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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bob Aberton" data-source="post: 47638" data-attributes="member: 1518">...or so it seems.  They were clearing out a castle full of robbers to return a priceless dwarven artifact.  A raging female dwarf with a pickaxe was killing the robbers by the score, and then went for the leader.  He ducked down a tunnel, and the palyers followed.  What they didn't know was that the villain was behind a wall.  He stuck a crossbow bolt through an arrowslit and shot a gnome through the chest.  they bound up the wound and continued on (the gnome was unconscious but they figured we could get back in time to give him better care when we had killed the villain).  It was then that the party (or what was left after having two characters dropped into -5 or so HP) realized that they were underneath the moat, and the roof of the tunnel was supported by pillars.  WOODEN  pillars.  It was then that the bad guy tossed a torch down and burned away the pillars.  They all ran for the stairs as the moat rushed into the tunnel.  The Desert warrior (see a problem here?) fell into the water after missing a DEX check.  Naturally, she couldn't swim.  The party managed to pull her from the water, half-dead, with some quick thinking and a strong rope.  It was then that the villain, at the head of the stairs, started tossing down alchemist fire down the stairs.Well, long story short, they all made it to the surface, one half drowned, the other one scorched, and one with a big gash to the head.  The raging dwarf managed to knock the bad guy down to 3 HP with a REALLY lucky hit with a pickaxe.  It was then that I discovered that pickaxes had a critical multiplier of *4...why aren't more ppl using them?  The villain then jumped on hios horse and tried to ride away, but the spellcaster (slightly crispy from the alchemist fire) used a "command" spell on the horse to Command it to throw off the rider.  The guy took a further 2 pts. damage upon landing.Anyway, the party ended up with 125,000 GP, which they invested in a stronghold...Comments?</blockquote>

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