Hounds gives orders to a boggard to have the others gear up and some gather at the underwater tunnel to the outside.
You are currently at the first floor.
There's no direct passage between first/second/third floor and the caves.The easiest way to reach the caves is to leave from level one entrance and move down to the caves.
Another way is: Teleport to the third floor, fly/scale up to the sanctum, from the sanctum use the secret staircase to reach the caves.
From previous discussion, since the boggards have a terrible smell, they would be confined to the caves.
Can you tell me the option you choose to descend to the caves?
We need to true ressurect whoever made this place and torture them.
Scratch ordering the boggards then.
You are currently at the first floor.
There's no direct passage between first/second/third floor and the caves.
According to the side view of the Horn, there is a staircase that runs from the caverns all the way up to the third floor.
It goes from C-5(s) to 1-27(b) to 2-20(b) to 3-12.
Has that changed?
@Rose
It passes thru the first/second level and end up in the third level, but there's no open passage to the stair. It passes inside the pillars, and there's no door except the secret one in the caves(c5) which give access to the spiral.
the situation is easily solved in case you guys open a door in the room where Rex and Hex keep guard (3-12).
However this design is intentional. No one can access the sanctum from inside the horn, and no one would believe that the entrance to the most sacred place is in the caves. Open a door anywhere in the first/second/third and you’ll give anyone that manages to infiltrate direct access to where you are performing the ritual and that might raises the change of the ritual being disrupted.
Well that's interesting, and also a really obnoxious design. We'll have to do something about that later.
Ok, let's get this party moving. Who's waiting on what?
I guess we are shooting arrows down from the third floor. Aku just has to come back.
Frankly I see little reason to go out, we have our base so let us get the most use of it.
If anyone can summon monsters, perhaps send out some fast fliers to dive bomb em.
Sorry about being away.
Last couple of days was a mix between staying in bed with a fever and visiting the hospital. I'll get a post today.
Suck being sick.
It does suck being sick, and sorry you felt that way!
So, how is it playing out?
I guess having the boggards lure them into the caverns?
Or maybe Rose and Mysty could turn invisible if possible and fly out on the Nightmare to attack while we sally out.
This game has been brutal on our various pets and minions. I have a feeling flying out on a nightmare would end up with a horse-shaped pincushion and rose and mysty falling out of the sky.
Well
If you are hundreds of feet’s in the air, mounting a flying horse, then yes, I would target the horse in the attempt to throw you off the saddle (honestly, who wouldn’t?).
However, if you are wading into melee with the nightmare, most of the times the rider is a better target than the horse itself, because it is painful to attack the horse while the rider is delivering punishment, and killing the horse will not stop the rider.
TLDR;
Flying outside range or too high: Horse target.
Melee: Most of the times the rider.
After what happened to the golem and the hellhounds, I'd rather not risk it.
So just sit tight in our Fortress of Doom(tm)
I say this because I believe going out there s a sucker's game, we try to engage and get shot full of arrows and then have to chase them all over the place while we still have two Moondogs lurking around who would be delighted to find out we have left. Plus we are prepped for Moondogs and not forest combat so at least waiting a day to get ready for the elves makes more sense.
I really don't want to get into a long run-and-gun fight with elves in the woods.
Luring them in is a good idea.
If that doesn't work, I think we should do things to keep their attention, and send the other Knot after them. They are pretty well built for woodsy work and stealth.
Luring them in, yes. Plus if we have to go out we certainly should get Erza and the daemons on patrol
Just consider this:
What if Elfs and moondogs are not aware of each other?
What if they meet and join forces?
Then the moondogs have a much harder time nuking us with acid because we'll be in the middle of their elves. :p
Edit:
Well any ideas? I mean we do have our lair that we spent a whole lot of money on to keep out things like the elves.
We could ask Erza and the daemons if they would go out and try driving them towards us.
Yeah, I'd rather not drive them deeper into the woods to team up with those f&%#ing dogs.
We've always done our best with the element of surprise on our side. And given how they just out and out pegged Mysty when she poked her head out, they clearly don't think very highly of us.
Let's use that hubris against them.
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In truth, the elves have no reason to enter the horn. Simply harassing us, killing supplyruns and messengers, and shooting the occasional guard would suffice to harm us. The moondogs are also hit and run specialists, especially with that ninth level spell wammie they can hit us with.
Think guerrilla warfare. We advance they retreat, we stop they harrass, we retreat they attack.
Yeah. The way we deal with them is scorched earth. Take away their ability to hide.
What do we think of starting a forest fire?
Don't we have a druid who can kill/control plants?
Yeah, but until I can take Leadership, she's sitting on her thumbs.
Problem with forest fire is that how much magic fire will we have to dump to start one? Plus that is going to be loads of attention(not that the glowing tower of doom helps any) We won't be able to control it unless we try cler cutting/burning an area around the horn
A few of these and the catapult on the garden terrace could start some fires pretty fast. The horn won't burn. It was described as barren if I remember right.
@Tar Bomb.
Not on the allowed sources. :(
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Jkking about above.
Seems simple enough to make.
On the one hand, it would lure them out and clear some lookout space around the horn. On the other, it would make it easy for anyone to spot any of us entering or leaving the place.
Well if we gotta fight, Hound can rage charge and whack her with his sword/hammer while the rest try for flanks.
We can try leaving by other means if the need arises.
While hound is scouting, can the rest of us be rigging up a bunch of tar bombs for the catapult?
What about trying to lure them in?
@Tar
Just provide a reasonable explanation for how and where are you getting the ingredients and a short description how you are making the stuff.
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I'll update the game in a couple of hours.
Don't we have a fully functional achemist lab? I thought we spent a bunch of money to make sure that Nahia's lab was fully stocked.
Also, we have a bunch of stockpiled bones, which render nicely down to glue, and a bunch of oil. I'm going to assume we also have coal for the sand furnace, forge, and probably the alchemist lab too. Coal renders down to tar really fast.
Of course, Rose doesn't know any of that, so it's up to Nahia and Mysty.
That will sure be something interesting to read! :D
So this is my thought.
Hound gets on leather armor and heads down to the caverns via the secret door and gets the boggards to sneak out and try to come up on the elves+snake from behind (Maybe some silencing magic if available?)
Rose,Mysty and Nahia head down to confront the elves and start talking until Hound can get into position and then we attack(Perhaps take some of the more ethically challenged minions with you.)
If someone has a message spell, or maybe Pyros can stick with Hound and Rose keep in touch with him via telepathy and give updates on how things are going.
Pyre has true speech, not telepathy. We'd need to use Message.
Message sounds good
I'm not sure any of us have it though. Mysty is the only one with it on her spell list and I don't think she chose it.
*grumble grumble*
well we could still do the pincer attack, we have to deal with them since they don't look like they will be leaving.
I have message, but the range is pretty short and blocked by the various divination blocking materials.
Some family issues last couple of days.
Helping my sister get enrolled at university.
There were some problems and I’ll have to be her guarantor. I’ll be busy today as well but it’ll be back to normal later today, so expect a new post in the evening.
Checking in! Just saying that I'm waiting to see what happens with Rose!
Hilarity! By that I mean all the arrows.
Hilarity! By that I mean all the arrows.
...I'm going to bring them straight to you and tell them you're the mastermind behind everything.