Crushing the Dourstones

General Summary

By Pagu

Flamerule 13th - Year of Rogue Dragons

Reed strolls up to main Gates of the Dourstone clan hold and knocks to get the attention of the guards on the outside who haven't heard the fighting deeper inside the clan hold... "Um... The Thane wants you in the Great Hall," quips the smirking hin, "praise be the King in Yellow." The dwarf angrily opens the door snarling, "them ain't the words," and charges into the hold's entry hall after Reed followed by his fellow guardsman...

The crossbowmen manning the murder-holes guarding the front gate open the doors from their hard points to follow the door guards into the entry hall but Pagu and Ulfgar were waiting for the doors to open and hacked down the first set of crossbowmen... Tai, Reed, and Halorin pummeled, hoodwinked, stabbed, and electrocuted the doorguards in the entry hall while Ulfgar and I continued to hack through a pair of crossbowmen each to then turn and finish off the doorguards from behind... The Magnificent Seven now control the main Gates if the Dourstone Clan hold! Praise be to Tempus!

We send the prisoners with a letter to Ulfgar's father, the Thane of Clan Hammerfall... While awaiting the authorities we clear the rest of the Clan hold... In the clan's dining hall a force of Dourstones are feasting, the festivities end prematurely when our elven bladesinger whips a fireball into the center of the diners... Most of the lesser warriors are killed or nearly killed by the blast... Halorin covers the remaining warriors in a ghostly faerie fire, eerily guiding our strikes truer and deeper... Ulfgar and I wade into the center of the remaining force, him pinning down the maul wielding veterans and I assault the Dourstone Captain at Arms... Reed's karate finishes off the remaining crossbowmen reeling from the fireball... Before long the last of the Dourstone military might is broken and bent before the Seven... A search of the kitchens beyond reveals several chained and abused cooks which are beyond console so we leave them for the , hopefully soon to incoming, authorities...  

Pushing on through the rest of the clan hold, we come across a guarded well... We cross steel and the melee draws the attention of an elder Dourstone, an arcanist who joins the fight... Tai counterspells the Dourstone's own fireball which really gets the old goat really, really angry... Once the veteran guards were dealt with, the crazy uncle Dourstone easily falls to our combined might. Tai and Halorin scour the wizard, his room, and study for magic or clues... Tai found some spell books and a few valuable tomes of lore... Hallorin finds a release latch that sounds open a stone bookshelf to reveal a crude passageway...  

We follow this tiny (to my frame) tunnel to a chasm and rickety bridge over it... As Ulfgar crosses it several derro emerge from tunnels on the far side and attack him... Several derro hidden by clinging to the chasm wall climb up and charge splitting Ulfgar from Pagu and them from the rest of the Seven stuck in the passageway... The greater derro warriors try to breach Ulfgar's defense but he keeps them at bay and slowly whittles the guards down... Halorin enchants his fellow hin, Reed, with a flight spell and Reed flits into attack mode like an enraged spider money... Flying across the chasm and above Ulfgar, the hin monk rains down stunning blows from above on the derro veterans and sorcerer... Surrounded by derro on the near ledge the Rageborn paladin starts giving the derro the boot and sends several falling into the chasm below... The only clear danger the Seven faced was when a tactical fallback by Ulfgar is stopped on the bridge, two derro jumped on and starting doing jumping jacks to crash it with the dwarven warrior on it... Luckily Ulfgar lands like a cat and dispatches the injured derro on the chasm floor...  

"They were laughing, laughing as I punted them over the ledge and 50' down... Crazy ass derro... I swear They are the hobbits of the Underdark..."  

As we catch our breath and I lower a rope if Ulfgar... Our scouting report sounds of derro forces in the tunnels on the far side of the chasm... Next move ...

Report Date

09 Dec 2018