Tabletop 16 25/9/47 Stonehell - into level 3

Group
1. Elsie, Half Elf fey pact Warlock 2 > 3
2. Bandar, Half Elf infernal pact Warlock 2 > 3
3. Cain, Human Paladin 3
4. Aeris, High Elf Wizard 3
5. Ying Fu, Human Monk 5

Group fights gnolls in the canyon then delves down through level 2 & secret stairs to 3, barely surviving a battle with powerful hobgoblin-oids, before Elsie gains a powerful magical elephant figurine.

Bratanis Group (David)

Bratanis; 25/9/47;
The siege of Bratanis comes to a head.
With the hobgoblin army surrounding Bratanis, the local adventurers and guards
men come until a series of daily attacks, trying to hold out for reinforcements and the dwarven mercs they hired.
The defenders use the magic pedestal to ward off manticores.

The attacks were as follows;
Hobgoblins forming a tortoise of shields, attacking the gate with acid.
Goblins with semi-functioning wings, being fired from Ogre catapults. Hobgoblin cultists try to raise the resulting corpses inside the walls.
Ankhegs tunneling into Bratanis's temple. The local adventurers barely manage to save the local priest.
Harpies try to lure Bratanis's guards off the walls, but get driven off by orc mercs.
Dwarven mercs are spotted (about a day after they should have arrived), causing hobgoblin knights to abort a charge.
A flying, invisible cultist causes chaos. (With multiple concentration spells on him, it suggests there were more of those cultists somewhere in the area, maintaining the spells).
Finally, the Hobgoblin warlord, a cart full of acid, and two manticores attack the tower from above.
The magic pedestal's ward against manticores forces those to fly off, but warlord remained on the roof, with acid burrowing into the tower.
The adventurers burnt up the energies of the Pedestal (turning it non-magical), to give the party a quick short rest.
They then fought the warlord on the roof. 2 adventurers hit the floor, then two flying creatures swoop in.
First is the third manticore. Second is Calcryx, the white dragon wyrmling from the Sunken Citadel (ridden by the kobold leader Yusdrayl). Dragon beats manticore. (Interestingly, Calcryx seems to be getting bigger..).
The tide turns, and the party is victorous, lifting the siege.