Dave, Zergiot and Moriarty, explored the
chamber they were in which had very faint light coming from a grate
above them. They could see a ladder climbing up to the grate and
another pipe opposite of the one they came out of that Zergiot and
Moriarty could fit through but Dave couldn't. Around this time Zergiot
heard something from the Palantir he was carrying. He heard a notice
going out warning that "the one" might still be alive and escaped into
the sewers. Not wanting to continue into the dark pipe without light
and knowing Dave couldn't follow anyways they decided to go up the
ladder to the grate. The group sent Dave up first in case there were
guards.
Dave didn't really need the ladder and just reached up to the grate
and pulled it. The grate wouldn't open and Dave was too stupid to
realize if he just pushed it would have opened right up. Dave roared
and used all his strength to try and pull the grate open. They started
hearing "disturbance in the command center, probably 'the one', all
available guards report there immediately" from the Palantir. Dave
continued to struggle and the stone around the great started to break.
Without another renewed effort Dave pulled as hard as he could and the
stone around the grate broke and the entire grate crashed down around
him. Zergiot and Moriarty had been as far from the grate as they could
get and weren't hurt by the falling stone.
Dave climbed up the ladder and poked his head through the hole where
the grate used to be. Dave was too big to fit through the hole and
only his head fit through it. He was in some sort of storeroom with
only one obvious doorway out. There were a couple guards in there
looking at him very nervously. Seeing that he was apparently stuck
they became a little more confident and drew their swords. Dave
bellowed at them intimidatingly and one of the guards mumbled
something about letting the commander know that 'the one' has been
located and ran off. The other guard swung with his sword and hit Dave
in the head with it.
Dave got mad and forced his way through the hold. The already damaged
stone floor couldn't handle the strain and simply collapsed. Moriarty
and Zergiot managed to dodge the falling debris but the guard was
killed by the fall. Dave also lost his balance and fell down. Dave
noticed all the foodstuff that had been apparently in the storeroom
that fell down into the sewer and began stuffing his face.
Karabela went up the ladder nearest to him and pushing on the grate it
moved up easily. He found himself in a storeroom of some sort and
didn't see any guards. He climbed out, did a quick search of the
storeroom but didn't find anything interesting. He then went to the
only door out of the storeroom and listened. He heard some soft noises
from the other side of the door but couldn't hear any talking. He
opened the door as quietly as he could and saw beyond the door was a
barracks. Through the windows he could see it was night and from the
moonlight he was able to discern that there were sleeping soldiers in
here but not all the beds were full.
Karabela used his ability to Detect Evil to identify the nearest evil
sleeping soldier. He did so, crept up to the soldier and silently
killed him with a chokehold. He began making his way through the
soldiers this way, targetting the ones he detected as being evil
however he didn't kill too many before one woke up and screamed before
Karabela was able to kill him. This alerted all the remaining guards
who woke up and began to attack. Seeing the need for subterfuge as
over Karabela started using his sword on all the guards who were
trying to swarm him. They were unarmed and unarmored and so weren't
much of a threat to him. After a bit most of the guards began to run
out though some remained trying to grapple him.
Fearing they were going for reinforcement, Karabela barrled his way
through the guards surrounding him to the door. He saw that every
guard running out of the barracks was heading to a specific building
that appeared to be an armory. Karabela sprinted as fast as he could
and just barely managed to beat the other guards there. The door was
open and on reaching the door Karabela confirmed this was an armory.
He noticed two guards in the armory but they were only armed with
daggers and bows. Karabela positioned himself so that he was blocking
the door so the unarmed guards couldn't get inside to arm themselves
and ignored their pathetic attempts to hit him with their fists while
he fought the armed guards inside.
Dave climbed back up the ladder that was now just sitting in the
middle of space, he jumped and landed on a small bit of remaining
stone floor left right in front of it. He bashed down the door and
went into the next room. In the next room was a large group of guards
in a defensive position with their shields all together. Dave roared
again and more then a few of them cowered. Some of them though
attacked at him. Most missed but a few hit him a little bit. Moriary
and Zergiot climbed the ladder but there was no place for them to go
since Dave blocked the doorway to jump to and the rest of the floor
was gone. Dave didn't have much room for using his chains so he picked
up one of the guardsand began swinging his body as a weapon. He killed
most of the guards and the few left lost courage and ran away. Dave
moved out of the way of the door and Zergiot and Moriarty jumped
through the doorway as they saw the last few guards escape through a
door. In addition to the first door the guards escaped through, and
the door to the destroyed storeroom the party came up there was a 3rd
doorway. Zergiot went to the 3rd doorway to check it out. Inside was
yet another storeroom this one apparently full of maps, papers, and
similar supplies, Dave and Moriarty followed him.
Moriarty took some time to study the maps. From them he was able to
learn they were in a military complex called The Lurching Tower
located in northeast Breland. He also found a map of the complex
itself which he took the time to memorize. Dave, Zergiot, and Moriarty
then heard the guards say "The commanders here" and the door the
guards escaped through opened to show a large man in a very imposing
set of armor armed with a mace. The commander came towards them.
Zergiot had aquired a tower shield by point somewhere and began
fighting the commander. The commander and Zergiot were both so heavily
armored neither was able to do any real damage to the other. Meanwhile
Moriarty analyzed the architecture of the building they were in and
determined one of the walls had to be an exterior wall to outside. He
also identified a weak point but it was too high for Dave to hit and
Moriarty was too weak to use it.
Zergiot managed to close the door so that they were safe from the
guards for the time being but trapped in the room. Seeing no other way
out Moriarty convinced Dave to just bash his way out of the wall. It
took some time but eventually cracks appeared in the wall, then wall
started to bow out a little bit and finally Dave smashed his way
through to the outside. Moriarty, having gone through some of the
reports in the room, had determined his items were most likely in the
prison, which was a different building then the tower the party had
originally been held in. He started sneaking around towards that
building.
Karabela had killed the two armed guards
inside the armory and now was guarding the doorway preventing any of
the guards from going inside to arm themselves. It was apparently by
this point that except for a few left to watch the walls all of the
armed guards were with the commander trying to take down Dave, while
all those that weren't armed were blocked by Karabela. Dave happened
to see the mass of unarmed guards around Karabela and rushed towards
"the fun".
At this time, a group of unknown people charged through the front
gates. They were yelling "For the revolution!" and "Down with the
King!". They were armed but not very well compared to the guards. Many
of them were carrying a single scroll. When used a very weak magic
missile flew out and hit a guard. Although the revolutionaries didn't
appear to be spellcasters a surprising number of them managed to
successfully activate their scrolls. Some of the revolutionaries ran
towards the largest group of guards they could see, where the
commander was, while therest ran towards the building Moriarty had
identified as the prison where his gear was.
Dave reached Karabela, grabbed another guard, and again started using
his body to attack the other guards. From his position Karabela
noticed the commander and his guards fighting the revolutionaries. He
pointed out to Dave that there was 'more fun over there'. Dave saw the
commander, thought fighting the commander would be a great challenge
and rushed over there while Karabela continued to guard the armory and
kill the few guards who foolishly tried sneak past him and get at
their weapons.
Dave, the Commander, the guards, and the revolutionaries all fought in
a giant melee together. Surprisingly the revolutionaries kept managing
to hit their targeets while the guards kept missing. Eventually the
commander and all the guards went down. Zergiot and Karabela kept Dave
from attacking the revolutionaries who looked at each other with
surprised look and said "Wait? We won? This was just supposed to be a
distraction while fellow militiamen rescued our friends from the
prison!"
Exploring the rest of the camp the party soon determined that the only
guards remaining alive were a large number of wounded being tended to
in the infirmary. They had all been badly hurt falling off the tower
when the party flooded it. Deciding they were too dangerous to keep
prisoner and a drain of resources Karabela executed them. The entire
party regained all their equipment that they had prior to being
captured. The revolutionaries, who called themselves The Militia, sent
messengers to their leaders about what had happened but stayed to
occupy the camp. Because of obvious power they deferred to the party
as leaders of The Lurching Tower. In the camp was found a chapel to
the Sovereign Host which Karabela deemed blasphemous. Inside was found
a secret chamber with signs and symbols recognized as belonging to a
cult of The Dragon Below. The chapel was looted of what few valuables
could be found then torched by Karabela. Karabela declared himself
leader of the camp and that The Lurching Tower was the start of a new
holy empire in the name of the one true god.
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