10. Close to Home

The young girl Terry was not as she seemed at first- the battle had just proved that- but even more perplexing were her inquiries about the Essi Pea base we came from. She asked if we had activated certain systems and warned us to return with haste as the base may not be safe anymore. The party moved as quickly as possible back to the portal we had taken from the base.
 
We were indeed under attack by what looked like Knights Purifier. They hadn't gotten far, but had injured Pinch badly near the portal entrance. We attacked; one of the knights fled further into the base and Swift made chase while Hop, Thadeus, Terry and I eventually defeated the other three. I pushed Pinch out of harm's way as soon as I could and Hop became badly injured by the time we had downed our three knights. Thadeus had followed Swift to get to the Control Room at Terry's instruction.
 
Breaking sounds began from the next portal over and debris began to fall from the structure above. I walked over to investigate, Pinch raised a wall of thorns to protect this level, but then we heard the cry of a wyvern on the other side. We needed to get back in case it got through from above, then hope that Thadeus could do something from the Control Room to stop the breach. The wyvern seemed to stop for a short time and Hop followed the others to the Control Room, but you know what is said about calm before the storm.
 
Thadeus, Swift, and Hop updated us from their vision in the Control Room; the knights have a handful of wyvern riders and at least double the men on the ground around the ceiling to the sunlight portal. The Essi Pea base has some weaponry able to defend outside of itself, so we were able to eliminate several wyverns, but we'll need to go to the surface to fight the rest of the men out there.