After New Year's Court

It seems that Draeca, Princep and Suchet do have a good argument for a special forces mission to secure a flying fortress. Kestrel's concerns for her master are set aside for now. If he is holed up and bloody, then there are surely bodies piled high by his hand!
So, off to Attalene! Let us see what good can be done.
 

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marcq said:
While Draeca likes to blow up undead (she is rather good at it), she agrees it wouldn't be the best use of our talents. She's all for going after the castles.

Gelydda feels a tremendous amount of loyalty towards Duchess Fina and Legyrdermayn and she longs to go to their aid. But upon listening to the wise words and counsel of her friends she realizes that the greater good would be served by journeying to Attalene.
 

sivousplay said:
I think we should suggest to Fina that she send someone trustworthy to Psyllos ... but I believe that is a task for another party.

Princep

Why don't we have Fina send Legyrdermayn to Psyllos. He's about as trustworthy as it gets.
 
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cc22153 said:
Why don't we have Fina send Legyrdermayn to Psyllos. He's about as trustworthy as it gets.
Sounds like a good idea to me.

If you compose a message of 25 words or less, Draeca will use sending to transmit it to Fina (and report any relpy).

Draeca will also use sending to suggest that Tancred, Tug and Moody head southg to assist Fina as well. It will make them easier to find later, assuming they survive, of course. At the moment they aren't with Fina so they can't help Legyrdermayn.
 

And, just a reminder (as the smaller details of the plan are firming up), Leonus will be heading out to Yor as soon as is practicable.

Princep
 

Marc, I didn't see it mentioned (could have missed it) but at the begining of our strategy sesssion Azz will suggest that we take all the precuassions we can to aviod being overheard in our planning sessions.

We could try and secure an heir but that would require some luck finding one that everyone would support for king and then going in to hiding hoping that others could stop the Mottul invasion or at least control it so the new king could be crowned. i'm not sure this would be a huge boon in this new conflict. we also are not the most politically tuned. Some of us are certainly well known and respected but I'm not sure any of us has the plotical clout to put anyone on the thrown. There are others who can do this much more efficiently. i'm aslo concerned that too many hiers might just cloud the water. I'd not like to be part of that.

Making sure the other flying fortresses are secure is a good goal but since we have the ability to contact people with magic we might as well have others do that too. We could waste a lot of time traveling and we can't protect them all.

I like the idea of jioning up with mom, sorry, Fina. She probably could use some more good fighters like you. Some of you woudl do well to rally the troops but this war will not be won by killing the troops. The undead are just replenshed. The war will only end iof Mottul is deprived of it means of bring this word to Edios.

That only leaves us with destroying the flying fortress, taking control of it, or it or learning the sevret of how to fly it so we can move the ones we have in cotroll and/or take theirs and be able to fly it.

So I'm for the leanr the sercret to the flying fortress, and then destroy the Mottul forces and take the Mottul fortress for our own.

One other item for discussion. Since we are going to be doing sneaky business, dangerous sneaky business, I suggest that we only tell those most trusted what our plans are. i also would like to point out that having only one contact will lessen the chance that any info we provide will lead to confusion. we cannot possible corrodinate with multiple information systems without some problems arising somewhere. and perhaps the biggest reason we shoudl pick one contact who we know we can trust is that Mottul forces probably didn't just come flying in and take the Lykos and the portals without some inside help. we all saw how easiy it is to shut off a portal....

Of course I suggest Fina as the contact. I can not think of any one who is more able to help us with information and other stuff than her and I think most of you woudl agree that we can trust her.

So is suggest that we go with the flying fortress objective and start with the following:

Tell Ikon we are going to Join Fina and fight the mottul foreces ithe ground. Link up with Fina magically and as suggeted try and find a dragon to help us get around Not to mention that it will be much easier if we need to get on (into) the fortress. Also ask if she has any info that will help. we mght even what to go physically see her maybe soem thing she can hepl us with in person(?).
I'm not sure of how to go about figuring out the magic. I'm not very educated in the arcane arts. Maybe Suchet could teach me some stuff. :)
 

Draeca likes the idea of being careful who we tell regarding our intentions. also likes using Fina as our main contact (of course, Draeca was raised with Fina).

Using her dragon lore, Draeca thinks the closest dragons suitable for carrying the larger party members are Tizel and Triazna. A pair of silver dragons who live in the Aol mountains near Ugusta. This happens to be not so far from Jorgund and not so far from Princep's Yor estates. However, getting there could be a problem.

Gel could fly between Segestos and Lucan (barely) but she couldn't fly from Segestos to Aol or across the gap from Lucan to Aol.

Seems like the group is comfortable with figuring out how the fortresses fly. But what is next move? Go to Fina and then try to find and take the Mottul fortress? Go to one of the Eidos fortresses? Where to next?
 

Draeca sent this message to Fina and received this reply (using sending with 25 word limits each way):

From Draeca: "Fear loss of flying fortresses. Send Legyrdermayn to Psyllos? We protect Mithguard? How fare you? Safe at Segestos with Gelydda, Azzhmakyss, Suchet, Kestrel, Princep, Leonus."

From Fina: "Duchy holds. Jorgund taken. Steen dead. Kirka protects Castelleon. Protecting Psyllos. Secure Mithguard. Have Gorek increase Mithguard garrison. Temper Azzhmakyss' boldness. Thankful your group safe."

Kirka is a sibling of Azz (from an earlier clutch). She is a bronze dragon about adult age.

BTW I'm open to suggestions but I think I'll put some limits on sending. Draeca can cast 10s of these per day and I'd prefer communication to be not quite so ready. Limits I'm considering are one per day per caster, one per day per target, one per day per destination area.

 

Getting to Mithguard

Now that we have a plan and it seems blessed by Fina (which should make certain members of the group content w/ the plan), we need to get to Mithguard. We're just a couple of portal hops away from the center of Attalene and then we will need to travel across the island towards the eastern coast to get to the fortress itself. Should any of the portals be closed, we will have to island hop (if possible) between Segestos and Attalene.

Princep
 

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