Accidentally landing in an ambush....

After hyperfixating on her books for a long time, Liliana shook herself and realised that the sled that had been transporting through the desert (that Shadow had chosen as the best place to start hunting for Aglethal's people) had reached a point and stopped for Shadow and Emin were nowhere to be seen.
 
Kasemir looked up from spooning with Shelley and they two of them decided to follow the trail left by Shadow into subterranean tunnel and found them looking rough having just engaged in a battle!
 
They felt a tremor around them and the tunnel behind them disappeared in a cloud of dust and debris.
 
"Oh, hello friends." Said Shadow.
 
They decided they may as well head down the corridor Shadow had been planning to head down prior to the collapse. The corridor seemed to have arrow slits along it, but they were carved as if the arrows would come from outside the corridor in at them.
 
A voice warned them not to proceed or they would be shot and Shadow tried to engage them in conversation and they heard a little bickering from behind the wall. The female voice who had warned them said she had been told not to let anyone through, on instructions of her god. The conversation continued and Emin and Kasemir explained they had killed an elf lady named Mord, who was an enemy of the warning voice and she threw a gold piece through as thanks but still wouldn't let them through, even though they couldn't go back.
 
The group decided to just dimension door through the door whereupon they immediately found themselves surrounded and attacked. Emin went invisible, Shadow got mind controlled and Liliana fireballed a group of them shouting, "are you sure you want to do this? We could still talk?"
 
Shadow turned to attack Kasemir, looking confused at his actions saying "does not compute!" and Liliana silvery barbs him so he missed, as lightning struck Kasemir and him at the same time. Raging Kasemir dotted forward and felled one of the people manning a ballista with a few swings. Shots were fired from guns and ballista, Liliana cast shield, as others dodged, Emin cast eldritch blast. Casting another fireball, Liliana pointed out that this was an act of war against dignitaries from another empire and maybe they should rethinlk. Her fireball killed the one controlling Shadow and he was able to rejoin the fight and help his friends. Pulling out a heavy cross bow he said,
 
"I've got a big thingy too," and shot towards one of the elves manning the ballista. As it missed he cried, "that was a warning shot!"
 
Another shot missed Liliana and she heard swearing in elvish, from someone who was clearly regretting their life choices.
 
Emin rushed in to finish off one of the charred victims of fireball as more shots were fired, and he began to sing a song about how great Kasemir was at beating people up to inspire him, as Liliana tapped Shadow and said,
 
"I am going to make you go quickly, but do not be too hasty uh? Pick your moment."
 
As Shadow felt himself power up, grow faster and more hardy he mildly said, "well how about that" and turned his attack on the one who had just tried to shoot him, and blasted into the magician, an (arachrnomancer) with his crossbow. Blows continued to be traded and spells zapped across the field of battle. Liliana got fed up and swung the staff of the magi, utterly frying the two attacking Kasemir with a lightning bolt.
 
Shadow used his warlock powers to use lightning to painfully pull a creature into his reach where he could attack him with his rapier.
 
Despire Liliana's best efforts to change the course of time, Shadow was knocked unconscious, absolutely fuming Liliana cast a high level fireball on the wizard, while out of sight of the others Kasemir was both taking an delivering a beating. Emin called out a healing word to pop Shadow back up, but in doing so he opened himself up to an attack and was knocked unconscious. Liliana responded with a wither and bloom to drain the wizard and restore Emin.
 
Shadow pushed himself to his feet and moved over to the wizard, as Emin looked up at him, Shadow said,
 
"No one kills the wizard but me." And thrust straight into the wizard with his rapier, practically slicing the mage in half. The light went out from their eyes.
 
Kasemir continued to whale on his opponent with brutal blows, lightning crackling from his weapon.
 
Emin laid a hand on his chest and cast cure wounds on himself, as Shadow downed a healing potion, hit Emin with cure wounds by clapping him on the shoulders with his powerful metal hands. Liliana went in search of Kasemir and seeing him fighting someone, she hit them with a shatter spell crumbling the earth under them and sending them stumbling down to the ground. Kasemir jumped down after him, paced a foot on his chest and swing his club like a golf club, smashing into the head. He pulled the mangled head from the shoulders and stagged back up waving it.
 
"Are we done?" He cried angrily, "That was a long one."
 
He then remonstrated with Shadow over his attacking him and Shadow said he would do research to see if he could enhance his resistance to magical control.
 
"Yeah, don't listen to voices telling you to stab people, unless it is me!"