After the explosion we all meet up in the center of the fort to bury the armor we found, and I make a sled to pull all the weapons. As we are doing this I notice something moving among the trees, maybe Hobogoblins. 4 of them are there, then Tonton lights the forest on fire, while Melvin cast a copy of Tonton. I am confused by the copy not sure if it is Tonton also, but am guided away with the others to continue our trek.
As we continue our scouting trek to the battle-front, away from the road, we can hear the battle ahead getting louder. All of a sudden we hear growling from the fields we entered and see 6 lion type humanoids stand up, 3 male and 3 female. I am able to sense that it is only 2 male and 2 female, and I am able to tell that they are in a protective stance rather than a fighting/hostile stance. 1 male is light maned as the other, duh duh duh, is dark maned. I ask Doots if I should try to communicate psionically with them, he says yes. The light maned one is all of a sudden confused and on edge, where the dark maned one is able to understand what is going on and communicate back in broken signs and common.
Doots asks me to ask the dark maned one if he wants to come with us to the battle, but he is weary and they Dire Lions leave. So on we got to the battle-front, where the rest of the Mercenaries catch up to us, soot covered for some reason. Neph, seeing us, asks us to join in a meeting. Melving, Tonton, and I wish him luck and go off to scout out the castle from afar and to set up our tent.
After the tent is set up with our sled outside I put all the weapons we collected in the tent, 22 copper long swords, and any other items we deem not needed for the battle ahead. Looking to the castle we can see 2 main gates for entry that are closed an heavily guarded, but the walls barely have anyone on them.
After the Neph meetiing is over, Doots, along with Ultimus (she), comes to us telling us what the plan is. We are to launch Tonton from a catapult, make as much noise as we can, attack and destroy the armory, and then help when and where needed. Of course Tonton is excited about the chance to fly and destroy things, Melvin is questioning the logic of this, Doots is defeatedly resigned to do it, where I like Tonton am excited by the plan. And of course Ultimus, the battle junky, is really excited about the plan SHE came up with.
WHOOOOOSSHHHH ! !! !!!
While we are flying to the castle we see Neph blow up a gate and enter. We are all tied to Tonton, Melvin tied being pulled, as we fly through the air. Melvin is screaming sounding like he is dying, Tonton is bellowing with intimidation, and right before we land I cast my first spell at the building. MAGIC MISSILE away.
As we land, Melvin has detached himself from the tow line, Doots immediately starts playing a very rousing rendition of "Survive" adding our groups name "Cryptic Kabal" to the lyrics, Ultimus has slipped from her boots and is not seen anywhere, Tonton and I get ready to battle. When Tonton decides to jump on the roof we have landed on and go through the roof to enter the armory for an amazing entry of shock and awe style battle.
Tonton and I are now on the ground floor, 2 floors below the roof, where we can see that the inside has a ringed second floor along the walls with 10 Warriors and 2 Purple Knights on it. I attack a pillar in the hopes of crashing it down, when Tonton eats a fire eclair and the fires it at the second floor. Doots has perfected the art of musical support so well that his song can be heard being sung by others in the distance, and we all feel a major boost to our attacks. I climb on Tonton's back and start firing SFBPB at the Purple Knights, Tonton continues with the fire shooting, Melvin does some acid splashes.
The First Knight I hit has a bullet stuck in his shoulder, as he and the other Knight try to shoot their arrows at Tonton and I. The other Knight gets hit twice with my bullets and then I yell "Your Mother Was a Hamster, and Your Father Smelled of Elderberries!" Which he then rips his helmet off looking al offended and pissed off, due to the fact he is a Hamster-Lycan, HAHAHAHAHAHA.
Tonton then starts throwing javelins and skewering the warriors left and right. Melvin's acid splash then removes (read melts) the Knights helmet, and he TOO is a Hamster, HAHAHAHAHAHA.
The Knights then attack Melvin, which hits him, and now I am very angry at them attacking my brother. I vow "I AM GOING TO EAT YOU!"
Tonton is able to incompacitate the Knight that hit Melvin, and Destroy the other Knights right arm. I attempt to Kill the Melvin hurting Knight and Tonton does it for me, but I do get to eat his head out of vengeance. Melvin flies up and out to the front barred doors and unbars the doors for us FLEXING his tentacles as the doors swing open, Tonton and I FLEX back as "A JOB WELL DONE, BROTHER". As the fire rages on inside the armory we all collect what we can and exit. That is when Ultiimus shows up again asking for her boots, and saying "Neph needs our help!"