After spending a little time tending to wounds, weapons maintenance, and other miscellaneous tasks, you head up to the parapet to talk with Governor Nighthill. "
Look" he says, slowly swinging his arm across his body, motioning to scene in front of you. "
It appears they have no intention of assaulting the keep directly. They're merely keeping us from leaving, allowing them to loot the town with minimum resistance." From what you can see Nighthill's conclusion seems sound. Raiders have the keep completely encircled but don't appear to be making any type of preparation for an assault.
Pacing slowly, hand on his chin, Nighthill continues, "
I don't know what we're up against and we don't have the personnel to launch any type of attack from within the keep." He stops and leans against a railing, "
We're at their mercy, but that doesn't mean we can't try and save some of the stragglers that haven't made it to the keep."
Relaying some information he's heard from others that have made it to the safety of the keep, he asks if you would be willing to mount a rescue attempt of those who have holed up in the Chauntea temple. "
Apparently a group has locked themselves in tight and the attackers are trying to burn them out. Now, obviously, you can't leave through the front gate, but ol' Escobert may have another way to out."
He leads you down to the grounds of the keep and quickly finds Escobert, motioning him over to join you. The dwarf, with knotted and tangled bright red hair, quickly scurries over. "
What is it, Nighthill? Needin' my time to getting defenses set up in case them bastards make a run at us" he says in a gruff tone.
"
The tunnel exit! Can you show our friends here to the tunnel exit?"
"
Aye" he says "
Nothing out there but them bastard raiders, but if you're wanting out, I'll show you the way." He leads you to the cellar underneath the keep and points you at a stack of barrels and crates. "
The door is behind that mess, clear it, and use these" he retrieves a huge ring of keys from his pocket and quickly searches through them, throwing two of them to Mogguth. "
First one's for the door, second's for the grate at the end of the tunnel."
"
I need to get back to defending this place. Try not to die out there." he says before turning and yelling out something in dwarfish as he walks away.
OOC:
You're all standing in front a pile of junk that needs to be cleared before you can get to the door. Nighthill is still by your side should you have any questions before proceeding.
Anyone that knows dwarfish hears Escobert say, "
Good luck to you, Ma'am", referring obviously to Mogguth.
At the sound of the beep it will be roughly 10PM *beep*
