(023) Breakfast at Saxxon's

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danhem wrote:
Ulric continues to focus his mind, blotting out the screams and the smell. He begins to speak the words of the Baleful Somnolence of Morpheus, targeting the fleeing mass of hobgoblins through the portcullis.

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eris wrote:

The North West Stair

Olaf starts to reach for the closed overhead door, then stops, "Did anyone trap these doors last night? I seem to remember somebody did, and I don't want to open it and have something fall on my head."

He will examine it closely before attempting to open the trapdoor. If it looks like it isn't trapped from the inside, he'll push it up and go out on the parapet atop the walls and move over to where he can get a shot at the enemy below.

Olaf can see the grey daylight in the gap between the two trap doors. Right in the center, where the two hatches meet, the light is blotted out by what appears to by a large stone (1ft across). If he were to open the trapdoor, there is every chance the stone will tumble into the steep stair well...

"Ah! There *is* a trap!" Olaf says, "Let me see if I can do something about it..."

Olaf will put down his bow and see if he can hold the trap door with one hand, raise (or lower) it a hair and slide the large stone to the side...or in some other way maneuver it off the door in such a way that the door can be opened it won't fall on top of his head.

"If this doesn't work, prepare to catch a very heavy rock..." Olaf says as he grunts and works, "...hopefully not with your head!"

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waysoftheearth wrote:
The North West Stair

Olaf spies Highbough's trap, and figure that if he opens one side of the hatch only an inch or so, it may be enough to unbalance the patiently waiting stones without allowing them to topple into the stair well.

He gives it a try, and with a bit of careful shoving, he is able to roll the two stones aside so that they come to rest on one half of the hatchway. He then throws open the other half of the trap door with any risk of a rock falling on his head!

At last the missile crew emerge onto the battlements...

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eris wrote:

The North West Stair

Olaf spies Highbough's trap, and figure that if he opens one side of the hatch only an inch or so, it may be enough to unbalance the patiently waiting stones without allowing them to topple into the stair well.

He gives it a try, and with a bit of careful shoving, he is able to roll the two stones aside so that they come to rest on one half of the hatchway. He then throws open the other half of the trap door with any risk of a rock falling on his head!

At last the missile crew emerge onto the battlements...

"All right!" Olaf says grabbing his bow, "Let's go!"

Olaf emerges onto the battlement and takes a good look at what is going on down below...

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coffee wrote:
"I'm not the hiding type," Dieter mutters, running back out to the gate.

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waysoftheearth wrote:
On The Battlements

"All right!" Olaf says grabbing his bow, "Let's go!"

Olaf emerges onto the battlement and takes a good look at what is going on down below...

Olaf, Koch, Wibert and Desmond climb out of the hatch way and onto the battlement that over looks the front of the gate house, and quickly ascertain the scenario.

There is no activity to be seen from this vantage to the west, nor east, but to the north there are body of some dozen or so hobgoblin troopers scurrying away from the front gate apace -- several of them appear scorched and blackened, and smoke still rises from them as they flee.

20 or so yards further away are half a dozen more hobgoblins -- these mounted on great black wolves -- the size of which can scarce be believed!

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mushgnome wrote:
Highbough hears Ulric's chanting and decides to get in on the action. He runs up the stairs to join the archers on the battlement.

ps He takes the caltrops he gathered up earlier with him.

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ehiker133 wrote:
Desmond grabs one of the rocks that was being used to trap the trapdoor and brings it with him. Given the first opportunity, he will drop the rock on top of the nearest hobgoblin.

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verhaden wrote:
Mads the Fair

Mads arms himself with his axe, and longs for a bow considering their predicament. He calls out to the hobgoblin hoard "Deggerhund, Wulfric, Sigmund and their men have fallen by our hands. You will be next, then Saxxon and his wizard Copernicus. Tell your wolf riders to scout the gullies nearby--you'll find their rotting corpses frozen stiff if the wild beasts that roam this land haven't scavenged them yet."

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eris wrote:

On The Battlements

"All right!" Olaf says grabbing his bow, "Let's go!"

Olaf emerges onto the battlement and takes a good look at what is going on down below...

Olaf, Koch, Wibert and Desmond climb out of the hatch way and onto the battlement that over looks the front of the gate house, and quickly ascertain the scenario.

There is no activity to be seen from this vantage to the west, nor east, but to the north there are body of some dozen or so hobgoblin troopers scurrying away from the front gate apace -- several of them appear scorched and blackened, and smoke still rises from them as they flee.

20 or so yards further away are half a dozen more hobgoblins -- these mounted on great black wolves -- the size of which can scarce be believed!

Olaf takes only a moment to size up the situation, spots what looks like the leader, retreating with his back to the gate. He then nocks an arrow. draws the string of his bow back and lets fly with the arrow at the Hobgoblin.

"Take down the leader!" Olaf says as he nocks another arrow and takes aim for another shot.