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He uses the Ear Ring on the next door and hears a lot of people out in the hallway. They are obviously preparing an ambush to meet him. He hears someone bark orders. He tells the fighters what he saw. He guesses there are a lot of people in the hallway and ready to attack them. He will grab a skull, fling open the door, Skulltrap the hallway, and hopefully clear it out and then either close the door if they didn’t, or have everyone move in if they did.
He flings open the door and throws out the skull. There are about 30 hobgoblins in here and they fire a bunch of arrows at him All miss (cloak). The skull triggers and everyone in the hallway takes 26, or save for half. 28 die, and two are wounded badly. Alzar orders everyone into the hallway.
# of hobs killed, take 2: 78, Wereboars – 3, Icar killed, Orcs – 16
The two left turn to run. Megala claws one for 1 damage and it falls asleep. A +2 throwing dagger bites into the other for 10 damage and kills it.
# of hobs killed, take 2: 80, Wereboars – 3, Icar killed, Orcs – 16
They search the weapons and see nothing obviously magical in weapons or armor and move on. Alzar opens the double doors back again and sees no one in the courtyard. He doesn’t want to leave enemies at his back, so they emerge and move into the parade grounds. The goblins have been pulled off the walls, but some fire arrows from the gatehouse. He orders everyone to open the door on the bunkhouse. There is no one in there and they head up stairs. There is no one in here. They leave by opening a door to the barracks. There appears to be tons of cots for hobgoblins in here, but they were pulled for the ambush and to replace those dead. No one is in here. They kick open a door to the wall walk and attack the three hobs here. They die easily to spear and dagger and bolt and sword.
They move back, open a door to the captains room, but he is not here anymore. A search finds a set of keys.
They move back into the barracks and three hobgoblins have moved to here from the left wall and they are surprised. Alzar decapitates one and swords kill the other two before Carum gets a chance to spear one.
# of hobs killed, take 2: 86, Wereboars – 3, Icar killed, Orcs – 16
Alzar pops up through a trap door and enter the eastern guardhouse. In here is the captain of the guard and 12 hobgoblins who have flipped over some tables and pallets in the past few minutes and now fire bows. They are lucky with their shots, but Alzar doesn’t take any damage. He emerges and casts sleep and 5 fall asleep. The three fighters come up. Alzar’s group wins init. He charges with his axe and swings and hits a hob for death. 6 down. They others grab weapons and close. The hobs grab swords and swing. One hits Aleigha for 5 damage.
30/41 – Aleigha
They win init and have four good rolls 15 against Aleigha, 17 vs Alzar, 18 vs Aleigha and 18 vs Carum. They have THAC0 19. Carum has a -1 AC and they miss him. They other are all hit. Aleigha takes 7 and Alzar 6. Alzar attacks twice, rolls a 5 and hits an AC2 with that, so he kills a hob. Then he fumbles his axe again. Est kills another for 7. Aleigha hits for 4 and just wounds one. Carum hits that one and kills it off. Three dead.
23/41
39/54 – Alzar
Alzar orders everyone to aims for their leader and hews into him for 19 damage – his max. Carum spears the leader as well for 7. Aleigha adds 8 and he dies. The remaining frwe hobs try to scramble and are chased down and killed.
# of hobs killed, take 2: 98, Wereboars – 3, Icar, Gorbin Stalworth killed, Orcs – 16
XP – 100 each
They have killed everyone in the gatehouse, since they were all brought together for that one big ambush. They take some weapons and such. A search finds:
Silver and coral necklace of 1100 gp
Gold belt buckle – 500 gp
They find nothing else of value in the gatehouse and the parapets are clear.
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