The goal was to rely on Ghostbear’s Planar Ally spell to alert us when Helen Back left the area. The hope was it would occur after we all had a chance to rest and get our spells back. So we arranged watches, hid in the back apartment, and let the clock tick forward from 10:15 on Heatmonth the 17th.
By the time 2:30 came, Wilhelm had awakened and worked on doling out some healing to the worst of us. By 6:30 the rest of us followed suit and spells were visited as well as plans. Shim was disparaging to Ghostbear again and again, the powerful medicine man brooked no bullshit from the gnome. We ate, shuffled our things around, and went over plans. We hoped to get the over sized gargoyle free – but we needed to break the column the chain was mounted into. That was going to be Wilhelm’s piece.
A number of us were invisible and Ghostbear was going to Camouflage the area again – giving the group a good hide until combat ensued. Order of operations? Spider riders first, mages, and then blast through to the next area. Connal and Stoneribs were going to go first, walking on the walls and once the gargoyle was free, then run off to take care of the Overwatch. We were going to give them 10 minutes after they left and then start our run – Wilhlem blasts the column, the 4 big fighters hit the street, and then the rest of the group follows.
At 9 PM, the Planar Ally arrived and let Ghostbear know that Helen Back opened a portal to the plane of Fire and stepped through. Our clock started soon and now. We all shared what we needed, finalized the plan, and Connal and Stoneribs left, heading for the roof. They opened the trap door easily, closing it behind them. There were a few spiders on nearby roofs, but we should be ok. They stepped to the back of the cave, held hands, and stepped onto the wall. From there they went east till they were nearby and over the Cathedral. They could see a group of mages and others, one of them with the purple flames on the fire – we wanted to stay away for now – 60’.
Darius, Geronimo, Rhygar, and Captain Asher went down to the first floor, quiet and waiting. Wihelm crept to the edge, took aim, and called to Shakak, shooting off an 80’ line of blue and black crumbling energy. It hit the column with a SPAK noise, stone dust fell and it shook – but remained whole. The Gargoyle looked down, held the chain, but waited. The goblins were all looking around, some of them scouting back the way the crumble came from…When Wilhelm fired again.
A second blast shot off, the column shook – and this time the top cracked enough. The Gargoyle grabbed the chain, flexed its wings, and lifted – pulling hard – tearing the chain free and causing those nearby to freak out. The masses were pointing to the building and Wilhelm grabbed the druid, pulling him back as sling stones slammed into the 3rd floor, forcing them to stay down. A few clipped them but that was it.
Geronimo and Darius high tailed it out, came to the closest spider rider and mage and hit hard, severing the goblin wizard’s left ear and killing it, driving the enchanted axe into the body of the spider. Combat ensued. Goblins nearby were hit, split, and killed, the two of them clearing the closest area free. Bullets flew, the two of them took a beating but spread out, waving their hand they pointed east.
The bulk of the party had followed, hitting the street in a mass, the 4 cats, 2 dogs taking on the loose goblins nearby, 3 or 4 on 1 ripping goblins down. Nate and Wilhelm threw their AC to the wind and hit the ground floor running. Good thing too because the goblin mage down the way shot off a fireball, consuming the 3rd floor where Wilhelm had been standing earlier when he fired off his 2 crumbles. The flames shook the buildings but the group was far enough below them that they had nothing to worry about.
With the mages stepping forward, Stoneribs and Connal risked hitting the steps and running to the 2nd Warren, sighting the Overwatch. At least 2 spider riders were here. They were going to have to just go for it – time to target – 3 minutes. Geronimo was taking out 3 goblins at a time, Darius doing similar – the 2 of them leading the group down the road, the gargoyle flying towards them, heavy chain swinging through the street, smashing goblins along the way while 3..2…1 brave greenskin tried to climb to the gargoyle itself.
Captain Asher hit a nearby Lolthian Spider, Dawnblade ripping into the creature – he got bit in return, poisoned but stayed upright, Lexi and Quiver corralling the closest, ripping them apart. Nate was there, trident stabbing, acting as a bulwark for the party to run behind, hugging the building as more bullets flew.
GERONIMO! Came the cry as the native hero leaped 30’ into a mass of goblins, and whirlwind attacked the mass of them – felling 6 and leaving 1 still standing but hurt bad. A hold person spell hit Geronimo and bounced off. Ghostbear, seeing the mass of the goblins from First Warren coming to get us, chanted a bit, shook his medicine bag, and a 70’ wide, 30’ tall , 5’ deep flaming wall burst into being and stretched across the Warren, consuming 7 goblins in the path and stopping the rest from coming from behind.
Magic Missiles flew, Arrows were returned, hit points slowly faded away. The mass of the group was at the end of the 1st Warren when Stoneribs and Connal, now detected, made it to the Overwatch, hitting the 11 goblins up there in a flurry of ferocious attacks. Stoneribs grabbed one goblin and killed three others with its body while Connal flurry of blows a bunch others. Magic Missiles followed and the 2 heroes grunted from the attack but kept on.
Darius threw his AC to the wind and hit the front of the fight with a devastating trio of attacks on the goblins there. Geronimo leapt again, smashing into another mass of goblins. The group was closing in and the number of goblins here were fading. We could hear fighting in the next warren and had to get there and soon. Ghostbear was walking the wall of fire behind him, keeping the goblins back there still at bay. But, 2 of them, giant spiders, one with a rider, had climbed up and over the wall, perched on the ceiling and were targeting the group. Shim shot off a magic missile but the spider rider’s shield spell stopped the missiles. And then it shot a fireball down, hitting half the group. We were hurt and burned, but still up and fighting.
From the Warren, one of the spider riders had shot off a Hellfire Transport, and portaled half a dozen or more goblins up to the Overwatch, hitting, beating, and attacking Stoneribs and Connal. The monk was forced to use some of his monastic skills to ignore the damage taken but they needed to clear the area and soon.
9:53 PM, Heatmonth the 17th, rolling into round 12. Hurt but still going on.
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