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Elemenar can't believe how poorly the villagers follow instructions. When trying to flood the fields he kept directing the villagers but they ignored him. Rather than wasting another frustrating day, Elemenar returns to the barricade. Maybe, without the villagers in the way, he can make heads or tails of what's going on.
To-to, Sakura, and Ki Chin all help out in scouting the area, and are able to pin down with great confidence that the attack will come a day earlier than first anticipated, and will be on day 9. You are certain that this is the actual day that the attack will come, but one more successful day of scouting will further help nail down time of arrival, better estimates on numbers, armaments, and the like.
The villagers in the fields finish flooding them. This will slow their approach, tire troops and mounts, and limit their angles of attack. +2 Defense Points.
With a sufficient compliment on the barricades, and Elemenar getting some time to work alone on the barricades form previous days' work, the barricades make good progress. The improvements are nearly a third complete. Elemenar's continued involvement means that if he keeps helping on the barricades he can make a Craft (Traps) or Disable Device check on barricade completion, but only if he stays on this task until the end. Elemenar feels like if the pace of today keeps up, it will be done in two more days of work.
Day 4's report:
+2 DP for Flooding the Fields, now complete
Scouting is confident in attack on day 9, one more success will give DP, scouting check has cumulative +1
Good progress on barricades, about one third done.
DP gained today: 2.0
Total DP: 8.5
Je Tsun and the villagers are pleased to be getting some of these important tasks finished off. "Thanks to you, our home is far more defensible, and I really think we might stand a chance when the bandits come in 5 days."
Things can pick up at this point, you have 4 more days of preparations.
- Archers can still take 2 days of training, and then can craft arrows with PC assistance.
- Melee troops can receive a total of 5 days worth of training (in parallel) with one unit capable of the advanced training from a successful intimidate or prof soldier check.
- The barridcades take 30 villagers still, but can be sped up either with more villagers or Elemenar's successful checks, and if Elemenar stays on the barricades until completion he can at the end make a check for trapping the barricades.
- One more scouting success would be helpful.
Post your day 5 actions. If you are confident in what you will end up doing for day 6 you can post that too so we can speed things up as they have started to simplify.
No active scouting is happening, and the villagers do not report anything new.
Sakura and Elemenar both are successful in their engineering machinations to allow decent progress with a smaller crew as more villagers are training. If they keep up this pace, the barricades should be finished the day before the attack.
Kiyoko, To-to, and Ki Chin make more progress with the villagers in both archery and melee combat training, though not as inspiring of a job as Ki Chin's previous attempts. Total DP earned +1.5
Day 5 report:
More progress on the barricades, 3 more days needed at this pace.
+0.5 for archery training (1 more day available, Kiyoko is about to do it)
+1.0 for combat training (3 more days available, only 1 more bonus check can be made)
DP gained today: 1.5
Total DP: 10
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Day 6:
Sakura, Elemenar, and Ki Chin can declare actions for day 6. Kiyoko is taking 10 villagers for archery training, but the other 40 are available for the barricades or whatever.
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Sakura supports the barricade construction.
Day 6 Summary:
Kiyoko finishes drilling the archery team. These 10 can now use their crossbows for the defense as well as can be expected in this small window. They can increase their effectiveness further by crafting arrows, under guidance of a PC making a Craft (Bows) check with the 10 archers.
To-To does not find any new useful information in scouting. More success is possible, but the check is high.
Ki Chin delivers more training to the infantry. Its effective, though not overly inspiring work. No more bonus checks are possible, but 2 more days of training will still improve some of the melee units. Or 1 day with 2 PCs doing the work. No checks needed, just a PC for each 10 villagers.
Elemenar, Sakura, and 30 villagers are decently productive on the barricades. wo more days are still needed at this rate, though one extremely productive day would perhaps suffice.
Day 6 report:
More progress on the barricades, 2 more days needed at this pace.
+0.5 for archery training
+0.5 for combat training (2 more days available, no more bonus checks)
DP gained today: 1.0
Total DP: 11
You can post day 7
At this point, you still can do the following:
* Finish the barricades (Disable Device or Knowledge (Engineering))
* Craft ammunition with the 10 archers (Craft (Bows)
* Finish scouting (Perception)
* 2 more days of combat training with 10 villagers each (no check)
No progress made scouting.
To-to and Ki Chin complete the training of the melee units.
Kiyoko tries to help the archers make more crossbow bolts, but the results aren't particularly productive.
Elemenar and Sakura oversee a reduced workforce and make similar progress, which is not enough to finish today but should be tomorrow.
Day 7 Report:
Barricade progress, 1 more day needed.
+1 for combat training
0 from archery and scouting
DP gained today: 1
Total DP: 12
We are finally at day 8! Last day of work! See what we can finish up!
* Finish the barricades (Knowledge (Engineering))
* Craft ammunition with the 10 archers (Craft (Bows))
* Finish scouting (Perception)
Elemenar, if you work on the barricades, additionally roll a single Craft (Traps) or Disable Device check for bonus points.
Post your final day 8 preparations.
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At the end of the day Elemenar examines his handiwork. The barricades are coming along but he still shakes his head. If the villagers had been more helpful he could have finished this days ago. But that is the way of things. The next day he again focuses on directing the villagers.
Sakura works with the archers to make more ammunition, and of a higher quality than the villagers otherwise would have.
Much of the party helps scout, along with 10 of the villagers. They can't get any new information helpful to the defense, but do confirm that the attack will be tomorrow.
@Elemenar since Disable Device is trained-only and craft is not, the craft is the only one you can make anyway.
The barricade improvements are finally in place. Elemenar's tireless efforts and sometimes-successfull leadership have resulted in the integration of traps throughout.
Day 8 report:
+1 for crafting ammunition
+2 for barricade completion
+2 for adding traps to barricades, and with high check result
DP gained today: 5
Total DP: 17
You will take point in the battle to come. The village and its defenses won't be part of the initiative and rounds of combat, but have the effect of reducing the enemies that you all have to face, and give you a pool of bonus that you can add to your own rolls. 17 defense points grants each of you your own separate pool of defense points to use on your own rolls. At any time, a PC may choose to spend a number of these points as an immediate action. They can be added to any single attack or damage roll, ability or skill check, saving throw, or can be used to grant the PC a dodge bonus to his AC. Points used only apply to a single roll. More than 1 point may be spent on a roll, with a maximum equal to the character level of the PC. A player must decide to use his Defense Points in this way when he announces his action and before he makes the roll the bonus will apply to.
Je Tsun and the villagers are pleased with the progress.
"I think the seed of hope you have brought to us has blossomed and we may just survive this and free ourselves from the tengu raiders - all thanks to your tireless efforts. As promised, I have been meditating on the braid, and in a few more days its power will be activated. Gods willing, we will see those days come to pass."
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"We have done all that we can do so now it is simply up to us to follow through with the plan. I cannot guarantee a win since I do not have the ability to predict the future."
Elemenar looks over the barricade to where the enemy is expected to approach from. It will be interesting to see what tomorrow brings.
The day has been long and tense, as Nesting Swallow finds itself waiting for the sword to fall. Villagers spend shifts keeping watch over the hastily erected, crude bamboo walls surrounding their village, and constant reports of the enemy riders’ movements filter back and forth between the barricades. As the sun sinks below the western hills, the sharper-eyed among those manning the barricades report a number of riders forming into groups along the roads; these reports are soon proved true as the sound of hammering hooves comes out of the twilight, and the dusk erupts with tengu warriors riding toward the village. And so the battle begins.
The attacks are somewhat restricted as the tengu have limited options for approach from the flooded fields.
This first round the riders are just charging toward the gate, consider them still about 50 feet off the map.
The barricades are 6 feet tall, so provide a lot of cover if you are behind them. Uou can stand on top of them, which would lose your cover but let you melee anyone right on the other side with a +1 to attack for the high ground. Sakura, being atop your horse means you have no cover from archers.
There are villagers on the map, but they essentially are handled through events and you don't have to worry about them or their positioning. Attacks are happening from all directions, you only need to concern yourselves with the north at this point.
Arrows fly over the gate from the tengu, targeting anyone on the barricades, but the town's archers are returning fire.
You can each take a turn now, and on this round take a couple extra move actions to get where you would want to be or cast an extra buff, but only get one attack against the tengu if you so choose. We are on the map on slide 6.
I should also say this is a small fraction of the force before you, and you can expect multiple waves before this is all over.
If it wasn't clear, the barricades are essentially solid and you have to climb atop them to shoot anything, unless you are on a horse like Sakura.
Elemenar, do you climb on top of the barricades for that fireball? It's too tall to peer over.
Looks like it should be a DC 5 Climb check to get up top from your side, but i think you can take 10 on it until enemies get like on or through the wall. Regardless, Elemenar is good on this one. Sakura you don't need to help if you'd rather shoot a bow or something.
Elemenar's fireball lights up the battlefield, blasting two of the tengu riders off their steeds, dead, leaving the other three wounded.
Kiyoko's shot from horseback misses badly, but her training of the local villagers pays off as some of them find their marks and finish off two of the fireball survivors. (Defense points you and the village earned have resulted in killing off two of the tengu in your zone)
One injured rider remains.
Ki Chin, Sakura, To-to can act.
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As To-to observes exploding fireball and skilled archers, he gets an idea and casts summoning spell. Flying creature appears on top of barricade.
Init +2; Senses darkvision 60 ft., blindsense 40 ft.; Perception +12
Defense
AC 14, touch 11, flat-footed 12 (+2 Dex, +3 natural, –1 size)
hp 22 (4d8+4)
Fort +5, Ref +6, Will +3; Resist Acid, Cold, and Electricity 5, SR 7
Offense
Speed 20 ft., fly 40 ft. (good)
Melee bite +5 (1d8+4)
Space 10 ft., Reach 5 ft.
Statistics
Str 17, Dex 15, Con 13, Int 2, Wis 14, Cha 6
Base Atk +3; CMB +7; CMD 19
Feats Alertness, Stealthy
Skills Fly +9, Perception +12, Stealth +4; Racial Modifiers +4 Perception when using blindsense
Sakura's sling shot misses.
Ki Chin and To-to cast spells, creating illusions and creatures to aid them.
The one remaining rider shoots an arrow toward Elemenar the fireballing wizard and charges toward the barricade.
It's a flop.
The raider may have made it to the barricade, but now nearly the whole party gets a turn before he can take any further action.
In the distance, more riders appear ready to charge.
everyone in the party gets a turn now to handle this poor tengu whose (not-only) crime is having awful dice rolls.
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Elemenar looks at the pathetic invader riding up to the barricade. What does he think he's going to be able to do? With criminals and miscreants being so stupid, it's a wonder than any crime is ever committed. Elemenar shakes his head and flicks a finger in the tengu's direction. A blob of acid races towards him.
Elemenar and Kiyoko both hit the tengu, but the bat and Sakura's bullet miss. The rider is looking worse for wear (-16), but still has fight in him.
Ki Chin