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Friday Night Pathfinder: Forgebar Dwarves assault the Thornhold

 Sandra and Don the Magnificent returned from Waterdeep with an army of defenders and many construction workers.  Construction was quickly underway to install the new gate and the firewurm.  Crews also assembled and placed the two new springals and the new cannon.  Felix scouted the region from the air.  Corrail scouted the region as well during hunting.

A small caravan wagon train passed through on the road heading from Waterdeep to Luskan.  Don and Felix went out to try to negotiate trade with the familiar driver named Greenback.  Greenback seemed annoyed and nervous and insisted on moving on, promising to stop back if they weren't all killed by the time of his return trip.

At dawn, assault on the Thornhold began with the blow of a Dwarven horn.  35 Dwarves appeared at the edge of the forest.  A group of 20 foot solders and their 4 commanders charged the hold directly with two gargantuan ladders and a gallery ram.  Several rangers fired off smoke arrows on the battlefield.  Two riders appeared on top of bullettes    Don heard the calls of this and had a stroke of insight that these must be domesticated bullettes from a mithral hauler.  Had the Dwarves captured a mithral hauler?

 On the castle, Felix and Corrail kept bows going against the enemies.  The wage mage of questionable gender that had been hired in Waterdeep flung spells down at the invaders.  Sandra and her eidolon dragon started an air assault.  The first round Springal fire took out one of the bullettes before Don could warn not to harm them.

Inside the castle, Don and the Monk waited.  The cavalier, Yuri, and the Tiger has taken up position in the room directly behind the front gate.  Should they break through, they would be ready.

The advancing army moved slowly with the siege weapons.  Corrail slowed them further with a well-placed entangle spell.  The 3 Dwarven priests turned out to be the bane of the Thornholders.  Sandra was hurt badly with spell blasts from them.  They also supplied a well-timed dispel magic to eliminate the entanglement.  The firewurm took an epic shot at the gallery ram, turning it black and setting it on fire.  Still it advanced.

The monk advanced over the wall to engage the captains at the front gate, but nearly got himself killed.  Arrows and cannon fire rained down on the gallery.  Sandra got dropped off on the hold while her eidolon continued attacking, sending a fly-bly breath weapon into the heart of a group of 6 rangers who were attacking him with arrows.  2 of the Dwarves went down.  The bullette went underground, leaving their riders to attack with ranged weapons.  The Dwarven general, clad in a red cloak, pulled out his longbow and killed the wage mage in a single barrage of shots.

A Fiery Titan appeared over the battlefield, seeming to erupt from the ground inside the keep, a massive fiery statue with roaring voice.  One of the Dwarven clerics, skeptical with their knowledge of the Hold, saw through the illusion and shouted his knowledge to the rest of the army.  The Cavalier and Don, now on the tower above the gate traded the necklace of fireballs to the cavalier who tossed one at the gallery, hitting it with more flames.

Then the captains with their huge halberd broke through the main gate.  The 20 men manning the gallery and gargantuan ladders dropped their siege items and ran for the gate.  28 Dwarves were ready to pour through the gate.


The session stopped as Corrail and Yuri took their first actions against the incoming horde.  Yuri used his breath weapon to take a couple of them out.

To Be Continued...
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