The Thirty-Seventh Session

After finishing their battle in the residential area of Mulmaster, the Sentinels began planning their course of action to close in on the giant bloodstone. Halrek and Shag got on a rooftop and saw the remaining soldiers in the area of buildings converging near the stone and forming ranks. Halrek, Shag, and Yief ended up sneaking out the side of the town to a rock formation that led out to the beach, while Aoth went through the town.

Approaching the beach, they saw that there were two units of soldiers, with a general guarding the stone, and saw two pits of dead High Elves, one on either side of the stone. Halrek made a long jump off the rock with Shag on his back, and blinked while in mid-air behind the general, getting a sneak attack in as Shag cast Hypnotic Pattern, putting the general into a trance. He then cast Hunger of Hadar over one of the units, trapping them, as Yief jumped from the rock and used Earthshatter to knock most of the second unit prone.

A battle began to rage between the Sentinels and the soldiers, with many blows traded, until the 2 Hezrou and half the soldiers were killed. The spell on the general faded, however, just as Halrek got a second sneak attack on him, to which he responded with a series of blows that nearly killed Halrek. Aoth quickly healed his ally, as he aided a now surrounded Yief. Shag engaged with the surviving captain of one of the units, while Halrek continued fighting the general, now back to full health, and then blinking away before the general could strike back.

As the battle continued, the general nearly killed both Shag and Aoth, but through the combined efforts of the party, Yief delivered a killing blow after he had dealt final attacks to most of the footsoldiers, 2 times killing 2 soldiers in immediate succession. Halrek picked up the general's sword as Xochic showed up, finishing the few remaining footsoldiers. They decided to burn the bodies in the pits and try to destroy the stone by force. Xochic used scorching ray to ignite the bodies, and cast Fireball at the stone, destroying part of it. Aoth followed with a number of strikes, and Yief shattered the stone with a blast from Earthshatter. They collected some shards of the stone, as they saw more soldiers from the nearby fortress begin coming out, and escaped. Xochic said he could sense the presence of 3 more stones now that he had been attuned to one, and that they needed to go south to the city of Calrunt.