Editing Chapter 26 - Party Crashing

So the group, having been booted out of the elven city in the previous 
session, decides to wander along the lakeshore until they find a 
village where they can procure a boat and return via the lake. As they 
travel, they come across a trio of drunken elven adolescents, who 
invite them back to their village. The female elf, noting that Neela 
is one of those orken women who have reputations for both fierce 
fighting and territoriality, requests her aid in returning a comely 
young human male who was enchanted away by her cousin. After affirming 
that the elf would help them to re-enter the city in return, the party 
heads over to a party that is being held in the outdoor area 
surrounding the house of the aforementioned cousin. 


On arriving at the party, Leandrie finds out that the elfess was seen 
entering the house, so Leandrie, Neela, and Aldur enter the house 
while Trykaar and Jrak hang around outside. It's a two-story house, 
with the front half of the house being one giant room full of partying 
elves, gnomes, and assorted fey creatures. The back half of the house 
is closed off, with four doors on the the first doors and another two 
doors on the second floor, accessed by a stairway and balcony 
overlooking the main room. Neela wastes no time in marching up the 
stairs to the balcony and, in full view of a room full of more than 
100 partygoers, kicks down a door. Conversation stops, everyone looks 
up, and a pissed-off pixie casts Irresistable Dance, causing Neela to 
begin capering about the balcony to the accompaniment of much fey 
laughter. Leandrie follows Neela to the balcony and attempts to defuse 
the situation, managing to keep things at a tense level despite 
Neela's continued provocation of the partygoers. They slowly make 
their way back to the entrance. 


Meanwhile, Aldur has taken advantage of the (unplanned) distraction 
caused by Neela, and cinched his belt of invisibility. He makes his 
way across the room to check out the main floor doorways. The first is 
a storage room, but the second door reveals a bedchamber, currently 
occupied by a female elf and her human lover in coitus. After leering 
through at the couple for a few seconds, Aldur determines to 
interruptus the coitus by using a candle to set fire to the diaphonous 
curtain surrounding the bed, and then returns to block the doorway, 
intending to force the elfess and human to jump out the window. The 
panicing lovers jump out of bed and the elfess starts to get dressed 
while yelling at the human to run for help. By this time, Trykaar has 
also decided to leave Leandrie and Neela to their own devices and is 
outside Aldur's room, ready to enter. The large Jrak, wary of forcing 
his bulk through the crowded room, remains outside. 


Then all hell breaks loose. With tensions again escalating as a result 
of Neela's spectacular failure to intimidate the room, Leandrie 
decides to call upon his god to deliver a shower of lawfully-aligned 
rain into the midsty of the large crowd of 1st level elven adolescents 
and their fey friends, causing 2d6 damage to each chaotically aligned 
creature (about half the crowd). As he does so, he fails a spot check 
to notice the centaur who is standing in the doorway behind him. In 
the ensuing carnage, as about 40+ elves are killed, Leandrie is hit by 
a number of magic missiles from surviving elves before the centaur 
grapples him and drags him out into the yard full of alarmed elves. 
Jrak, realizing that he wants to be on the winning side of the 
confrontation, grapples and pins Neela to the ground. As the elves 
swarm around, the duo are put under arrest. 


Meanwhile, Trykaar decides to smash open the door, revealing a shocked- 
looking young human in his breeches who had unsuccessfully been trying 
to open the door from his side while yelling "Fire!" (shouts that went 
unheard in the main room full of screaming, dying elves). The young 
boy takes one look at the room outside and heads for the window on the 
other side of the room, where his elven companion has just managed to 
get dressed. They open the window and the elvess crawls out. Before 
the human can join her, Aldur grabs him and chokes him out (while 
normally not particularly strong, he had cast a spell that gave him +6 
strength). Seeing the floating, choking boy, Trykaar figures out the 
situation and heads over to the window, distracting the elfess while 
Aldur carries the boy out through the main room full of dead and 
panicked elves. Aldur, a paragon of elfiness, is understandably upset 
by the slaughter. Emerging to see his allies subdued, he decides to 
fade into the crowd and deliver the boy to the elf that send them on 
the mission. 


Neela and Leandrie are tightly bound (though Neela immediately loosens 
her bindings with a successful escape artist check) and dragged off to 
the magistrate's office where they're thrown into individual cells. As 
Trykaar follows, he is approached by a gnome who seems very curious 
about their recent activities. When Trykaar tells of the party's 
attempt to penetrate the elven city and find out what is behind the 
glowing tree, the gnome takes him into his confidence and offers to 
help Trykaar escape town via boat in return for Trykaar's assistance 
in sneaking into the city. Trykaar agrees and the gnomes help him 
round up Aldur and Jrak. The gnomes also offer to create a diversion 
to help Neela and Leandrie escape, but will not actively help other 
than first delivering a note to Neela, and insist on an immediate 
escape via boat. 


So a short while later, smoke pots come crashing through the windows 
of the magistrate's office, filling the interior with thick smoke that 
blocks vision and threatens to suffocate those trapped within it. 
Neela uses the distraction to pick up a bench and bash open the door 
of her cell. Running across the room in the hopes of retrieving her 
belongings, she runs straight into a centaur. Unsuccessfully trying to 
tumble past, she realizes that perhaps taking on the two centaurs and 
multiple elves who were in the room is not particularly wise, and runs 
back to help Leandrie. Meanwhile, Leandrie has failed his fortitude 
saves to resist the effects of the smoke, and has passed out 
unconscious. The smoke now starting to thin, Neela decides to save her 
own skin and jumps out the window, where she is flagged down by a 
gnome and spirited away to the awaiting boat. 


So the curtains close as the surviving four party members sail off 
into the sunset on a strange dwarven boat, leaving Leandrie to face 
elven justice in the morning. On a positive note, Jrak did manage to 
barter his subdual of Neela for the assistance of the elves in 
returning his and Trykaar's memories, which had been enchanted away by 
pixies a week before.