had been at her side, and she scoops up the Bag of Holding tucked into her belt, opening up the bag before her.   The hammer sails into the bag, which she immediately shuts to prevent it from returning to the monster.    Inside the bag, Mark had just been standing around waiting to be let out when he sees it open above him, with Mojo’s hammer then sailing in at his head.   Mark leans back as it sails past him, barely missing his nose, chin, belly and other parts.  It strikes the floor hard, but thankfully not hard enough to rip the bag, which then closes up above him.   Mark is totally bewildered as to what has just happened, wondering why Mojo just tried to hurt him.   On the ledge above, the bolts now cease, but the two fighters then see the gargoyle dropping through the opening above them.   The monster spreads its wings as it enters the shaft, hovering at the top, and gives them an evil grin.   It then lowers its head so that its rather sharp horns are extended towards them and then dives directly at the unarmed Mojo.</blockquote>

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