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They find a food store in the rear with a well going down to the brook below. They continue along the floor and arrive at a large dining hall. This was where the gnolls has set up another barracks and fun time area. A search finds nothing but ruined tapestries. The final room on this floor is the gatehouse, from where the gates on the upper gate is raised and lowered. There is more evidence of gnoll ownership of this room, and another search finds nothing. There are stairs going up, and they take them.
There are two doors going left and right at the top. They go right and enter a bedroom that was once nice, but now is in shambles. There is a smashed desk, a broken bed with furs everywhere, and a nasty funk. A search finds nothing.
The other door opens into the old armory of the keep, and inside is an ogre, and four worgs. They spring and attack. Animal skeletons move into the breach. Alzar casts Empathic Control on the ogre and…it fails. Success! Arrows, bolt and stone fly in at the wargs and one is dropped with many arrows.
Battle is enjoined. More arrows fly in. Three longbows, and a crossbow all hit a worg for 15 damage and it falls after getting pecked by skeletons too. 2 left. They kill three animal skeletons. 14 left.
Four arrows hit, and a crossbow and a sling also hit – 25 damage and another worg dies. The final one is pecked a bit, and it misses. It wins init the next round and kills an animal skeleton. 13 left. An arrow crits it for 6 and two more hit it for 6 more, 12 total. The animal skeletons attack and one crits it for 6 while three more hit for 7 damage. It dies.
XP – 100 each
They search and find:
44 gold
A gold and turquoise belt bucket – 200 gp
A bunch of armor and weapons in here ,plus the equipment needed to keep them in good repair.
The cover of a Spell Book the ogre tore off because it looked pretty, and has gems in it. 800 gold
There is a door out and they take it, plus ladder up into an empty turret room
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