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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3729624" data-attributes="member: 3448">Keeping track of names has been a chronic difficulty in this campaign. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  We often refer to people by their positions/roles rather than by their names (thus the references to "the Farsensor" and "the Eldar" instead of just calling him Lord Silverleaves).  Also, the DM frequently introduces NPCs without giving them names-- "your sister" or the Minister of whatsit, which compounds the problem.  Usually, if they appear often enough, we eventually attach a name to them.Back to the Storyhour!----“Now, Your Grace, if I may turn to the details of the hordes?  The Horde of Fury is the larger horde, consisting mostly of uruks.  They are from the northwest, and we know where they left their dependants behind.  The other two hordes are local.  One has an uruk-hai bodyguard for its chief, but is otherwise all orcs.  Dame Hilda also mentioned a band of stone giants with that horde, but the Strom’s knight commander did not.  The third is the Horde of the Splintering Spine, about three thousand orogs with a few other creatures.  The local hordes can usually be bought off or scared away, although that would probably be more difficult or impossible as long as the Horde of Fury is present.”“You said that we have information about where the uruks’ dependants are?  Perhaps we can use that to force a withdrawal.  Capture them, hold them as hostages.”“Ugh,” said Kit.  “I really don’t like the idea of using children, even uruk children, as hostages to threaten their parents.  There has to be a better way.”“In principle, I agree,” replied Dame Brionna.  “But we must find some way to stop that army and we don’t have the conventional military forces available to defeat it in the field.  We would not be actually hurting the children, just taking them prisoner.  In a way, it’s not so different from what we’re doing with young Lord Brightspan.”“There’s a difference between giving a single child or two positions as pages, where we actually treat them well and are as concerned about making them allies as coercing their parents.”“Still, it may offer us an opportunity we have to take,” maintained Dame Brionna.  “However, I’m not certain that we will be able to convince the uruks to break, regardless of the reason, if we don’t deal with the drow first.  The archmagus is likely the commander of the drow.  We need to find some way to remove him.”“So how do we take out a drow archmage?” asked Kit.“I have no idea,” said Alistair.  “We could try sending the Sixth Daughter, but her odds aren’t likely to be good against an archmage.”Dame Brionna thought aloud.  “We could hold a contest, where whoever kills him gets to be the head of the new magic academy we’re building.  Somebody would succeed eventually.”“And what about all of the people who would get killed trying?” asked Kit.“Not to mention that it might saddle us with a completely unsuitable head for the academy.  We’ll have to find a better way.”  Alistair drummed his fingers as he tried to come up with a solution.</blockquote>

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