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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Toric_Arthendain" data-source="post: 1459086" data-attributes="member: 9833">OOC:  Hit points have been generated for each of you for 4th level.  The results were posted in the Rogue's Gallery thread.  Go ahead and update your sheets to reflect the new total.IC:With the smaller forceGilbie sets up with the archers on a wooded hill about 150 feet from the road.  The cover is decent and the men are able to remain relatively unseen from the road.  Dolfuur and Arazar are also among the infantry on this same hill, out of sight on the backside of the hill.  The archers number around 150 and the infantry around 250.  None of these men have mounts.  Fae sets up amongst the cavalry, who number around 100 men, in a shallow valley a few hundred yards away from the hill where the rest of the force is staging.  The enemy will pass this location before they reach the archers and the infantry.  This will allow for the archers and infantry to engage the enemy leaving the cavalry to move up from the rear and keep the enemy from retreating to Taran.  Nothing to do now but wait...With the larger forceTrent safely attaches the necklace around his neck and tucks it into his shirt.  After another thirty minutes of marching, the ragtag army is within sight of the keep.  Samiz and the other wizard that Trent didn't meet briefly confer with Osbourne and his chief lieutenants and then orders are given to the entire force.  The archers, some 500 strong, fan out and surround the keep at a fair distance.  Behind these men, the infantry deploy, some 1200 strong.  Lastly, the 300 man calvary deploy behind the infantry.  Four seige towers are brought forward, along with half a dozen catapults.  Sticking close to the wizards, Trent listens as they prepare their own special brand of assault on the keep.  At this point, activity can be seen atop the walls of the keep.  It is obvious that they have discovered that an army surrounds them.  Trent can't help but think that this is going to be a messy, savage seige.  Moments later, a command is given and the catapults spring into action.  The first shot hits the top of one of the walls, sending stone and wood exploding into the early morning air.  Screaming and yelling is heard coming from the keep.  This first hit is followed by a couple more and then the catapults are being reset for another barrage.  The archers let loose with their first volley of arrows.  Many hits are scored and several bodies tumble from the walls of the keep.  The archers continue to fire as the seige towers lumber forward, followed by large numbers of infantry.  The Kazadar still have not launched an attack of their own, obviously caught offguard by the attack of Osbourne's troops, and still getting their own forces in position.Samiz calls Trent aside.  "The catapults will have breached the walls soon," he yells over the sounds of battle.  "Once they do, we need to be in position.  Do you think you can get close to that gap?" he asks, pointing to a section of wall being pulverized by the first catapult to fire.  Once the breach is large enough, the Kazadar will certainly move troops into the breach to protect the keep.  If you can get close enough unseen, you can launch both of those beads from the necklace I gave you.  That will open the way for our troops to gain entry and will suprise the troops inside."</blockquote>

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