The Portal (Army)

[Ranger Rick]

Johnny has the mages work on learning their spells, and has two other squads work on clearing out the debris. Each cleaning squad works for one hour than is relieved by another. Johnny goes around and praises every squad for their part in this clean up. He praises the rogues for coming up with the chalk sceme to state what is clear and what is not.

 

[khavren]

"We should clear out the gatehouse first, and then work our way further in. Let's send half of the fighter squad in with the rogues and leave the other half here for a rearguard."

 

[Endovior]

Slowly, the gatehouse is cleaned out. Beyond the gatehouse lies a courtyard. The courtyard contains many collapsed pits, which clearly have the long-decayed bodies of orcs in them. It looks like the orcs charged through the gatehouse and made straight for the keep... the path from your present location to there is marked out rather well by the collapsed pits, or, rather, the spaces between them; there isn't ROOM for another pit between the gatehouse and the keep, the orcs seem to have fallen into every single one of those. And kept going, too; the keep's doors are broken.

Going left reveals a medium-size room, containing a winch for the porticullis, as well as six switches. There are stairs leading up, as well as a door leading further into the walls. A few bits of furniture are also present, as well as a few arms racks (empty).

Going right reveals much the same, except there's no winch.

 

[Ranger Rick]

Where can we get material to fill in these pits?

OOC: I will be offline tonight through Monday.

 

[khavren]

"We can probably fill in the pits with rubble from surronding collapsed buildings, assuming we can't figure out some way to use them that is. Let's head up first, make sure nothing is going to be coming out behind us."

 

[Tyreus]

Tyreus will take five warriors from the century Alpha Infantry and follow the rogues.

(ooc: Khavren: Just say something if you want to come)

 

[khavren]

"I'll stay here with the rest of the fighters in case something comes from behind."

ooc We've got a pc with both 'action' squads now, should be good to go

 

[Endovior]

ooc: perhaps you might consider saying what you're actually doing, rather then merely talking about it? I could infer, in some cases, but it grows difficult.

 

[Ranger Rick]

OOC: Let me see if we are on the same page. We have 2 squads checking for traps, and two squads covering them. These squads are inside a unroofed plaza that is built like a circa 1900 fort. Everybody else is out in the street. Is this a correct view of our situation?

 

[khavren]

ooc We've got the fighter squad split in two, half in the bottom floor of the gatehouse watching for anything suspicous. I'm with them, the other half with Tyreus is staying with the rogue squad. The rogue squad entered into the gatehouse and is searching for traps with the basic eyeball, poke it with a stick method under the watchful eye of Ghostcat, everybody else is out on the street. The rogues went left and will be checking doors first, then going up stairs. The fighters will stay within one room of them.