A2 Ch4: The Siege of Galren

The city is surrounded and the group has made it to the city. Daxius eventually received a call that a portion of the Galren monks were ready and spent the day opening the portal for them to enter. Hundreds of monks poured out of Feyfane tower. Xar and Aire ask for builders from Ghandon who know how to build catapults and order them to start building some. In the morning the Arruce army appears on the edge of the forest. Casar Bruhns can be seen leading the army and send a messenger on horseback up to the earth wall and asks for the city to surrender and avoid bloodshed. Selren refuses and Shen uses the opportunity to use magic missile to attack the messenger. A second man goes to help the wounded messenger and brought him back to the army and they disappeared back into the forest.   Notable Events Per Day: That night Rydel took Bink and Shen out beyond the defenses to sabotage the enemies supplies. They were able to sneak in and destroy or tamper with arrows, food, and catapults. On the way out Shen was caught but set a fire and ran.   Day 1:    

• The Arruce catapults were able to take down the Earthen walls on all sides of the city.

      Day 2:

• Arruce troops attempted to move a large amount of troops on the west gate. Selren caused the forest to attack the incoming army and force them to retreat.

  Day 3:

• Troops attempted to cross move on the south gate with bridges for the moat. Daxius used the water from the moat to form a tidal wave and push back to forces.

  Day 4:

• Shen attempted to light the forest on fire. Seeing the flames, Daxius used his power to cause rain clouds to form and put out the fires.
• Rydel, Bink, and Shen went on another night raid with some of the monks.

  Day 5:

• Rydel, Bink, and Shen went on another night raid with some of the monks.
• The eastern gate Arruce forced are pushed back as the Galren catapults are able to destroy the Arruce catapults.

  Day 6:

• The forces on the east wall do not show up.
• The Northern gate falls.
• Shen sends Pazuzu out to scout the east area that night to see what happened to the army. He sees that they are still camped out in the forest but sees torches in the night disappearing underground in two locations, one east and one south.
• Shen and Daxius go to the tunnels to dig and attempt to find where the Arruce are digging. Using a tracking spell, Shen is able to find one of the tunnels to the east, clear it out with some monk volunteers and defuse the explosives. Collapsing the tunnel he goes to check on Daxius.
• Daxius without tracking or sensing spells is unable to find the other tunnel, Shen finds him and decides to go back to an area in the middle of the new tunnels Daxius formed to get their bearings, an large explosion knocks them to the ground injuring them greatly. Daxius misty steps to safety while Shen runs barely escaping with his life. The Southern wall has fallen.
• Daxius spends the rest of the night and part of the next day opening a portal for the rest of the Ghandon forces.

  Day 7:

• Troops form on the North and South and advance.
• Conscripts on the North start to fall into pits that Shen had formed.
• More conscripts make it to the fallen gate and attempt to run over it becoming paralyzed in the process.
• The still intact but fallen gate on the North is dispelled by the Spellbreakers.

  Day 8:

• All the Arruce archers and catapults are diminished.
• Conscripts are diminished.

Day 9:

• The Arruce forces are defeated and forced to retreat back into the forest.

After the siege was over the leaders of Galren, Ghandon, and the party met. Selren tanked the party profusely and Ghandon for aiding them for without them they would have fallen for sure. The city was in ruin, but had not fallen, much of the city will need to be rebuilt and the economy as well due to the cost of bringing the Ghandon monks through the teleportation circle. Selren asks the party what they want as rewards though, they don't have money they can give, theyt may have some items of use to them. Xar asks for plate armor, Shen asks for a barrel of Incense, Bink and Aire ask for nothing but Selren didn't want them to leave empty handed to she gave Aire an old Ghandon relic (Sash of Inner Strength), and Bink one of Galren's tinkerings (Dreamscribes Ring).   The party asks to speak with Daxius privately at his tower and he obliges. Aire confronts him about what he learned from Inglan. Daxius became very uncomfortable and tried to blow it off, Rydel laughed and told him to tell them and he knew they had figured it out. Daxius tells them about his real name Vaeril and what happened including about Leander becoming an owl. Shen gives Vaeril Belramo's possessions, Vaeril and Leander became very solemn and distracted with his items though somewhat happy he was able to complete his research in making a hammer capable of destroying the stones. He tells the party the stones were created by a mage from the Elder Ages named Rin and that they could only be destroyed on his forge. The party wants to continue on and try to find Mattias Veys, but first, Bink wants to travel back to his village to see what has happened.