Battle at Harkon Manor

[Frozen Messiah]

On the road...

The elf burst towards the others after it is freed. {{Tas'li ris guilus! a'viak ti ju' fendoli."}}

The three men watch as the elf whispers something and starts to pull on one of the bowman's arms, if as if he wants to lead them away. The ambusher looks confused for a moment, and then snaps one word {{Wiyle'w}} and the eight ambushers plus the former prisoner disappear back into the forest leaving the three men standing in the road there mouths agape.

"Well I believe that we have succeeded in our mission but I still have one problem that I must fix." Claude says as he grabs the elf's bow and then takes off his cloak. He places his cloak on the ground and then the bow on top of so that it does not become sullied by the ground.

 

[Gondsman]

Plus some potential number of Soldiers that might be coming from your army, to save the day. At this point, probably the best chance we have is to hole up here and wait for the cavalry.

 

[Myth and Legend]

Lora raised her gaze from the map and sulked at the slick, goatee wearing man. "Well mister Lurik the most we could expect is a Dwarf, a couple of milita men and a tribe of Gnolls. Not that a man of your intellect and talent for gossip wouldn't already know all about our army and such. - the girl let sarcasm seethe trough her voice unhindered. - If you would pay more attention however, you'd notice this map and all the weak points i've noted on it, courtesy of Lord Valorn. Holing up here will get us butchered."

 

[HolyMan]

The crow starts an annoying CAW!CAW!CAW!CAW! aimed it seems at Jareth. Feathers rusttling maddly as it flaps from it's perch, it continues it's mad, loud, "shouting" till the man picks the book back up.

"We are outnumbered and probably outskilled." Vance says in disgust. "I wish I could be sure but the few elves I have seen looked like they were trained with there weapons from the cradle."

"The object here isn't to destroy them to the last elf, or stay safely behind the walls while the destroy at random what they will. My brother and I were speaking the other day and were wondering how do you take such a large force, possibly larger when it started and march almost two thousand miles and keep them together?" Vance makes a spot on the table to sit on it with one leg.

"Command, they must have an excellent commander to have done all this. To make it this far undetected and keep your force with no baggage trains, living off the land, no revolting or turning back. I believe if we can kill or capture their commanders the rest will surrender or flee. They will lose direction and purpose. The interrogation told us that they are well equipped and have a hatered of us even though according to history we have never done anything to them. Maybe they hate us because we allowed the Nandirly to settle in their own corner, I don't know." he sighs then and looks to everyone.

"The plan gentlemen, and Miss Lora," he adds with a smile. "The plan is to chop of this beasts head and watch it's body wither and die."

"Oh wha?" Skazul says startled as if he were asleep. "So you killed that beast then? I told you it was all in the heads."

[sblock=OOC] History checks to low for anything not already covered except for the following:
DC 5: A huge stone wall with massive double wooden doors cross through the Genku pass giving the Eastgate mountains thier name.
DC 20: Humans have never been allowed to pass through the Eastgate mountains the elves always came to them when it was time to trade. The elves are very racist when it comes to humans even though humans for their part have done nothing to warrant this. When they finally stopped trading over 600 years ago the elves started to kill any human that came into bow range of the gates to their land. [/sblock]

 

[Gondsman]

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[Gondsman]

Still more might than we presently have, and I didn't dispute the idea that this place sucks i just said it sucked marginally less than meeting these elves without the protection of walls. Not that Fearless Leader here has anything more on her mind than elevating herself at the expense of others. I wonder if the butch attitude makes her better in bed...

Adopting a minor smirk at the smallish response from the smallish female Lurik listens in at what could be a decent idea, if in fact the assumption of the nature of the Elven organization were correct.

How do you propose we accomplish such a feat, surely if the Elves are skilled as you say in the woods, sneaking up on them could be difficult, especially for one so un-sneaky as myself, and locating the leaders presents its own difficulty.

 

[HolyMan]

On the road...

"Um.. What are you doing sir?" Robert asks Claude.

[sblock=OOC] Um.. What are you doing? HM asks FM. [/sblock]

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Library

"It shouldn't be to hard to find them out in the open," Vance says with his most winning grin ever, the man is truly in his element now. "My dear Miss Lora could you use your wonderful talent to draw the area we were ambushed in this morning, please?"

He waits as Lora looks on hand near ponytail, and then turns to Jareth and Lurik. "You were not there gentlemen, but this wide open countryside will be hard for the elves to use any run and hide tactics and we can wait all day out of bow range till they commit. I just need ideals for how to get through their lines to the leaders who will no doubt be there."

 

[Frozen Messiah]

"I don't know exactly, I geuss an old man thought that a warrior would want his wepoon back. I geuss I was wrong. You may leave I will catch up with you in a small while." Caude says as he his face grows weary and he looks tired. He mounts Tobias and sits there waiting and hoping.

 

[Deskjob]

Marko, Babysitting an Elf

Elsewhere...

"Robert let him finish. Gather the horses and let us be off. If Claude desires to give the bow back to the elves then let him do so. Our work is yet beginning."

Marko was letting the surprise slowly disappear from his voice. He had not expected the events that had just transpired. The elves disappearing, the mention of elven allies, and the satisfaction of a mission nearly complete. After such a strange series of events, Claudes actions could do little to catch him off-guard.

He mounted his horse and urged his brothers to do likewise. Its not an escape if you don't make it home in time for dinner.

 

[Myth and Legend]

Lora shook her head with frustration, ponytail eagerly following behind, as she continued drawing the location where they had been ambushed. Her sore shoulder and blood covered white dress still bearing the fresh memory of the event.

"Vance assaulting their leader is very risky. Let us present a force to placate them, and as they contemplate advancement, sneak in an agent or two and have them set the Elves' camp on fire. This will grant us time and a sufficeint diversion, perhaps even force a retreat. We will need Alchemists's Fire though, and some clever means of locating the camp and reaching it. Divinition magic can aid greatly in the first means - Lora looked at the old mage who still just sat in his chair. - and teleportation or invisibility in the second. Surely you have the means to make at least one of us invisible via a scroll or spell?"

Lora talked as her hand moved with fluid motions, laying out a very neat map of the landscape of where the ambush was. Now that she wasn't so concentrated on evaluating the situation, she could dedicate more of her attention towards her drawing. The map was forming to be quite good, although the girl suspected Vance in simply indulging her and her talent, rather than really lacking proper maps of his estate.

[sblock]Craft: Drawing, 1d20+11=29[/sblock]