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    "How do you guys want to play this?" Alison asks as Tigga crouches in the undergrowth, surveying the keep with a swishing tail.

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    Bard eyes the castle, "That'd be a good spot to hold up if I were going to raid the surrounding area, if so, probably a fair amount in there. I'd say best course of action is to scout it out, see the numbers, patrols and who and what is in there. Then, we can ambush any patrols, hit and run, and reduce their numbers, no sense in storming a place like that, not knowing whats in there."
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    "Or..." Gadrella says boisterously, and clearly without much of that sense Bard was talking about, "I can cast haste now, and we can start kicking down doors and slaughtering them before they can put their pants on."
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    Bard looks at her, mouth open, "did you hear a word I said?"
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    "You want to wait around for one of us to die of old age before doing anything." Gadreela says, "Goblin's sleep during the day. That's why they see so well at night. Let's just rush em'. I'm hoping they have something to drink in there, some hair of the dog for this hangover."

    She looks at Bard for a second before adding, "Alright, alright. Scout. I'll take a nap for an hour or so."
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    A reconnoiter before charging in madly would be best. However, I am... not stealthy,” Dacre said, a bit of hinted chagrin in his tone.
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    Temur-dai laughed at Gadreela’s comments. "I love your enthusiasm, Sister, but I think we have a better chance at total victory with some recon. Makes the slaughter more certain. And you may get lucky and we could get caught!

    Which is a possibility with me helping!”

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    Bard moves forward stealthily, creeping alongside the path. It's a 5-minute hike up towards the ruined keep, but it takes him more like 15 minutes due to his care. On the way he takes the opportunity to check for signs of passing. Numerous humanoid boot prints are visible in the dirt path along with prints from several large clawed wolf-like beasts, surely more of the patrols encountered previously.

    Scouting closer he observes the keep itself. The old structure is in very poor repair. The gatehouse is partially collapsed, as is a section of wall to the south. A small wooden shack sits next to the remains of a long-abandoned weed-choked garden in front of the keep. The walls surrounding the keep are about fifteen feet high, with a two-storey tower looming in the southwest corner of the courtyard within. Large boulders lie strewn amid the ruins of the gatehouse towers, and a giant-sized humanoid skeleton slumps amid the ruins of the northern one. The rotted remains of two sets of large wooden gates lie in a heap on the ground in the entranceway.

    A thin plume of smoke rises from within the ground floor of the keep, near the base of the southwest tower.

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    With a flick of the wrist, Dacre readies his summon monster I wand for a quick distraction - if needed.
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    Bard settles in, after seeing the tracks, and with Gadreela napping, he's hoping to catch some movement of the castle, he had some information, but not a whole lot, that hut looked interesting, but he knew patience was a virtue.

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    Bard settles in to observe. As dusk falls and darkness settles over the surrounding forest you wait and watch. Occasional muffled shouting and barking is faintly heard from deep within the fort but nothing he can clearly make out, and there are no signs of sentries or patrols.

    With the darkness deepening an eerie flickering greenish-yellow light is visible through the windows and shattered walls of the ruined second storey tower in the southwest corner.

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    Seeing the strange light, and no forthcoming patrols, he sighs, it was what it was. The barking sounds didn't bode well however.

    He moved as silently as he could back to the group, coo-cooing like a night-owl when he though he was close as they discussed before he left.

    Once back, he explains what he saw, including the eery light, and the sounds.

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    "So what do we reckon? Straight in?" Alison asks the group.

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    "I don't like the sound of those dogs....or wolves, or whatever they were...Maybe we draw them out, use the forest to our advantage?"
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    Snoring quietly the young wizard continues her (very long at this point) nap.
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    "I don't like the sound of those dogs....or wolves, or whatever they were...Maybe we draw them out, use the forest to our advantage?"
    "That's a good plan. I think we'd be good at that," Alison comments after sharing a momentary glance with Tigga.

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    Bard nods, smiling, "Ok, we'll pick out a spot to ambush them, away from the fort, and then I'll draw them out and run like hell, once they're in the kill zone, you guys hit em with all you got. A good spell that entangles might do great, we move behind them and the fort, we pick off who we can, then retreat?" he starts making a crude map of the area, and with Haseid's help, chooses a good spot for an ambush.
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    "I can summon small creatures to aid the charade. Where would you like them?"

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    Thinking for a moment "Maybe they would be a better distraction? Can any of them fly? I'm not sure how much faster I am than a pack of dogs, if at all."
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    "I could conjure up some heavenly owls or hell crows, whatever your philosophy prefers."
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    Bard thinks, owls weren't terribly known to be 'annoying creatures' or 'dangerous foes' that the goblinoids would follow if seen.

    "Those a good, but anything that the goblins will follow? Maybe a stag or something? They might be hungry." he shrugs his shoulders, "Else, I guess I'll yell at them, and run like the wind, if we pick a good path before hand, I should be able to run full out."
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    "Hmmm... well I could make a dog-sized rat, or a beetle about the size of a horse?"
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    "That's good, do we have anything to get their attention to it? Maybe a horn, or a spell?"
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    Temur-dai nodded at the ambush idea. "Agreed that we draw them out. Hopefully whatever animal you summon will attract the dogs. Unfortunately Inhave no horn. But I’ll be ready to smash our foes!

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    "I can bring for a giant beetle from the Seven Heavens. When you are ready..."

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    "OK then, let's get into our places, and we'll see if we can get their attention."
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