Summary
- They fight the Order of the Emerald Claw at the gate, and get the gate open.
- They manage to take a necromancer alive, but the others all die. The necromancer later kills themselves by biting down on something poisonous.
- They spread out and try to funnel people towards the gate, and try to find more bombs. Between Dax and the rats, they find 23/31 bombs!
- They meet back up with 5 minutes left, and prepare to confront Richtus.
26th Olarune, 1000 YK
- Lozaal drops off Kal and Leonus, and then goes onto the other side of the wall to deal with the Karrnathi Undead by the gate.
- Kal busts down the door to the right gatehouse and says "hi!" to the thugs inside. Then she blasts em.
- The necromancer upends their bag of holding, and skeletons come out!
- Lozaal activates giant's might and becomes Large. He fights the two Karrnathi undead on his own.
- Leonus takes control of the skeletons!
- Leonus takes the necromancer alive, and ties him up with some rope. He leaves his two remaining skeletons to guard them.
- Kalshana and Warden knock two of the thugs out, and Warden requests that the last remaining one surrender. The remaining thug looks into Warden's eyes, and then murders their companions.
- Warden kills the thug in a combination of shock and anger.
- They get the gate open, and Warden opens the secondary gate.
- Lozaal attempts to jam the gate open. It's resistant to tampering, so he tries to break the chains that control them. He puts a piton into a link and them hammers it. He damages it, and keeps hitting it until it breaks.
- Dax restrained the necromancer with her magebinders.
- Dax flew into High Walls to start getting people out, but is worried about Emerald Claw hidden amongst the people.
- Warden flags down a rat and tells it to start spreading the message that the Dancing Shadows Gate is open. The rat is confused and asks how it's supposed to do that. Warden tells them to herd people by swarming, scare them towards the gate!
- Kal is panicking.
- Leonus hands Warden the blast disk he has, and Warden puts it into his bag of holding.
- Lozaal asks Leonus if they need to worry about the Karrnathi Undead getting back up. Leonus explains that once they're down, they should be down for good.
- Dax looks out for rats while flying around, and spots them taking blast disks to a single place. There's a small pile of them, 14 in total, and a large open space around them.
- Dax flies down and puts the disks in her bag of holding.
- Leonus takes the necromancer's bag of holding. They unmask the necromancer, and it's a human man they've never seen before! Neat. He's fully shaved his head, beard and all.
- Lozaal takes the necromancer and loads them up onto the skycoach. He ties them to the bench at the back.
- They have 15 minutes left. They're going to spend 10 minutes looking for more bombs, and then rush Richtus.
- They split into several groups. Lozaal flying around the local area and ferrying people to the gate, and watching the necromancer. Dax is looking for bombs and telling the people she sees to leave. Leonus is also looking for bombs, whilst Kal and Warden try to ferry more people out.
- Lozaal picks up anyone who can't run under their own power with the skycoach, and flies them to the gate. Everyone else he yells that the gate is open to.
- Dax, with her birds eye view, finds another 8 blast disks. That's 23 disks found total, 7 or 8 left.
- The necromancer wakes up and tests their bonds, but they're stuck. They say something cryptic: "You think you've won but you haven't, it'll all be worth it when she rises" and then visibly bite down on something, and begin foaming at the mouth. Lozaal watches as they die, and tells them to "enjoy your afterlife, my friend is going to bring you back".
- They all meet back up at the tent that once belonged to Teral ir'Soras, though obviously he's not there because he's dead.
- Lozaal kicks the corpse of the necromancer off of the side of the skycoach. They all look in shock and Lozaal is like "I didn't do anything!"
- Dax recovers her magebinders from the corpse.
- Leonus looks at Lozaal and then at the corpse, and then back at Lozaal.
- Lozaal looks at Leonus and then at the corpse, and then back to Leonus.
- Lozaal says they don't have time for this, Leonus!
- Lozaal says he promised the necromancer that his friend was going to bring him back, so Leonus needs to do it!
- Leonus can't do it yet.
- That's okay we'll keep the corpse.
- There's still roughly 8 bombs left, let's hope the rats find them. There's only 5 minutes left before Richtus detonates them.
- Lozaal suggests waiting to see where the bombs go off, and then deal with the emerging problem. Dax would rather confront Richtus and try and stop it happening.
- Leonus says someone needs to shut the gate, because if the bombs go off they'll need to contain the zombies.
- The others disagree, yes the zombies will need to be contained but they need to allow for as many people to escape as possible.
- They know where Greykell is so they can use that to try and distract Richtus. Lozaal has a plan to try and distract him by saying he's also looking for Greykell.
- They want to distract him for as long as possible, to give the rats time to find the remaining bombs, but they have to be prepared that some of the bombs are going to go off.
- They suggest using a white flag to communicate they want to talk. Leonus is pretty sure that waving the flag under false pretences is a war crime, but the others argue this isn't war.
- They drop Leonus off nearby, so that Richtus doesn't see him, and also that he wants no part of the white flag false surrender.
- Dax asks Leonus to tell her more about Richtus' abilities. Leonus explains that Richtus was a master assassin, fast and lethal. "My information 8 or 9 years out of date, but he probably hasn't changed that much in terms of being a backstabbing asshole"
- Lozaal chugs some healing potions, and the others heal him as best they can.
- Plan ready, they are ready to face Richtus!