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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brakkart" data-source="post: 2215402" data-attributes="member: 19617">DM's Log of Session Twenty SixStanding in the entrance to the gatehouse, Aeron watched the ceiling carefully, and when one of the murder holes opened he cast Steel Dance on his twin daggers, and sent the blades soaring up through the opening with the instruction to attack anything that moved up there, with much screaming and cursing being heard below as the startled kobolds above suddenly found themselves in melee with the enchanted blades. With the kobolds above distracted for a while, Gylippus, Ki and Zamtap raced across the bridge into the relative safety of the gatehouses entry hall, as Jebodiah continued to batter his way through the third portcullis, finally chopping through and being saved a repeat of his labours, as Zamtap stoneshaped an opening around the side of the fourth portcullis.Jebodiah moved around the fourth portcullis then to throw his weight against the huge stone doors that marked the entrance way into the hold proper, but to little effect. Aeron remained at the entrance to the gatehouse though, adamant that the party should retreat, and return the next day to continue breaking in when they were healed up. His words had little effect, as while Zamtap healed the groups wounds, Gylippus sent a fireball from his wand up through a murder hole, wiping out a good number of the kobolds above as they were no longer being slaughtered by the flying swords.Jebodiah strained against the stone doors, grunting and shoving, but remained unable to shift them, even with Ki trying to lend a shoulder to the effort. Zamtap continued healing the dwarf, and Gylippus sent another fireball into the hall above them, killing more of the kobolds and ending the rain of rocks at last. He then ran to join Jebodiah, Ash and Ki, the foursome hurling themselves at the stone doors as one, and finally shoving them open, only to be met with a hail of arrows, as they saw that the doors opened in a small hall with a high ceiling, the walls on the upper floor dotted with arrow slits.Falling back from the onslaught of arrows, the arrowheads exploding into flame on impact, the majority of the party finally heeded Aeron's calls from the mouth of the gatehouse to pull back and return tomorrow, starting to move that way. All that is apart from Ash and Gylippus, who headed into the storm of arrows, the paladin shielding the sneaky mage, as they made their way to a side door, where Gylippus got to work on the lock, as arrows clattered off Ash's shield.Aeron though was having problems of his own, the remaining sorceror having returned with his apprentices, the trio blasting him with magic missiles constantly in an effort to bring his shield spell down. Deciding to flee before that happened, Aeron ran across the bridge and away down the trail, in his haste to get away forgetting just how long a range the Fireball spell has, the senior sorceror blasting him off his feet more than 200 feet from the gatehouse entrance, the genasi wizard remaining down, lifeblood seeping out. Seeing this from the entrance of the gatehouse, the others quickly realised that running wasn't an option, the sorcerors above would likely pick them off as they fled, so they headed back towards where Ash and Gylippus were, while Ki raced towards the fallen Aeron. The kobold sorcerors though didn't blast him, instead heading back to their quarters in the hold to rest.Reaching Aeron, Ki quickly restored him to health with the use of his healing wand, the wizard quaffing a potion and the pair headed back towards the entrance then, even as Gylippus finished picking the lock and the party hastily cleared out of the murder hall and into a large section of tunnels and chambers, that from the defaced murals on the walls used to be the visitors quarters. Hastily building a barricade from wooden doors they tore from their frames and wood shaped together, the party settled down for a nervous nights sleep, badly in need of the rest.DM's Notes:Well they finally got inside, albeit with a lot of running back and forth and even more arguing. Phil was very determined to have the group back out of the gatehouse and rest down the mountain, and to be fair he almost got his way. It was only when he got fireballed on his way down the trail that the rest realised that it was an all or nothing attack, and returned to the front. Dan & Alastair worked well together and have since changed seats at the table so that they sit  together, to better coordinate tactics.They are inside Dowinn's Lode now, still a long way to go before they get out the south end of the hold though. I'm thinking most of not all of the group should gain a couple levels on negotiating their way through the Lode, which should put them at about 9th level for their attack on the Yuan-ti city.</blockquote>

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