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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 548085" data-attributes="member: 8530">Chinese Take-outChapter 65, “Come out, come out, where ever you are!”, September 28, 1018, 12:25 A.M. Up on the castle roof, Aradyn looks around, and says “Damn, there’s no easy  way to get back inside of the castle from here.”  “Good,” answers Lannon, “That works both ways, since they know this is where I went.”   As Serita continues her spell, they suddenly hear very loud sounds from the opposite side of the castle.  “Sounds like a truck,” Mojo comments.   Narg tells Lannon “Check it out, we’ll stay here.”   The dwarf rushes off along the roof, using his Slippers of Spider Climbing to hurry around the two nearest towers.It takes Lannon eight rounds to make his way to a point where he can see the front of the castle.  About a quarter of a mile away, between the outbuildings at the gate along the wall at the bottom of a hill, the dwarf sees a large object moving away from the castle that is making all of the loud noise.  Enough light from the castle wall is being cast for him to vaguely make out the shape of it as being the tractor-trailer truck that they had previously spotted.   He can tell that the cab secion  is pulling something, but is unable to make out exactly what.  Back at the rear roof, Serita completes the turn required for the Call Lightning spell.  She sends the Lightning Bolt down into the helicopter, causing it to explode.  The explosion drops all of the bugbears surrounding it.   As the sky was briefly illuminated by Serita’s bolt of lightning, Lannon was able to see that the truck was pulling some sort of large cannon.    He decides that he needs to stop this thing from escaping, and pulls out one of the recently acquired Flare Wands.   Lannon has the flare shoot out, but misjudges the angle, and it strikes the outer wall of the castle, sending a shower of green fireworks in all direction.  The party in the back of the castle can see some of these fireworks shooting up and onto the roof, and immediatley conclude that Lannon has done something.Meanwhile two of the wounded bugbears near the helcopter wreckage manage to stand up, only to be cut down by a pair of Aradyn’s arrows.    Narg tells the party to wait for Lannon to come back and for Serita to continue casting her spell, as it sounds like another bolt may soon be needed.   Lannon quickly returns, filling in the group and announcing that the truck has gotten away.    “Damn,” yells Narg, “We need to all get back inside, fast.”   Narg orders the group back into the Bags of Holding, and breaks Serita’s spell concentration, telling her “We’re going to need you and your Teleport Ring instead.  Take us to the main staircase.”  Narg grabs the bags, and jumps onto Serita’s back, as she teleports away. They arrive on the staircase between the first and second floors. The rest of the party, except for Hiroshi and Lono, are quickly emptied out of the Bags of holding.  They head down the stairs to the first floor.   The door to the great hall is currently opened, and they can hear the sounds of a vehicle coming from inside.   Narg and Mojo cautiously approach the doorway, and peer inside.   They see ninety feet away, near the elaborate throne, a one-ton pickup truck whose engine is running.  The truck has a truck-trailer cap on it and a Ragnor flesh golem sitting behind the wheel.  Standing alongside the truck are a pair of the elephant-footed giants, guarding Roger and Morgarth.    The two fighters pull back and tell the others, and both Fiona and Cassie decide to throw in fireballs.   The two half-elvan mages head towards the door to cast the spells, each flanked by one of the fighters.    As Narg and Cassie move up to the right side of the doorway.  Cassie peeks through the doorway, seeing the two enemies standing alongside the truck talking to each other.  Cassie whispers to Narg “This is wrong.  It is way too easy.”  Cassie signals Fiona to wait.  [DM’s Note: Huge experience points for this realization.  I was going to let them attack and thereby fall into the enemy’s trap.  Since they figured it out I then shifted to my Plan B, a plot twist that clearly comes from my having read far too many comic books.]</blockquote>

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