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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nail" data-source="post: 1141973" data-attributes="member: 224">Commando Raid on the Goblin Tower!!!Session #17: Safe within the tower?(Session of RL Sept 17th, 2003)"Wow.    .....Look at the stonework," Riva mumbled.The others crowded in behind him, safe within the entrance hall of the second tower.  The hall cut 15 feet through the thick walls of the tower, then opened up into a circular room.  Stairs swept both up and down along opposite edges of the room.  Outside the passage, in the courtyard of Alderslook, a few stray goblin arrows plunged into the dirt.  There were a few goblin yells and curses, then silence."Come on, Riva," said Garret as he and his canine mount brushed past the dwarven barbarian, "we'd better go up these stairs quickly, and take care of the rest of the goblins above us."Riva shook his musings on the stone work from his head.  "Up?  No, no.  Down.  We should go down.  We'll find the kobold's secret passage into their former home!  We'll be away from the goblins there, and be able to rest up and get our bearings.  ...And explore..." Riva turned his gaze down the stairs eagerly."Down?  Are you serious?" Garret looked quizzically at the dwarf.  "There are goblins above us, and I'll bet the stairs here lead up to the walls and perhaps to that first tower!  We can't leave goblins behind us!"Thaile piped up, "I think we should head down.  We came here to bring the idol back, not fight some greasy goblins."  Her face wrinkled in disgust.  "I can already smell them in here.....uggggg."  Lissia nodded in agreement."We shouldn't leave known enemies at our backs," interjected Tieran.  Kytum-up barked assent."..And once we find the goblins, they'll be fairly easy to take care of," continued Garret.  "Their advantage was being protected in that tower!  Without that, we should be able to rout them easily.  Let's go up."  Garret urged Bavic up the first few steps."I don't think that's a good idea," rumbled Riva, planting his feet solidly on the first stone step leading down.          The halfling and the dwarf stared at each other intently.Still looking at Riva, Garret said, "Rowan?  You're the tie-breaker.  Three want to go up, three want to go down.  You're the seventh.  What do you think?"All were quiet, as Rowan stirred uncomfortably in her robes.  Her eyes squinted thoughtfully for a moment, then opened.  "We'll go up.  I know we need the rest, and we did come here to deliver the idol, just like Riva said.  But I don't feel comfortable leaving those sneaky little buggers behind us as we go down.  Can we go up, Riva?" The dwarf clenched his jaw, then nodded curtly. Rowan's face brightened even more.  "Right.  And I'll lead the way!"  Rowan strode to the front of the party, lighting a torch as she did so. *************After a brief discussion, it was decided that Rowan, Thaile, and Tieran would do a quick reconisance upward, and then come back to tell what they had seen.  The rest would stay below, to guard the ground floor entrance of the tower.The stairs led up into a room much like the first floor: circular, with more stairs leading up.  Scattered about were bits of rubble and junk.  Like the floor below, there was a thick layer of dirt and mud on the floor....and there was also the "leavings" of goblins.  Rowan accidently put her boot square in the middle of a small mound of the stuff.  The place stank, and with no windows to allow air in.....the three adventurers quickly moved on up the stairs.The next floor was much like the second, so the party hurried along.  Rowan quickly noted in her journal: "The third floor same, circular room; empty except for debris and stinky goblin things best left untouched."The fourth floor, however, was different.  Two halls left this room, each openning out onto the top of the walls of Alderslook.  There were 8 window openings as well, each stretching nearly 15 feet deep to pierce the tower's thick walls.  They saw no goblins on either of the walkways outside, so they pushed on, up the stairs.The next floor was the tower's last; the rest of the tower, that must have stretched far above them, had been knocked down long ago.  (That anything could knock down a tower with a 15 foot thick wall continued to amaze them.)  This floor had no roof, and the three could easily climb up upon the jagged remains of the tower's wall.Thaile climbed onto the wall closest to the first tower.  The first tower, the one the goblins were in, had more of it destroyed; the top of it was lower than she was.  On the first tower's wall, above the door from off the rampart, Thaile saw three goblins crouched, holding between them a large barrel.  It took her but a moment to figure out that this barrel was positioned to drop on any that came to the first tower's door from the wall's causeway.Carefully picking her way back down, Thaile motioned the others to rejoin her within the second tower.  The three adventurers talked over Thaile's discovery as they walked down the four flights of stairs to rejoin the others. They talked at length about their options, then desided to climb the tower..... This first tower was the one from which the goblins had first attacked the adventurers as they crossed the courtyard below.  The only entrance into it was from this wall, some 40 feet above the courtyard.This tower was in much worse shape than the second tower.  The inside had mostly collapsed and had filled with rubble.  Since then, some one had removed much of the rubble from the inside closest to the entrance -- making a pit, inot which Riva has just fallen. On the other side of the pit was a low wall made of rubble.  Goblin archers were hiding behind it, and now shooting at the party members in front: Rowan and Thaile, strangely enough.  Garret and Tieran stood helpfully in back, almost completely out of the fight.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />More of session #17 to come!</blockquote>

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