10:21 PM, Heatmonth the 17th. The number of goblins ahead of us was like a solid wall, racing towards us, stones and crossbow bolts flying. Stoneribs and Darius were a constant target , only their respective damage reduction and armor class kept them upright. Shim’s tick continued to drink from the Lothian Spider, Eoghan was shaking from the effects of the poison, and Wilhelm hit Connal with a jump spell.
A purple flame shot from a far roof, hitting Asher, and making the half elven cleric of Maglubiyat disappear. The entirety of that roof was outlined in purple flames, blocking any of us from seeing what was going on there as well as anyone up there getting free. Captain Asher was on his own for now.
More magic flew out and we rocked from the impact. As the next Demonbat tried to make a run for the group, Connal jumped up to the nearest roof and poured his anger at the bat there, getting a grip on its wing and scratched, but not poisoned. One of the Goblin/Demonics leapt down from the building and stalked for the party. Nate slid into the shadows, primordial dagger at the ready.
A fireball raced out from a spider rider, tearing across the back ranks of the party, killing Eoghan and Quiver, and hurting everyone else. The demonic stalked up and Nate struck from the shadows, primordial blade hitting. He got walloped back but stayed on. Darius was racing through his fight with the Spider to help out. The Demonbat and Connal continued to struggle on the roof as a huge spider crept up trying to bite.
More crossbows fired out as we fought on, the goblins were withering away in ones and twos but still they fought on. A Carrion Crawler was creeping up on the party and Shim hit it with a darkness spell. A spider rider from the nearby roof canceled it with a light spell. Eoghan returned and shot 3 arrows, the ranger looking even worse than before. Nate’s fight with the demonic was slowly leaching the color from him, hair and skin going white, eyes going black. Bits of his humanity slowly frittering away. He was struck and killed as Darius arrived, slamming into the Demonic.
We spread out and reshuffled the line, the last Demonic began its walk up the street. There was talk about Ghostbear hitting one of Wilhelm’s cats with a Giant Animal spell but we didn’t want to turn it into a target yet. Stoneribs took one of the goblins he was fighting and hurled it at the spider rider, making it rear up and hit the Lolthian Spider hard. One of Wilhelm’s cats died next as Nate returned – without healing anything this time! 1 hit point! He quickly chugged a healing potion as we doled out what healing we could, but our stores were diminishing.
The demonic went down, the reverberating blast ripping through Darius’ axe but the enchanted weapon remained whole if a bit more weathered. Carrion Crawler went down, Demonic Bat went down. Another fireball went off and Eoghan died AGAIN. We were down to scrolls and potions, Darius doing what he could to keep himself on the positive side of the hit point list.
With the second Demonic down and the number of spider riders fading, the goblins left began to lose their nerve but still fought on. Also, each of Helen’s children we slayed had a chance of alerting the Eternal Queen of their passing so we had to wrap this up. We redrew the line and pressed on. Poison was in our veins, most everyone was badly hurt and limping, The Planar Ally kept returning to the Umbra to ferry out recent dead back to the fight. By estimation, Stoneribs had been hit over 40 times and Darius the same. A Summoned Earth Elemental had the group groaning in fury as we turned to address the new threat.
More shots from the roof peppered the party, Rhygar got badly wounded, we limped onward, eyes on the far end of the 3rd Warren. We finally came to the last Demonic, Nate, Connal, and Darius took point. Eoghan was down to a handful or arrows, 2 quivers used up. Shim blocked the last spider rider’s vision with a globe of darkness. It tried to magic missile Darius but the knight used Spellcleave, shredding the 7 missiles before they hit.
The purple glow from the roof fell and 9 rounds after he disappeared, Captain Asher showed up covered in gore, looking more bestial than normal, but grinning in triumph, the power of Maglubiyat firmly in his grasp. “About damned time!” we called out as he clambered down from the roof.
The final fight was brutal and agonizing, everyone hitting as hard and as fast as they could until finally the last Demonic went down with a blast of hellfire. Fearing the worst, and assuming Helen was returning, we ran across the Warren as fast as we could, Ghostbear dropping a Wall of Force at the end of the Warren, blocking anyone from pursuing us for now as we ran into the large darkened corridor, the goblins lost behind us.
54 rounds of combat, 203 goblin warriors, 3 Demonic Goblins, 2 Demonbats, 12 Lolthain spiders, 6 huge spiders, 1 carrion crawler, 11 goblin shamen/spider riders, 1 rust monster, and 1 juggernaut later.
10:38 PM, Heatmonth the 17th. Most everyone badly wounded or died multiple times. But running on.
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