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Message: <blockquote data-quote="maddman75" data-source="post: 134321" data-attributes="member: 2673">Assault on the Dwarf Hold.The characters were relaxing in town, listening for any news of mind flayers or any other troubles about town.  With the wars in Bissel and Geoff most of the garrison were still gone, and Lord Eldrad was using the group as unoffical keepers of the peace in the meantime.A few days after their return, both a human and a dwarf rider came into town.  The human was covered in dust and told them that the mine had collapsed.  An Umber Hulk appeared and started hacking at the beams until the main shaft went down.The dwarf was badly hurt, with several deep cuts.  Helios laid his hands upon him and asked him what was happening.  The dwarf told him that an army of hobgoblins had besieged the dwarf hold, led by a demon.  He begged the PCs for help in the name of the King.  The party headed out at once, not sure why the hobgoblins would be attacking the dwarves.They couldn't get in through the stronghold's main gate, as the army was beseiging it.  The miners that had trickled back into town told the heroes of a side entrance that should be open.  They might find their way to the stronghold that way.The headed out, and after a bit of spelunking they found the chasm where they fought the giant spiders.  It connected to the cavern that caused the problems between the humans and dwarves not so long ago.  But they were on the other side.  It was two hunderd feet to the bottom of the chasm, then a hundered and fifty feet up the other side.Jellyroll and Ameral started counting out their rope while Rytalyn considered how many people she could enchant with Spider Climb.  WHile they were doing this, Beltar decided that the climb didn't look too difficult and started climbing down the side of the cliff.  He got about forty feet down when his handholds crumbled and he fell to the rocky bottom.  His companions didn't even know that he had left until they heard "OWWW!" from the bottom of the gorge.The rest of the group got down and back up with minimal fuss with some ropes and magic.  Coop used his wand of healing to patch up the eager barbarian.  Once inside, the dwarven soldiers quickly summoned the heroes to the central chambers of the stronghold.</blockquote>

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