Feral Gnomes

[charles1810]

Late in the evening a group of highly trained gnomes crept inside the Dale. Within the shadows the group climbed the watch towers slaying the guard silently. Within minutes afterward another group fading out of being invisible attacked the norther gates. Their mission was quick and devastating concealing a battering ram in the tree line able to make quick work of the outer defenses. The General of the Dale arrived while combat was underway, setting up a last line of defense of portable blockade ordering his men in positions. The gnomes seemed more organized than before targeting clerics with their gnome stingers and bullets turning flesh to stone. The gnomes summoning black blades of disaster behind the militia fighting the gnome defenders in the front lines, causing the militia to defend the front and rear at once. All seemed lost...

A group of adventures appeared aiding the badly beaten militia. Quickly the tide turned or so the gnomes would have you believe. Retreating into the forest they went, a ambush already planned. There the gnomes waited for a fronter attack, with traps laid urging the adventures into the trap. Traps trigger, the gnomes already positioned in the tree huts than began the attack as another group joined the fight from the flank. This was a calculated lose, as the adventures were engaged the true mission began.

A smaller skilled trained group reentered the Dale as silent as a panther. Passing through the confusion and the ranks, to the General whom before was well protected in the rear now distracted out front. Adventures played the part to well leaving the Dale to the militia already beaten, broken and bloody. Four gnomes appeared on all sides of the General of the Dale, before long the General lowered his weapon surrendering. At the previously emptied orchard a giant mole hide right under the surface of the earth waiting. A sound was heard, a bird call just before the mole surfaced revealing a tunnel system dug out. The gnomes n halfling enter the darkness with the mole collapsing the tunnel as they move deeper and darker into the earth.

Hours pass as the adventures discover what happened and plan how to rescue the General. Much talk and time passes while traveling investigating the forest and surrounding areas. A few more ambushes happen to slow thr tiring adventures at this time. Time is what was needed... as the group is all but to give up a sending comes that the General returned. A badly injuried halfing now resting under guard at the inn of the town. Days pass before the old General has the strength to awake again.

[charles1810]

The Dale continues to repair after the recent attack. The militia doubling in guard and patrols. The General seems to of awoken recently, his attention back to the town and its protection. Even with the preparations it seems the General has a lot on his mind as he attempts to schedule a meeting to discuss recent activities and the attack.