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As the night wore on, hundreds of gnomes stumbled
through the dark, windswept streets of Flotsam carrying
heavy joints, long poles, and hundreds of tree branches still
sprouting their leaves. These were the basic elements of
their wall-scaling device which they carried past
dragonarmy patrols who merely shrugged their shoulders at
yet another gnome oddity.
Barsh's hastily conceived invention was quickly
assembled in a big, empty barn just beyond the rear prison
walls. Nearly a thousand gnomes had gathered there to put
the finishing touches on the wall-scaling device, and they
were anxious to put it to the test.
The invention, a huge, rectangular ladder, was as long as
the entire southern wall of the prison. Two hundred fifty
gnomes could climb it at one time. The tree branches
attached to the top of the ladder were meant to camouflage
the ladder as they approached the enemy fortress.
Just before dawn, the kender began arriving at the Paw's
Mark Inn. At first they filled the main room. Then their
numbers swelled into the garden in the back. Luckily, the
garden was surrounded by trees and bushes that kept the
small army of kender hidden from the dragonarmy soldiers
who watched the streets
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