(G23 26/09/08 OR)

DAY 25

Everyone settled down at a table under the cherry trees for breakfast and not long after
that Eriss arrived. She had been looking for everyone at the Pie Shop and Taeghen had walked
her down. Appraised of the situation she decided to stick around and help.

Well, that day they either planned there next strategy or getting drunk in the shade, depending
on who you listen to. As evening approached the sound of drums began to drift across from the
jungle and everyone leapt up and got ready for a fight.

They shouldn't have been so twitchy because one hour went past, then another, until finally it
was way past midnight and just as everyone was starting to feel tired and hungry, Shifty noticed
lizardmen at the gate from his position on the roof of the press house and fired his crossbow.

Now the defence of the farm began! Raz and Shifty started on the roof, Nobby was at the broken
down wall and Eriss was under the trees. The family were in the house. Two lizardmen warriors
leapt the wall just where Eriss was hiding and spotted her. She fought them off for a while but
was chased into the yard. More lizard men attacked at the broken wall and Raz jumped on one
from the roof and stayed to help Nobby. Shifty fired his crossbow a few times, but another
warrior leapt up and attacked him and he joined the fight at the wall.

This was were the fighting was at its worst. Nobby was mauled by incoming blows and ran off
into the darkness, trailing gnomish bloody behind her. Raz found the lizardmen warriors tough
opponents but eventually his blows were knocking them back.

Two had managed to get into the yard though and were trying to break down the farm door. Eriss
proved her worth by first enfeebling them and then casting burning hands at them until one
collapsed and the other ran off with his tail on fire!

The surviving warriors retreated, but Raz and Shifty had noticed that scouts had broken into
the farm by jumping onto the roof and pulling up the thatch to make a hole. Shifty was first
in through a broken window and the other followed. The window was too small for Raz so he
went through the roof, leaping down on one of the scouts below.
The scouts were quickly defeated and one tried to surrender but Raz was having none of it and
cut him down.

The farm had seen sign of a struggle, there were doors broken down and overturned furniture.
Y'an had been stunned but was ok, Edith was injured but alive and sadly Eros was dead,
a lizardman javelin through her chest.

DAY 26

In the morning Heebee privately buried Eros behind one of the vineyards. Everyone took stock
of what had happened that night and took some rest.

Despite the fact that they had all been nearly killed, the gang were very pleased with the
amount of gold the lizardmen were carrying with them. Also, the burnt-up warrior had survived
and Nobby had healed him, so they had a prisoner too.