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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PHDungeon" data-source="post: 5454542" data-attributes="member: 86320">Bella's journalSession 36:  The Easy WayWe bypassed the stronghold with all of our usual diplomacy.  Melech’s fey patron, the Maiden of the Moon, had guided us to this fortress, telling us to eliminate her enemies.  We attacked immediately and started a siege.  It has been difficult and only now cowering in a narrow passage with the stench of minotaur burning my nose do I think about how easy it could have been.Once again I remind myself that Stark is dead and there is nothing threatening me anymore.  Keeping my true nature as a changeling a secret is starting to hurt me.  How much easier would this siege have been if I had been able to approach this fortress as one of their own?  If we could have worked together to invent some story and just walked in?Of course that is not what happened.  Instead we opened with a warning shot, and had the door slammed in our face.  We overcame the fortress the hard way, the six of us against an army.  Outnumbered but fortunately not out classed.After we cleared out the first room we needed a new plan.  I used a speak with dead ritual to interrogate one of our fallen enemies.  He directed us to a narrow passage built into the walls, perhaps used to look down at enemies.  Climbing up we discovered that it was just big enough for a goblin but not the giant Cyclops.  Quietly skulking forward we found our enemy waiting for us to try another frontal assault.  Quickly and quietly both the elf and I eliminated them.  Carefully exploring I discover we had taken this entire level and not alerted any of those waiting for us to try coming through the front door again.Overconfident, we decide to try and take one side of the first level, and that is when the inevitable happened.  In the first level were the archers, lined up along a hallway at murder holes.  When we started our attack the rest of the fortress was alerted.  Suddenly we were facing the entire garrison.Cyclops and goblins poured from every direction and for every one that dropped two more would take their place.  As the battle dragged on we started using the bodies of our fallen enemies as cover.  Finally, after a long battle, things quieted down.  We looked at each other.  Everyone else but me was broken, bleeding and spent.  There was only one thing we could do, we retreated to the small passage to catch our breath.  All of us knew that this siege was far from over.</blockquote>

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