Adventure 100 – Deep hold – The loss of Deep Hold.

Talin – Dwarf: Fighter (lvl 12)
Othello – Gnome:  Thief (lvl 12)
Bone – Human: Fighter (lvl 12)
Gubikla – Gnome: Wizard (lvl 11)
Mightychondria – HalfOrc: Fighter (lvl 10)
Randy – Dwarf:  Cleric (lvl 11)
Tetranac – Drow:  Ranger (lvl 10)

Has Cloverdung promised to help out the Dwarf kids?

Is Kavis at the person on the stretcher the left Deep Hold?

The party gets introduced to Ratodune the king.  He inquires about the party and who they are and why did they come.  Talin introduces the party and give the beacon to the king.  It starts glowing and so the king walks to the center of the chamber and places it on the floor.  A portal appears and Durlain appears and greets his cousin the king.  He tell them the wizard can hold the portal open for a few hours and to start evacuating.  The king oranges the camp to start evacuating.  The woman and kids start gathering the valuable temple artifacts and and gold and start heading through the portal.  It is going to take a couple of hours.  The party wonder around talking to the priest and commanders to get a overview of the defences.  The guard gather at the great door to defend it once that break in.  Randy hands Gubikla a couple of immovable rods that get placed against the doors to help defend them from getting knocked in.  Gubikla also places a hut next to the door to help brace the door.  Othello finds the supposed location of where the dragon is digging down to the chamber.  The dwarves let the party take as much gold as they can carry and still fight, due to them not being able to evacuate it all.  

Othello, Bone, and Mightychondria wait for the dragon to dig down to the cavern.  Talin, Gubikla, Randy, Tetranac, and the king wait at the door.  The door beams start to break and it soon crashes open.  This reveals dozens of Orcway that shoot their black bows into the awaiting defences.  The dwarves charge in.  Tetranac sitting on his broom shoots a barrage of arrows.  Gubikla unleashes a fireball.  This is when the Dragon breaks through leaving a large hole in ceiling.  At first the dragon does not appear and Othello shoots a lighted arrow up the hole revealing the dragons head.  It breathes frost on the group and then lands on one of the Dwarves that Othello summoned from the horn of Clanggedin.  Othello and Mightychondria are frightened by the dragon and have to run a distance away.  Where they shoot the dragon from a far.  Bone and the summoned dwarves try and fight the dragon up close.  

Two of the bebiliths teleport into the changer near the great doors.  As they are invisible they are able to start tearing apart the dwarves in the back.   A hezrou had also appeared at the back but Randy managed to banish it before it could attack.  There are also several tiefling that sneak into the changer and attack.  One attacks Randy.  Another a little later finds Tetranac on his broom and shoots a lighting bolt at him. This knocks Tetranac off his broom who feather falls down while shooting the tiefling on the way down.  Randy manages to finish of the one near him and dimension door away from the bebilith.  After a couple of fire balls and a cone of cold, Gubikla realized the bebiliths are somewhere in the back and sends his hawk familiar to find it.  Once it finds it he unleashes a barrage of magic missiles at it killing it.  Talin had rushed in with the king and taken on and killed a Drud or two.  But not before the king had fallen a couple of times and had Randy heal him.  One of the last actions the king did was to activate his crown.  It exploded in a spectacular fashion killing the last couple of drud and orcway nearby.  Talin sees at least four more drud and amy of orcway just past the cloud of dust from the explosion.

Meanwhile the dragon has proven hard to hit as Bone.  The summoned dwarves only acted as a diversion for the dragon before there were dispatched.  The others have managed to hit the beast several times but only enough to draw its attention.  

The last of the evacuating dwarves make it through the portal and the portal starts to waver.  Othello manages to make his way through the portal and tell Boris to hold the portal as there are still several dozen defenders that need to make it.  He says to hurry as he can only hold it for a few more rounds.  He heads back to the cavern and tells those that can hear to hurry as the portal will only last a short time.  The group is retreating from the great doors.  Talin dragging the king’s body and makes it to the spot where the hezrou was when it appears again only to be banished again by Randy.  The group is still not going to make it to the portal so Gubikla manages to create a arcan gate and flies through on his broom.  Tetranac manages to make to the portal on his broom in time for another frost breath from the dragon.  The others make it through the portal while taking a last shot a the dragon.  Tetranac had passed out due to the dragon’s breath and lands in the river next to the Anus.  The otters go in to fish him out.  With everyone through the portal Borris closes the portal.

COD = Gubikla for creating a arcane gate allowing everyone to make it through the portal before it closed.