Session+103

**6-24-2017** ** The Elven Squads Fight the Wall in the Drow Fortress **

While Posy, Thorn, Erevin, Shri, Azarius, Wren, and Kale took on the three dragons in the horde below the lava... the squads had mounted their forces around the tower to hold back against the drow coming to defend their wall.

**Squad One**  Minastes Grovedancer (ranger) female. leader of the rangers  Elbereth Starim (warrior) male. elder. retired, but volunteered  Wyren Spellstalker (rogue) male. moon elf. burn scars on his hands and cheek. trained to incapacitate those of the arcane.  Zberyl Autumnfire (mage) female. moon elf. shocking red hair  Theonil Blueclawn (cleric) male. moon elf. blue and white streaked hair

**Squad Two**  Kurnos Lightshiver (ranger) male. white hair. scar over his left eye  Tarathiel Sunweaver (warrior) male   Rhespen Eveningfall (rogue) male. sylvan. bronze skin. autumn red hair  Arai Ashgrove (mage) female. pale. charcoal-grey hair. black shark eyes  Torian Mistrunner (cleric) male. silver hair. missing the tip of his left ear

 **Squad Three** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Rys Silverbow (ranger) male. elder gold elf. blonde. silvery bow <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Sariandi Swordstar (warrior) female. moon elf. blue hair. star carved pommel of her blade <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Zaos Vandier (rogue) male. gold elf. pale gold hair. startling ruby eyes <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Lyari Shadowmantle (mage) female. long busy wolf-like hair <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Laefen Oakenwill (cleric) male. sylvan. summer green hair

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> **Squad Four** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Alasha Starglow (ranger) female. moon elf. black hair. white ioun stone <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Valinda Dawnhorn (warrior) female. moon elf. green hair. ornate hunting horn <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Tsurra Moonflower (rogue) female. moon elf. dark blue hair and eyes <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Rilitar Silveroak (mage) male. elder gold elf <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Larisha Goldenhaze (cleric) female. gold elf. golden blonde hair

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> **Squad Five** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Liluth Laughingwater (ranger) female. young. pink hair. cute. bow looks too big for her. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Alarana Durothil (warrior) female. moon elf. purple hair <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Alissa Stillhawk (rogue) female. sylvan. chestnut skin. brown eyes. trained hawk <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Koryn Leafwalker (mage) male. sylvan. verdant green hair. bronze skin <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Kryssa Fadinglight (cleric) female. moon elf. pale. silver eyes

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> **Witches** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Ibis Feathermoon - elder. red hair. fair skin. black bird familiar <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Parula Ashenmist - pale blonde hair. wolf familiar

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> The first to arrive, Squad One had been directed to hold the tower. They took their position at the top as the others filtered in. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> The drawbridge lowered from the wall where forces of drow began to pour out!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The white tower wizards and the priests and priestesses of Corellion and Hanalil did their best to buff their squads with prayer protections and haste enhancements to prepare them for the battle.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Sariandi Swordstar led the charge toward the drow as the other warriors followed her to the front line. Alarana Durothil took advantage of Koryn's haste and bolted across the field to join the fray! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The rogues followed them in more stealthily, preparing to flank and back stab their victims. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The rangers launched arrows into the incoming crowd of drow, taking down their numbers one by one. Liluth Laughingwater leapt up on top of some of the stalagmites, laughing as she launched oversized arrows into the surrounding drow! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The two witches separated, Parula heading to the back of the squads while Ibis headed toward the tower.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">As the squads below clashed into the drow pouring from the wall, a group of drow pounded their way up through the trapdoor to reach the top of the tower!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Laefen Oakenwill made his way up to pray for a touch of good on Sariandi just before she charged in, taking a heavy hit on her way through to cleave into an undead fire giant! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Zaos Vandier followed her in to double team the undead monstrosity! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Ibis and Parula put a warded hex over Liluth and Stillhawk as they continued to make their way across opposite sides of the zone. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Tarathial Sunweaver took a gash across his chest, but Torian Mistrunner was quick to mend his wounds. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Chaos ensued around them as elves and drows clashed in combat.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Drows with crossbows launched bolts into Kurnos Lightshiver, but their low poison seemed to have no effect on him. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Misty fog rolled in over the tower obscuring all of Squad One in darkness! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Theonil Blueclawn was able to dispel the fog, opening up the area for Mina to spot the drow responsible below. Impaling her with two flaming arrows, the ranger took her by surprise! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Below chaos continued to ensue as the warriors and rogues tangled directly with the drow. Rangers continued to fire arrows while the clerics continued to protect the warriors with touches of good. The mages did their best to keep track of their squads and use magical shields. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Laefen Oakenwill moved his way into the depths of battle to pulse out a channel heal, bravely mending several of the elves!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Mina peered off the edge of the tower to see Sariandi cleaving the undead fire giants, cut off from most of the other elves as Zaos Vandier continued to flank with her, double teaming the giants and giving the warrior an opportune moment to nearly topple one of them! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Lyari Shadowmantle finished off the fire giant with a slew of magic missiles while Rys Silverbow hammered drow with his arrows.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">In the center of the battle, the undead fire giant backhanded Laefen with a brain rattling slap! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Two undead zombie drow made their way to the top of the tower. Squad One recognized them as drows who had been killed at the tower before! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Elbereth Starim slashed both of them as they made their up the trapdoor! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The others joined him quickly with several more attacks of stabbing, arrows, and magic missiles. A bright searing light lit the top of the tower as Theonil blasted one of the drow!

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Down below, Liluth took another drow down in an epic fatal shot, laughing the whole time, "I knew I was ready for this!" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Drow filtered in behind Sariandi... Magic missiles came from an invisible Rilitar Silveroak as Alasha Starglow sent in her arrows to aid the leaf guardess! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Tsurra Moonflower carved up the back of a drow double teaming with Valinda Dawnhorn.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Sariandi glanced over her shoulder to see the drows who had come up behind her now lying on the ground. Laefen again came to his companions aid, reaching across squads to mend another's wounds. Zaos stuck his dagger into the back of the undead fire giant only to take a backlash hit that took nearly half of his life! Magic missiles came over his head to impact the giant again as Lyari wove her way through the battle. A lightning bolt came sailing from the side of the tower as Ibis vaporized a drow and badly burned two others. Torian withdrew, slippling behind a stalagmite to heal his own wounds as Sunweaver leapt into the fray against the giant. Arai and Kurnos managed to finish the last giant off with arrows and magic missiles. Chaos continued around them as arrows sailed and blades clashed.

The drow fought back bravely, slashing into the squads of elves! One of the larger drow bashed Mina with his shield, but the dexterous ranger grabbed the lip of the parapet and still managed not to drop her bow! With one arm, she pulled herself back up to tumble skillfully back to the top of the tower! Two drow zombies quickly surrounded Zebryl Autumnfire, slashing into him with their daggers while another shuffled over to slam his fist into Theonil! <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #222222; display: block; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Elbereth Starim brought his two handed blade down to cut down the drow on Zebryl! Fire burst forth from the mage as a positive wave of energy washed out from the cleric to burn down the drow zombies around them!

Alissa and her hawk double teamed the drow mage, taking her down with a fatal slash across her throat! Liluth a pair of arrows into one drow at once, and then pulled back a black arrow covered in runes to pierce into a large drow's head, crumpling him to the floor! Valinda Dawnhorn and Tsurra Moonflower expertly double teamed another drow, cutting him down as Rilitar Silveroak bravely rounded the corner to send magic missiles over their head into another drow!

Laefen gathered his group around him to bless them with new prayers to Hanalil just before Sariandi and Zaos rushed toward the gates, cutting down drow as they moved! Lyari tried to catch them to imbue haste, but her squad members were already on the move, so she began to summon. Rhespen bolted across the field toward the gates to see smoke wafting up from cauldrons in the parapets above! He quickly skidded to a halt to turn back and warn the others.

Parula flew up to the top of the tower just in time to see a massive drow gash into Mina twice with his two-handed blade! The skilled ranger took a heavy step back with a gasp, raising her bow only to have him follow her back! She loosed the arrows anyway, piercing into him again and again as he took the opportunity to slash her a third time! Elbereth slashed his blade across the drow, drawing a heavy gash across his chest! The drow scoffed, "So much for an honorable battle one on one... elf scum!" "You never issued a challenge," Mina countered, taunting him further, "What must it be like seeing the twilight of your people? What will you do at your end? ... call out to Lloth? We stamped her out already." Fully enraged, he could see only Minastes as he screamed his battle cry! Wyren seized the moment to gash into the large drow's back with his two daggers as Theonil slipped around to mend some of Mina's wounds. Zberyl managed to finish off the mage with a shocking grasp.

Fire rained down from the parapets to impact most of squad two and four! Koryn Leafwalker returned their attack with a fireball over the parapets! Strangely the cauldrons didn't catch fire, but several screams of agony came from above. Liluth moved up with her companions to look worriedly at the imposing gate as heat from the lava behind them hung heavy in the air.

Despite the rain of fire, Valinda continued forth to decimate another drow with her blade, clearing the way ahead of her for the others. Rilitar followed Koryn's lead and launched a fireball over the gates. Backlit by fire, a drow fell from the parapets as screams came from above! Larisha Goldenhaze pulsed a healing wave to mend the burns and wounds of her companions. Lyari, Laefen, and Rhys doubled timed their footsteps around the tower to catch up to the others as Ibis and Parula paired up in flight above the gates. Torian channeled out healing to mend the wounds of the gathering elves around him.

A drow sorceress, ebbing with power and surrounded by a greenish force stepped out over the parapets, "I didn't believe it... but the elves are attacking! Of course they would break the truce!" Holy healing magic could be seen going off behind her on the parapets, mending those hit by the fireball magics.

Cheers were heard over the tower as in a combined effort Squad One finished off the last drow, taking back the tower! Outside of the gates, the squads had cleared around the drawbridge as the warriors moved up to form a front line. The rangers launched a few attacks to pick off the drow on the parapets as the mages and clerics buffed up their squads. Larisha stepped up and tried to dispel the magic around the powerful sorceress above, but unable to touch her... she felt a tingle of fear.

As the squads gathered and formed up below, Parula and Ibis recognized the globe of invulnerability surrounding the powerful sorceress. The two witches casted a blast of golden dust to cover the drow on top, blinding several. From the other side of the cavern, loaded with dragon horde treasure, Erevin and his companions reemerged from the magic gate near the lava!

Chain lightning crackled out from the drow sorceress over the squads below, dropping several elves unconscious! Arai Ashgrove, Rilitar Silveroak, and Sariandi Swordstar perished to the attack. A powerful green ray shot forth from Azarius to pierce through the globe of invulnerability and turn the sorceress's shoulder into ash! She quickly vanished, running for her life. Wren, still in her golden dragon form carried Posy and Thorn into the fray as she perched on the wall to blow fire over the gathered drow! Posy dropped off of Wren to follow up with a blast from her ring of immolation! Thorn and Mali ran through with Melleron, butchering drow in the castle! Rushing in, Shri went to her knees to the closest of the fallen, breathing life back into Arai Ashgrove. Erevin led the squads up the drawbridge into the gates to mop up. Shri and the clerics shrouded the dead to take back home.

Going into the castle, Wren was disturbed to see elves stabbing drow in the back as they fled for their lives... even those who had fallen to the ground were slaughtered. War seemed to have them acting almost rabid. Undaunted, Erevin slaughtered the drow alongside them.