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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Black Omega" data-source="post: 1207666" data-attributes="member: 79">The adventure now went into it’s final stage.  The stealthy Volodni honored their agreement to help against the Tsuno.  Their scouting revealed that if anything there were more Tsuno at the grove now than before.  Far too many for Bansho Kishu alone.  But Mir managed to contact the spiders with the help of the Volodni, and the Naga with the help of Mindra, who finally brought out the Naga pearl he had not touched for months, for no reason he could really recall.The plan was simple, there were Naga trapped inside a underground chamber at the middle of the grove, being tortured.  There were patrols at regular intervals around the grove.  And the Tsuno were using the middle of the grove as a base of operations.  The group, under a invisibility spell, would try to sneak in, using other spells and their own stealth skills to supplement, just in case someone there could see invisible.They would free the Naga, draw all the attention inward so the other Naga and Volodni could attack.  Then break out and attacking the Tsuno from two sides.The plan worked better than they had thought it might.  With the help of Hawk’s ranger skills, they managed to avoid the traps as they were going in and got as far as the entrance to the underground cavern.  With Verick’s stealth, they managed to get everyone past the guards into the cavern.  Inside, they found three chambers with one Tsuno in each and lesser goblins busily adding to the Naga’s torments.Then, as they were ready to attack the one Tsuno who could give a warning, there was a loud monkey screech, followed by Rokugani swearing.  Though only Verick could see that Toshiro had accidentally stepped on Mindra’s tail and the Vanara had been unable to stifle the cry of pain.Even with this glitch, the battle went well and the group was able to kill the guards.  The goblins were more difficult, since they ran around in circles trying to escape and the group had to chase the, from cave to cave before finally tracking all of them down.  The Tsuno counter attack did not wait long, a pack of Tsuno attacking directly down the hallway, the front Tsuno using their wicked falchions, the one’s behind casting Ancestral Vengeance over and over.  Then a Soultwister and a Travage teleported back into the main chamber where the Naga were sleeping, the Soultwister casting a Cloud Kill that killed many of the Naga.Bansho Kishu were driven back by the assault down the tunnel, Volar popping up first a stone wall then another wall as they were pushed back closer to the three chambers.  After a sharp fight where Hawk came near to death, the Soultwister and Ravager retreated and the assault was paused.Bansho were left to awaken the other Naga and wait on the second assault they knew was coming.  And the assault came less than an hour later, but not on the cave.  Mir’s thrush had been left with the Volodni for communication and it reported there were Tsuno appearing from nowhere, ambushing the Volodni.  The Volodni would try to pull back, but they can’t stand up to the Tsuno long without help.The group formed up the Naga who could fight and went forward to fight their way out of the caves.  And found the Tsuno had blocked their way with a wall of their own.  Nothing Volar’s passwall could not get past, but just beyond the Tsuno waited, only a few but enough to hold for a time.It took a hard fight to break through and out of the caves.  Then they found the battle raging all around them.  The Naga arrived from the north and first Bansho Kishu went to help them.  Then they circled around to the west, running into the Spiders there, and the thick webs that cut off most of that part of the grove.  Then to the east where they and the Naga held off reinforcements, presumably returning patrols.  By the time they were done, the battle so the south was done as well, the Tsuno withdrawing after tearing apart the Volodni.The tactics followed had been Verick’s, but Volar silently approved.  He suspected the tactic was to let the Volodni get pounded by the Tsuno, an excellent idea in his own mind.  Still, with the battle done, all that was left was the clean up.</blockquote>

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