Chapter 2 - The Fortress

As the group runs, cloaks obscuring their faces and forms, Xadira lets off a cone of crackling fire as she leaves the group and closes the gap to the barrel. She skirts ever closer as the barrels begin to burn and just as the massive shockwave fills the area, the burning blaze immolates countless goblins, and as the keep shakes to its very foundation, Xadira blinks out instantly.

When she returns to this plane she is with her group inside the stable like area that was attached to the keep. This is the area inside the large double doors Crolwell had originally entered.

As you regroup here you can't quite see the side of the outer wall where the detonation happened, but you assume most of that side wall is gone. Simply rubble.

A few more moments and you feel another, much smaller tremor as one of the towers of the keep, it's base blown to hell after the blast, crumbles and peels off from the building. By the sounds of it it fell into the courtyard between the barrel pile and the stables you were in.

Xadira remembers that Aelar's troupe was in the north west (back left) tower of this keep. Inside this receiving area there is one exit off of here that is a small staircase going up towards the main keep. A wood door hangs slightly ajar at the top of it.

-- Inside --
Aelar and Utes follow the stairs up from this stables attached to the keep. They come to a door that is hanging ajar and slightly askew. It seems something tore the top hinge loose and the bottom one is barely hanging on. Inside the room you see a table with some cards and dice on it, as well as a few bisected goblin corpses on the ground. They still hold swords in hand as if they were ready to fight something but never got the chance.

In this room are makeshift cells with a few people that must have come in from the other wagon brought in to the keep. There is another door leading out of this room towards the keep, this one has been ripped completely off the hinges and is laying on the ground in about three pieces. You can see stairs spiraling upwards through the doorway.

-- Outside --
Ramas and Xadira walk out amidst the chaos, fire, and ruins of this keep. Most of the goblins are preoccupied with pulling survivors from the rubble of the fallen tower and destroyed wall. Fire still rages over by the wall where there is now a large chunk simply missing. It's as if a giant kicked right through a portion of the wall.

As you call around for Crolwell four goblins see you, despite the robes. As they near in, scimitars drawn, suddenly one gets split into two parts in a bloody mess and an invisible force shouts loudly. As the other two scramble around for what just happened another is crushed by an invisible force.

Looking around you see there has to be at least 10 goblin corpses around here that were not casualties of the blast.