Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3633170" data-attributes="member: 3448">Bishop Hogsworthy was conducting a small private service-- Kit was relieved to see that he appeared to have just finished the service.  The only congregants were two older men, each dressed in fine but not fancy clothing.  Kit recognized the Chief Archivist, one of the innumerable functionaries that she had met in the past few weeks.  Simply seeing his title on the report had not given her a clear sense of who he was, but now she could match the title to a face.  The other man was completely unfamiliar and not even quite human.  He appeared to be quite old but his weirdly enormous head was by far his most distinctive feature.  Kit thought about it for a moment and realized that those features were familiar from one of the lessons in psionics she had received.  He was probably half-Gyth, although she had no idea which of the three Gyth races.  All three are very thin with large heads and mainly experts in psionics.  Kit had considered trying to read their thoughts to see if there was any evidence of treachery but thought better of it.  The risk that the Deep Brain would turn out to be a much more powerful psion was simply too great.  She slipped away silently and returned to the Council.Back in the Council chamber, a guard entered, saluted, and delivered another report to Dame Brionna.  She skimmed through it.  “Oh… oh dear.”  She looked up at Alistair.  “Your grace, we need to discuss the situation at Grokken.  Another orcish horde has joined the attack.  They mounted an attack before dawn, pierced the wall, and…”“What about Lord Derek?”“The young lord was evacuated by voller.  His chief guardian, Sir Vincent Morim, was mortally wounded, and Grokken will probably fall.  The young lord acquitted himself well.  The attackers have a non-orcish mage advising them, along with a group of stone giants.  Grokken would need a much more substantial defensive force to withstand the attack.”“I wonder if we could at least evacuate more of the populace.  If we send our vollers back…”“They still would not be able to carry many people, your grace.  The vollers are not designed to move large numbers of troops or evacuees.”“Do we have any better options?”“No, your grace, and the vollers will be able to save some.”“We can also send Lady Meredith’s battle disks.  Those will be even less useful at saving the population, but they will let us bombard the enemy with a great deal of arcane magic.  If we can clear out part of the enemy army, it will allow us to evacuate as many of the children as possible.”Dame Brionna nodded.  “I’ll pass on the necessary orders, your grace.  We still need a plan to deal with the underlying threat, however.  We need to get an army into position to actually defeat the orcs.”</blockquote>

Verification