Ambush

Leaving the kobold devastation behind the group backtracks through another secret door. The door leads to a cavern, then through a narrow passage to a winding hallway. About twenty feet into the hallway arrow slits are discovered in the walls. At the same time two sets of bars fall on either side of the party. Explosive tipped arrows burst from the slits. Several members are struck. Max and Greenleaf shape change into a lizard and snake and begin making their way forward to the bars. As they arrive, Thud bends the bars and the party begins to move on. Daliance casts Cloud of Bewilderment through one of the arrow slits and gas is seen seeping from many others. Daliance then turns to the opposite wall and casts fireball through another arrow slit. She is then struck by a poison arrow and falls dead to the floor. In the next corridor bars fall again and more arrows emerge. Max climbs through an arrow slit to the other side of the wall. transforming back to human form he uses the wand of frost to freeze three ambushing kobolds. The final bars are bent open by thud and the group rests and heals. The shard is used to bring Daliance back from the dead.
While resting, dancing lights are seen in the distance but quickly dispelled by one of the magicians. Suddenly two large balista arrows streak down the hallway striking Thud and Ashen. Clifford responds by returning a lightning bolt up the hallway.
The group continues on and discovers stairs leading up at the end of the hall. At the top of the stairs is a room with a large creature with multiple tentacles. It is dead and smoldering from the lightning bolt. From above, two more balista arrows streak down and hit Thud. He stumbles but holds his feet. Daliance casts and releases the Yeth Hound. Max uses wand of frost to cast Ice Storm toward the direction of the balista fire. Group ascends final stairs and discovers balista hole in wall. One of the druids casts rock to mud to widen the hole and an abandoned balista is discovered.
Through the door opposite of the hole the group continues down another hallway. Many kobolds rush into the other end of the hall but are frozen with another blast from the wand of frost. The party decides to stop and heal, sleep, eat and study…