>>14729642
>I derped and forgot to name/trip up.

>also bump since I was gone for a week (again :( )

Confirm with Wulf that the rainstorm is not to be tonight. I don't want to waste the oil or the valkyries.

Also, I think we should have one last talk with the penal company. Can we have that?

>>14729783
>yea, you can talk with'em
>also, can I get a second or alternate something to do please?

>>14729866
To the were-minotaurs:
"Criminals! Your attention!
"I am here to remind you of your job, and what is on the line.
"You have made a choice: a choice to try to exonerate yourselves and to serve Degnar.
"Your job is simple: run into the Uurlanthi camp, destroy their siege towers and engines, and kill as many as you can. If you survive, and you can demonstrate that you have control over your new selves, you will be pardoned. Fail to control your new-found anger, and you will continue to be used until you learn self-control, or are dead.
"If not for duty, then will you not fight at least for anger?"

I'm not sure about the last line, though.

>>14729995
Crap, I forgot.
Make sure that there are archers up on the wall with Moon Eye Paste, and that they're to drop any were-minotaurs that aren't making a bee-line to the Uurlanthi camp.

>eh, in the interest of keeping moving I'll go with just the one post. where is everyone?

You find Wulf in one of the lower rooms of the tower that is the gatehouse, meditating. "Wulf, will the storm reach us tonight?" you ask.

He shakes his head ever so slightly, Tassadus ruffling its feathers on the boys shoulders "Hes been meditating almost all day, he doesnt talk, drink, eat... will he be all right?" Lena asks, standing up from the chair in one of the corners of the room.

"He will be fine. I may need to have some of the life elementalists work to keep him from tiring when the storm hits." you reply reassuringly. Tassadus takes a short hop down to the ground, and taps three times on the stone floor, before returning to the boys shoulder, still watching you. "Let me know if something changes." you instruct the girl before setting off to where the soon to transform were-minotaurs are being gathered.

Jayne and Cornelius are busy herding the condemned men towards the port. 38 or so of them. The last man is being pushed towards the now well restrained were-minotaur, terror in his eyes. "You volunteered for this, scum." Vornelius chides the man "Commander says that if you live, and meditate on it you might even be able to controll yourself when you change, so it wont be that bad."
>cont'd

The convict is still locked in place, his eyes massively wide and fixated on the beast before him. "I I I..." he stammers, pushing back as Cornelius again tries to get him within biting range of the minotaur, causing a small piece of cloth to tear from his ragged, thin cloths.

"Or, you could just wait to be crucified after starving in a cell for a few more weeks. This is still a volunteer action, and we can always strike your name and mark from the list if you choose not to go." your captain sighs, giving up on pushing the terrified man. The prisoners expression changes, and he steps ahead, extending his arm towards the beast, which quickly takes a chunk out of it, the man wails i pain and stumbles towards teh other prisoners.

Jayne slaps his hand when he goes to wipe the blood and slobber from it. "We did our reasearch, and it'll only take if enough of the infected fluid seeps into the wound. Besides, the flesh will grow back once you change." Jayne turns to greet you "The preparations are ready love, have you come to see the prisoners off?"

>>14730165
"Yes, love. One last reminder of what their duty is."

Then go with the speech from >>14729995
Maybe with an additional "I promise, as the military governor of Northmont, that you will be fed, and your sentence will be placed in abeyance, so long as you are part of this penal unit."

Woo, commander quest!

"Men, you know your duty, and soon, you will know the combined rage of every citizen taken or slain by the urlanthi. Hunt them. Stalk them. Tear them apart.

I salute you all."

"Indeed I have, love." you reply to her before turning to face the criminals. "Criminals, hear me. What my captain and Lady told you is true, and should you survive this, not only will you be able to learn to controll yourself in your bestial form, not only will you regenerate wounds at a much higher rate... but you will be freed. Should that not be motivation enough to see you through this night, would not wrath, wrath and hate for the dogs gathered outside our cities gates be more than enough? With the rise of the moon you will be freed from the city, and at the end of the siege, should you yet live, you have my word as acting Governonr and a Commander of the Legion that you will be freed. Go now to death, or freedom, penance in battle, and forgiveness in blood shed shall be yours." you announce to the assembled prisoners, who seem heartened by your brief speech.

>so, anything you want to take care of, or skip ahead to nighttime?

I say we should try train our Elementalism some more.

>>14730515
Make sure that the archers and one or two heavy repeater crews are on standby. Their primary purpose is to terminate any were-minotaur that goes rogue and attempts to escape the combat area.
Their secondary mission is to keep up AA duty and to provide safe airspace for the Skywings to return to should they meet with enemy Combat Air Patrols.

Also have the trebuchet crew on standby to start shelling the enemy trebuchet and any other targets of opportunity if the enemy shields go down.
Have Moon Eye Paste readied, but not applied unless necessary.

>>14730600
>>14730583
These two, and I believe one of the other plans to put into motion was to have the light cavalry ready to sally forth and set the Uurlanthi camp on fire from a distance, then retreat back to the safety of the wall, but only if the chaos and confusion from the Skywing raid and were-minotaur attack are sufficient to make sure that the Uurlanthi can't mount a credible defense or counterattack.

>>14730583
just more regular meditating?
>>14730600
give me a second or counter to this and we're golden

Oh, and one more thing that was brought up in the IRC last session:
Ask Kyria about adding the fire rune she had been practicing with, and that resulted in that super-heated sword, if she could try adding it to arrows or ballistae bolts to make incendiary or exploding ammunition and artillery.
We already need the anti-magic bolts and arrows, this would be another good use.
And also ask if there are any dwarves in the city that would be able to assist her in the creation of more of these runed ammunition.

>>14730677
>>14730600
seconding

rolled 51 = 51

>>14730677
unless anyone has any objections, we should work on Terrakinesis.

>>14730677
For elementalism training, I think we need actual practice, and preferably under stressful conditions or duress. Like trying to do it while running an obstacle course, or while an artillery crew is firing their weapon.

>>14730677
>>14730745
>>14730738
I disagree.
I think we should increase Fissures.
Pax said that the next level in Fissures will give us bonuses across the board.
Also, it's on the path towards control over metals as well as rock and soil. I want that Mastery of Magentism!

>>14730780
Okay, concentrate on Fissures then

>>14730780
Justinian Trentz, Master of Magnet!

Fissures!

Okay, so we seem to be agreed on increasing Fissures, let's meditate and go with that.
After gaining the new level, we'll begin the obstacle course training immediately to help us get finer control.
It'll do us good to get in some PT, anyway.

>>14730831
>>14730841
seconding

You give Jayne a quick hug, and head off to find Kyria. You find the dwarf idly scribbling down runes from within the main gate, stenciling them on to small stone slab and throwing them, noting the effects on a sheet of parchment. "Hello Justinian, how can I help you?" she asks cheerily, setting to stencil a series of runes onto a larger stone.

"I was hoping you could set some balista and repeater bolts to have the same... explosive, effects that sword you runed for fire had for our defenses." you answer the dwarf as she slowly and carefully chisels into the stone.

She frowns before responding "It would be dangerous, the activation rune for impact does not discriminate easily, nor is it restrictable to a specific part of the object." She pulls her chisel from the stone, then blows on the end, which she also runed. The stone begins to emit a gentle blue glow, filling a small area of the gate tunnel. "Now all I have to do is find where the runes broke..." she trails off, her voice holding more excitement than frustration.

>is posting slow and screwy for you guys too? and where is everyone?

>>14730975
Yeah, it's a little slow. It was like this but worse last night. Sorcerer Quest didn't even get off the ground because of it.

>>14730975
>well it has been a week

>>14730975
"If it's that dangerous then, keep up with it to try to make it safer to deploy. In the same vein, I'd like you to work on the anti-magic runes, so that they can be used on arrows as well as ballistae bolts. With the increasing usage of mages on regular front-line service by the Uurlanthi, I think we're going to need special mage killer units sooner rather than later.
"Also, do you think any of the dwarven smiths here in the city, or even better, within our own legions, could be trained to copy your work?"

I'm thinking that maybe Finian could help out with this kind of detailed work.

>>14730975
"What if the rune were inscribed on an attachment? Would only the added part be set aflame?"

You smile at the young dwarfs enthusiasm "Then work to make it safe to use if you can." you pause to think "If the runes were attached separately to the bolt would that work?"

Kyria stops to think "I can illuminate this chamber when we have time and peace. Did you need me for anything else?"

You nod "Do you think it would be possible to teach other dwarfes proper runecraft? Those in our maniple would be preferable to new recruits of course."

Kyria smirks "If you had some patience I could teach you, hell anybody could learn, but I should be able to." she leans up to kiss you before heading off to do what you asked her for.

You spend the next few hours in meditation. Nothing spectacular happens, but you know for a fact that it had its intended result, and your overall potency as an elementalist was notably increased. It was Laelith that woke you from your meditation "Justinian, I have discerned the use of the mystery arcana, and, the moon is finally up and well visible."

>>14731289
"Thank you, love. The arcana as we walk, if you please."

The archers and artillery crews are readied? The Skywings prepared? Let's walk toward the wall to observe this operation.

>>14731333
sounds fine

>>14731333
Oh, and the cavalry! Don't forget that they wanted to get their kills in, too.

>>14731289

We shall have to learn runecrafting at a later time!

Get info on the arcana while we goto whatever passes as the "command post" for our nighttime raid?

That original were-minotaur we found? Hold him back from the raid. We are not sending a (potentially) innocent man to die.

Also, didn't Kyria already agree to inscribe runes on the bolts?

"Tell me while we walk please, if these Degnarians are going to die I will at least do them the courtesy of being there to see it." you reply, kissing her as you rise and head for the door.

"Your shirt." she deadpans,causing you to remember that you had stripped out of your armor and down to your breeches to meditate. A few minutes later you are off to the gatehouse next to Laelith. "I could tell you, but it would be far easier to show you." she answers your question, simply humming and smiling the rest of the way. Eventually you reach the gatehouse, extremely curious. Laelith leads you to the exterior room Wulf and Lena were waiting in "Lena, could you come over here please?" she asks, Lena answers promptly, but not confidently. Silently Laelith puts the two half ovals on Lenas head, and strokes the metal bubbles, which barely protrude from where they rest just in front of her ears.

Lena gasps "I... I can, I can see!" she exclaims "Without using my mage sight! And Clearly too!!" before she can get anything else out Laelith raises a hand.
>cont'd

"Their mithia, so they wont tire your neck, but they do use a modification of the technique known as magesght, so your overall power will be about as hindered as it normally is. Though they are mithia, should they fall from your head they may be damaged, and if you put them on backwards you'll be blinded for a few minutes, and incredibly disoriented for hours after you remove them. That, commander is what that arcana does."

Lena turns to look at Wulf, smiling a very familiar smile, well new for you to see on her face, but its one you have seen on Laeliths face often enough. "Lena, I realise that-" Wulf is cut off by Lena planting a kiss on him. She is clearly holding herself back, but clearly having proper sight has made her incredibly happy.

She turns to look at you and Laelith "Will I be able to use these regularly?" she asks, hope heavy in her voice "You have more scars than I used to be able to see." she observes, looking intently at you.

>>14731582
"And not all of them can be seen. But, I bear them all proudly."

>>14731582
"I see no issues in that but I would ask you hold off on using them too much until we have dealt with this siege. If there are any negative effects that are unforeseen at the moment, I rather they occur in a better situation."

Plus, it might not be a good idea for her to be able to directly see all the horrors of siege warfare.

>>14731582
"I see no reason why you couldn't have them. I mean, it's not as if there's anyone else in the maniple who could really use them as much as you could."

>>14731582
"I see no reason why not. Just be careful with them."

If they won't tire her out, or reduce her magical power, then I see no reason why she can't use them.

You smile "I have no good reason to deny you their use. Just be careful not to break them." you reply, turning to leave.

You hear Lena and Wulf going back and forth in hushed tones as you and Laelith leave the small room "Be sure to use a room with windows, and do keep them open please. Justinian couldn't get the smell from his nose for days..." you cant see her as you leave the room, but you have a good idea of what shade Lenas face is at the moment.

"She really is to easy to jibe sometimes, isnt she?" you muse to Laelith.

"And she deserved it this time." the elf huffs, playfully, you turn to give her a quizzical look. "We dont have the time to beat them." she explains, grinning. For a response you simply pinch the elfs taut rump before entering the observation chamber atop the gatehouse.
>cont'd

"The attack is just now beginning" Bellatrix announces for Aurelius, surrounded by several of his deadeyes, the man no doubt in the tower on the opposite side of the gatehouse. Off to your left you see the sally port open, and the frightened convicts spill out into the dead fields. They begin moving towards the enemy camp cautiously, though before they are clear of the walls shadow you can see them changing. Even at a distance the process is horrifying to behold, though, their rags of clothing leave most of them stark naked. The howling of the minotaurs draws the enemy camps attention fairly quickly, and more than a few are taken down by panicked, blindly fired arrows before they reach the camp. the carnage is impressive when the minotaurs finally do reach the enemy camp. Minutes later, your valkerie riders make their run, only three of them falling from the sky as they spread fire and disease to the enemy forces. The chaos continues for hours, though it would seem that the enemy commander keeps his arcanists near his siege engines as only a few catapults are lost, along with what you believe were several stacks of ladders. The madness is done before midnight, but judging by the increased watch after the last fires are out you believe that the attack had the desired effect, more or less.

>>14731877
So the chaos wasn't enough to safely sally forth the cavalry?
Ah well; we still achieved our primary objective.
Now let's see if any of the were-minotaurs survived their first sortie.

>>14731877
Hmm. Well, if we were lucky, we might have killed an elementalist or two but I won't hold my breath. Any idea on how much damage might have been caused in terms of troop damage? Unless it's a decent amount, the attack didn't do as much damage as I would have hoped. But that was to be expected with their elementalists protecting their equipment so well.

Anyone have ideas on how we can deal with Sansa and Seventus since sending out Aquilla at this time is likely suicidal for him?

>>14731877
Hmmm. At this point, all we really can do is wait. Perhaps have a meeting with the commanders/our vet's and see if they have anything to say but I can't think of anything off the top of my head on what we should do. Unless we might want to talk to Garagush to see if we can potentially get a boon to let our men fight regardless of hunger that might happen later on in the siege. Probably best to see if we can arrange that ahead of time.

>>14732016
Pax, this surely came up before, but I don't remember the answer:
Can we use our valkyries and gryphons at night, with moon-eye paste, to slip past the enemy Combat Air Patrols and get supplies air-dropped?

Does the enemy have air patrols at night at all?

>>14731941

Sansa has given us her word she won't kill him... yet.

I think we should have a chat with him. We've known what he's done and hate the idea that we may one day share his fate, but because we may share that fate, we should try to give him some form of redemption.

Degnar is at war and his trial would be a waste of effort better spent on slaying enemies. Die a hero of the empire against a hated foe, while your transgressions are quietly rectified where possible.

Best case, he writes a note to the 2nd explaining his crimes and those that are innocent, begging for the 2nd's forgiveness for dishonoring the legion, signs it, and then dies a hero for the empire.

rolled 98 = 98

I kind of would like a decent estimation from our Uurlanthii guards on the side camps. It would be a severe blow to suddenly lose one of their flanks, i.e. we sally all our cavalry to do a run on one side and hit them hard then run the fuck back into the city.

The next morning you set out to see if any survivors had returned to the city. You find a few huddled in the sally port, naked, shivering and covered in blood. 5 of them all told, three humans and a pair of dwarfs, all male. "Are you the only survivors?" you ask, signalling for cloths to be brought for them.

"Yes" one of the dwarfs croaks, his voice sounding as if he had swallowed sand, a haunted look in his eyes.

Within minutes a man arrives with cloths for them, and once dressed, you bring them to your barracks, into the meeting hall where command staff meetings would normally be held. "How much damage di you do, what tdid they have for siege equipment, arcanists, what do you remember?" you ask the men, as a prisoner-servant pours all of you glasses of water.

"I..." one of the men begins, stopping to think, and physically recoiling, one of the dwarfs retches off the side of the table, chunks of flesh clearly visible in the small puddle of bile. "They had the depleted units to the outside of the camp. We... ate" he forces the word out" a good portion of several of those units, only a handful left from most of them."

The dwarf that hadnt vomited speaks up "Your velkeries took a good eighth of their smaller siege engines by my estimate, and half of their ladders, but the towers and trebuchets had some sort of arcana protecting them, and robed engineers running around them like madmen making sure they hadn't set on fire. A few of us tried to get to them, but the arcana just... it cut them in half when we got too close to an engineer to frightened to run." he describes what you are almost certain are mages and elementalists, and considering how dark it was, this dwarf was no doubt turned from the siege engines by a Shadow Mage.

>any more questions for these guys?
>>14732071
>yes to the patrols, no to the supplies

>>14732128
"You five have been through what I can not doubt to be a harrowing experience. You have earned my respect. Were you able to retain any form of control this battle?"

>>14732128
No more questions at this time. Give them some time to recover.
"Good. You'll still have to be kept under quarantine to make sure that you can control yourselves while transformed. However, seeing as you've kept up your part of the bargain so far, I'll keep up mine.
"As of now, your former crimes are now annulled. You will be free men and dwarves, as long as you can demonstrate that your transformation can be held in check. If you cannot, I will hold the traditional sentence of execution of uncontrolled were-beasts in abeyance until you can either control yourselves or you die in combat. If you demonstrate sufficient control, you will free to go.
"Until then, I will have my aide see that you are housed under proper medical supervision."

In other words, treat them as slightly infectious wounded quarantined in a wing of the governor's manor until their ability to control themselves can be determined tonight.

>>14732128
Can't think of anything else to ask. Again, suggesting we either see the status of the other walls and see if they think they're going to hold fine or talk to Garagush for potential boon use. Or do we not need to talk to him personally for that Pax?

Scouts examining the forces on the other walls to the south, north and west could be useful too. Perhaps we can do a quick sally out to crush some of their men and weaken their circle.

rolled 68 = 68

>>14732230
I'm really for a sally out, our cavalry are kind of sitting being useless sadly.....

>>14732227
seconded, let them rest for now.

>>14732230
If we're going to do a sally forth, I suggest early morning, before the sun is up.
We have the reputation of the Midnight Dragon, and the enemy will be expecting another night attack. Early morning will likely see them lest prepared as it's the last guard shift before everyone else wakes up.

rolled 1 = 1

>>14732246
I can go with this, then maybe, we will be called the "twilight" dragon, I kind of just vomited.....

>>14732246
I'd only consider it based on what the scouts can see on the other flanks. Honestly, I doubt we'll be able to properly sally out at this point but it's worth looking into at least. Have the scouts look at what kind of forces they might have and where their supplies might be. Rather than focus on taking out their men, we might want to try raiding their supplies and burning them.

>>14732230
I don't like asking Garagush, or any of the gods for assistance.
But, this situation was done with the assistance of one the gods, so it would even it out.
I am willing to open a dialogue with either Garagush or Raynha on what support they can offer for what price, with us specifically looking at dealing with the food issue.

No deals yet, though.

>>14732276
It'd be best if we could steal their supplies, but I doubt we'll get that lucky.

>>14732285
I rather do this without any use of a boon myself but I rather have the option on the table. We've had people use boons against us and I rather not lose a majority of our forces because we didn't have a chance to get enough food in the city. I only say we should try to make a deal early since it seems our talking to the gods takes time and we don't want to do it last minute. If we don't need their help, awesome but it's better to have the option for the last assault before our reinforcements arrive.

Besides, saving up all those boons will be meaningless in some ways if we lose this siege.

Plan for the next night:

Have blackbird's men scout the enemy picket camps for force estimates. If the moon isn't too bright for Blackbird's scouting tastes, that is.

You nod "Thank you, all. I will have you held until you can prove that you have control of yourself when transformed. I do hope that the Traitors Vila will be restive enough for you five, to be polite, you have been through a harrowing experience."

"And if we cannot gain control of ourselves?" one of the men asks.

"You will either take part in another assault much like the one you just survived, or be executed, as was the law before the arcane left the world. I would suggest meditation." you reply, helpfully.

"Medidtation?" the third man asks, his eyes cold and calculating, not in the least affected by last nights killing - those of a killer.

"Calm controlled inward thought, coupled with physical stillness and discipline." you inform the man helpfully, who grins feraly at you. Shintjas seventh shapeshifting, who have you promised freedom?

>so, do you wanna sally, wait, talk to Garagush about a boon, or something else?

>>14732354

Speak with Seventus and chat with a god or two about possible boons/aid, should it come to that.

rolled 26 = 26

>>14732390
And blackbird to scout

>>14732354
Prepare orders for scouts to attempt to go out at night, such as Blackbird's unit. Primary objective is to get an idea of enemy numbers and disposition at the more vulnerable auxiliary camps.

Then I think meditating and speaking with Garagush.

And before the were-men leave:
"Keep in mind that you are now no longer just human or dwarf; you are now a were-beast. That means that if you commit a violent crime again, there will no arrest, there will be no trial. You will be summarily executed.
"You have a second chance at working within the system; I suggest you take it."

Rubbing your temples as you rise you remind the newly pardoned criminals "And remember, that there are no second chances for were-beasts such as yourselves. If you break the system, by killing, raping, any serious crime, the law will not stay its hand, and you will be put down as only unruly beasts can be." and on that heartening note, you turn on your heel and stride from the room.

You find Blackbird fairly quickly, as he and his newest wife are resting under a tree in the traitors garden. However, the orc of the old clans looks very restless "Commander!" he greets you with a salute as you stop to sit near the pair "stopping for a chat, or do you have work for me?" he asks, clearly hoping for the latter.

"Work" you reply, smiling "I hope to sally forth in the near future, but..." you trail off.

"You need to know the weakest camp established. I will see that you have the knowledge in its fulness before the week is out." he informs you.

"Thank you, my friend." you reply, saluting again and setting off.

-----CQ-----

It takes until noon until you can find Quintus, who is eating, alone, atop the wall you assigned his men. "Commander Trentz, how can I help you?" he asks, his voice sounding apologetic, subdued, and defeated.

Why does everyone keep saying to talk to Garagush? Wouldn't Raynha be better suited for this, since she's the goddess of defense?

>>14732585
In all honesty, I'd like to get competing estimates from both of them.
Garagush might be inclined to give us a boon, since we didn't use up the one he was willing to give us that one time.
But as you said, this siege is really more Raynha's portfolio.

>>14732510

Is there anyone around that might overhear? If so, have them take a gander to another section of wall.

"Commander Seventus! Enjoying the luxurious rationing our enemies have forced upon us?"
[allow for response and ask for his opinion on the siege. He has much more experience than us!]
Get that, then before we leave.
"We need to speak as men later, please inform me whenever you are ready."

>>14732354
A born killer? Sounds like a good fit for Blackbird's unit. If this man survives until the end of the siege, see if he's interested in stable employment.

Raynha will probably give us a better offer on defensive boons. Heck, we should just ask Nyetini if we are only after food supplies.

>>14732709
As much as I normally find myself in opposition to you, I can't find anything wrong with this. It let's him know that the jig is up, and to mentally prepare himself, while still availing us of his greater experience in sieges.

>>14732734
I dunno.
Blackbird does a lot of black ops stuff, which, while requiring them to kill a lot, has to be done in secrecy.
Sometimes you have to NOT kill in order ensure the success of the mission, and I'm kind of wary of whether a serial killer will have the self-control needed that a black ops requires.

I'd rather put them into a special were-beast unit for storming enemy positions at night.

You glance about, alone within earshot "Enjoying your daily ration I see." you quip, returning his salute and sitting on a parapet "What is your take on our current situation?" you ask the man honestly curious as to his thoughts on the siege.

"As good as can be expected." he replies blankly "a sally closer to our help arriving may be a good idea, give our foes the time to grind down their numbers against ours, perhaps kill some of their arcanists, I believe the term you sued was. they no doubt have a few more tricks and nasty plans to turn agianst us."

You nod "Thank you for your advice, High Commander, and if you would be so good as to set some of your men to discerning the disposition of the lesser camps at the north, west and south gates that would be very much appreciated." the man nods and salutes "And, when you have time, we need to talk privately, as men."

I suppose we-" his reply is cut of by the blaring of a horn, from the west wall. You look in that direction to see a small group of Uurlanthi soldiers carving a bloody path through the city guards and mercenaries on the wall. a handful more are scrambling over the edge, climbing ropes or using claws to climb it would seem.

>>14732819
RUN to that wall.
And what the fuck were the guards doing?

...wait, shouldn't be too hard on them yet. The Uurlanthi might have been using some kind of arcana or invisibility field.

Time to kick ass and chew bubblegum. Good thing we're all out of gum.

Pax, with our newly leveled up powers, is the West Wall now in range of our elementalism?
Or will we need to get closer?

>>14732891
>not with any accuracy it isnt, though from wehre you are on the north wall you could _hit_ the west wall
>also, get your rolls in please

rolled 44 = 44

>>14732819
get our arses over there, rolling for QUICK REACTION AND RUNNING SPEED TO GET THERE!

>>14732907
Let's not until we get closer. At distance, we're more likely to hit something important.

>>14732819

Time to run our ass over there and deal death in person. Send runners to have our forces, minus a legionary unit and cavalry units, stay on the wall in the event of this being a diversion. We can always call up more units if it isn't a main attack.

Also, get our valks up OVER THE CITY to act as added eyes. Griffon riders on standby to scramble against enemy air attack.

also: WHAT THE FUCK WHY DO OUR GUARDS NOT HAVE EYES WHEN IT IS CLEARLY DAYTIME!?

rolled 40 = 40

Test roll.

If we have accuracy problems at this range, then we need to get closer. Don't want a repeat of last time.

>>14732965
>WHAT THE FUCK WHY DO OUR GUARDS NOT HAVE EYES WHEN IT IS CLEARLY DAYTIME!?
As stated earlier, it could be due to Light/Shadow mage fuckery.

You sigh "It seems we have work to do, High Commander." before losing your blade in its setting off for the wall.

"Indeed we do" Seventus replies, rising with his mace and battered, beaten heater shield ready, and following you. Within minutes you reach the wall, where the uuralnthi soldiers have nearly killed their way to the gates controls, though another group is already headed down the stairs to the city proper. Without hesitation you hurl yourself into the melee. A pair of the enemy infiltrators is enough to hold you for the first few minutes, though not for long. As you relieve one of the dogs of his head, you hear Seventus curse, loudly. Before him are seven of the assassins, the High commander the last thing between them and access to the city. You catch a blow on your shield, push back to smash the elfs face in, stab his gut, and turn to see the uurlanthi killers circling the man on the street below the wall, like hungry scavengers. One lunges at him, lightning fast the old commander stoves the uurlanthi mans face in with his mace, wheeling to catch a blow on his shield, only to have an uurlanthi stab the high commanders leg from a different angle, piercing the rear of his shin armor, though the man does not scream from the wound.

rolled 2 = 2

>>14733024
Elementalism Roll
Spikes and terrakinesis. Target the assassins.

rolled 44 = 44

>>14733024
Let's do some earth spikes

>>14733054
Thank you for being fast! That's the first critical hit roll we've had on something useful in a while.

>>14733054
>2
>Elementalism Roll
Those Uurlanthi are GONE!

>>14733071
>>14733054

"FUCK YOU, WE'RE TALKING WITH HIM FIRST!"

>>14733100

Damn, forgot the image.

Infiltrators nearing the gate, and you cant hold it forever. Infiltrators about to cut down Seventus before you can get more confessions out of him. Guards dying, mercenaries dying, probably going to end with you dead at this rate... only one possible response. You cut down the man in front of you, kick the one behind you away and beat the third within your reach back with your shield. Then, you turn the walls against your foes, the full fury of the latent earth turned against them. Nearly every uurlanthi in front of you is lifted up off of the wall, skewered on a spike of stone. You turn, smilnig, you open holes in the walls surface, and slam them shut on the unlucky bastards that you dropped into the wall. Finally, you turn again, and use loose bricks from the road to even the odds for Quintus Seventus. Looking around at the slaughter you announce to no one in particular "I dont know what Sansa brought me for my morning ration, but I need to see about more of it."

Outside the city, a choir of robed figures begin to flicker in and out of existence, before finally only one, half-collpsed figure remains, who is quickly helped back into the camp. You move to order your men to fire at him with their repeaters, but the now visible second wave of infiltrators still blissfully ignorant of their visibility, are charging the wall still. Reality is not kind to them as the city guard mercilessly and indiscriminately fires into them. You turn to see how High Commander Seventus is doing, but he seems to have already left to have his leg seen to.

>so, what do you want to do now.

>>14733158
Either mystics or light mages working together to create an invisibility field.

Put all other wall on alert, make sure that they're all ready for possible attack.

Get to the East Wall, get a telescope, and see what the Uurlanthi are doing at their main camp.

>>14733158
Hmph. Well, now that we know about the invisibility we can prepare for it in the future. How were our casualties, and what can we get from the enemy dead?

>>14733229
More oil, head ammo, metals, food for our valks, griffons, and uursan, cloth for bandages...

>>14733218
seconding, so long as this wall isn't in danger of falling if we leave.

>>14733260
I think it was the fact that the Uurlanthi were able to scale the wall without being seen that really was the problem.
Armed with repeaters, the City Guard and mercenaries seem to do okay in cutting apart the advancing second wave of Uurlanthi.

The problem is countering the Uurlanthi advantage in magic-users.

Most of the city guard on duty for this shift, nearly 75 Degnarians all told, lie dead, mixed in with nearly 50 uurlanthi infiltrators, most likely the same number if you could count the ones you obliterated. None of the uurlanthi wear the colors of Lord Karroll, which all of your foes line troops do, meaning these soldiers were hidden within their column with the engineers and arcanists when Blackbird scouted them. Fuck. Sighing you make your way to the east wall, where you borrow a telescope and look to the enemy camp. Resting, tying corpses, laughing, the three men you parlayed with looking rather angry, not particularly reassuring. In the distance the almost black clouds seem all the closer. Tomorrow, you think to yourself, as you hear word of what happened not more than two hours ago on the west wall reach your location along the rumor mill.

>I gotta get back to homework and maybe a catnap, so I'm gonna have to call it here for tonight, had posting not been so gorram slow at first I'da went further.
>someone archive please
>I'll hopefully be back thursday, but we'll see
>if you have and CQ/setting questions just email me at [email protected]

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