Chapter 6: The Evil Queen & Her Fortress
Posted: Tue May 17, 2022 1:32 pm
Fortress in the Gorge
Most of the group traveled for most of a day before finding a mountain goat like trail that leads up into the mountains. Eventually they could see a keep in the distance located in a gorge.
The keep stands in a 200-yard-wide gorge. Rather sneaky place to hide a base for an evil army come to think of it. A light fog covers the area and as the wild blows lightly you get mixed warm air when it comes from the east and south but as it switches directions and comes from the west it is chilly. You are about and hours time just after lunch time (1 pm). Scouting the area you note that there are several dry caves in the area that might work as temporary bases for enemies or that you might make into a base of operations if you plan to do as suggested and "hit & run" on the keep. Further scouting leads you to a slight cliff that you notice a recently looking uncovered mine entrance possibly. Some signs lead you to believe this is fairly recently opened up as the rocks show sign that they were moved. Your would estimate within the last day or two.
Looking at the keep more you notice it has walls built that go up to both sides of the gorge and have but one main entrance that is currently guarded by two ogres and gated. There are gargoyle looking statues above that entry point on the wall. Up on the parapet you notice some orcs with crossbows. The Keep is a good distance away and you are certain nobody can see you from the keep.
After finding the hidden fortress, the group encounters a pair of dwarves one being chased from a cave entrance by goblins, a hobgoblin and some sort of half-orc half-ogre creature. After slaying the creatures the group heads to a cave that Jivet scouted for them and sets up a sort of base camp questions one of the goblins and then kills it. While interrogating the goblin some of the others find a secret way in and out of their base camp cavern and it leads out more towards a trail that leads up and out of the gorge back into the mountains.
The group has now taken a short rest and recovered a little from the most recent battle. The only information you have gotten so far from one of the dwarves that joined the group and the goblin are this the cave is a mining offshoot of the fortress, and may well have a back way into the fortress but it has a lot of enemies inside that you might have to clear out. The fortress is designed so that there is no easy way around it in the gorge, the only way to do so is go back up into the mountains seek a trail that leads to the other side of the fortress and try coming in from the back if there is a way in from there. Otherwise your current options are frontal attack or head into the mines.
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Most of the group traveled for most of a day before finding a mountain goat like trail that leads up into the mountains. Eventually they could see a keep in the distance located in a gorge.
The keep stands in a 200-yard-wide gorge. Rather sneaky place to hide a base for an evil army come to think of it. A light fog covers the area and as the wild blows lightly you get mixed warm air when it comes from the east and south but as it switches directions and comes from the west it is chilly. You are about and hours time just after lunch time (1 pm). Scouting the area you note that there are several dry caves in the area that might work as temporary bases for enemies or that you might make into a base of operations if you plan to do as suggested and "hit & run" on the keep. Further scouting leads you to a slight cliff that you notice a recently looking uncovered mine entrance possibly. Some signs lead you to believe this is fairly recently opened up as the rocks show sign that they were moved. Your would estimate within the last day or two.
Looking at the keep more you notice it has walls built that go up to both sides of the gorge and have but one main entrance that is currently guarded by two ogres and gated. There are gargoyle looking statues above that entry point on the wall. Up on the parapet you notice some orcs with crossbows. The Keep is a good distance away and you are certain nobody can see you from the keep.
After finding the hidden fortress, the group encounters a pair of dwarves one being chased from a cave entrance by goblins, a hobgoblin and some sort of half-orc half-ogre creature. After slaying the creatures the group heads to a cave that Jivet scouted for them and sets up a sort of base camp questions one of the goblins and then kills it. While interrogating the goblin some of the others find a secret way in and out of their base camp cavern and it leads out more towards a trail that leads up and out of the gorge back into the mountains.
The group has now taken a short rest and recovered a little from the most recent battle. The only information you have gotten so far from one of the dwarves that joined the group and the goblin are this the cave is a mining offshoot of the fortress, and may well have a back way into the fortress but it has a lot of enemies inside that you might have to clear out. The fortress is designed so that there is no easy way around it in the gorge, the only way to do so is go back up into the mountains seek a trail that leads to the other side of the fortress and try coming in from the back if there is a way in from there. Otherwise your current options are frontal attack or head into the mines.
Actions?