"We are have some intel, it should be only a skeleton crew left to defend whoever is doing the spell. Nothing of major consequence, we will try to distract the bulk of their forces. We should have the numbers but we know the city better."
Irabeth states, at that Eterrius steps forward.
"I will assist in distracting them as well, my blade is ready and my shield arm is ready to repel these bastards."
I am ready whenever everyone else is.
"It's your call, if you want to start right now, or need to organize your troops." Lynn says to Irabeth waiting for her decision.
"I won't be able to get them organized to go right now, Tomorrow morning I will have my troops and their commanders ready. Once they are set I will go on the Attack with you." At that Aliva gets up an upset look on her face.
"You will not, I just found you and I don't need you going off and getting killed."
Esterrius takes over
"I will assist with getting everyone ready, I will then have a double guard with Nestrin and we will leave on the early morning tomorrow."
Don will get more bolts and get a good night's rest.
"SteelGate, Blue, we have work to do." Tink says as he makes his way down to the smiths to work on the Glaive
Lynn hands the weapon over to Tink and goes to bed.
Tink and his entourage make their way downstairs and find the smiths and get to work.
Between Tink and the mages, a lot of melted candles, a bottle of wine the manage to Transfer the essence of magic out of the Ranseur of the Gargoyle into Lynn's glaive.
The night goes uneventful it isn't quiet as weapons are readied and the energy is high.
Don awakens and does several stretches and test swings with his weapons before getting armored up. Is there some more healing we can take with us? Like a wand we can buy?
Lynn wakes from Dons gymnastics. Doing such in heavy armor is not exactly silent. She does her prayer time receivign her allotment of spells for the day from Shelyn. After that she leaves her room in search of breakfast and finally visits the basement to see what has become of her weapon. "Morning. What wonders have you worked on my weapon?" she asks Tink and the smiths.
"It is magically sharpened, and has a peculiar ability. If the wielder wishes, they can cause their skin to harden to deflect blows. It isn't constant but in a dangerous fight it would be useful."
Tink says as he is awoken without so much a good morning, "And good morning to you too."
SteelGate sits in the corner, un-moving. Silent. No gears whir on his frame.
Tink stands and stretches before moving over to SteelGate. He spends quite a long time fiddling under plates and with springs.
After a while the head lifts.
SteelGate looks up "Good Morning Tink, Blue." he says and extends a finger up to the bird.
"Greetings Lynn. Did you sleep well?" SteelGate asks as his gaze grinds to her.
Some of his gears are slightly locked from standing overnight.
"It was ok. I only woke twice this night from nightmares." Lynn replies. "How about you?"
"I do not sleep." SteelGate says. Not creepily or anything like that. Just matter of factually. "I do not get nightmares. This has been traumatic though, so discomfort is understandable."
Irabeth comes down stairs without her armor on, Aliva beside her. Irabeth has a cup of coffee for both of them, sitting down at a table in the mess hall.
"We are just about ready, I need to eat something then we can head out. Aniva will stay behind and organize from here, I will lead my troops along with Eterrius."
A young woman brings them over some food. After a about 10 minutes the main door opens. Horgus and Aravashnial both come in followed by 10 troopers. The troopers are tired looking and battle weary.
Horgus has another man with him both have packs on, sitting down at the table Horgus shoves the pack over to Aliva then orders some food.
Aravashnial is lead to the table by one of the Librarians, there is a chest with the remaining Librarians who set it on the table in front of the group
eight potions of cure serious wounds, four
potions of lesser restoration, 10 +1 evil outsider bane arrows, a
chime of opening, a Cold Iron dagger, 5 Cold Iron bolts, a wand of magic missiles (CL 5th, 31 charges), and a wand of daylight (24 charges).
Anvia rummages through the pack that Horgus shoved towards here, giving the man a dirty look as he does. After a few minutes she looks up a bit of shock on her face.
"This pack has notes about secret stores that Horgus has in they city incase it came under siege. There are weapons and food in a few different places, we need to get troops out there to gather these so we can bring them back here." Aniva flags a page over who, listens to Aniva's commands.
Don sips some coffee and has a few bites to eat, so he doesn't weigh himself down. When Horus arrives with the items he looks over.I could use a healing potion and the wands look good for Tink. The dagger looks like it would be good for Tink or Steelgate and I prefer my special crossbow.
Irabeth and Aniva head back upstairs to get Irabeth ready. Eterrius comes down followed by Nestrin and a few non military looking people. They sit down with the group.
"What is your plan to get into the facility?" Eterrius asks between mouth fulls
Just what is that place like? How many entrances?
Iko has been relatively quiet. Letting the martials... er... martial.
When the contents of the chest are shown he signals in a way asking permission to possibly take a Curative potion or two for the battle ahead.
Irabeth has a page bring everyone back up to the map room, the battle plan has been laid out and from what you can see she is leading her forces in from the north to distract the ever growing group of demon worshipers and their ilk.
"I will take my troops and go from the north, attacking the area and wall North of the Gray Garrison. The rest of you will go in from the east, the main entrance to that area, the gate is missing and you should have no trouble getting in. Once there that is where our intelligence stops. The Gray Garrison has a main Entrance and 1 from the walls, we know the walls are being manned so that will not be an option right now."
I can cover Lynn and Steelgate with my crossbow in the second rank
"I can take the lead." Lynn tells. She bags all the healing from the box, no one else takes and the wand of daylight.
The way is quiet as the small strike force makes its way towards the Gray Garrison, Irabeth and her force are making lots of noise as they head north west to engage the larger portion of the force. The buildings in this area of the city are skeletal remains of what they once were. Most are destroyed to give good line of sight for those Defending the Garrison. As the group gets within a block of the garrison there is enough rubble and buildings left to offer some cover to hide while you plan your attack.
A large stretch of buckled ground and rubble stretches before the Gray Garrison, an aptly named structure that squats across from the open ground that once stood before the Cathedral of Saint Clydwell. That cathedral is no more—nothing remains but a towering mound of rubble and a deep, jagged rift in the ground. 2 naked men stand guard outside the double front door, they appear to have what looks like Scythe’s.
This is Lord Hulrun, the body is oddly bloated.
This is rotund Kandro Nyserian
The second floor window is open as well, otherwise the building is still but the sounds of an engagement can be heard to the north of your position.
"Great. Do they make undead now of the fallen?" Lynn asks as she recognizes Lord Hulrun. "I don't think sneaking in will be an option. No enemies in the way of a retreat please. Ready yourself for a charge. Noonan Azrael, would you open fire please." Lynn suggests and casts some spells on herself.
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Nodding to Lynn, acknowledging the order, Azrael takes a moment to prepare himself as well. He casts a spell and then concentrates on his bow for a moment.
He 5' steps out for a clear shot and fires two flaming shafts at the closer of the two enemies. One finds its mark and the other goes wide.
Archery is inherently a little confusing as there are a lot of modifiers.
I'll try to be consistent in format. In this case He is +10 to hit and gains +1 from Point Blank Shot. I know that is not always applicable and will ask that our GM remove the bonus to hit and damage when it is not. The first -2 is for Rapid Shot, and the second is for Deadly Aim.
Damage is id8+3 for his strength, +1 for PBS, +4 for Deadly Aim, and +1d6 for flaming.
I hope all that is clear.
Who is this Noonan? Don does leel his crossbow and fires.
"Come on Steelgate, lets show them." Lynn says and charges Lord Hulrun.
SteelGate grinds a nod and charges after Lynn
SteelGate lands a powerful blow
"Blue, go see what you can see over the wall." Tink instructs his bird, and starts to detect magic
Don does 15' of movement to get him into prime range
Iko see's the other charge at the one enemy, but the other enemy open so he charges at it on his own (for now) and decides that he should put him down till help arrives.
The Combined attacks of the group drop the late lord Hulrun, the other bloated body Turns as Iko comes in and drops it quickly to the ground, blood and puss coat the ground as Iko avoids the spray.