Monday, August 7, 2017

Day 187 Liberation of Castle Connaught

Weapons found: Galen takes the Orb, and goes back to the Elven King at Meath

With Odo on board, Boz's suspicions are aroused... his stalking of Odo is constant and permanent

Castle Connaught is two trees that soar to the top of the forest, with platforms built out of the living tree, and bridges made of boughs that intertwine.  They approach with the RNV and try to scout a safe landing point.

The most inviting platforms are TOO inviting, too... easy.... so they settle for landing at the most dangerous looking, and seeming, platfor, but first they incendiary it, and then pull off the tent that covers it, revealing some Keerdah who lurked under it.

They fire the grapeshot rounds into the tent-top and dispatch the Keerdah

Olo and Odo talk while BOz secures the ship and defends their landing zone.

It's discovered that the two trees are hollow, and the heroes descend as Boz guards the top of the hole.

They find the central temple in the middle of a union of the branches between the trees,

The two big vats of water were the last line of defense by the elves, designed to destroy all the keerdah at once, but the builder became a keerdah before she could trigger them.  And she is still there and fights back to prevent the Men of Cuhullin from triggering the trap and cleaning out the Keerdah

Sakaala is killed on the branch of the tree

The tree had been trapped by Elves determined to keep the Elven King from taking it, even expending their own lives to keep it safe.  The Men of Cuhullin clean it out, except for the base of one tree that is infested with beetles that are predatory and defend their own space quite aggressively.

Malik gets caught in some spiderwebs

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