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what will happen next?

D&D Excerpt #32

Last week I left off with a cliffhanger... but we must backtrack a little, because the events foreshadowed in D&D #31 are actually about 5 minutes away. Without further ado:

Balcoth: I think we should add double-doors. I like French doors. I have hinges.
Omit: The doors to Fort Taj-Mahal [which is mostly a 15x15 foot underground room with reinforced Walls of Stone] are currently hidden. I don't think we would want to modify them.
Balcoth: [Contines sharing his bunker-improvement suggestions, undaunted] Make sure the stairs are well defined; I don't want to fall.
Omit: The Continual Flame torches should keep it well lit.
Balcoth: We should just wall off the entrances with that spell, and then excavate them in the morning when we want to leave.
Omit: Well, we do have those well hidden air shafts, so we could cover over the entrances with Wall of Stone...
Verian: But that would take extra spells in the morning, effectively reducing our combat load for the day. [He doesn't mind all their "playing house", but it's plain where Verian draws the line...]
Omit: The main door (which is fairly hidden) is secured with 14 wards, which are permanent, and will be very unpleasant for anyone who tampers with it without knowing the password. The back door is basically just a stone slab blocked by some boulders inside, which can be moved out of the way with a little muscle if we need to escape. [Ed: the "fort" is all below ground level, and the two stairways to the entrances are on opposite sides, such that the surface entrances are about 45 feet apart]
Balcoth: That muscle being me...

With all the regular insanity plus a full-length battle translated virtually action-for-action into fantasy prose, this is a huge report!

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In other news, I'm headed off to a funeral Friday and coming back Saturday. I didn't know the departed all that well, but of course Mom did, and this is one of the few members of my extended family whom I actually know by name.