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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brakkart" data-source="post: 1763911" data-attributes="member: 19617">DM's Log of Session Four...with a thrust of sheer willpower, Elena finally broke the enchantments hold on her and glared menacingly at the cultist who had been gleefully stabbing her. The Fang cleric hurled spells at the dwarven psychopath before him, to little effect, and he gradually backed away, healing himself and then drawing a wand. Zamtap battled a soldier fiercely in one corner of the Inn's taproom, but while his foe landed blow after blow on the hapless priest, he rarely got a stike in against him in return.Ki and Gylippus were having better luck, working together to flank and then cut apart the cultists, even as a thug stood off to one side, did his best to pepper Gylippus with arrows. Aeron, stood out in the street but with a good view of the proceedings, heaped misery onto the cultist wizard behind the bar, with spells harrying his opposite numbers effectiveness, to the point that spellcasting became pointless, and the much maligned wizard drew a wand and started blasting.With the soldier guarding the cleric from his wrath, put to sleep by a timely intervention from Aeron, Jebodiah was freed to focus his attention on the leader of their ambushers, growling curses as he hacked at him, being blasted by magic missiles from the priests wand in return. Having finished her tormentor off, Elena rushed across the room to add her sword to the fight, but the dwarf's groans of pain mingled with his battle cries, showed her where her talents would be best applied, and she worked to keep the groups barbarian upright.The last Fang soldier finally broke Zamtap's resolve, and the Gondsman fled across the bar, freeing the armoured tough to aid his commander, he wading into the melee in support of the cleric, attacking Elena. Seeing the danger, Gylippus and Ki ran across to help deal with him, the pair having seen that the dwarf was taking the cleric as a very personal foe by now, the villain having healed himself twice, denying the barbarian his victory.A blast echoed across the room as Zamtap fired off his pistol at the cleric though, missing him narrowly because of the cover given by the bar he had retreated behind. As if in mockery of how it should be done, Aeron calmly strolled in through the door, loaded and aimed his crossbow and killed the wizard effortlessly. In a last futile act of savagery the cleric blasted his wand into Gylippus dropping him to the floor as he snarled "At least I'll claim one of you for Sseth!". Seconds later, he was dead, cut down by Jebodiah's axe, the dwarf grinning broadly even as the strength of his anger faded from him and he collapsed atop his beaten enemy. The Fang cleric never got to see Aeron and Elena save the one member of the party that the Fangs had managed to put down.At that the landlord poured the group a complimentary round of drinks for being the victors, along with telling them in no uncertain terms to get their things and get out. They took their bags from their rooms, and had just finished looting the nine corpses, when the door banged open to admit a large man in armour, a red tabard and a black helm with red stripes on, an officer of the Flaming Fist, and in a furious mood too, as Gylippus found out when he tried some backchat.Summing the groups recent activities up as a danger to the peace, he gave the group two days to leave Baldur's Gate, or they would be found and very publically dealt with. With that warning ringing in their ears, the group headed out of the Leaping Leprechaun and as word quickly spread across the city of their battle in the bar, they found themselves turned away from Inn after Inn, none keen to have a repeat fight break out on their premises (and the consequent loss of business incurred during the clean-up afterward). Finally they were able to rent rooms at a small tavern down by the docks, not affiliated to the brewers guilds, called the Blushing Mermaid.There, they rested, healed up, divided up their hard fought for loot (after Gylippus had sold off some of the non-monetary items), ate and discussed what to do next, with the two day deadline looming over them in which to get the evidence of Broca House's complicity in the thefts.DM's Notes:Memo to self: Fights can take a while, but when they go as well as this one did, they sure are a LOT of fun!!So Broca House remains unraided, and yet the plot advances nicely and in ways I had not foreseen when plotting this section of the campaign out initially. The deadline makes things interesting for the players, creating a real sense of urgency. I actually got to use the Flaming Fist rather than just having them as background colour this week. As you might have noticed, no mention was made of Noob, as Mark did not turn up to the session this week, no idea why at the time of writing. Dished out XP for the fight and also to Gareth for turning in Zamtap's history, which allowed him to reach level 4 ahead of the others (I'll post it just as soon as I've gone through it and removed the typo's). I've decided not to bother with the 5 day training thing, I just feel it will hinder the storyline more than add to it after some serious thinking on it.</blockquote>

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