Chapter Six: All In This Together

The three wanna-be heroes storm the fortress beneath Paddlewick! Scram uses Disguise Self to turn himself into a Grimlock, allowing him to hide in plain sight as he enters the tower. Once making it inside, he spies multiple villagers and two guards from Paddlewick, trapped inside cages.

While Scram fills in the two guards, Gio and Miranda, Zola challenges the guards atop the wall, convincing them that she has already broken inside the castle and stolen the item. The two guards are unable to call Zola’s bluff, and send: one of the guards to unlock the prisoners; while the other two, with their crossbows on Zola, keep watch; and the final guard, Drin, comes down to communicate directly with Zola on the drawbridge.

Zola tricks Drin and throws him off the drawbridge and into a moat of acid. An insane combat ensues where Prya is wounded quite badly, but the three escape into the central room of the tower where they begin to barricade the doors.