Note to self: Keep an eye on Tink when leaving your stuff somewhere. "I'll be back in an hour then to fetch it." Lynn says and goes for a search of the little rat.
"Hey Tink. What did you tell the dwarven smiths to do with my weapon?"
I wonder if there is some kind of back pack that can magically hold bolts and load it into my crossbow
The group heads out on their way north west, you come across the large 2 holes in the ground that Irabeth was talking about. You can either go north east to get around them by about 4 blocks or straight west by about 3 blocks. The dwarven smiths have reinforced the wagon and added some spikes to the wheels to help with navigating the ground better.
As you get to the entrance of the building there are 3 guards standing at the front, they look like the standard cultists that you have face before. They have line of sight around most of the area but there is enough ruble that the group can hide and decide what they wish to do before you make you way towards the front of the tower.
If you say “I’ve new material for the archives” they will allow you in unmolested.
"Don, start shooting on my signal." Lynn tells, casts protection from evil on herself, downs the potion of invisibility and walks over calling on her blessing.
She stabs one of the guards and as she appears in sight greets them with a smile on her face. "Hi. The good guys are back. Time for you to die."
Don nods and loads his crossbow and Lynn vanishes. He winces as he hears her clanking and aims for one of the cultists when the combat starts.
Lynn pops out of the darkness side alley way and drives her glaive into the side of one of the guards. Upon closer inspection Lynn notices that these aren't cultists, they look larger and carry great axes.
The middle guard drops his Large Axe from his shoulder, the butt slamming into the door loudly as he moves over to attack Lynn.
Lynn's breastplate turning the heavy blade just before it could cut deeply.
SteelGate, Iko and Don can all go, then I will do the Guard.
Cries are heard throughout the city, screams of humans the gleeful hunt of demons, shouting for the Gods good and evil.
Don fires at a guard.
Don's bolt misses the alerted guards, SteelGate charges up and attempts to 2-handed smash one of the guards
SteelGate just misses the guard as it dodges out of the way to wind up its own axe.
Iko Dances up, using the buildings to spring around and try to trip up one of the guards
Red falls to the ground with a Thud
Tink detects magic
Lynn stabs the green guy again. Not dying is no option for him on this day.
Rawr!
Tink sees the outline of magic in their pouches, potions of some sort.
The Guard Swings at Lynn again, "Die you fowl wench."
Don shoots again
"I'm the wrench in the gears of your evil doings. You know with an 'R'. And the only one who is going to get screwed here is you." Lynn replies biting her teeth to not show how much it hurt.
Lynn Just misses the Orc in front of her, Don's new Crossbow strikes a solid blow into the side of the eastern guard. The Guard grunts with the impact of the blow.
Don shoots Blue
SteelGate smashes
The Guard Swings his large axe at SteelGate, missing the large automaton.
The guard on the ground does the same to Iko, Iko jumps the odd sloppy swing.
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Drawing and Attack from Iko, who deftly kicks at the guards ribs drawing a grunt from the guard..
Iko then lays into the guard, "I am sorry you choose this life!"
Tink shouts to the group, telling then the guards have no magic besides what is in the pouches. He adds that under no circumstances should they damage the pouches.
He continues to channel detect magic
"Die already." Lynn demands as she stabs the orc again.
Also she heals herself as a swift action.
Don shoots at Blue
Between Lynn's lashing Glaive and Don's amazing archery, the Western guard goes down with a bolt sticking out of his head.
The Guard dealing with SteelGate steps away from Iko and move into the street. The guard uses the momentum to put extra ompf into his swing.
The Guard on the Ground attempts to stand, drawing a swing from Iko.
Iko Strikes the guard for a minor Blow, the Guard returns the favor.
The Guard Misses Iko, who nimbly dances out of the way of the overly large axe.
SteelGates Steel shell deflects the extra power from the blow preventing a deeper cut.
Tink and Lynn can go if you wish
Lynn waits for Tink to send one of them to the ground to stab the guard then.
Iko's foot kicks out at the Guard in front of him,
Iko's kick drives the knee out from under the guard who collapses to the ground. Lynn's strike falls almost with in unison and cuts a deep gouge into the Orcs shoulder.
Tink moves up with Don, looking over the Orcs.
SteelGate drops both fists at the Orcs face, "We must remove you to complete our mission" SteelGate says in his alien voice. The Orc avoids the blow with no issues.
Iko lays a flurry of blows onto the downed Orc at his feet,
Iko's first blow is avoided by the Orc but the second connects drawing blood from the Orcs exposed shoulder.
Don shoots Red
The remaining Guard Seeing his last companion die, throws down his axe and bolts.
This sixty-foot-diameter gray stone tower is missing the bulk of
its upper floors—some terrific force smashed its upper sections
away, creating huge mound of rubble north of the building and
leaving the tower now a mere stump with a jagged top.
The door is locked
"We heard the commotion outside, say the password!"
The door is 2 inches thick, Hardness 10, 20 HP, Break DC of 25
Don will check the pouches that Tink pointed out
Don finds an assortment of random pouch things, some lint, a few tooth picks, a pencil, a potion in each, a thunder stone and a tinder twig. One of the pouches contains a note it looks like, there is about 36 gold between the two pouches.
"Finally in Kenabre's, ....."The middle potion is ruined by some sort of liquids. "Things will go well and we will be back soon."
The note looks about a paragraph long, no telling who the note is too.
Got potions here, want me to bash the door down?
"Didn't we have the passphrase written somewhere?" Lynn asks. "It would be a shame to add more destruction to the city."
Don shows the note with 'I have new materials for the archives' to Lynn
Lynn drags the bodies of the dead guards out of sight. "Ah, yes. There it is." Lynn tells. "I have new materials for the archives!" she calls to the guards behind the door and takes on a defensive stance.
The door opens about 4 inches, a face looks out the door, wearing a helm that covers the top of the head and has a solid piece of metal that goes down to protect the nose. The nose on the man is almost too wide for the guard.
"What was all the noise?"
"Douchebag here made a joke about using my hot ass. So I made sure his ass is sore now. Can we come in now or what?" Lynn replies.
Don grips his hammer.
The door opens a bit more and the man steps aside, The ground floor of the tower is now open to the air—a tangle of wooden supports above being all that remains of the building’s upper stories. Two rubble-filled pools flank a central walkway that crosses to an open area with a few shelves, a desk and chair, and a flight of stairs leading up.
"There might not be quite enough bed rolls fer all ye but anywhere ye can find a place to crash ye can. Go talk to Faxon above and give yer report on the city before finding a place to sleep."
The Cultist goes off to talk with another, from what you can see there are only 2 cultists here and this "Faxon" Person.
Lynn steps in and looks around. Looking out into the blue sky through the now missing upper floor she tells "You could have at least put some tarpaulin over the beams to have a dry place for the bedrolls."
Don come sin clutching his head with one hand, muttering about how women can't take compliments.
As soon as it is clear that someone else made it through the door Lynn continues down the stairs to meet Faxon.
Don is in an faking like he got hit, I am not going to make him roll.
Iko comes in next, the guards don't give him a second look but when Tink and SteelGate roll in both stop and stare.
"You know we had a rat working fer us?" The door opener says to the other cultist. The second just shakes his head. "Well maybe he is special like Faxon."