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Message: <blockquote data-quote="VicsHacienda" data-source="post: 9689305" data-attributes="member: 6965574"><h3>Defending Middleton (cont)</h3>Soldiers try to slip out from behind buildings and cross the wooden bridge, shortbows in hand. One takes an arrow for his trouble. "Come on over the bridge, we're waitin' for you, spinach-eaters," I call. Hertiage almost runs across at them, but remembers that Trevor had been sabotaging the bridge, and stays, dodging from foot to foot in his eagerness.Trevor speaks with a somber individual standing in a doorway. Apparently he doesn't want to leave, because what's the use? We don't have time to talk him into it.A soldier shoots at the Dwarven general and misses. Viggo's owl swoops down and breathes fire on a lagging soldier. Wagons continue moving through the winding avenues, trying to reach the northeast gate. Fafnir lends his back to them. I guess when most of them are through, we'll follow.Some spellcaster appears and casts something on Owlmo, causing Viggo, who had been looking through its eyes, to curse in dismay. The owl vanishes.Three soldiers appear across the river, with shortbows and a heavy crossbow. I put two arrows in the last. Trevor joins Hertiage in attacking the one who crossed, slashing him through with his shortsword and kicking the body into the river. Trevor then bends to fiddle with the bridge as if to cut it loose. I put an arrow into a soldier for good measure.<img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXdfUMwYbWnxziFEhWsuyBqhC56jI5iyfUWUlzxK9apUliO1Mo01U7SEmfjG15LTPl3_2WL5IBSAA0rbdi5wYp00h_7jnrWk3qEwQtKgrczPatE7dZsD5ezpxIzjsZkQZYKOsDZ1dw?key=jA3QLkk_W2nN52fE-9C4vg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Osnald drops a hypnotic pattern on the three across the water; two of them resist the charm effect, and an officer dashes to the bridge, shouting for the others to follow. Trevor whips him, and ducks two flail strikes.Viggo, seeing soldiers crossing the stone bridge, generates a vicious cone of wind and flame that knocks soldiers over and sets buildings aflame. He joins Osnald by the tree.Trevor slashes at his assailant but cannot get past his armor. Osnald and Viggo are beset by a wildly flailing Steppengardian. Osnald mocks him. A second likewise fails, but gets in a lucky swipe.Another soldier dashes across the bridge, only to be felled by Trevor's whip. Hertiage hacks away at the officer, who strikes Trevor with his flail.Viggo, angered by the loss of his familiar and by the soldiers swinging flails at him and Osnald, blasts another backdraft at them, slamming them dead into a wall. The wizard then moves away, and the bard follows.<img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXfBX42CYfyRqhk89kGvx3QBqXkkRiSMf4tuvQU_DKZQUbqyi1684m85l81Kr8FFcdfHTrWtanMsugo1Q14PC3oxDkU7bYXvyURiNBX4guE_oLE-njndv-5hGtgl6zd9pzD8PG1M?key=jA3QLkk_W2nN52fE-9C4vg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />A slender woman runs toward the bridge. Some magical effect makes several of her appear in one place. So I shoot the soldier next to her in splint, and he stares down at the two shafts. Trevor yanks at his sabotaged bridge ties, shoving it, then slashes backward at the commander behind him, grappling him. The bridge sags in the middle, dipping into the slow-moving water.The soldier I shot on the bridge shoots Trevor with his shortbow, then turns and runs. Hertiage slashes at the commander, who finally falls.<img src="https://lh7-rt.googleusercontent.com/docsz/AD_4nXccxYeBtW0YSbn-3kAxnzuEOriEA6dAdqY4ZzgVBLtimSZwRZOyF_lRoGFA5KAYIdAaFORCPICI7_qXJjLRLBeJVfCiyY1jOCuDpMOhaRwZ8oWHsOxmbb-u_DIkyeMNfEzm0RKT3A?key=jA3QLkk_W2nN52fE-9C4vg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Over at the stone bridge, archers in Megadon livery appear. Viggo casts a vast cylinder of searing heat across the square, incinerating them.The mirrored spellcaster likewise moves eastward, with no bridge to cross. Seeing Osnald across the river, she fires a bolt at him. He responds with silvery barbs, but still reels from whatever effect it had.I want to shoot her down, but those mirror images will make it difficult. I cast longstrider and jump down to the earth below, running to join Trevor and Hertiage. Trevor coils his whip and runs eastward toward the fiery pillar.</blockquote>

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