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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tikigod" data-source="post: 4748778" data-attributes="member: 75310">The company is huddled in a small, dark room not far from the Chamber of Eyes. They are recuperating from the vicious fight in the antechamber. Ern and Morthos bandage the party’s wounds. Scranton suddenly perks up. He hears the whining of a wolf and the soft voice of a female elf.     “Their tracks are clear as day. Whoever these intruders are, they will soon be chained and turn us a tidy profit.”     Scranton scrambles into the shadows of a nearby alcove. The rest of the group retreats a short distance down another hallway.  A wolf bounds into the room and sniffs out the hidden rogue. A squad of hobgoblins follows the wolf. Behind the troops is a familiar elven huntress, Ninaran!     Nex brings forth an icy blast, slowing the progress of the slavers. Ern and Scranton engage the snarling wolf. Morthos directs the flow of the battles with loud commands. A hail of arrows rain down on the company. The tiefling warlord suffers through 3 critical attacks in a row. (“What’s the use of plate mail when you roll like that?” – Morthos) Scranton and Morthos weave through the middle of the battle, trying to close with their elven nemesis, dodging numerous opportunity attacks.      Ninaran finally recognizes her adversaries, “YOU! Again you have meddled in my affairs!” She makes a vow as her elven speed whisks her from the battle, “I will have my revenge on you. Those you love will writhe in pain! I will salt the earth where you live! Mother Blacks already laughs at your fate at my hands!”     Regrouping after the fight, The Heroes of Winterhaven decide to make camp for the night. Ern points out the slavers will have other trackers, so they decide to find the most defensible position to sleep. The balcony in the antechamber is chosen. On first watch, Nex fails to notice a goblin spying on them. During Ern’s watch, the door to the balcony bursts in. A bugbear attacks the dwarf. Goblin warriors pour into the lower antechamber and pepper the party with crossbow shots. A concentrated attack quickly ends the bugbears life. Ern and Morthos rappel down the balcony and engage the goblins in melee. Scranton and Nex return fire on the berserking goblins.     After the night raid, the group manages to squeeze in a fitful sleep. They then proceed to search the rest of the Chamber of Eyes. It is eerily empty. In the opulent quarters of the Bloodreaver’s leader, Scranton finds a purchase order. It is a bill of sale. It lists 9 Winterhaven slaves and a slave named Moyshanna. It is signed by Murkelmor Grimmerzhul. The name tugs at their memory, but no one can remember exactly where they had heard the name before.     Finally, at a door to the south, Scranton hears the low murmur of voices. Ern bashes in the door. Within is the inner sanctum of the Chamber of Eyes. The Heroes have entered the room on a walkway above the main floor. To the group’s right are stairs leading to the ground floor. To their left is a large statue of a toadish creature with a multitude of eyes. Near the statue stand Krand, the Bloodreaver chief and a hobgoblin warcaster. An archer guards the doorway the heroes just kicked in. Two more stand among the moaning slaves. A dire wolf prowls the foot of the stairs. Two grey-skinned duergar, pressed into the defense of the slavers, scowl at a double doorway. Krand has gathered the last remaining Bloodreavers to make a last stand.     The archer repositions himself behind the warcaster, while his brothers skewer Ern with red-feathered arrows. Scranton scampers into the room, hitting Krand with a Set-Up Shot. Ern follows suit, connecting with a massive Lasting Threat. The warcaster grabs Scranton with a Force Lure and knocks him off of the ledge. Morthos races to the stairs to block access. He begins trading blows with the Dire Wolf.  The duergar yell, “For Grimmerzhul!” and join the fray. Krand directs his allies’ attacks against the dwarven fighter. Ern is hit by the Bloodreaver chief and all three archers. He falls to the floor. Morthos races to his friend’s aid. Scranton scales the wall and scuffles with the warcaster. The Dire Wolf howls in frustration, unable to climb the stairs. The duergar split. One advances on Scranton and the other towards Morthos. As they advance, sharp poisonous quills shoot from their beard. Morthos’ eyes narrow and his grip on Kinkiller tightens. Krand falls to a critical Bastion of Defense. Drawing on the power of his magic armor, Morthos regains the use of powerful maneuver. Scranton spins and slashes wearing down the warcaster and duergar. Ern engages the other duergar, dwarf versus dwarf. Nex rains fire down upon Scranton’s attackers. Morthos scores another critical with his second Bastion of Defense.     “Like a God of War,” Ern says appreciatively.     The dire wolf, unable to attack, crashes through the double door and into the depths of the Thunderspire Labyrinth.  Soon, the battle ends. The last remaining enemy is one of the duergar who surrenders to the mercy of the Heroes of Winterhaven.</blockquote>

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