Wild's Grandeur

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## Nature's Wrath

Ven heads out to look for the source of the noise and sees the North-West gate completely destroyed as four giant treants step through, alongside hordes of deer, wolves and giant badgers. They begin attacking anything in sight and the treants begin to wreck nearby buildings. Ven attempts to speak with one of them in an attempt to resolve things peacefully, but does not succeed. The treeant states that Melora, and by extension nature itself has a problem with Grimmholm and that it needs to be destroyed. Ven pleads with it some more to ignore the town but focus on the hobgoblins, but it ignores him. He retreats back to the safehouse to inform the others.

A plan is formed. Mirik and Ahsatan, as the two charismatic yet big blasty people, would head out and try convince the treants to fight alongside them. With the ruckus as a distraction, the other three and Maurice would sneak into the town hall and rescue Rayner. Harmend and the other ex-prisoners would tell civilians to get out of the town.

Clown Patrol find a treant and try to talk to it, casting Fly on themselves to get to it's eye level. They tell it that the hobgoblins are the real enemy, and ask it to stop destroying the town. It says no and yeets a chunk of pavement at Mirik and the pair fall out of the sky. They begin to attack it when a bunch of hobgoblins come and tell them to get to safety. They run as the hobgoblins take it down.

They find another treant in the town square and tell it about how the hobgoblins beat up its pal, so it goes off on a rampage in that direction. They then head to the town hall to help the others, but hear a loud horn sound in the distance outside the walls.

## Heist on the Town Hall (again)

At the town hall, the four sneak through their favorite window and do some thinking. They decide a distraction is the best option, and Ven runs out to engage the hobgoblin guards to decieve them into letting him upstairs on medical business.

They see through his lie, and before they can call reinforcements he begins singing sea shanties and challenges the entire town hall guard force to a game of tig/tag/it/dob/whateverthefuckyoucallit. Unfortunately, one of the hobgoblin captains remains guarding the stairs.Carric turns Kiira invisible, and she sneaks upstairs following Maurice's directions to get to Rayner. She finds the door guarded by some hobgoblins, who see the doors in front of them open by themselves. They begin searching for InvisiKiira, and a wild goose chase begins as more guards chase down her footsteps. She eventually manages to duck into an office and stands on the table, invisible. More hobgoblins and their captains crowd into the room and begin searching for her, but she remains undetected on the table.

Ahsatan and Mirik enter The Window and meet up with Maurice and Carric. The gang decide to "sneak" upstairs to help get Rayner out. They are pretty much instantly seen as they exit their room and a fight ensues. Maurice has some beef with the hobgoblin secretary who is using her desk, while Ahsatan and Mirik fight the captain on the stairs. Carric goes upstairs and casts fireball on Rayner's door to open it, setting a large part of the upstairs balcony ablaze. The hobgoblins in Kiira's room hear a blast from nearby, and all but one leave to investigate.

The hobgoblins who have been chasing Ven have an epiphany, and decide to start using their bows to shoot at him. He is struck a couple times but runs round the corner out of sight and climbs in through the top window of the town hall via a handily placed tree. The hobgoblin rectangle, seeing their target escape, begin making their way back to the front.

Some other hobgoblin guards find Ahsatan and Mirik in the main foyer, and start attacking them. Ahsatan summons her demonic friend to help, and start making their way through the various goons with aid from Mirik's Spirit Guardians.

Back upstairs, Ven hears a cry for help and finds a halfling locked in a room near the blast radius of Carric's explosion. The halfling introduces himself as Counciller Fendrel, and says that he has a friend held captive in a different room. Carric manages to get into Rayner's room and finds him hiding in a cupboard. Kiira drops invisibility standing on the table and lunges at the hobgoblin in her room, dispatching him immediately.

The hobgoblin rectangle marches closer to the front entrance of the town hall but is blown up by Mirik. Two treants suddenly make their way to the town hall, kicking down the front gate. A flurry of white is seen as a small goose jumps off the treants and waddles to the town hall. The nearby hobgoblins are shook, and begin chanting a prayer to Bane. The treants in response attack the hobgoblins and throw some rocks at the town hall, breaking the window Kiira is in.

Ven manages to drop Fendrel off on the ground floor by jumping over the flaming balcony, then heads back upstairs. A storm is heard brewing from the sky. A black-blue bolt of lightning strikes the ground outside the town hall, scaring away the treants. The goose who was left in the blast radius swells to a larger size and grows a second head. Ahsatan bats at it with her sword, and in response one of the goose' heads pops off like a lizard's tail, leaving behind a feathery stump.

Kiira jumps out the coveniently broken window and lands painfully on her tailbone. Ven, who has made his way to a different part of the upstairs town hall, comes face to face with some of the hobgoblins Kiira was dealing with earlier and throws one of them out the window.

Carric tells Rayner the plan to levitate them both out the window and down onto the ground. Rayner smashes his window with a chair to clear the way.

The goose' weird stump begins to twitch, as two more goose heads sprout up from the stump. The three headed goose-dra shrieks and begins to peck at everyone around it...