As the New Light Tournament drew to a close, our heroic adventurers were pitted against the most challenging (and thus, perhaps not an outright cakewalk) part of the tournament yet. Having absolutely demolished every other team in the tournament, the team from Beggar's Hole was tasked with playing out a mock siege in three parts. First, they had to break through a well defended outer wall. Second, to fight through a gauntlet of inner defenses and murder holes, and finally, they had to seize a flag from atop a pyramid.
The first round of the siege was fraught. The party found themselves in a muddy field, facing earthworks, a 30-foot tall wall, and a small team of defenders from Shestan. Led by the fiery half-orc Thrusk, the defenders were relatively weak save for two massive ballistae deployed on the wall. Lucifer started things off by blasting the defenders with acid, heavily damaging the melee fighters. Strangely, after casting her magic, Lucifer found a unicorn appearing next to her, calling her a princess and counting down the seconds before it disappeared again.
Unfortunately, the ballistae proved to be the real threat, and Salt was blasted by the massive ballista bolts repeatedly, taking some massive hits and going down. The party managed to take down the ballistae and mop up the last of the defenders before taking a breather to prepare for the next stage of the battle.
In the second round, the party found themselves in a small chamber, their path forward blocked by a barricaded door. After some crossbowmen took potshots through murder holes, the party tried to rush forward and break down the door, activating a trap and dropping flaming oil on them. The party successfully busted down the door, then traversed a chamber full of pit traps, sticking to the edge to avoid them, but continuing to take shots from hidden crossbowmen.
Eventually, the party made it across this second chamber, broke down another barricaded door, and found themselves face to face with the defending team from the Spice Islands. In a drawn out battle, the party fought against Livinia Greenbriar, a hot, somewhat pirate-looking tradeswoman who Salt recognized as being an important figure in the Greenbriar Trading Family. Narrowly, the party defeated Livinia and her men, leaving them battered, but victorious.
Now, the party has only one more challenge to overcome. They must enter the true finale of the New Light Tournament, and face off against the Cilorian team for a final time, with a great deal of money on the line.
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