Horrors of the Tower
From DeadGoblins
Ollarune 20, 994 YK
Khav reached the tower first, then Kurvilis and Sentinel, and finally, Lan. All walked cautiously up to the tower as they noticed kruthik hatchlings inside.
Sentinel used hand signals to coordinate with Khav and then charged in, killing a hatchling and taking some minor damage from another's bite. Khav followed closely, but missed and took some minor damage from a hatchling bite, as well. Two dolgrims appeared from the inner part of the tower and managed to flank the half-orc, and one hit him HARD with his club, bloodying him, which activated his half-orc resilience. The final hatchling takes a swipe at Sentinel, but misses. Kurvilis then steps towards the tower and layed down an illusion, missing a hatchling, but hitting a dolgrim harder than he thought. Lan finally revealed himself to Kurvilis and healed Khav, while remaining concealed from the dolgrims and kruthiks.
One of the dolgrims hit Khav, utilizing flanking for a stronger attack. Sentinel then tried a thunder burst from his sword, managing to kill another hatchling, but taking another bite. He also shifted his aegis to one of the foulspawn. After both kruthiks missed Khav with their claws, he swung both of his swords at the same time and cut through both. The dolgrim with the aegis on it swung and missed at Sentinel again and then backed off before taking another swing and moving further out of the tower. The other dolgrim moved further inside the tower after another miss. Meanwhile, three hatchlings appeared up from the ground outside the tower, next to Lan and Kurvilis, two of them managing to hit with their claws. Kurvilis went invisible when he was hit and moved away from the kruthiks, but they still sensed he was there and attacked again. Luckily, only one hit him. Kurvilis then hit and killed a hatchling with a bolt of illusion. Lan moved around killing the other two hatchlings, boosting Khav and Lan in the process. A fourth kruthik popped up next to Lan, but managed to miss with its claws.
The dolgrim in the tower came back to the outer portion and bashed Sentinel on the head. Possibly feeling dazed, he finally introduced himself to his fighting companion and returned the favor. Khav moved to watch Sentinel's back and cut deeply into the dolgrim on the outside. The two foulspawn coordinated, as the one on the outside of the tower moved around the tower and charged through the break in the wall, hitting Sentinel hard enough that he became visibly damaged. Kurvilis tried to help his friend, but could not penetrate the dolgrim's mind. Lan, meanwhile, finished off the last hatchling and soothed the swordmage's wounds.
With only the two dolgrims left, the group slowly corralled them into the tower. Khav killed the first one and Lan killed the other. In the process, the group entered the inner part of the tower and saw two men chained to the walls and a prophecy mark on the ground (and one of the chained men, catatonic on the mark). Sentinel walked into the mark and became dazed.
