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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarauderX" data-source="post: 1381946" data-attributes="member: 9990">Session 3 ContinuedThe moon began sinking towards the treetop horizon when again the defenders heard what sounded like woman's screams.  Darya cried out in anguish as it was clear now that the woman-like screams were incoherant and were probably made by a goblin shreiking in falsetto.  It left Darya visibly shaken, and Pyotr could not quiet her sobs for another hour.  The party began to rotate sleeping so they could at least get a few hours before daybreak.  More sling stone cracked and clattered against the building, and the drumming stopped and resumed occassionally.  The moon had dropped out of sight, and now the clearings were the darkest they had been all night.  Before long it would grow lighter as dawn approached.  Alex woke up Dian and the others as they had suspected something might happen in the final hours of the night.  The drums fell quiet now for more than half an hour, and the chanting had grown weaker.  Perhaps the goblins' spirit for a fight had broken and they decided to go home.  Those thoughts were flushed away.  The defenders watched wide-eyed as a large pack of goblins emerged from the forest to the east.  Two large goblins led the way, followed by nearly a score of goblins.  A cry went up from the tower, and the defenders noticed a second group of goblins pouring forth from the north forest.  The Red-blade goblins to the east ran across the open ground as more arrows fell on them, and the defenders could make out something they were carrying.  "Ladders!  Ladders to the east!" Pyotr cried out, and loosed another arrow at them.  To the north, the defenders in the towers concentrated their fire on a prominent goblin with a red cape, a large red battle axe and a red and gold circlet on top of it's head.  The ladders were propped up by the Red-blades to the east, and the leaders there urged the goblins up the ladders to climb through the windows.  They were met their by a row of defenders on the balcony.  Alex and Thovaas struck down goblin after goblin that came up one of the ladders as Pyotr held off attackers from another.  The cleric of Pelor fell after repeated blows, and soon goblins began hopping onto the balcony from the ladders.  The goblin leader to the north blurted out some directions while pointing at the newly rigged kitchen door before he ducked for cover from the archers on the tower.  The other Red-blades from the north went straight to the door and brought it down.  Once the way was clear, they piled into the kitchen and storage room, then the goblin leader sprinted across the open courtyard to the cover of the kitchen doorway.  Taras had called out what had happened, and he, Alfana, and Irina ran to the balcony to await them coming into the great hall.  As Pyotr and the others were tied up with their backs to the great hall, the defenders saw the need to prevent them from climbing the stairs. Instead, the goblin leader toppled over the great hall dining table and pointed at the tapestries that hung on the wall of the great hall, giving out orders to take them down.  Arrows came down on the goblin intruders from Argan, Taras and others, but still they managed to grab the tapestries.  Pyotr and Darya struggled with the goblins on the ladders, but were assisted by Dian, Alex, Jerrin and Thovaas.  Seeing their predicament, the goblin lord directed his troops to ascend the stairs to try to down the weakened defenders.  Jerrin wisely spotted the maneuver and his companion Tempest ran to counter, tearing open the throat of the large goblin.  Seeing this, the goblin leader pushed his minions to leave the building with the tapestries while they still could.  The defenders were still resisting the goblin attack via the ladders, and the goblin lord managed to escape across the open field.  One of the goblins also had a tapestry, as Argan and the others had managed to bring down the other tapestry-carrying goblins.  Recognizing that a majority of their force had been lost the rest of the Red-blades from the east dropped their weapons and ran for the cover of the forest.</blockquote>

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