"The meaning of your accusation Mr elf? I'm a little confused and a bit offended."
"If I remember correctly, and I usually do, you have been disowned for having an affair. While you might think love trumps everything, it was dishonorable nevertheless." He made a small pause here, obviously considering his thoughts.
"But we are in a lawless land and swords are of great demand. Therefore I conclude, Oleg, will greatly appreciate you being here."
Kyra shakes her head on the undiplomatic elf and bows.
"Sir Garress, please forgive my companion. Some of his folk have no understanding of proper human etiquette. And it has been some hard works with the sun shining on his head."
"For st arters Elf I was disowned yes, but only because my father could not bear the thought of his son having sex with someone worth less then him, neither of us were married or engaged, so we were completely within our rights as adults."
He smiles at Freya "And Mrs... I apologize i know not your name. But she is right, I still do have my knighthood, which requires a bit more honor then I reckon you have"
Freya smiles and replies.
"My name is Canoness Freya Bjorn, devotee of Desna!"
It was true, Shontar will probably never understand humans and their obsession with banalities like who slept with whom.
"Well, who really cares anyway, right? It doesn't matter here in the stolen lands. What matters is that we should really be going on as planned."
He attempts to kiss Freya's hand and says "Charmed."
He turns to Shontar "It matters not, but let us refrain from insulting each other's honor based on a cultural misunderstanding, I will try to do the same."
Shontar had no luck at finding suitable ammunition. But he was sure, that he was aiming the catapult at exactly the right spot, in case one of his allies found a good round rock.
Floria keeps quiet once the new folks arrive, not really caring to converse with a fellow noble.
As they go about their business over the rest of the day, Floria also can't find suitable rocks.
Freya was quite lucky with the rock finding, but also spent more time with the newcommer, to find out more about him and his companions.
Tilladee stays away from the politicking and such. No sense in running his mouth when there are rocks to find!
"Well, one stone is all we need. Reloading takes too much time anyways. When the bandits come, I'd like to the honors myself and position myself up on the catwalk. I'll take Oleg's javelins with me, if nobody minds."
Freya roll insight, just to get a general gauge on Kesten
At dinner that night Kasten says "What's the plan? Obviously, we have this big-ass catapult, but it won't be the end of the battle. Are we facing them outside of the gates, or at the gates? Are we going to try to pile rocks for protection, we still have time before nightfall, surely we can do something. Do we know their numbers, or when we will arrive, what's the plan"
"Well, last time we tried hiding inside the fort, behind the walls, but they saw us. They know there are four of us, but not that you're here - unless they saw you coming. Oleg said that there were...about 13, I think? A straight-up fight should be manageable, if it comes to that."
Shontar still believed fighting inside is their best chance. The enemies had bows, which they didn't. There were plenty of cover positions inside and ways to divide the enemy force.
The catapult's job was to take out maybe one or two and shaken the morale of the rest.
"They will have more this time, but maybe we can bloody their nose that badly that they will never ever return!"
I suppose I'll ask for initiative now, roll for initiative.
At first opportunity Freya casts summon monster I to ask a celestial eagle for aid!
I'll also ask you to put your peices where you want to start the battle (Shontar I don't believe your friend has dotted, can you ask him to do that?)
AND roll perception
The lounging mercenary springs to action
I will put up an opening combat post today or tommorow, I need to put together a tracker and finish statting Kesten up
I've got the tracker and everything done, before I start does anyone want to use a set of leather armor, a heavy wooden shield, 2 handaxes, 5 javelins, a longbow, a scythe, 2 Spears, 2 potions of cure light wounds, and a potion of shield of faith +2? these are Oleg's inventory
Adrac roll perception
Tilladee narrowed his eyes as he found his target. That woman had two glorious axes that would soon be his!~
The catapult perfectly aimed Shontar awaits the bandits ready to fire.
I meant shontar roll perception, not adrac
"Eight of these scoundrels! They are sending more than I thought!"
"A courageous man is already a majority! And you have a chosen of the gods with you. Have faith!"
First up is the Bandits. They will stealth forward more, and end up 15 feet away from the fort
Next up is Freya, Shontar and Varuug.
The trees end about 75 feet from the fort, and it opens up to a valley. This is your opportunity to shoot, but you'll have a -2 penalty because of how close they are (As you failed your initial perception check.) They are not hiding behind anything at this point, and you do see them coming.
Freya will again summon a celestial eagle, ready to harass the enemys.
Freya if you wanted to then you could have got off your summon spell as you see them approaching, and then do something this turn.
Varuug starts rhythmically beating his shield and breaks into a rousing song, while taking a defensive position (fight defensively) near the door.
♬ "There once was a hut in the forest..."♪
Freya you want to get it off this turn or before hand
The summon spell, and if you do get it off before hand you can do one other thing
Floria roll a d20
Happs tosses a thing of alchemical fire up into the building and he moves back 30 feet (Into the targetted area) the goods catch on fire, and there are rounds until it spreads to the and rounds until it spreads to the wagon
Next is Floria