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Thursday Night Pathfinder: Sneaking Around

So the party had the job of sneaking into the enemy army camp and getting their plans of attack.  Given a map of the camp, the party planned to take control of one of the outer edge scouting group camps and then sneak in.

The party snuck up on the camp.  From 500 feet away they could see that there were 3 guards.  One was waving around a torch every few minutes while looking left and then right.  The player/character correctly discerned that they were sending signals to adjacent scout camps.  Oh, and there was a guard dog.

Sneaking closer to the camp, they found the mechanism for the scout camps to work so effectively.  Every 20 feet or so, there was an item that was alarmed (per the spell) in the tall pine forest.  The party contemplated climbing over (radius = 20 feet), but ultimately Khalil talked Ali (catfolk monk) into getting into a bag of holding for "the climb".  He then dimension door'd and "let the cat out of the bag", so to speak.  (Pun intended by the player.)

The party quickly took out the 3 guards and guard dog.  Ali learned the signals, kept the signal going, and then handed it off to Vic for her to stay there and maintain the scout camp.

The party has disguised themselves using magical means to look to fit in, with the exception of Corrail who tried to stay out of sight.  The group walked farther into the camp, noticing that the enemy army was mostly gathered around campfires and drinking heavily.  The party decided to act drunken and stumble through camp.

The party got to HQ and checked it out.  The dragon, Shardosferin, a quake dragon from the shadow plane that lead the army was slumbering outside the main HQ tent.  The necromancer from Waterdeep, now a complete Lich, was just arriving.  The party magically jumped to the other side of the wall.

Before the party could sneak in, the old wizard Pharalyn arrived and the Lich came out to meet him.  There was a brief argument over the old wizard's failure and the two exchanged spells with fury.  The lich laughed off the old wizard's disintegration spell and banished Pharalyn to the Abyss.  The lich left.

The party snuck into the tent and started grabbing everything they could get their hands on.

Unfortunately, the Lich stopped back to talk to the dragon briefly.  The dragon and the lich agreed to throw out their previous plans and attack at dawn a day later.

More troops were moving quickly in Vic's direction mumbling something about a problem with the security signal.  The group realized that Vic was about to get caught.  They gathered up, teleported to get Vic, and then teleported to get out.
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