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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gideonpepys" data-source="post: 6255055" data-attributes="member: 79141">Session 100eThe half dozen gremlins Uru encountered turned out to be cowering, hiding and no longer under Ekossigan's sway.  Two of their number were watching over the recumbent form of Ellik, who was dying - a fragment of iron lodged in his chest.  Ellik said he was sorry for what had happened and in particular mourned the loss of Gale. Then he died and the gremlins wept.Uru chivvied them into action, asking if had they explored the mountain and if so had they found any metal pipes.  The gremlins said yes, but were afraid to move from the safe spot they had found.  Uru gnashed his teeth and said the spot they had found was no longer safe now that he had  found it.  With that, they were on their way, keen to help. When they arrived at a ventilation shaft, Uru checked it for traps and found a powerful magical ward which he disabled with great care.  Then he and the gremlins opened it up and began to clamber down. Now Uru received the same garbled report from Ludo. A frightened report about gunfire and trolls. Trolls! Shadow trolls beneath the bridge.  Korrigan gave the order to press the attack, lest the Ob defenders withdraw too soon. The stinking shaft came out on a very long corridor.  Two engineers walked by with dinner trays from a refectory area where the noise of a large gathering could be heard.  They said they had been told to go and eat in their rooms.  Telling the gremlins to stay put, Uru stole towards the main entrance and was busily searching for a means to affect the outer doors when they began to grind open.  A troop of some twenty or so men armed with rifles marched out, presumably heading to the canal to support the defences there.  Fortunately, Uru had discovered a secret door just before the guards marched past him and found himself in an antechamber from where three more guards could control the outer doors.  Uru also saw an array of oil sprayers and fire starters that could be brought to bear on the entrance corridor, once intruders were already inside.  But there was no shrapnel cannon as described by Asrabey.  There was a slim observation window through which the guards could observe the approach to the huge metal doors.  Once their comrades had trooped out, they closed it up again.  Next to that window, large sheets of metal were propped up against the wall, and one or two had chunks ripped out of them as if they had been bitten into by a ravenous monster.Uru reported all this to the main strike force, and then sent an animal messenger to the gremlins who were still hiding in the utility shaft.</blockquote>

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