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<blockquote data-quote="Rhenny" data-source="post: 6740395" data-attributes="member: 18333"><p>Session 4 – ShadeRaven’s Horde of the Dragon Queen (3 hour game)</p><p></p><p>Approximately 2 am. We had been fighting the Dragon Queen’s army all day since arriving at Greenest. When we told the militia that had come to the mill that we needed to rest with our unconscious comrade, Brevick, they decided to return to the city center. We tried to get some to stay with us, but they wouldn’t. Hoping that Brevick would revive in a few hours, we put the unconscious Dwarf on the bed in the upstairs bedroom and Mily set up some ball bearings and other junk on the stairs so that we’d hear if others entered. </p><p></p><p>Soon after Mily and Strix heard some voices outside talking about us. Cultists were entering and they feared that we might still be alive. We moved into the next room and positioned ourselves near the doorway to ready attacks, but when the cultists came upstairs and saw the trap that Mily set and the carnage of other dead guards and cultists that we had killed, they got scared. Grim overheard the cultists say that they were going to get reinforcements. With that, Grim opened the door, fired his crossbow, killing one of the cultists. Before we knew it, we realized that we had to try to stop the cultists. I took a crossbow in the shoulder and Grim caught one in the gut. Mily, Strix, Grim and I each killed one of the foes, but 4 turned and ran. I was able to make it outside and the light of Silvanus from my shield revealed one of the cultists near the front door. I struck it down with my shortsword, and saw another cultist about 20’ to the north. It was running. Mily made it out and downed that one, but two others had escaped.</p><p></p><p>We knew it was unsafe to stay in the mill so Strix used his last spell to cast Tenser’s Floating Disc. We put Brevick on it and tried to move out as fast as we could. I doused our light so we would not call attention to ourselves and we headed down the river trying to avoid any entanglement. We heard and saw a few groups of foes, but when they saw us, we ran and were able to make it back to the secret tunnel that led into the governor’s keep. </p><p></p><p>Governor Nighthill congratulated us, but he also wondered why his militia came back without us. I told the governor that we told them to wait, but they wanted to go back to help in other areas. When the misunderstanding was cleared up, the governor asked us to go to the cathedral across town. He had found out that many innocent people were trapped there and the enemy was trying to use a battering ram to open the front doors and burn down the cathedral. He warned us that the great number of foes at the site would call for some stealth, so we took to the riverbed once more and snuck our way to the rear of the wall that surrounded the edifice. Brevick led us since he could see best in the dark. We found a lower area of the wall to peer over. There was a large force to the west doing some strange ritual. There was also smaller force to the east, banging away at a rear entrance. Strix realized that the ritual was an attempt to call forth a dragon. He was agitated by that. In fact, he seemed to know much more about the cult language and activity than a random bystander. I knew my friend had unorthodox beliefs, dabbling with life and death, but it seemed there was more to his past than even I realized. </p><p></p><p>Once we realized that the ritual dance was proceeding, we figured we only had about 10 minutes to get the captives out. We decided to move further east near some trees so that we could secure ropes to the trees and throw them over the wall. This would help us climb in and also help the others climb out if we could get them out of the cathedral. Brevick, in his bold fashion, swung over to the trees inside the wall and seemed ready to bolt toward the back door where 5 kobolds and 2 cultists were trying to gain entrance. Strix, attempted a bit of wizard legerdemain, by whispering a magical message to one of the kobolds near the door. He tried to get the creature to believe that the cultist next to him was insulting him. The kobold told the cultist, which made the cultist think that the kobold was getting loopy. He ordered the kobold to the front of the building where they were using the battering ram to try to smash the front doors just to get it away from him. One less kobold for us. </p><p></p><p>That’s when Brevick charged out and took them by surprise. He smashed one of the kobolds, but it didn’t go down. I jumped over the wall, placed a magical light on the Dwarf’s helm and then stepped behind a tree. Mily, who was already on the other side, hidden behind the tree, fired her sling. The sling stone she propelled hit a kobold straight in the eye, lodging in the poor creature’s brain. Grim and Strix also attacked and Brevick and I also attacked, and Mily fired her sling once more with equally impressive results, another eye shot. Our stealth paid off. We took them down pretty quickly and quietly with minimal casualties on our side. </p><p></p><p>At the cathedral, we were still hidden from the other foes that were doing the ritual. So that Strix could use his message cantrip, we all searched for cracks in the boarded up windows so that he could get visual contact with someone inside. Strix found a small opening. Inside he could see the priestess herself standing amidst many scared folk. Strix contacted her and told her that we were at the back door and we could rescue them, but we had to hurry. She let us in and we tried to get the citizens to move out with us, but they were too scared to move. My pleas fell on deaf ears. </p><p></p><p>Eventually, Mily, who became a metaphor for escape, the small halfling who had survived on the streets, was able to convince the group to follow us to the wall where we set up the ropes. Strix led the citizens as we watched our rear. We got lucky. None of the cultists or other creatures saw us and we were able to scale the wall only seconds before the battering ram the foes were using smashed down the heavily fortified front door. We moved quickly along the river bed, making it back to the keep tunnel without incident. That felt good. We saved about 3 dozen innocent souls.</p><p></p><p>Just as we were resting in the keep after our triumphant mission, we saw the pre-dawn light and a small contingent of kobolds marched to the front gate behind a 7’ tall half-dragon, half humanoid figure. This turned out to be one of the commanders we had heard about earlier that night, Cyanwrath. He called to the keep and his lackeys dragged forth human prisoners, women and children. He issued a challenge calling any brave soul to fight him one-on-one. He promised to release the prisoners win or lose. After Escobert translated, Brevick rushed out to face the half-dragon. We all went out to watch. Meanwhile, Strix tried to get us to plot and attack the creature with anything we had. I noted how that would endanger the women and children, and when one of the guards pleaded for his wife and kids, we knew that Brevick had to do this alone. </p><p></p><p>Brevick came to me for a blessing and then he strode slowly towards Cyanwrath. Brevick was quicker than the half-dragon. He threw a net on the creature, entangling it successfully. Then he jumped back and threw a hand axe at the beast, drawing first blood. Cyanwrath was surprised, but he ripped the net from his body easily. Then he attacked with his greatsword, not once, but twice. Both mighty slashes cut into our Dwarven friend, and he fell to the ground a bloody mess. Quickly, I called out to Cyanwrath asking permission to aid Brevick. The half-dragon laughed and allowed it. Then he recognized Strix and spoke to him in a strange tongue. It kind of sounded like he was threatening Strix and Strix was pointing and threatening the beast in return. But nothing came of it, as Cyanwrath turned and withdrew, taking his squad of kobolds with him.</p><p></p><p>With sunrise, we found some rooms in the keep and passed out from exhaustion. The keep cleric helped to comfort Brevick so that he would recover from his long rest. The Horde had withdrawn. Greenest was safe, for now. And, we survived the night. </p><p></p><p>Praise to Silvanus.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rhenny, post: 6740395, member: 18333"] Session 4 – ShadeRaven’s Horde of the Dragon Queen (3 hour game) Approximately 2 am. We had been fighting the Dragon Queen’s army all day since arriving at Greenest. When we told the militia that had come to the mill that we needed to rest with our unconscious comrade, Brevick, they decided to return to the city center. We tried to get some to stay with us, but they wouldn’t. Hoping that Brevick would revive in a few hours, we put the unconscious Dwarf on the bed in the upstairs bedroom and Mily set up some ball bearings and other junk on the stairs so that we’d hear if others entered. Soon after Mily and Strix heard some voices outside talking about us. Cultists were entering and they feared that we might still be alive. We moved into the next room and positioned ourselves near the doorway to ready attacks, but when the cultists came upstairs and saw the trap that Mily set and the carnage of other dead guards and cultists that we had killed, they got scared. Grim overheard the cultists say that they were going to get reinforcements. With that, Grim opened the door, fired his crossbow, killing one of the cultists. Before we knew it, we realized that we had to try to stop the cultists. I took a crossbow in the shoulder and Grim caught one in the gut. Mily, Strix, Grim and I each killed one of the foes, but 4 turned and ran. I was able to make it outside and the light of Silvanus from my shield revealed one of the cultists near the front door. I struck it down with my shortsword, and saw another cultist about 20’ to the north. It was running. Mily made it out and downed that one, but two others had escaped. We knew it was unsafe to stay in the mill so Strix used his last spell to cast Tenser’s Floating Disc. We put Brevick on it and tried to move out as fast as we could. I doused our light so we would not call attention to ourselves and we headed down the river trying to avoid any entanglement. We heard and saw a few groups of foes, but when they saw us, we ran and were able to make it back to the secret tunnel that led into the governor’s keep. Governor Nighthill congratulated us, but he also wondered why his militia came back without us. I told the governor that we told them to wait, but they wanted to go back to help in other areas. When the misunderstanding was cleared up, the governor asked us to go to the cathedral across town. He had found out that many innocent people were trapped there and the enemy was trying to use a battering ram to open the front doors and burn down the cathedral. He warned us that the great number of foes at the site would call for some stealth, so we took to the riverbed once more and snuck our way to the rear of the wall that surrounded the edifice. Brevick led us since he could see best in the dark. We found a lower area of the wall to peer over. There was a large force to the west doing some strange ritual. There was also smaller force to the east, banging away at a rear entrance. Strix realized that the ritual was an attempt to call forth a dragon. He was agitated by that. In fact, he seemed to know much more about the cult language and activity than a random bystander. I knew my friend had unorthodox beliefs, dabbling with life and death, but it seemed there was more to his past than even I realized. Once we realized that the ritual dance was proceeding, we figured we only had about 10 minutes to get the captives out. We decided to move further east near some trees so that we could secure ropes to the trees and throw them over the wall. This would help us climb in and also help the others climb out if we could get them out of the cathedral. Brevick, in his bold fashion, swung over to the trees inside the wall and seemed ready to bolt toward the back door where 5 kobolds and 2 cultists were trying to gain entrance. Strix, attempted a bit of wizard legerdemain, by whispering a magical message to one of the kobolds near the door. He tried to get the creature to believe that the cultist next to him was insulting him. The kobold told the cultist, which made the cultist think that the kobold was getting loopy. He ordered the kobold to the front of the building where they were using the battering ram to try to smash the front doors just to get it away from him. One less kobold for us. That’s when Brevick charged out and took them by surprise. He smashed one of the kobolds, but it didn’t go down. I jumped over the wall, placed a magical light on the Dwarf’s helm and then stepped behind a tree. Mily, who was already on the other side, hidden behind the tree, fired her sling. The sling stone she propelled hit a kobold straight in the eye, lodging in the poor creature’s brain. Grim and Strix also attacked and Brevick and I also attacked, and Mily fired her sling once more with equally impressive results, another eye shot. Our stealth paid off. We took them down pretty quickly and quietly with minimal casualties on our side. At the cathedral, we were still hidden from the other foes that were doing the ritual. So that Strix could use his message cantrip, we all searched for cracks in the boarded up windows so that he could get visual contact with someone inside. Strix found a small opening. Inside he could see the priestess herself standing amidst many scared folk. Strix contacted her and told her that we were at the back door and we could rescue them, but we had to hurry. She let us in and we tried to get the citizens to move out with us, but they were too scared to move. My pleas fell on deaf ears. Eventually, Mily, who became a metaphor for escape, the small halfling who had survived on the streets, was able to convince the group to follow us to the wall where we set up the ropes. Strix led the citizens as we watched our rear. We got lucky. None of the cultists or other creatures saw us and we were able to scale the wall only seconds before the battering ram the foes were using smashed down the heavily fortified front door. We moved quickly along the river bed, making it back to the keep tunnel without incident. That felt good. We saved about 3 dozen innocent souls. Just as we were resting in the keep after our triumphant mission, we saw the pre-dawn light and a small contingent of kobolds marched to the front gate behind a 7’ tall half-dragon, half humanoid figure. This turned out to be one of the commanders we had heard about earlier that night, Cyanwrath. He called to the keep and his lackeys dragged forth human prisoners, women and children. He issued a challenge calling any brave soul to fight him one-on-one. He promised to release the prisoners win or lose. After Escobert translated, Brevick rushed out to face the half-dragon. We all went out to watch. Meanwhile, Strix tried to get us to plot and attack the creature with anything we had. I noted how that would endanger the women and children, and when one of the guards pleaded for his wife and kids, we knew that Brevick had to do this alone. Brevick came to me for a blessing and then he strode slowly towards Cyanwrath. Brevick was quicker than the half-dragon. He threw a net on the creature, entangling it successfully. Then he jumped back and threw a hand axe at the beast, drawing first blood. Cyanwrath was surprised, but he ripped the net from his body easily. Then he attacked with his greatsword, not once, but twice. Both mighty slashes cut into our Dwarven friend, and he fell to the ground a bloody mess. Quickly, I called out to Cyanwrath asking permission to aid Brevick. The half-dragon laughed and allowed it. Then he recognized Strix and spoke to him in a strange tongue. It kind of sounded like he was threatening Strix and Strix was pointing and threatening the beast in return. But nothing came of it, as Cyanwrath turned and withdrew, taking his squad of kobolds with him. With sunrise, we found some rooms in the keep and passed out from exhaustion. The keep cleric helped to comfort Brevick so that he would recover from his long rest. The Horde had withdrawn. Greenest was safe, for now. And, we survived the night. Praise to Silvanus. [/QUOTE]
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