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Oronuin
"I never left the dungeons after my capture, except for the times when we were taken to the pit fights. I heard the guards speaking amongst themselves that the highest level was off limit to them even, but apart from that nothing. I also seem to recall a conversation involving two human guards that the highest level is not accesible by this staircase, but I am not particularly sure about that. I suggest we try the door ahead of us and if what we find there doesn't suit us I am sure you can break through one of the other doors rather fast with a few axe strokes."
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Arandor
Arandor swiftly walked down the steps and reached the lower level. There he immediately noticed the dead guards and the marks on them where they had been hit by Kirun's axe. Any human would have had trouble breathing amidst the thick smoke here, but Arandor was not human. Hardly even noticing the heat and the smoke he walked through the open portcullis and started walking towards the fire.
Standing about 4 meters from where the fire was burning right now he began chanting in a strange language and waved his hands in a pattern specific to the spell he was using. If there had been anyone in the chamber with him, they would have felt an intense cold starting to spread. But as no one else was there the only visible effect of the spell was that the flames started moving back. After repeating the spell a few more times the flames were totally extinguished.
A new batch of guards had also arrived. Arandor ordered them to take up positions at the gate, while he went to check on the prisoners. Most of them were dead from inhaling too much smoke. He called out to some of the guards who moved away the still living prisoners towards the exit, where the smoke was already starting to clear. They did not however enter any cell, before Arandor cheched them. And Arandor found two cells, which were empty. Prisoners had escaped then. That and the fact that two hostile dwarves were also on the loose in the stronghold would surely make his master furious. He decided he would try catching them alone.
A guard walked up to him:
"We have caught one of the dwarves on level five. They have taken him to the northern sector."
"Very well. Search every corner on level five. They probably took a room there too. See if they left anything there. In the meantime tell everyone to be on the alert for a man, an elf and a dwarf. It seems to me that the other dwarf came here and made two prisoners escape."
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Feldorn
The group of freed slaves which Feldorn led had now grown to about four dozen slaves, half of whom were armed with weapons taken from their dead guards. However they now faced a problem. At the highest level of the tunnels, just where the stronghold itself started around one hundred guards were stationed at all times and after scouting out the area they found that only twenty of them had gone to fight the fire. They had to find a way to get through them.
After debating for several minutes with others in his group Feldorn's plan was accepted. The now free slaves moved to set up traps in several places and in the meantime one of the human slaves put on the armour and garments of a fallen guard and prepared to lure the remaining guards into the trap.
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