Hold the Breach!

After riding through town witnessing dwarves and men fighting fires and monsters the Wild Bunch arrives at a gap blown in the wall between the Blister and Tradetown. The Freeriders and Misfits are hard pressed to hold the breach against the horrible monsters flooding in.

Rolen charges forward as Lauranna and Katniss start pumping arrows and spells into the largest foes. Adran runs up and creates the illusion of the wall reassembling itself. Varis, smoking in the sunlight, sprints for a bush and plunges in.

In the midst of the fighting an enormous undead dragon mounted by a tall figure robed in black swoops in and lands amidst the chaos. Several guardsmen are lost as it spews wretched filth over them and the Freeriders wheel off to engage it. Varis and the others focus their attacks enough on one of the modified Ettin's and after he disables enough of its gear, he manages to disable the pumps supplying him with troll blood. As the spitter troll manages to pierce Adran's illusory wall and rush to his fallen giant's aid he is ensnared along with the others in a powerful magical sleep spell. Arriving along the top of the wall are a number of archers accompanied by assistants with lit torches. Rolen cheers as he sees his plan coming to fruition.

Unable to batter through or otherwise circumvent Adran's magical wall, the assembled horde starts scrambling up the rubble to climb the wall and engage the archers. In response, Katniss began raining death through the gap through which she could see just fine as Varis too decided to divert. Thankfully some of the trolls were having trouble shaking off Adran's sleep spell.
The Freeriders execute their plan against the undead dragon to horrifyingly little effect and are nearly wiped out by its ensuing retaliation. It then lurches into the air, winging ever closer to the heart of Overlook as the battle continues behind it.

Soon fighting is split between the gap, the top of the wall, and on the other side of it as the tumult attracts more flying creatures including a gargoyle and manticore. In the distance some of the enemy flyers are visibly pulled from the sky by gigantic earthen hands shaped by High Ancestor Durkik using the Incunabulum Primeval. One manticore that joins the fray snaps off a volley of spikes at the grouped elves below only to have return fire nearly kill it and certainly ground it as it smashes into a nearby roof.

With flaming arrows raining down the wall, the trolls begin to fall especially as their spitting troll extinguisher remains ensnared by Adran's magical slumber. Varis hops down off the wall and directly into the assembled fracas in the gap while the Misfits do their best to hold the top of the wall against any that would climb up. Adran, Lauranna, and Katniss all combine fire upon the manticore and bring it low. Rolen continues to trade mighty blows with the remaining war troll until suddenly it finds itself surrounded and crushed. Finally the still sleeping abominations and spitter troll are dispatched by Varis and Rolen in bloody fashion. The Misfits and Freeriders (having regrouped and recovered somewhat) are left to hold the gap in the wall as an enraged minotaur hurls himself at the assembled humanoids. Rolen recognizes the bouncer from the Pig and Bucket, Koth, and laughs as he sends orcs and goblins flying.

So the Wild Bunch mounts back up behind chariots to be ferried deeper into the heart of chaos, occasionally catching sight of the huge dragon as it strafes archers in towers with its putrid filth. At one point it clips a tower in a turn and sends huge chunks of rubble crashing down into the streets below. The party rides around fires and fights through throngs of enemy forces choking the streets, occasionally having to double back as avenues are rendered impassable by fallen debris and other destruction. A huge explosion is heard off to the southwest followed by a great plume of smoke rising to the skies. Soon after the magical voice of Great Elder Morgoff Stonefirst can be heard in each of the elves' minds. He reports that Elder Mountainhome's position has been destroyed and overrun and the Wild Bunch is needed to extract and rescue her. The party informs their charioteers who wheel around and speed towards the rising smoke plumes.