The night before the druid prepared as many spells as he could of soften earth and transmute rock to mud. They left Tanner's Bridge open, and made everything south of it past the south bridge either muddy or hard to pass through.
The militia lined the fortifications to the north armed with bows. The guardsmen in town was positioned at Tanner's Bridge, while ten dwarves from the nearby Torag Monestary that came to help were position at the south bridge. All the townspeople that had any experience were given horses and were stationed near the Sandpoint theater to help where needed. The only exception to this were Veznoot Parooh and Risa Magravi, both were arcane spell casters that were old and could not travel fast but wanted to help, they were stationed in a tower of the cathedral and given wands to use. Some messengers that could ride horses were stationed at various intervals to help communicate. The party stationed themselves at Tanner's bridge.
Rounds 1 - 3
Two stone giants appear north of the city and begin to bombard the gates. The defenders starting shooting arrows at them, occasionally getting hit with a boulder or some shrapnel. Xantumal, in air elemental form cast lightning storm and began to pummel the giants outside the gate.
Rounds 3 - 8
Xantumal continued to throw lightning at the giants at the north gate, while the defenders kept shooting despite their numbers starting to decline. The mobile force of townspeople were called to the north gate to help shore it up.
Charging across Tanner's Bridge came four Dire Bears followed by 3 stone giants. Khazen cast haste followed by a lightning bolt while the others closed in. By round 7 they had pretty much killed off the giants and bears and started towards the north gate to help.
That's when a large red dragon swooped over the north wall scattering the defenders and their reinforcements. It stopped at the garrison where it tried to burn it, but as it was mostly stone the building survived with little damage.
Rounds 9-12
Since only a handful of defenders remained at the north gate, Xantumal ignored the dragon and continued to pummel the giants there killing one.
Another force of giants appeared south of Tanner's bridge. They managed to leap over the muddiest part of east bank, and slogged through the loose dirt and swam across the water. The party moved to intercept and getting anther haste spell. Shalelu took a different route as to get a better shooting angle and managed to see a larger stone giant moving through the city and decided to intercept it, calling out to whomever could hear. Meanwhile the giants that crossed went down quickly from Mogart, Vale and Orik and a couple spells from Khazen.
Meanwhile the dragon started to fly around town, intimidating what defenders were left and circled back to the Cathedral and torched the roof, including the towers. Veznoot and Risa both used the wands and injured the dragon, but had no way to protect themselves and were torched by the dragon's breath. Xantumal finished off the giant at the north gate and summoned an air elemental to distract the dragon and threw a couple lightning bolts at him.
Rounds 13 - 18
Breaking off to help Shalelu with the giants heading into the city, most of the party ran as fast as they could to catch up, some . Xantumal was communicating where the giants was heading so everyone could follow. When they caught up with him, he was digging around the old light looking for something. He knew he had to face them and attacked. The barbarian took a powerful blow almost killing him, while the rest of the party came to his aid and started to pummel the giant. Phain circled around and attacked from the rear and placed a perfect blow killing the stone giant commander.
Xantumal was attacked by the dragon and nearly killed, but the dragon took enough damage that it fled the town only stopping long enough to torch the theater and the Hagfish.
The victory was short lived as Phain noticed smoke coming from near his estates and a messenger telling them that giants attacked near the south bridge. Xantumal agreed to scout Phain's estates to make sure his family was OK, while everyone else left to help at the south bridge.
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