Aleigha is by herself. She has landed, and she turns into a werebear. This will give her the force to kill the hobgoblins by herself. She waits until they are together, and then uses her strength to try and heave them both off the front of the wall, into the ditch and such far below.
She manages to grab one each on her bear paws, can she push them over? Yes (She rolled 16 and 19 to hit, and then 14 and 12 to push.) The hogoblins are pushed off the higher curtain wall by a tremendous werebear. They scream as they fall. Each of them dies.
Estaish drops Carum just before he strikes, sword already drawn. He pauses a breath, and then a suddenly enlarged Carum and Estaish strike with surprise at each hobgoblin. Carum easily hits for 9 damage and a dead hobby. Estaish hits barely, with ambush, and deals 13 damage and kills the other, silently, dead in two strokes, and the men rush for the door.
# of hobgoblins dead: 6
Alzar immediately finishes casting Skulltrap and throws it into the chaos just as a Wall of Fog is dropped. He aims for that ogre he saw., barking out orders. 28 damage. Save for half though.
All of the hobgoblins in its 20 foot cube die. 11 dead. The ogre was in it too, and he takes death after failing his save. A few humans move out at that, and Alzar is suddenly getting some attention from a few nearby guards. The Wall of Fog prevents the people down there from seeing him. It’s high enough that the gatehouse and curtain wall are unable to see him too, and just a few guards along the rampant wall can.
# of hobgoblins dead: 17, Executioner is dead as well.
Est and Carum are in and two hobgoblins are in this side of the curtain wall, having just heard the screams from outside. They jump on them as quick as they can, and the hobs yell for help. Both are hit, one for 8 and one for 11 and both die. Aleigha crashes through the door and three hobbies are in here, and they choose to run, and hit Estaish and Carum. Both Est and Carum hit and 9 and 8 damage later two are killed and Aleigha runs up and kills the other one, but they screamed a lot.
# of hobgoblins dead: 22, Executioner is dead as well.
The tall humanoid is rallying troops and ordered them to find weapons to attack him with. Then, a blind man emerges and starts barking orders. The giant humanoid starts flying towards Alzar. In the meantime, Alzar cast his Shield Maidens to help against the arrows coming his way. None have hit him yet.
# of hobgoblins dead: 22, Executioner is dead as well.
There is no one on the second floor of the curtain wall, so they head to the ground floor. They enter the outer courtyard, and there is no one in here. They run to the other side where they saw a door before, and suspect a gate mechanism may be.
# of hobgoblins dead: 22, Executioner is dead as well.
With a flying giant coming his way, Alzar orders Dryshik to Mist Ball it. It fails and takes 4 damage and is blinded for 3 rounds. 15 more hobgoblins emerged from the gatehouse and Alzar turns back and casts Dire Charm on the one telling them what to do and barking out orders. If it can just work…Success (rolled a 6). The hobgoblin Kairn draws his two handed sword and suddenly attacks a nearby hobgoblin. He misses , but it causes some confusion easily.
# of hobgoblins dead: 22, Executioner is dead as well.
They open the winch room and inside are the winches used but they have locked on them, and cannot be used. They were hoping it would be that easy. Open the portcullis and lower the drawbridge, maybe break the mechanism and then run away when forced back. They start moving towards the gatehouse and across the outer courtyard when suddenly they feel a vibration, and something emerges to attack them – an ankheg!
# of hobgoblins dead: 22, Executioner is dead as well.
Alzar takes 5 damage from a couple of arrows from snipers on the rampart. He casts Blastbones and tosses it into the area and hopes to kill a few hobbies. 5 died. The charmed Kairn swings and hits, and deals 3 damage to a hobgoblin. He is hit three times for 13 damage.
49/54
# of hobgoblins dead: 27, Executioner is dead as well.
This is not what they expected to be fighting! Luckily, the won init. Estaish swings and rolls a 9. +2 for its AC and +2 for sword, but that’s not enough. Carum tries to pierces its belly. He hits for 7 damage to it. Aleigha tires to hit it She misses three times. It tries to bite Estaish and misses.
Ank – 7 hp
# of hobgoblins dead: 27, Executioner is dead as well.
Kairn hits and kills the wounded hobgoblin and then dies himself. Alzar launches a 3 HD fireball from his necklace while they are still bunched up and hits his target. All of the hobbies there die but one.
# of hobgoblins dead: 36, Executioner and Kairn are dead as well.
They lose init and the ankheg bites Estaish and he misses his combat. He takes 9 damage. Carum crits the belly for 7 damage. Aleigh hits three times for 7.
36/45 – Estaish
Ank took 21
Alzar moves to the giant before it is unblinded. It is hovering a few feet off the top of the building he is on. He casts Ray of Ondovir at it, and then runs up to it. He fails the save. Next turn, Alzar’s axe can try and bite deep into it. He takes 11 from arrows.
38/54
# of hobgoblins dead: 36, Executioner and Kairn are dead as well.
They win init. Carum misses. Aleigha hits but once for 2 damage. Estaish manages to try an awkward swing at -2. Success! 9 to the ankheg, and it screams a terrible death.
# of hobgoblins dead: 36, Executioner and Kairn are dead as well. Ankheg killed.
Alzar swings mightily with his axe at a quiet and silent creature and deals 15 due ot the ambush to it. He takes another 3.
35/54
As they move forward, group of hobgoblins turn around from the gatehouse to see what the noise as, they notice their guard beast dead and three people moving in. They sound the alarm that attacks are on the march and activate the fire entrance. The entrance from the outer to inner courtyard now has a bunch of fire in it. Arrow start firing into the courtyard, and Estaish and Aleigha move into and through the fire and into the parade grounds where the chaos Carum moves but stays on the edge, away from the entrance, and still in the outer courtyard.
The creature wins init and tries to charm Alzar. Failure. Alzar swings once with the axe, hits for 9, swings again with the axe, this for 7, and kills the ogre mage, which takes ogre mage upon his death. He takes 9 more. Dryshik Mist Balls the closest guard that has ht him a few times, and he fails and take s2 and is blinded for 5 rounds. Megala flies into him, attacks him, and he falls off the platform and dies.
# of hobgoblins dead: 37, Executioner, Blackthorn and Kairn are dead as well. Ankheg killed.
26/54
Estaish slices at a hobbie but misses. Aleigha misses as well. Many hobbies are moving to attack them. No one can touch either of them, due to good ac and invulnerability to normal weapons.
# of hobgoblins dead: 37, Executioner, Blackthorn and Kairn are dead as well. Ankheg killed.
With a large number of hobgoblins now attacking Est and Ale, he lobs another 3 HD fireball over and deals 13 damage to 11 more and they all die. He used another charge and flies up and calls it. Dryshik uses a final Mist Ball on another guard on the wall and it fails the save, and Megala and Dryshik combine to force it off the ledge and it dies with the fall + poison damage. Est and Ale took some fire damage from the Fireball too.
# of hobgoblins dead: 49, Executioner, Blackthorn and Kairn are dead as well. Ankheg killed.
34/41 – Aleigha
38/45 - Estaish
With the enemy dead near them, they back up through the flame, pick up Carum on his small form, and fly away.
They head back towards the boat, with a nice number of kills.