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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mikeawmids" data-source="post: 8019069" data-attributes="member: 6776411">The Adventures of Fap Longwood #33 (Tyranny of Dragons)“Mind of the telescope!” Mara shrieks, as Horatio swings Talon with reckless abandon, hacking large chunks of stone off the nearest gargoyle.The gargoyle knocks the sword from his hand and Horatio uses his second attack to head-butt the creature, cracking his own skull in the process. Mara casts Firebolt, blasting off another gargoyle’s arm. It retaliates by biting her head. Brian hits a gargoyle with Inflict Wounds (lv3), exploding it into a fine powder. Horatio reclaims his weapon and uses it to smash another two gargoyles in quick succession (at this point, Horatio’s player decided that Talon emits a piercing bird cry whenever he rolls a critical hit). The final creature retreats through the trapdoor in the ceiling and flies off to raise the alarm.“Time to go,” Fap says.The sound of webbed feet slapping against stone rises from below. The bullywugs are climbing the tower!“The telescope!” Fap cries, “We can climb it to reach the roof!”The heroes scale the strange apparatus to reach the trapdoor in the ceiling. They slam it shut just as the first wave of bullywugs hurl their spears. There is no way off the domed roof of the observatory, other than the 30ft drop to the courtyard below.“We can jump to the roof of the main hall!” Fap says, eyeballing the distance.“You might make that jump, but Mara can’t!” Brian protests.“I’ll make it!” Mara cries, taking the leap.She nearly does.The treacherous tiles shift under her weight as she lands atop the roof of the main hall and Mara finds herself slipping backwards into the void, arms flailing helplessly. The two dwarves hop across, grabbing the little wizard and pulling her to safety.“Where now?” Horatio roars, “There’s no way off this roof either!“Sod this lark! I’m making my own!”Horatio rips out a handful of roof tiles with his bare hands, revealing a long (20ft) drop down into the main hall of Castle Naerytar. A dozen cultists look up from sorting through a vast pile of plunder. A large iron chandelier dangles above the gleaming hoard and the party drop down onto it.“Going down!” Horatio cries, swinging Talon at the rusty chain suspending the chandelier from the ceiling.The rest of the party cling to each other for dear life as the chandelier plummets, crushing four cultists and scattering stolen treasure across the floor. The party crawl from the wreckage and mop up the remaining hostiles. The cultists are outmatched, but they are fanatically loyal to Tiamat and fight to the death to defend their hoard. Horatio barricades the door to the courtyard before the bullywugs make it back down the tower. The only other exit from the main hall is a dank staircase descending into the flooded caverns beneath the keep.</blockquote>

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