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Alzar finishes exploring the floor and returns. He checks up on the now-freed prisoners and gives them the lay of the land. He is going to take the stairs to the west up to the main floor, to try and find, and hopefully surprise or assassinate the wizard and his goblin/dwarf ally, consort, minion, whatever. Then he’ll free the complex of its leaders, and more importantly, That’s his goal. Right now, the fact that no one knows Alzar is here is his best ally. Alzar is going to turn the amulet into a Fremlin who will invisibly watch over, and leave the Invisible Stalker here as a guard for them to help them out and gives it some instructions. Then he’s going to head back out and up with the imp and go up to the main level, where he suspects the two main bad guys are likely to be found.
The main level was the main living quarters and home of the old dwarven kingdom, with a throne room, the palace, storage, and more. There are two choke points on the floor that guard entrances to it from other places. Alzar skipped both by coming up from the lower level.
The door from the stairs to the hallway is stronger than others. Alzar fails to pick the lock and acid won’t work on this one – the door’s lock is made of stone. Alzar has to waste his knock spell to open it up. It swings free. After casting his final spell, the Ring is done for the day and Alzar swaps to using Dust of Disappearance and he gives himself the Spell Turning ring in its place.
If Alzar has captured the fortress, he would have taken a space in the lower level, but the foes didn’t, so they are almost assuredly in the palatial section of this level, in the southeast corner of the area.
Alzar heads out and is astounded by the sheer number of goblins here. He passes by rooms that would have held 50 dwarves poring with 200 goblins easily. There are three sections of barracks, storage, and various apartments.
In fact, it seems like there are three different clans of goblins all living here. After30 minutes of scouting it seems that there are at least 2500 goblins that call this place home, and that includes shaman, leaders, lieutenants and such. The patrols here are in strong numbers, and very well disciplined in the heart of the mountain.
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