Score: 150 | 11/19/13 |
They travel about 500 yards north and pass through Ator's shaft, thence southeast to their next position. Alejandro refits armor and weapons on the way. They are in Asteba Cavern that has 3 exits as well as one sturdy door. Stairs also lead up to a room covering the approach to the doorway. In the room are a well, two wood storage sheds, two cauldrons with boiling water in them, and 5 murder holes for the visitors below.
Soon, the guests arrive and the 7 Mercati up in the room feverishly work to rain boiling water on them while our heroes pin-cushion them with arrows. With the forward men working to smash the door to the cavern, the rear men had polearms to disrupt the ambushers above. Attrition was beginning to take it's toll on the front 6 men, when the door was somehow opened from inside the cavern! Loosing another volley of arrows into the intruders as they rush under them, the men hear the approaching footsteps up the stairs to the Eastern Death trap...........they begin to surmise that the Mercati are not losing ground so much because of overwhelming odds, but that there exists an element that is tipping the scales further -- an element that has to be dealt with if any hope of victory is to sustain...